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# Executive Order 10450                                                 II-21SEC. 12. (A) Eutive Order No. 9835 ofMarch 21, 1947 as amended is hereby revoked.(b) The head of each department andagency shall be furnished by the AttorneyGeneral with the name of each organizationwhich shall be or has been heretofore designatedunder this order. Except as specifically pro-vided hereafter, nothing contained herein shallbe...construed in any way..to affect previous..designations made pursuant to Executive OrderNo. 10450, as amended.(c) The Subversive Activities Control Boardshall, upon petition of the Attorney General,conduct appropriate hearings to determinewhether any organization is totalitarian, fascist,communist, subversive, or whether it hasadopted a policy of unlawfully advocating thecommission of acts of force or violence to denyothers their rights under the Constitution orlaws of the United States or of any State, orwhich seeks to overthrow the government of theUnited States or any State or subdivisionthereof by unlawful means.(d) The Board may determine that an organi-zation has adopted a policy of unlawfullyadvocating the commission of acts of force or:violence to deny others their.constitutional orstatutory rights or that an organization seeksto overthrow the government of the UnitedStates or any State or subdivision thereof by.unlawful means if it is found that such groupengages in, unlawfully advocates, or has amongits purposes or objectives, or adopts as a meansof obtaining any of its purposes or objectives.-(1) The commission of acts of force orviolence or other unlawful acts to deny otherstheir rights or benefits guaranteed by theConstitution or laws of the United States or ofthe several States or political subdivisionsthereof; or(2) The unlawful damage or destruction ofproperty; or injury to persons: or(3) The overthrow or destruction of thegovernment of the United States or thegovernment of any State,. Territory, district,or possession thereof, or the government of anypolitical subdivision therein, by unlawful means;or(4) Tcommission of acts which violatelaws pertaining to treason, rebellion ro or insur-rection, riots or civil disorders, seditious conspiracy, sabotage, trading with the enemy.obstruction of the recruiting and enlistmen:service of the United States, impeding. officersof the United States, or related crimes oroffenses.(e) The Board may determine an organiza-tion to be "totalitarian" if it is found that suchorganization engages in activities which seekby unlawful means the establishment of asystem of government in the United Stateswhich is autocratic and in which control iscentered in a single individual, group, opolitical party, allowing no effective represente-tion to opposing individuals, groups, or partiesand providing no practical opportunity fordissent.(f) The Board may determine an organiza-tion to be "fascist" if it is found that organize-tion engages in activities which seek by unlawful.means the establishment of a system of govern-ment in the United States which is character-ized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forciblesuppression of the opposition, ownership of memeans of production under centralized govern-mental control and which fosters racism.(g) The Board may determine an organiza-tion to be "communist" if it is found that suchorganization engages in activities which seekby unlawful means the establishment of agovernment in the United States which isbased upon the revolutionary principles oMarxism-Leninism, which interprets historyas a relentless class war aimed at the destrictio"of the existing society and the establishment ofthe dictatorship of the proletariat, the govern-ment ownership of the means of productionand distribution of property, and the establish-ment of a single authoritarian party.(h) The Board may determine an organiza-tion to be "subversive" if. it is found that suchorganization engages in activities which seekthe abolition or destruction by unlawful meansof the government of the United States or anyState, or subdivision thereof..FPM Supplement 990-1Inst. 197January 23, 1973