ane wae i ne ce tl ee am a yee ee — a - wv oon vv “8 . ‘ aon” 3 = hal ves . : oe, ar > eer. i *: ° . Ke °- ‘as — 3. — KING, Martin Lather oe aren dninca SNw.67 . . eS ° Caan : xine at le Martin Luther KIKG Jre, born 15 January "1929 ‘Sf Atlanta, Georgia, has been described as the most proinent leader of tho civil rights moveneat in the US. Ke is the President of the Southern Chridtian Leadership Consererce, (sciC), and is.a recipient of’ the Nobel Peace Prize. _ @e In Subjects many activities ‘in the civil rights » noveniint, ‘he has sought and relied upon the advice « of various individuals, including ¢ the - _ oe ; Soliowings — Ae Bayard RUSTIN-Menber of the Young Comaunist League froa 1936 to AIA, secretary to Subject: from 1956 to 1960, Secretary of the © SCLC in 1962, EGIXX and organizer of the March on Washingt new G5, RUSTIN attended the Sixteenth National Convention of the CPUSA. - in 1957 as a non-Communist observer, and was especially active — in advising Subject on formilating a position on Viet Nam in 1965-66-” ~ | B. Clarence JONES-General Counsel to tne Ghandi Society for Hiuzan . Rights; and former member of the Labor Youth Leagueg a Comunist =< . ; front. . . | ae YOSROL, C.::‘Stanley “LSVISON; Ideological Zomaunt st and suspected secret menber of the CPUSAs D. Harry WACHTEL Executive Vice President of the Gnanci Society for | Human Rignt s;yaember of the National Lawyers Guild, a Communist front. oo / poof 73 - oo ange - mee — tt re ve RO 8. Yee ott Ona oe Pel tdewsteits't nom ae + 50 Oe + vegetl Ish bia re So eS lS ee. eee edema neen en See Semercemerenasemanaee man = + omnia oT awe rere HW 53199, bocId:32344865 Page 2 =< - - ~ Poo [66
BE. Harry BELAFONTE-Menber of the Young Comaunist League before ° . - eoming into prominence as an entertainer. 3. According to a source who is consicered unreliable, Suodject met with * various leaders of the Italian Communist Party and of the italian Socialists Party on t —" i i H . L . 18 September 1964 in Rome. (Subject was in Zone ‘on that date as part of a | { tour of Western Eurbpe.) He allegedly disigssed with these Italian politicians the demonstrations against segregation in the US which yere to ems | be organized in Italy during the following menths. . i ' - ie he ThevOctober 1964 issup of Vie Tove, an Italian weekly magazine owned by the Ttslian Communist party, (PCI), carried. an article entitled “hat ‘We egroes Ask of the President" which Hie tuove claimed Subject wrote for its exclusive publication. The article concerned the civil. rights question in the US and did not appear to be directed specifically to a Communist audience. Despite the date of jis sudlication the article appearec te . nave been written some months before. 5. dn article appearing in the Weshinzton post on l, Noveaber 1964 stated that Subject was planning a visit to the Soviet Union. He reporvecly had been _& rs aes _ . <oF or ot Ste nee ate ee ae en en ne tana Abe ae alee tae pesca and ne dabei Shas staan ina e dimamtbhseciinadiienp ta malihdeeh amet . tee Baha ell a en a " “ . ° ; ‘ . a Sea oper mags (spencer “name ermmprmeneamae ammo merce we ow = OO 2 EE A ES BR, DAE certs GEER EY re en enn - geome 6.5 A ‘ AY , ~
Lanett nlsnlie amnnehie dette alee tne m. poo nee | | | | | ne aE ene NO OY ene . .. : Sores Lo. ween eee ee oe etl eB Fe . . 7, aan . LM oy te . toe . of oe * . = . . | 4 . . . . ore . ’ - . . . * . . invited to the USSR, but Rev. Ralph AUERNATHY, spoxesaan for Subject, - & -e.° refused to comment on the source of the invitation. Based on: 201~760966 emp" 201-27580h (RUSTIN) . a " DF3-17872 DBS-6S16h CSCI-316,02051-64 _ OFRT-6783 The e following documents, held in RID/SD, were not reviewed: TS-168608 sy rite ' TS-188613 DBB-17872 and DSB-17192, which contain information essential to Subjectts fe, | both. appear to have pages missing+ The above memorandum was based exclusively on that information contained in — Subject's very incomplete 201 file. No attenpt was made to Mitkaxoiaks TROT VOR OR OME R C7 00 9 Locate or consolidate otner information concerning - Sudject. _ ed omnes ees ee) en rets er ERT Creme nee —s - cae en TEES SRE Har ene Eoue Pe ceare cos ate Cee COTS - ¥ od . . HW S3T99 ~~“ Docldls7344665 “Page 4° oe eee 4 tveve Murchison 5 November 1967 ooo. : 7 ee ~ , - ‘se . . ene OF aad ’ e ee oe Dee . .