Committee On Internal Security

Provides a summary of the Subcommittee's activities plus information and testimony gathered at various meetings on the condition of the internal security of the United States.

Considers the efficacy and constitutionality of various proposals for identifying American communists and placing limits on their activities.

Includes excerpts from the letters of Mr. John F. Reilly, Mr. David I. Belisle, and Mr. Elmer Dewey Hill

Considers the efficacy and constitutionality of various proposals for identifying American communists and placing limits on their activities; pt. 5: Explores internal security problems related to allegedly subversive activities of black nationalist groups in Cleveland, Ohio; pt. 6: Explores internal security problems related to Communist Party activities and considers proposals to centralize Federal government internal security procedures; pt. 7: Considers DOD industrial personnel security clearance program and general impact of subversive activities on the nation.

Pt. 5: investigates activities of Communist Party, Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), and DuBois Club in and around the University of Chicago; pt. 6-A: Investigates SDS efforts to recruit Columbus, Ohio high school and working-class youth; pt. 6-B: Investigates attempts by SDS to recruit high school students in Akron, Ohio, Detroit, Mich., and Pittsburgh, Pa.; pt. 7-A: Investigates how SDS engineered release of U.S. POWs from North Vietnam for anti-war propaganda purposes; pt. 7-B: Investigates activities of Students for a Democratic Society and their involvement in antiwar activities and civil disturbances ; Internal Security Act of 1950 ; SDS plans for American high schools ; Defense Facilities and Industrial Security Act of 1970 ; Committee's annual report for the year 1969.