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MHCURB RYBAT MHCHAOS
1. JEPYX/1, WHO ENTERTAINED HOSEA WILLIAMS, SCLC LEADER,
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IN HIS HOME DURING LATTER'S RECENT VISIT ETHIOPIA AND ALSO
ATTENDED LECTURE QUESTION SESSION AT HOME OF 201-879961 AT WHICH
WILLIAMS TALKED TO GROUP APPROX 50 ETHIOPIANS AND OTHER NATION-
ALITIES, HAS REPORTED FOLLOWING INTERESTING FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS
WHICH STATION BELIEVES MAY BE WORTH REGISTERING IN HQS MHCHAOS
FILES.
2. AT LECTURE AT HOME OF 201-879961, WILLIAMS STATED THAT
HE KNEW JKLANCE HAD ARRANGED ASSASSINATION MARTIN LUTHER KING.
STATED THAT HE ALSO SUSPECTED JKLANCE INVOLVEMENT IN ASSASSINA-
TION MALCOLM X BUT HE NOT AS SURE ABOUT THIS AS ABOUT ASSASSINA-
TION KING.
3. WILLIAMS HAS HAD NO LUCK IN GETTING VISA FROM CHICOMS
FOR PEKING VISIT. HE TOLD JEPYX/1 HE WANTED TO GO TO PEKING TO
GET CHICOM COMMITMENT TO PLAN FOR UNIFIED EFFORT AMONG ALL
· COLORED PEOPLES TO FIGHT RACIAL DISCRIMINATION WORLDWIDE. HE
NOW SENSES THAT HE GETTING SOMEWHAT OF RUNAROUND FROM CHICONS
ACTION
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AND THAT PEKING APPARENTLY NOT ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT VISIT THOUGH
STILL HAS HOPES OF BEING ABLE GO CHINA FROM NEW DELHI WHERE HE
PROCEEDED FROM ETHIOPIA.
4. IN PRIVATE TALKS WILLIAMS DISPLAYED CURIOUSLY AMBIVALENT
ATTITUDE TOWARD MARTIN LUTHER KING - HE CLEARLY HARBORS RESENT-
NENTS OF KING'S RELATIVELY AFFLUENT BACKGROUND AS COMPARED WITH
HIS OWN.
う。 WILLIAMS HAD SOME CONTACT WITH ETHIOPIAN STUDENTS AND
INTELLECTUALS CRITICAL OF REGINE AS WELL AS WITH SOME SOUTHERN
SUDANESE AND THIS HAS OPENED UP HIS EYES TO PROBLEM OF INDIVIDUAL
FREEDOM IN AFRICA. JEPYX/1 ASKED HIM HOW HE LOOKED AT PROBLEM
OF FUTURE OF FREEDOM FOR INDIVIDUAL IN AFRICA AS COMPARED WITH
FREEDOMS OF INDIVIDUAL BLACK AMERICANS AND HE ADMITTED THAT
PROSPECTS FOR EXPANSION INDIVIDUAL FREEDOM IN AFRICA DID NOT
SEEW GOOD AND THAT BOTH BLACK AMERICAN'S PRESENT STATUS AND
PROSPECTS APPEARED SUPERIOR TO CONDITION AFRICANS ON THIS SCORE.
6. OVERALL JEPYX/1 EVALUATION WILLIAMS: "HE HAS A LOT TO
LEARN AND THIS TRIP IS OPENING HIS EYES AND CONFRONTING HIM
WITH FACTS AND IDEAS HE OTHERWISE COMPLETELY UNAWARE OF. HE IS
LIVELY TO PROFIT FROM IT BECAUSE HE IS BASICALLY INTELLIGENT
AND CAPABLE AND NOT JUST A NUT LIKE JOMO LOGAN." GP-1.
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