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HW 55037 King expressed koehis regret that he could not spend any time ° _ . a e Trt. eater came ene 1 we we ee 8 el. aes with her at a SCLC retreat held at Airlie House, Warrenton, een geaamatansianrmhomaraensntnnentNinsnraty i SA erm sie Mentha: = yi wR SME mm a Nr : Virginia, on September 12-17, 1967. ix tasisinTeatnaniet in ES AO IEDR PCI A CE ATED AT ~ cmd eT In addition to his regular girl friends, King has had ne suscepti ccna sont StS ETOCS TE RT ee Bee Ry RA 2 ate, SO eeewtierPtkstntneer wm ee ~ Boold: 32369551 Page i5 . :
toty £ aomanweSi Toa ane arrtied-- . . atanieLy of. sonnsssingie 2nd panbe : . we throughout, the country, . Thai ganonallyapnokes salt . ne TORE sheotuiagg a SS che aera Pes ce Oe NOMEN Sa a eS ES ES avid-mention how.muohthe wy have missed "nge ties SeeDER IT ; a 1G a! nwari ous “ places--hotel and motel | SLES ESS Ei TE aE “ TOONS , his or her ‘office date at night? the. wom man's hone or. sie arene aa ail fealtor 2 Serene SNE uate sh mesa ~ ~. NW 55057 Bocia: 32989551 Page i6 - coe
cel, oe —a ‘uid geo lence ais ely WM). 1 Spal Mas SeuMOn Cyanonw eelemees: Cota eONSanO afgal Senha «6 LOO oat Luba M62 ) a . ( , ae roman Barbara. a, Moone eypeleiwvacusbineChd © ae AESS site dadbyatein AGase 2, time he goes. there. he also see him in Atlanta, For the past ‘ Sha aia EMESIS ei suber se aces tT rims twa, OHabalESSY, BES Years. whe. has. given’: aa —_ 2. t2 “=? ny ; : —_ ~ , i . i : ; rion ance vocwmanieinieriee if t Permeeerwene ceish eeccr ctrayet ian oe a emg tenet gore seems tte yemmmenerte ™ NW 35087 Doold: 32989551 Page i? - : SO ge
~ - megton several women sn tpar ih onas" of his church. eas sami pee sr Sas BTEC sO ii RTS SAS NETRA ARS x ‘or T a inh . qs The a met n his Poon and dis. yelaS@kake ts a a : rae May elaree When one of the, women nrotested .thet. Shed iden. neha samaie ii aS 4 sten immedis ately/ and : jai Bij ita Gan ate Self AEE \ Hy us A jn im fs iA ie \ : of the ScLe, cement SRE ee aA y : - . : ¥ 7 NW 55097 “‘Deela:32989 551 Page 18 ~~ TE
iscusséd how! she was. a ELEANOR aR fold, ber that Fo aon .- fy Ma) ee Q| oo. “ounnatural 2 ack y Fe ng and- : : surnames acters a to perform Such an act would mel 1 your soul, “at will help YOu "gpa etree a sims dT ts adtohesitelaepmmatn BES King announced that he preferred, to. pe ira] ‘acts: on- Tenet Meas se EE EN erie Sushi ta ria eels sete eS HES ERR A the women an id that he had started GE "Interna Girth, santsradh arth stad BAL SR 2 O a ae bes “itt VLA Aeon se ~ oa ~ 4 - . ma ftans teen eee Meciearvy SSeFtvedt vo SS US Se seeak, am. an * - tab’ wah ty aw at 2 eo Po pheehet Inta ee ee &BSS50Cr1Lace r2d invpensated 4078 CL. §OnNuai AMUSPrecurs?s WLiTn Lns ; . . ~ nt P= . 2 ~ Brastocitotycs AG ae os Ma ScLuuUUs « Pa te Se “ CONEY mre ener emeenes NW 55097, DocId: 32989551 Page 19. . a we
see ena pcettegep center meme mene tea ~ .On the hight before King was to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway in December, 1964, the police roa called to King's hotel because a white prostitute was caug rom King!s.brother, the Reverend A. D. King. ~ ‘stealing money fror g < i soa ar na sll Hs a 1. + ia) TAR i area & social gathering was neld in Oslo in noanor ci Aifes oC = ~~ PS aes At ws > ave Wisc ant: Meter mA Tare tt - na omanmnan nt In tne oresence OF AEME G@he Mis Pavey, fove-s PUuScll, & Hew s- 4+ the ere att Aasrnpstacn vasn interest thy StL Adee At wa he tee ei ret ne |eroup eaviLcerncea 4&2 ASeMm inverssoy 2h sae ttg Ve wee SF Tie oie ta oO Ret — awtanmana e Ban et P42 3 a ee ie a qife of Cslo was centered. Av tease Pive orner Sem anf -- gis ‘ ~ ee mo mA N nes ad ~ ~~ 7} “es a ~ noe bom a VATuy Nats tne fame 2M DAPrTLCULervi¥ LN Vareiuce -- \ ‘ ; mwewies bet OPN ee et ee ~tant H meet Ke \ Learn. gS 7 Cit OTwWweslernp £LPLs CSULa Os \ a arn an \ : oa een \ sr 4 ~ Pad wr “A ad N Kinets Wits Cornizent 4 t .* \ my . ™ \ 1 a ~ ~ Kine! wife ‘ aa Coretts ~ s wife of 15. years, Coretta, has ogen 4 ements eecerses cepa a ene 1 eM a mag ae * NW 55097 Doold:32989551 Page 20
TR Pee nena og mete goin any eng © husband's infidelities for‘ at ry ey ar aie inmates cade Sac aides a7 cal wwttitude, tovend thom indicating. that sheets content Jus G0 be Mr . deniodically, however, she berates King.for. Ota fd fiddsin gut SiMe anital oe wire ei 3 Spent uubiin Si cee taco forsee ‘ 4 a aae ; octeelran , . onsibilities" and on one acne OM n has remarked that if he sittin abana BAEC isthe acs vest tensa el RA ae SHRI BEA et Re sk es a Gea tgs 3 oY ) ta vO ¢ ~ Be spent ten hours 2 month. eo Seide) eitieda etter ce Ud, alten - Anotner time, she cuestioned him as Ui asian A AEE a ba BR SU ISS og a gh pe yin SAE haat Bhosle Aatyss Niet SRA nat ie SRR pce, +. L aL an Lan YE sh: 67D 4 / SAS hy mG bi ‘ ae \ NW e aye MO wo ocean em penn nny arsteten | enema manptonnstote vans eeamannesrsee NW 35087 Doold: 329995351 Page 21
Stanley Levison ea oe “USA (CPUSA), influence on him and febeoe These associat ions date fron King’s leadershir boycott by Current and for merc} Reb have been close a te was ae City atter os : mw ot > SANS a to the rtm Reet ee nt ements at gee NW 55097 EFA ee rey eee eye nena ene, Doold: 32989551 acdvanceme INFLUENCED BY COMMUNISTS ners of the Communist Party, to King and have exerted great the VEE Gy gest eat, of the 1956 bus : ar ecause the indivicusals involved have been identified > 4 + c tney are, ; eae, ALVIS OFS - a . - of King's key nicna is Steniley Levisen, a New Yor! and businessman, He kas been instrumental is national and interrationsl figure. The 33-vear- ‘Swhi te, @ snrevd and cedicatad communist, and Hinz has fo 4ynt ne Of tOois, + = ' = o _ aot ere tee Jor porvion of Levison's life kas been Cedicated rf aria iad L t sts & TNA — 4 I ym [as ent or the caus2 of communis- in this Nation ’ “ ee a > Ae een ee, etree ee Ree tage ere oe en ow pee cate coe samy OMEN wt arpa OT ee By AR mate Ee pet RN et Rt ek etree pene Page 29 * 2 eae mee ay,
sone ee NW 55097 L235 00.S @ S5 Levison Sneed Qe Sonal a gd a double life for the CPUSA, necessitated by a highly ae EDN SAE I ai sien “SOAR Nea Ream eA clandestine role in which he was. eptrusted to raise and handle Pee a Sa Ei a ig s Peles nhcd <2aiaattiaR sa ere masts OS secret Party funds used by the communists to finance part of seis Eben Abb oakite Ee paws Mon, chan Sab bane ac Se Aad ce pee LERetees. are Fence “their activities, Deus ste Taeegn Intelligence toate OT sone ONGOING In this clandestine role for the CPUSA, Le leg eer RAST RET SUED S EEE SR TIS Ca CER Sire chet A ea IND HERI Teme the head of a group of concealed Party menbers who operated ‘ watts Banta ee ER BEN dA ea Re maze of business enterorises cise citi se aan GENES eal BIESORE § + group tern ed over tk OUSERCS a st — TT ee TO ~ ee oe “ we ~ a at cm the same cedicatian to HNine's actis treat ne hed to CEL t+ & f ~ ad _ ant ee ~ v ~ ‘oe activities, For over ¢ Levison nas tionship with King, which has continued to this day. By 1958, eek * we ~ oc Me ee ne tn oe DoclId: 325989551 Page 23 . . . Tomer ceri cree gemma Fay te Wace | mee ate pe Phin inne wt mr AA i Ee ten a Se A en enn EIR EES REET Cen reRAENE ort
aie eens eta ter et etter eg ene a F gtentemenne tenn Ae emma cee ee mee women me gar penned a : he was referred to as King's "Assistant Chief" and as a real-. estate man who spent half, of this!t tin me helping Ki . . By 1961, Levison re eee i of the SCLC. He becane actively involved in fu ind-raisi ng drives for King, ‘donated substantial suns of money to King when SCLC funds were low, and served as King’s legal counsel on certain matters. endence on Stanley Levison Part of King's great de ey has been attr cae $6 vec Woo: Tes ‘o oy a Parra as ° = Tomer om ”~ ee oe ws, =a s awn ww oe ns = oe ACCOFCINg to 1-O0a, Livisc VES VYEery Ciost YO Aang, maa ZS tfaw o 6 wens = “a + a ~ ~ wn s ~ + wl Ree confiderce, end was one of the fev peonle who could geu ning * of at , oo ba oo, ee - aon alone, give him acvice, ana sivats ha the advice : Gusrwe freean Tutdlgaee PONE ONGOING CPUS! General Secretary Cus Hall received a resort -on King from. NW 55097 ° Doold: 32989551 Page 24 . 7 ~
-. as "a whole hearted Marxist who has. studied Yerzisn, believes a, EET NEN TLE LO ANTEC EIT ssn: pec TER ao REE RNAI in it, and agrees “with “it; but because of, wt... being a minister ‘of religion, doés not. dare to espouse it ae I TEN NEE CEPI EOE PG ToT css SSE EPS UTS EMESIS FAR FT TION te exe MeN CRE TREE AT Levison told a CPUSA | funetionaridn Staal SE EASES EERE nisin sR SHENAE: i deannaen On. us’ but, 3 at the same time, he wan nted: to do ee - somata everything ‘possibl ea to evi iden ce friendshin tovard the Soviet peste saa ae TRIES ares ea ates <_ xtc ae a SR LEY. Oe ox — . line. iVlost Tonortant Works Yr — = a a Nm 4 . - = i . Examobles of tne eiven ™ . numerous, For instance, on XM » oi 2 + a mt ai oe? ~ * assistants contacted Levison for en -ovi Be 7 es 2 So ae : oe a a ~ King should use intattemoting to influe — a ons WW 55097 Docld:32989551. Page 25 -
appoint Judge William uaty Hastie to the United States s Supreme Court. Levison said that .King should publicly advocate the appointment of Judge Hastie, because Negroes would exvect + a. Negro leader ‘to step fort th and state which Negro should be a ed ‘appointed ¢ to the Supren ne Court. ~ 7 a Sar re Joeetan) ZN TEM tGenieee Cera die Se On May 1, 186% a CPUSA functionary stated that ON OAPNE xgenes ene eg ASPENS “oO NGAOEN Stanley Le vison, because of his. association with the Hing e . — sk 9a SE RSS AE DORAN AON RR STE! SPODSAAIU HSER DE TE ERECT movement, "is doing the most imoortant work in the CP today. a seen ems AATEN DES IESE TET IO a conference King had requested with President Kennedy and the Attorney Ceneral. - Levison ned the CBUSS ‘June of 1663, 1 2evison pecon? s6 tevolve? with. | Sous rive Fereee tn le tage fee Opus i ONeore + : : “Deke arenes assist in the fight for ci =i rignts for Negroes, Ti Fore, => NW 55097 Docld:3258955i Page 26 wet semen ne
+ . his activities the King no eneat, he . ee be subject . fo eres discipline, and he ¥ would not assist’ ‘the Party - scion a, ss scaeaBieOion —w : ers ce : but he was not. quittir ig .the ran Never theless, he ° would. oS gira na gn SILLS SR 3 ames ES . aa esi os aaa sce ee ‘fron the Barty in. 1 regard to the x ae ' ae The. CPUSA of course, wanted to. continue ,control Sys m ver oe eh () IN. bel iat = “hu over King and. the SCLC Fort to acco plish , é late Benjanin, Davis, \woo the _ppteenon nea . / yee nce Opuat nm . ice Pac Dre CP Siig Kies, 0" Dell, anda Fepressatative of the Attorney General, NW 55097 Docld:32989551 ‘Page 27. Te
‘ The Attorney Gen ex ral's S representat tive pointed to Levison and - O'Dell and said to King, "These men are Party Mei nbers; watch etnmesescrrpeae Fa thia EAR Sern ert te Hos. Sse A, ra eae Ae, SERRE RON 9 ery out for them." According to Levison, King did not "bat an NN NAT Dk TNA TT SECT HNN RES IMEC OLE TOTO IEICE LR ace a Rt ict GRIN 8 | ame aang SEDATE MATE 2A aac ery CAT eyelash" upon hearing this staten rent. _ Levyison reported that ee eA EE ETI Si Tiere Ri abit ME RE wes Me - - - a after this ne seting he told Xing, "1, congratulate you on the see ABET SOLE TA SLO Way you acted regarding his warning, You are a real Marxist-~ ne ree Ran Mae ME ADE NTL OME At Vere, ee AO ha ee wn . OF - BET Ss ManxistrLeninistacis." .- “mt Leninist. his Guarded Contacts {ing sve Foe an LN Te Mace Gpebiit fe ONGO INA Folloving this meeting, there were two deve elopnapts. Levison and his brother succeeded in breaking away from CrUSA (een, RASA Manta Anh HENS ac ESI CT ERE 8 ETOH ae cabin 2 ve car 6 EIT SBN ie exam ES . . : <r . Pew anras discivline.so iney could control Ring without Party .inte fexoncs, githeugh tocar they still considered themselves "CP peorle,” In i temetone e entenat Fase tae eee Ne = bat ne ne th, ty Ee ne a atte Kae Oe ee TE = Me _ yore erreumspesT . addition, Stanisy Levison was reewrs «5: amin his contacts ee bad re) Levison played a role in the plans that led to tw Ga celebrated March on Vashingto a) kh o) by QO a) < } jn Hy fete 0G} om ck n 1@) ts + 3 2 i" wy ch bh WZ po a HW 55057 Doold:i32989551 Page 26
ro leaders, principally A, Oo ry ee 67 pus ive 3 ea pet ke ta President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, had proposed a march on the Nation's capital sometime during the ed . but Fall of 1963, Astingafter consultation with Levison, who agreed that "the time is now," King seized the initiative and secured the cooperation of other Negro leaders for King’s proposal for an earlier march--a move that put King squarely in the forefront of the events that developed, ’ "Freecom vavs" : . The CPUSA dic BO give up control of Levison without Sea serine Swe! Lytclhacase operat > a strugzle. In Sept oer, 1263, for instance, Gus Hell AN GQIMG aes toe wena me ee nee }ete u i : L — bo owt bh T aeeln : vO try 6 MSBSl VTA LEvison vo Work in the South. "Freedomvays'' is a quarterly Marxist Necro * cepa D Uc AID Cn eho ER kata nia - a ED 2 woes Frm tee me ee ec re oe Ve ce ee nee ern eens ee eng cemnencanee mnneenmeninne ie bw ere ae We -- NW 55097 Docld:32989551 Page 29 .
King and Levison met again in Nev York City on January 8 and February 7, 1964, On March 9 and 10, 1964, Levison spent considerable time in SCLC headquarters in Atlanta. King was occupied in the SCLC headquarters at the sane time. On the evening of March 9, 1964, Levison dined at King's residence. One of the purposes of these neetings was to consider whether exposed the relationshninv between Hing and Lavison., Asa - o ° wal ae 4 ~. as ade o 4 i result of this exposure in the press, King to € ~s, e 7 . we wr + *. . s + + . = 3 _ em he was ro lonzer of valine to him even though ne Rac csen in w22 - ‘ is - ~ a + - : sah t - past, King said that, if Leviseon vere to remain with ain, \. Nw S5057 Doold: 32589551 Page 30
to be a noncommnunist, Li isoywemelaccm His . _ and would ha . refusal , Levison said, resulted in &: _ him“dismissal by King. Levison commented that he had stayed away from the CPUSA in ‘Negro movement, but this did not mean that he was anti-Party. : order to improve his position of influence and strength in the : Use of Intermediary It soon became apparent that the severance of ti relationship between Levison and King was a temporary act of expediency. Starting @ Negro King were handled by also a frequent for the Garchi Society + rr + Ds ww te = $ ‘ ~ aw - y for human Rights, 2a Ftuncercaising eftunces fo ty oT 2 ~ te ~ tA .ayt TAs ae bOI A waetittann = of the SCLC. Durirnz tha mic-1Sid's, Jones held a reasiticx of “I + tt Y % aad a ~ Santa oe wanes sant _ - + leacership in tha Lator Youth League, a cefunct eomuunist rent , = mat wes Fim mn atm nm om Fee Ne aa group, Levisan met wita Jonts on several eccertions curinct whe ; 3 <a + mA : matdnn Jet wine Spring and Summer of 1°54, In his conversatious with Ning . ; : . . - we during this period, Jones usually referred to Levison as cant « Le ng ~ Ba “our fricnc, 22> Lea bana = te wee tr tem fe = — ” oer Ve ¥ woe we nae eee eee wep ke MU OSs cena pewter . *. NW 55097  Docld:329s9554—
SA aa rae i AP eng er ae mee ARES ERT REORDER Ptah eras se ter teen tee Gee ne MRT Senn cert ter ae, REDE Cleese on On mber 29, 1964, Jones met with Levison in. the uw © ‘J ct © latter's office to discuss the SCLC, Plans were undervay by the end of October, 1964, for a personal meeting dovolving King, Jones, and Levison. In preparation for this meeting, Jones told King to think about what role Levison could: play in the future and reminded King that. Levison had been helpful in the November, 1964, regarding the possibdility that Ring might be og Joon Paras 7 + 3 w wm me Ae tay ot pet ~ TAroac offered an officiel role in the Johnson Administration. Jones tpopet + + wes yt ate a o ' ew Latent) + suggested that King think about a role for “our friend" to -_ NW S037 Doold: 32989551 Page 32
an. active member of the National. Lawyers Guild, which has~. been described as the foremost: legal bulwark of the Communist Party. we Lege rca we prin drt nek eymq me ned emer cepees nng eeeeY Rustin and Wachtel decided to have King utilize his... ‘prestige as a vinner of the Nobel Poace Prize by writing to : President Ko Chi. Mich of North Vietnin, to léaders of the Soviet | “Union, and to President Johnson about bringing the war-in- . Vietnan to anvend, “This action, they felt, vould cast an image. of Kibg és # great bral leeder and extend ¥iag's: influence : beyond the civil rigits movement.’ : On August 12, 1865, King announced publicly thet’ he would : Ho Chi to goin .a conference to end the war ain VYietram; Ee seid. he would aiss ; send similar lets to teaders of South Vietnam, the Soviet U 4 a 5 align ; peper sent King 12 questions on Vietnam, King called rr STUNT rae ween 8 wen ot esesetinn a etme phe opine ere ae am op na ween ne Mi een pmee pera meen nes ennscts Cove aiken WW 55097 Doold:32989551 Page 33
ee ee ee =e ey rnd uwlavorabl> P ablec LENT be Ming s | pene was ib ti. ahnounceme nt, By Jause of ‘this, his ‘top ad tors ‘held a “con= a eo i ference, in. early Septeaber, (1965, “and decided that. King. should avoid the Vietnam issue. As vill be seen, this decision had i oe Contacts Resumed so. gy. og ‘ ane During the Fall of 1985 andthe spring, of. 1986, the personal contacts. betreen Xing and Levisoa tere resuzed. On October. 20, 1985, for. instance, ‘King net ith, Levison and / | : ; | 1966. reveal tha Levi ison.nad returned to his role as Ring's advisor. ap eseenaevnanees et aces Os . MW S597 Docld: 32989551 - Page 34
anti-v igtnan, War, Re solution: The ete od of He 8 nl nat te the Spring. of 1986, The. sessions of this two-day, conference “yan into the early morning hours, because efforts were being “made to draft a resolution on the war-in Vietnam, Finally, on the: ‘Goyernnént sto. de 2sis ist ‘gids and-to | ¢ NW 55097 Levison and Hart ry, ‘Wachtel continued /to:: ~ there app ared to. be general: agreement. t an : - resolution than was, presented. . that would” cotdend) par Vietnan, — The confer ence fi Docld: 32989551 . “Page 35°57 gee TSB De ‘ i asad
wef Sorine Mo=ilizetion oe Oe o Oo ee ee , ‘ , ’ On April 13, OTs Lev ison and King. were. incon ntact to discuss ‘)the progress Levisol was making in the writing of. the ‘SPE separ a nrwancensaceea a EEE Nemrasansiheteieashaniid eso cima SME A aA pte ASL i hme fia ; ; . : ive Fs x f 1 oc ti to deliver on Apri 1 Sy 1967, at the relly of bhe, Spring, Mob obit iz) ation Committee at the Unibed Natlons.. ‘in. Newco. Chitiinimelsesninsonadee Gm Dart . the bombings ceases" of the speecn and King ‘enthusiastically accepted - ite “King pantioulerly nt eesti caer i eat EE TA Rae aS nA ERE A LORAIN ES Se SES ETS ; Liked a statement thkt the United States should withdraw unilat ergily arn enenaaeeerennaecalal binder an Sta Be aaa from Vietnam, | He alto enjoyed an appeal to the country to. "demand | ects re eo ne Dn ISG I RENTER OOD SRC AS insistently -that our |Government honor. Ha i ac noifts promise to neszotiate if REE A i REED EN REN Souls scien ght a ving! “speech at the Unitec Nations. went NW 55097 _Docld: 39989551. “Page” 36 PTE bee
. Birt of Washinzton Spring: Project y Levison and King met on July 19, 1967, to’ discuss the Newark, New Jersey, riot. Levison Suggested ~2t that King advocate a Ex program with dranatic qualities similar to the Works Project adninistration of the 1930's, This new program, implemented by the Federal Government, would employ jobless youth, King agreed that Levison's idea had merit and said he would publicly call uvon the Federal CA te ane i 5 we eee ae wy ei’ en - wt ny Government to Go Nur something alons.tnis. line, ¢ a : NI get oot teens Rae tt oe Mere ere mene RETRY Hanon ME Plog 4 YE ER BT Cm ne ean ee Sp oN ARO Re AR NER AN IRR NE Ne Re rt Verte peemrmenet area ee ‘NW 55097 Doold:32989551 Page 37
. | King waited until the 10th annua@convention of the SCLC before he made these plans public. On August 15, 1967, he delivered an address at the convention in which he urged new massive civil disobedience to include general strikes, “school boycotts, and a camp-in at Nashington, D, C. ALL this would be done to force (Lc oUsited:- Sates Congress to take action to improve the lot of the Negro, Funds for Washington Soring Project . As he kad done in the past, King turned to Levison to help him raise furdés for the SCLC ard the 1 Project. Ata cy wtf Ce 4 . a ~OT - 2 de he ~~ Dee that SCLC wouleé attenmnst to raise $1,&593,¢73 curing the ceninz + ~ aa ek wee a 7 Ce ee a ~ “2 + ~ ae 4 ~ year, It was contemplated that this money weula be reclize: 2 . Bs +t 2 . s ~ od on m wht : : . ms) Rt througn the maili-canrpeal pregram of SULC, which is under the hon ae - o 3 aol ee Lay 3 WW 55097 Docld:32989551 Page 38 " Nr
> . Spring Project. At this conference Levison proposed that approximately 60 individuals, who had contributed $1,000 or more to SCLC in the past, be invited to a meeting at the home Negre . “5 aoe eten ST) uae fen te of ,singer Harry Belafonte, . bein cu erecestecTihnataié Ghee lo sos= fi Do SO Oe eat od. 4 fa ae ceo OU yw ~ eewl Lope ce WP The MT Fs ny Ae ~it wer LEE ee ci ee Se ood corset) iaprysend, ~~ _—<—=- — * > 2 . . tenga be eee Te.” Fae » 7S. tt ™ - “a —— Ser Reni. .itilen sent Bromide, Poosev tin 1 it Tie Levison’s efforts to raise funds for the Washington Spring Project continued into March, 1968, He advised Clarence sones in March that he had mailed a letter soliciting funds to 80,000 people who had contributed to King's organization results, He said that $15,000 had been received in on2 cay ant the resvons2 was ahead of that of last vear. Communist Cele a. Le tate eo arn pan Levieoan had met with Hinz in November, Litt, to | + at - - inal rm --« * w= gn tot ~ | discuss an invitation Eins had received frem Furter Bitte Ofcell to speak at a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the birth _ om” N aa ok - £4 we ee eee ee cnr te mee cee en com Vinee mee ae ee ee ana geo ere fan ete mm eee gin enema mee comeemmenmmuete Ween dane omy | BY S5057 Doold: 32989551 Page 35 ‘* |
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Se ote. Dates 12/12/63 Transmit the following in Vig ATREEL 0: + “DIRECTOR, FBI (100-106670) ~~ ah My HS eee) La FROM: “SAC, NEW YORK (100-136585) tt Y SUBJECT: “MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. po meee dey. ; . SM-C — Le a +, (00: ATLANTA) - Re New York letter, 11/22/°3, ca ptioned as above. ERNE re aan 215 Pi 12/11 763, ¢ NY 9-S* _weactivated. coverage a telechors) numbers UN 0 and UN 6-2002, which are locatéd in the office of the “Séut thern CAnistian ‘Leadershin Conference (SCLC),- 312. Lest. 225th Street, Nor 7 York, Now Moric. nee weer pe ese ame wan, a Technical difficulties being experienced by the , New York Telephone Company, as set out in referenced letter, © continue wi ith regard to telephone number UN 6-2001. Th po 3 Bureau will be advised when complete coverage has been vA i reinstituted and_FD.143 will be s submitted. in30. Gays. — - Full security is assured. . } ' ‘ : of 3 va oo REG 45 Seb Pt LB Te wm bbe (3)- Bureau (100-106670 (n 3 a - T - New York (100-136555) (414) es tee PB... S~icEb 2 “3 tel? g JFN: gmd ‘ (5) LN A TAMA _ approves: i — rand ¥ a. JAN 12 Speci Agent in Charge & Me Vie HW S507 “BDoold:32860551+> Page fio Z ‘ Wry
Date: 11/27/63 . Transmit the following in ° . - : (Type in plain text or ‘code) ‘ ca 7 , wi me ee en Via AIRTEL “ATRMATL . ° q . . (Priority or Method of Mailing) | mana ne a ee bow TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (100-3-116) JUNE ; - (100-106670) PERSCNAL ATTEN ve on FROM: SAC, ATLANTA (1000-65208) ASST, DIRECTOR Wie SULLIVA: Se . _ DOMESTIC rere ate, BNCE DIVISHO: COMINFIL : mF ae RACIAL MATTERS O 4} (OCP |r f DR, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. VA Pg “ a oe SM - C Vso Ge ReB 1 11/3 /63. . Oo “? Me I. eBuairte pe ie E he. tt Poe Aone. INET (1)_ AT 1379- 354 -2SSTR1 Lead telephone nunber 522-4596, an unlisted number i residence of Dr. MARTIN KING, 563 Johnson 1 Avenue, N. E., Atlanta >~“Gtorsinr-Teastd line obta sindd- from -Houston Street, and Boulevard to 300 West Peachtree Street, N.W. ~1 Sd (2) AT-1380-S* assigned telephone number 524-1378, a listed number for SCLC at 330 Avlurn Avenue, NUS. Atl an’ ta. or Y Leased line obtained from 328 Auburn Avenue, N. E. to 300 i FE West Peachtree, Street, N. W. - as i be ISU lee “Tk (3) AT 1381-S* assigned to telephone number 524- 13°79" a number if“¥6Tary for SCLC located at 330 Auburn Avenue, N.E., Atlanta. Leased line obtained {Tom SUS Auburn Avenue, N. E. to 300 rE heid, Street, N. W. = EE Ap (4) AT 1382-S* assigned to telephone number 524-1370, a number iff6fary for SCLC located at 330 Auturn, Avenue, | ‘YN. E., |. Atlanta. Leased line obtained from 328 Auburn Avenue, N. E., to 300 rest 7 iy yoo Street, N. W. t My i . . - (5) AT 1383-S* assigned to telephone number 524-3151, a _ non-listed number located in offices of SCLC_at 330 Auburn Avenue, N, E., Atlanta. Leased line obtained from 328 Auburs hers a Avenue, N. E., to 300 West Peachtree | ee ail W. “i . san } ao f ~ ey ae 4 n REG 45 et TLE HS A?) a} - ARMIOM 7) - | 7 She. ‘Bureau Tew a on DEC S953. oh Looe a Apres Atlant a at * Sent Be wo EO F not Special Agent in Charge . “. -f. ™~ vw Poo ogo f C.. 5 pes Sea q,
. —Date: , (11/1/63 j = Transmit the following in pe (Type in plain text or code) ¢ AIRTEL a , SO “I as _ (Priority or Method of Mailing) i TO pinkicrar, FBI (100- 106670) FROM : SAC, NEW YORK..(100- 136585) OSMR ET rr ee COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN RACIAL MATTERS SUBJECT: MARTIN LUTHER RING, JR. sone Lee . | ReBuairtel to NY 10/14/63 and NY airtel to Bureau, 10/25/63, captioned as above, re installation of tesur on the office of the Southern Cnristian Leadership Conference (SCLC). 2 JOONK. NER WY Ele. At 1:45 D: “me 10/30/63, the final installation of NY Hi79-S** was made covering telephone number UN 6-2009 “whicn Ts tocated in the office of tne SCLC, 312 West 125th St., Manhattan, N.Y Full security is assured. Mdaceas (100- 106670) ) OR) New York (100- 130585 JEN: rmv (5) Cen CU « Wich, at . ae: a Approved oo s«Sentt Per 6. NOV 8 spd 3) Spediat Agent in Charge CI A I SI aA aa tan ee ec inea a iat iliae ei alae aS WoBSOS7 -Docld: 32989551 Page 53 ». ° - _ 7 “. en are ot - +
Ce RQ coe te FBI ‘ t % ' ‘anonee A A ae me ND YD att eet | Soe . ’ . | Date: 10/25/63 Transmit the following in — . — 4 “R a (Type in plain text or code) a a Via’ ‘AIRTEL pot es so wed _& iq — . : . . (Priority or Method of Mailing) . | : Pewee ee ne e+ [ TO: DIRECTOR,’ FBI (200-106670) ope z ae F FROM: SAC, NEW YORK (200- 136585) _SUNE ; o~) - z , SUBJECT: MARTEN LUTHER KING, JR. ; . SECURITY MATTER - C COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN RACIAL MATPERS mas wis KE Te ate! Re Bureau airtel, 10/14/63, captioned as above, authorizing installation of tesur on the office of the. Southern Christian Leadership ee (SCLC). he ~f At 1:05 PM, 10/24/63; 1S ee “SDS installed on LA . telephone number UN 6-2001 and Un € -2002, located in the office of the SCLC, 312 West 1e5th Street, Kew York, New York. Coverage on telephone number UN 6-2000 is expected to be installed Monday, 10/28/63. REC- 13 Full security is assured. i | cea 3} Bureau (100-106570) (Re) ~ New York (100- 1365 85) (414) . Lee a cA a of 3. ae CG. ©. Wick Ci OW ; 4 Approved: Seer” ve Vi i 4 r 3 Ge NOY A Seer a Agent in Charge ; WW 55097 Docld:32989551 Page 54., - oy : wR - fa : - rs
. ornomat fotM HO. 10” , - "a b e- ; _ : elle Tolson rc _ . unfriD~-STATES GOVERI ee ROUTE Bits EN@g ELOPE i an npht ; Memorandum i OES = | . : DeLesch , TO : Mr. W. C. Sullivan DatTe:October 18, 1963 sae Se FE . —_—_—- . - . ; % , 7° XSullivan iS rrom : Mir, J, F, Blang Lo Ciel Lie. belmont Kelmes — E Cp Zz . 7 e & . ae andy q ii l-Mr, Mohr fy supject: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. 1-H, Sullivan - . en aa SECURITY HATTER - C . I-Mr, Evans H 1—~Mr, Rosen ar ae ’ COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN . ieliv, Baumgardner . (7 RACIAL MATTERS I-Mr, Bland .... ¢../7 mn, . ' [-Mr., Donohue --. +=} L-Hy, Forsyth ": al Y y You will recall that on 7/13/63 the Attorney convient advised Assistant Director Evans that in view of the possi ible. communist influence in the racial Situation he desired consider~ ation be given to placing technical surveillances on Martin Luther King, Jx., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and Clarence B, Jones, a New York City attorney who is » 2. Closely essocilated with King and involved in the recial. movement. , The Attorney General at that time indicated he was not concerned . With the repercussions if it should ever become Enown that such Surveillances kad been put into effect and that he thought it : advisable to heve complete coverage. Althouch, when such a No ‘request was made of the Attorney General 7/22/63 he rejected “covers ge on King, he has subsequently authorized technical coverage. “con .the Rew York office of the SCLC as well es the Atlanta residence Mae UR MEST Ren REY RAAT AG UII. of King. - ’ 233 A survey has now been conducted on the headquarters of = : the SCLC at Atlanta, Georgia, and this survey indicates it is & : feasible to install a technical surveillance, on ‘this _Paaee with 62 full security. QP VS ara) King is closely associated with Stanley’ Teviconh 1 = Nadia concealed member of the Communist Party, USA ing bas been described as a wholehearted Marxist who, has. wstudied.tlars sism, believes in it, agrees “With h it, ‘but b because of bis being a minister of “yeligion, does” not “Gare ‘to espouse it “publicly. emvacantnabendrivemsaioctirionsetili stienstet AS meine — BB AR iano) Enc, D2e2.-€ Ey 6-4 S- b a f —-.400-106670 one \« _ Kt 100~3-116 ae a We A £C iS BSR Ee! van (92162570 & ASST TIRT) PY po! Lanfecescessscessenengzesessnne® a eyes NAL RATERS CON PTET WE ICI hes fe Sie a Ctnmennynenn meowen © ce Rome s wrote « een menat ae od i ha
bad . Pan * SJ . » 7 - ; - we . . Memorandum for Mr. W. C. Sullivan Re: BARTIN LUTHER KING, dk. — COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN RACIAL MATTERS 100~-1L0S670 Coote - 4 100-3-116 . _ ; Co mo are ffi At present there are )6, investigative-type technical surveillances in operation and si are awaiting installation, The Limit is 25. : ' res - << o- ee wet OBSERVATION: 2 OT ; . . In view of the Attorney General's - nequest that our coverage be as complete as possible and because of the communist influence in the racial movement shown by activities of Stanley Levison and King's connection with him, it is believed desirable to put all possible coverage on the racial leaders in order to obtain full information, © RECOMLIENDATION : That the attached be sent to the Attorney General requesting authority to install a technical surveillance on the headquarters of the SCLC in Atlanta, ont ogre aN . TE OS Od ite Dapboor nape seamen or ys N NW S5097 DocId: 32989551 “Page 26 _ % Peemantietel his
fo Tm MAE 1962 EGITION ir Sons We . e*: oD . - ves : a GSA GEN, REG, NO. 27 . . ave a UNITED STATES GO yj RNMENT , . ae’ 7 . _. . ‘allahan | M femorandum ~ + S/S . - “e . ‘ale “ “TO ate, W. C. Sullivan. _ DATE: October 4, 1963 1 , , a pg . . at ad “ a - JUNE . _ / Trotter —_____ - 4 Se wees Tele. Room FROM: Mr. J. F. e id rans ae fated Holmes | an Se elbow 1 - Mr, Belmont—~" f sot - i) + Mr. Mohr ~~ QO xt SUBJECT:- MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR, i - Mr. Sullivan _ ari SECURITY MATTER - C 1 - Mr. Evans oA. » AL oF an 1 - Mr. Rosen [ BLAS. ; - COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN 1 - Mr. Baumgardner ‘~ 2°" is 4, RACIAL MATTERS 1 - Mr, Bland agi tet ; _ 1 - Mr. Donohue Page 1 - Mr. Forsyth Surveys have been made on the residence of Martin Luther King, Jr., in Atlanta, Georgia, and the headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in New York City. These A surveys indicate it is feasible to install technicel surveillances on these places with full security. ; You will recall that on 7/13/63 the Attorney General advised Assistant Director Evans that in view of the possible communist influence in the racial situation, he desired that consider~ ation be given to placing a technical surveillance on Martin Luther King, Jr., leader of the SCLC, and Clarence B, Jones, a New Yoru City attorney who is closely associated with King and involved in the £ i racial movenent, -The Attorney General at that time indicated ne aye j was, not concerned with the repercussions if it should ever becone ; i known that such surveillances had been put into effect and that he.- i thought it advisable to have complete coverage However, when such “|.a@ request was made cf the Attorney General on 7/22/63, he rejected coverage on King <t e < . King resides at 563 Johnson Avenue, N.E., Atlanta,.Georgia and is president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 330 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta. The New York office of the SCLS' islocated at 312 West 25th Street, New York City. fo pe tt us ty oY . +, S eneledae ae REC. i . Food -° ~~ ae . King: is closely assoc siated with & 3 anley Levison, a-concesled member | of ‘the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA). King has been described iby Levison as,a wholehearted Marxist ¥ho has 2s studied Marxisn, .. believes les it,agress wit hit, but because of his being awiinister Us Religion | aed eye atten Se does not dare £9 espouse it  BUDLLCT YS ous Panggeneyert Meaguee Of Phal! wee ee, i The Attorney General has approved coverage on Stanle¥, bevy Q, wis Larence B, Jones, and the Gandhi Society for Human-hights. ‘inese ii insta allations have been extrenely, productive in Showsns the influen Re . ie a Rear . 44 7 i- 100-3-116 | S apt Weg LE ee em YY a0 oe CLASSIFIED BY AY Tc... 15 nn Ce ee) as WER/nGa, 4 DS gs . EXEL.2T F202 ag Cr Le SPICATION ony 1) | 2 £Ci..! cveen Re C2 we ae rs my licse : ‘ feavaveete LEZ. re Om ' CA blown Q Paet! senveresssuvenegdeceey gence <= HIESUOE “bowee SapESSST paige 57 HULOMIRICHES BAGASSAED. OI Fem LEE oe a Sa eee 7
' Memorandum for Mr. Sullivan- a: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. COMMUNIST. INFLUENCE IN RACIAL MATTERS yo 100-106670 or 100-3-116 es . of Levison on King as well as Levison's behind-the-scenes influence’ ;in the racial movement, At present there are 5% investigative~type technical surveillances in operation andthree are awaiting installation, The limit is £50 <= OBSERVATIONS : . rn in’ view of the Attorney General's request that our 1 coverage be as complete as possible and because of the communist y, | fmf uence in the racial movement shown by activities of Stanley thevison as “well-asKing's-connection with him, it is believed / | yevison 2 to put all possible coverage on the racial leaders in gorder to Orne? ¢ full information. Fd ee ee ea TVA ae wf rs 3 3 A ain pM ene Eid ELA ey RECOMMENDATION SOO “vee IN SOS ne yer art ia “Se OC ayaa AK, ty \ ad That ‘the attached be sent to the Attorney General requesting authority to install technical surveillances on King's resicence in Atlanta, Georgia, and the SCLC headquarters in New York City. ’ t Lo an ar ~2-— + adil sad deinen da iacnatpadnni tate araegusapeareae-ararane ream aemereateeaereaeam eee eee mor “+m ne Fie ae a = Hw 55097 DocId: 32969551 Rage 56° be - . - a i SORA ROSIE. ULE Pry teagan esi wnrveeents cree 28 Ae bak 3 3
. - 7 PAT MOUTAL PJM We WO . Sotd-104 Pe, “4 a _ ~ 7 o * oe GH -" 2? 7 - .’ UNITED STATES GOV. gNMENT . . : : “ ‘Memorandn nd an ne TO > J. Edgar Hoover, Director DATE: September 20; 1963 Federal Bureau of Investigation - ‘ : : arom : Burke Marshall, Assistant Attorney General : . MAY. Civil Rights Division . ; {DO ; ° UBJECT: Hunter Pitts OtDeil . ‘ This relates to. your letterhead memorandum oS of September 5 to the Attorney General, relating to of, pp: Hunter Pitts O*Dell and the related prior memor and ag Lessee I appreciate your having sent copies of these to me, vu Ag This matter had been brought ‘to the attention Pree of Dr, King some time ago by me, but in accordance KC ghiin: with conversations which the Attorney General . 4 val ie had with Courtney Evans, it was not feit to be wise byeinee in view of the sources of the Bureau*s informa- tion to state that I knew O*Deil to be under Conmunist/“)).. a infiuence or control at any time, I did inform. pays Dr, King and two members of his organization -~- ° ai Reverend Andrew Young and Reverend Wyatt Walker -- some time ago ~~ that since O*Deil was believed by 3 many people to have had Communist connections, his A i association with their organization was not in the By font best interests of the organization, isa, “} At that time, inconclusive steps were taken MALES to remove O*Dell, and his job with the Southern - ry ij Christian Leadership Conference was changed, In gt response to direct questions whether I had hard evidence \ = of O*Dell*ts Communist connections, however, I replied ~ that I was not in a position to give any. 7s ‘ a ary mn” . . a’ tN Following further conversations,with Mr, ° ‘A if) - Evans in June, however, I brought the matter to the V/ : attention of Dr, King very explicitly in my office Ady, on the morning of June 22 prior to a scheduled meeting .Y which Dr. King had with the President, This was - > done at Cc the direction of the Attorney General, Later that morning both the Attorney General and ithe President separately strongly urged Dr, King that there should be no further connection between Zratsr | Dell and the Southern Christian Leadership Conferenc * \ + + . * LeyCONLAD COPY FILO ww e. \ { a Le 0 NE - “eS teh int line: a a 4 vit b EaY > rd , al pot AL ade My - St . - | _ ( po ‘ 2 : . i. d ue eee 2 pte R74 A. we was As hoe . -? T tren. ao , “4 a >) \,e ue ev * - Srrwwee eeorrrec 7 OM A . a a oy S&S a ere — Te “9 PSK 7 220°T 1% 3059 fa Ut CL > / . beet CE Baie eet a [24 2 on nese ae PAT 3 ee SEP 25 iveS Lm ene 2 nace .NW 55097 Docld: 32989551. Page “BD a - 5 ne = . at
. ey . _ ~ . * < ° -* W~2h.- -Dr. King stated that the connection would be \ ended. Thereafter, the Attorney General and I ae i both received copies of the attached letter, dated vuly 3, 1963, from Dr. King to O*Dell. . * On the same occasion, I also informed Dr, King that our information was that Stanley Levison was a secret member of the Communist Party. This was also done after conversations with Mr. Evans prior, to the meeting with Dr. King, and was done at the direction of the Attorney Generali and the President, Prior to that time, again based upon talks between the Attorney General and Mr, Evans at which I was present, it had been decided that it was not in the best interest of the United States to inform Dr. King that we had any firm information that Levison was under Communist control. I had, however, on a previous occasion, warned Dr. King about any association with Levison, basing the warning upon doubts about Levison*s loyaity to the United States. I thought you should have this additional information for your file, “ce: The Attorney General The Deputy Attorney General ‘ ’ ra ” ‘ . ' . 4 . ‘ . tears mveerent MERRIER HA mPOA CPP PA TEATRO APO ee ee smear eC P ER TPO NL IH AO CITT TLE HA TORI NW 55037 Docld: 32pG955i--Page G6; see ts TR erm mere eee ee:
oe mes “ors. (gna NO. 10 - 4 2. - UNITED STATES GOVERN: tT - , , 7 Mi emorandum ,. + ge! th ° oo ° = . - x DeL ach A (Vi \ 3 " . an - ; j SEvons “ee a iH _ TO : Mr. Belmont pate: October 21, 1963 Gale ——-— a . . > . allivarty . : “ . . St ae _ ve) CC i View ~s . : . . . Trotter ~ . - . oe ‘ oimes Gandy a Ae ; . (9 al The Attorney General spoke to me with cued to nie Gu memorandum of October 18, 1963, recommending a technical surveillance eae | on the office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at Atlanta, /“ | pe! ; se Georgia, It is noted that last week the Attorney General authorized Gites similar coverage on the residence of Martin Luther King, Jr., Presiden of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. * sunyect: . MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. - SECURITY MATTER - COMMUNIST ae . COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN | ) RACIAL MATTERS | f we . om A The Attorney General is apparently still vacillating i in his position as to technical coverage on Martin Luther King and his organization, it being recalled that he had initially suggested such cwerage and then ” changed his mind and felt it might be inadvisable. 4 3 hey * -. Phe Attorney General said that he is still uncertain in his own 5 _ .% {mind about this coverage. I reminded him of our previous conversation, a Noe wherein he was assured that all possible would be done to insure the security cu NU. 4. ‘fof this operation f 5 & Ry : The Attorney General advised that he was approving the 8 “$f }October 18, 1963, memorandum but asked that this coverage and that on ‘9 x gy King's residence by evaluated at the end of 30 days in light of the results Q Roy 5 secured so that the continuance of these surveillances could be determined B ‘ cS at that time. This will be done. B & "4 s v npsr® “The original of our October 18, 1963, memorandum was handed ~ ON ay eitto me by the Attorney General. It is attached hereto. bof Yq * @Nenclosure a \ & 3 sql - Mr. Sullivan Si 2°L - Mr. Donohue UN le N **’ . a AO > CAE: VAD | 22 OY 8.51933 y reat “a ai. acest Nav 12 1963 sees &” NW 55097 Dodd: s¥od9551°. Page Ci 5 Sob LF SOE CT commie sae wee om
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= “optional FORM NO. 10 Tolson COO Ron i img raw, SEE AINITED STATES GOVERN\«: O U TE Ik N ENes i =. - Mi emorandus® yi BLOPE — . aie (70: Mr, W. C. Sullivan . pare: July 22,. 1963 (F eee tet mo - ‘ ‘Gapttvan 22 ee Be ( - Mr. Belmont et a a FROM: Bir, Fe Jo Batingardney Mr, Evens Tele. Room Le . f} ate Mr, Rosen Holmes mo, 6 a id Me, Sullivan pei Mr. el Mr. Donohue : +c Mr, Shaw “ } te Ge , |e me egg ern ee ewe ee 1 oe - oa, Lm cee tes - Vy) os supyecr: MARTIN LUTHER Cane, Ro SECURITY MATTER - COMMUNIST _- Jot fa ft fa ft fat fad fst perarnes wie nue ht ti: ,fhis is a recommendation requesting the Attorney General's authority for the ins stalia tion of a technical surveillance covering the hsine telephone of Martin Luther King, dr,, as well as the tele- - x +: « “phone ‘covering the Southern Christian heacership Conference, of which Pron: King is the President, Sor see, ; oy . : You will recall that on 1/16/62 the At corres General acdvicce Assistant Director Evans that in view of the ‘possible communist influ~ ence in the racial situation; he desired that consideration be given to placing a technical surveillance on Martin Luther King, Jr,., leader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Clarence Fenjanin Jones, a New York City attorney, who is closely associated with Hing, The Attorney General indicated he was not concerned with the reper- cusSions if it Should ever become Enown that such surveillances hea been put into effect and that he thought it advisable to have as com plete coverage as possible, OT ee - King resides at 5653 Johnson Avenue, N,E,, Atlanta, Georgia, ‘and is the President of the Southern Christian Leadershio Cor, ference, 330 Auburn Avenue, Atlanta, King is on the Reserve Index. He is closely associated with Stanley Levison, a concealed member of the Communist Party, USA. King has been described by Levison as a vncle- hearted Manxisx.who has studied.Marzisn, belieues_. AD_WA.5..F agrees with it, but because of his 3 being.3. minister _of. re Goes | not Gare to ‘espouse : > it_publich <, ets: CoN « Saabs a EUS dare tak J Lb ih, a MOOI ttm BMA Pursuant to the Attorney General's request that considera- tion be given to placing a technical surveillance on King, our Atlant2 Office was requested to conduct a survey to ascertain if such coverrce is feasible and could be conducted with full security. tlanta tele- type 7/20/63 discloscs that technical coverage. on King is feasible and * -f can be- conducted with full security. ot arn oe pe At present there are 58 investigative-type technical sur- velllances in operation and 6 being installed, Tne linit is 75, fee +; . "~ & A separate memorandum requesting Attorney General's author~ ity to place a‘technicel surveillance on Clarence hie. Jones hes previously been submitted, elaine Cowen mene iat oy O74 joe (G6 E76 _ Enc, #228 7-23-43 5110 . , - g JUL ire | 3) 100- 10887 ants at | rash: AL 2 pyduye 7 ah —_— pone we NveSS 3 ierDosbds apse eS a BAD Or Gripe perce ON re ETT EE 2 pemen » a? Tap
a er nD 2: as CesT EB Soran HGMOTanauui TG He, Sullivyar RE: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. 100-106670 oe, OBSERVATION: reas In view of the Attorney General's request that our coverage be as complete as possible, it is felt that we should institute. cov- erage not only on King's residence, but also on his office av the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, RECOMIENDATICH : That the attached menorandum for the Attorney General go forward requesting authority to install a technical surveillance on King*s residence, as well as his office at the Southern Christian eaders ship Conference, | wy. Ww Me /| Vv \ . oT cA A ses HgHO GVAUS TO BELMOLT ops ka. CAPTICA ? Wha Ad LUTCEL ¥IN6, SR wiicy SINtS ATT ORAL 3 Fal AN a rt as GENEL. RECQHSISERE? RWB DisaPuvip REGUS — TESS Ns awe - awe ee eo ~e OF renee: Rex ss037— rrereEctes 8$989554——Page—6 = ‘ ™ ver TOT mete my eA
—- — a aanmene aamnne nnn = OFHONAL TORM NO. 10” 4 4010-106 " MAY 1962 EDITION | ra e°oNUTE B IN Reve LOR: GSA Gert. REG. NO. 27 UNITED STATES G Mohr Casper ? r 1 - Mr. Belmont - Callahan Memorandum Tis We. Belmont —— ‘1L.- Mr. Bland Evans ——— TO : Mr. W. C. mess DATE: 10/6/64 . Rosen ted ia Sullivan Tavel ast a 7 JUNE rote . . . . ‘ele. Room FROM. Mr. J. F. Bland 1 - Mr, Baumgardner ai Holmes G a ‘1 - Mr. Donohue 2] SUBJECT: MARTIN wurnerk KING, JR. 1 - Mr. Forsyth SECURITY MATTER - C - oo s /- ‘ ; ’ : ol vi Ae ow ee, « . The Director has instructed there’ are to be no etitintlal LY gurveillances in cases which would thereby be tainted for prosecutioa, l ae 40.) woes S AT .1379-S ‘Martin, Luther aX neem y Dee oe Bese “<< > Georgia, King i is a national Figure  rominent in the racial. movement, He has been involved with and is taking advice from well-known communist figures. This source provides information regarding his_ Let | contact with these individuals as well as information as to what mee they advise him to do. A considerable amount of the information whl - | we have received from this source has been furnished to the ene | White House, the Attorney General, and other Government agencies. ' / This source has provided a great amount of information concerning . 3’ racial disorders in the South, racial riots in Northern cities as “— well as racial activities at both major political party conventions. In addition, this source has provided information (which has been furnished to the White House) regarding King's immoral extramarital | activities. The type of information received ‘through this source | is not available through any other source. There is no prosecutive action pending concerning King and on the basis of the information wehave, prosecutive action appears to be unlikely in the foreseeable future. It would appear logical to continue this installation because of the large contribution that it has made to our intelligence in the racial. BOLPREN Es a ser tlooe ae - Be agi > RECO MENDATION: “Tp. ly © g OG te 14 oo | sy , "ETE is recommended that “this instdT1ation be continued. 75,7 : f ‘Wr, > cL * } 100- 106670 (ARB Belo: / i -s a
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— —pe = - t % ow . re wt an ae . © ° ; - Y ) Callahan . : - Conrad . : . . . potoach LJ a LA LJ : \ WY i cosen - - Tavel “ ; , . was caren ay Trotter — OARG? 2AM COCABLEGRARA OCORADIO XxaxTELETYPE Tete toon eee ee Gandy ——— PAGE TH, FRO: NEWARK 232000 . VOLUNTEERS: WHO WENT TO MISSISSIPPI, AND HAVE MADE CALLS TO | BEFORE NOON O7} SUNDAY AUGUST 23. » oo fe SAID HEN: aSHOULD neh OUT OO heemeneet* THEIR PARENTS IN AN EFFORT TO GET A TELEPHONE CAMPAIGN GOING TO HAVE PEOPLE SENT TELEGRAMS TO THE CREDENTIAL COMMITTEE FOR MISSISSIPP] GRGUP, HE LISTS NAMES OF DELEGATES FROM ARIZONA, CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, IDAHO, OVA, TZARYLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, NEW HAMPSHIRE, WASHINGTON, AND WYOMING WHO SHOULD BE ee RED. HE INSTRUCTED THE: TO WORK OM IT TONIGHT AND GET TELEGRA PN oe, IN SNCS FRIENDS OF AND 68 CERSERS, ROOM SERVICE INDICATES LL 1902, 1923. BETTY GARIN 3HCC, et er a. A CALL T PEOPLE ARE “DRESENT T IN ROOMS 1901, OF THE LOCAL SCC HEADQUARTERS CALLED | DAVE DENIS AND RECITED EFORTS : MADE SY SNCC IN CETTING TELEGRAYS INTO THE CREDE? HAMITTEE. AS CF AM ON AUGUST 22, 1.96l:, EVERY Sticc EROUP AND FRIENDS OF THE SNCO HAVE BEEN REACHED AND ASKED TO SEND NIGHT LETTERS AND TELEGRAMS TO THE CREDENTIAL COMHITTEE. THEN CHECK GFF WITH EACH OTHER A LIS OF DELEGATES “HO ARE ON THE FENCE AND SHOULD BE PRESSURE KING CALLED ATLAHTA FOR TG Youse: AND TOLD HINA TO COVE TO CITY, YOUNG VILL ABTIVE ATLANTIC CITY BY BUS O8 SUTIDAY TO STAY UNTIL KING LEAVES on TUESDAY AFTER THE CELEGATICN ING RBOSLEM HAS BEEN DECIDED. MAIL COPIES TO ATLANTA | \~ : c Ae " ATLANTI TO - u aw Al 1 ae yer EMT rat nD ai Aly Af Vr, metre CKEON Lo —_ oa cA . OTE ee Meee? LLBERD {ET WCE S mAs ~ Dre age - RECEIVED: 6:19 PR Bun | perenne eee A CA: a7 Leen ral, ; . - - - . a Oe ee Sa Fane a . Fe a fe fee fot hele ore f o. 4 tl, we L226 O09 , | > . tot [fthe iellcunce bec tained i in he ahove message is to he dissemiuoted outside the Bureau, it is seer rested 2 parephras “hp 1 2 erde “to protect lhe Barten'’s eryptograpaic systems. PAR Pe item per Mi 55097 Docld! isgago551~" Ome SUTTER Tg SEE Te TR ite le aes wet s Tage Rae” “Page 66. . ye Ft ed
a ~ OPTIONAL FORM NO. to WAY 1962 EDITION 5010-106 GSA GEN, FLG, HQ. 27 <, sigh son SE - Ge” “EP Belmont eo . -.*, « UNITED STATES GO. ggNMENT «Bef gletmon “- Memorandum Kourne IN ENVELOE! ne weg fsczoach it 7g oe a . TO : Mr. W. C, Sullivan's” way ’ DATE: July 7, 1964 A/S 7 fay ultivan | oC ° ; ; J u N E L ™ lir, Belmont Ww é jot FI - Mr, Mohr Tele. Room “ FROM : ir, BE. d. Baumgardner” ~ Mr, Callahan df Goie - Mr, Conrad | (ai bye 2 ~ Mr, Millen PAWS SE aenn P } suyect: COMMUNIST PARTY, USA i. AISA YM ton 8 ee STIOR ~ Mr, Sullivan‘ Dz me S a aa Cont ST INFLUENCE, IN RACIAL MATTERS - ie, Baumgaxyiner’ fv aT ~ 1 - Mr, Donohue NY. :Di ~ Ly Ps . . INTERNAL SECURITY COMMUNIST . jl -~-rl Phillips, “ . ‘ 1 = Hr, Rosack CaS By letter dated 6/30/64 the Atlanta Office requested Se . authority to install 3 additional technical surveillances (tesurs) (Cuy on the facilities of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. (SCLC), S30 Auburn Avenue, NE, Atlanta, Georgia, for the purpose of Pp. ve providing additional coverage of the SCLC and its leader Dr, Martin Ed, gies Luther King, Jr,, If approved, Atlanta desires to utilize. gyn SA Willian B, Kusch of the Micaad Office to installthese surveillances,; j ees Atlanta also requested 2 recorders for use in conjunction with these oo installations en eae " 4. a | WWE <7 AY On 10/21/63 the Attorney General approved installation of tesurs on the SCLC at its current address or at any future address to which it may move, There are currently 4 tesurs in operstion on a the SCLC which were installed 11/8/63, With the addition of the 3 additional surveillances there would be in operation a total of 7 tesurs, The 3 additional surveillances are desirable to provide coverage of additional telephone service recently secured by, the SCLC, Cee va oo ‘ , “The SCLC and Martin Luther King, Jr., ‘are subjects of intensified Bureau investigations inasmuch as it has been determined that communists and communist sympathizers exert a great deal of influence over this organization, The 4 surveillances already in operation have provided extremely valuable information regarding the . -activities of the SCLC and King, much of which is not available througa any other source, The surveillances have been most valuable in ; uncovering the extensive comnunist infiltration and donination of ; : both King and the?SCLC, / * Atlanta desires to utilize SA Kusch to install these | additional surveillances, if approved, since the Agent trained for ; this purpose in the Atlanta Office is known to Hing as well as other lemployees of the SCLC and full security can be assured only through having an Agent unknown in the Atlanta area handle the installation. . ASA Kusch has handled matters of this type in the past, PPE ee ; . . EG 9 - 5 necro etnl, Do eed Lan ‘ ENC. 726t 2 7-F-SZY- en a 100-3-116 ee t 3264 «+7 1 ~ 100-438794 (SCLC): ow AU: @ JUL 22 TPR:chs (12) cB ~ 4ny s ,. aw ; \ x «8; SMS 3 i964 | ge} ; pres on ~ ae TENT SGOT OF SE EE Tha ae aeatehece wr xT rg ENN "sa FAG ane tem 8 Napepemeremmee one agrent mene meaty oa bag WE WLLED “La PG ter a an Tee ae , 7- : | ¢ 7 & * NW 5 55097 «Doaid: S2ge5551- "Page - 69e— 5s
‘Memorandum to ir, W. C, Sullivan - SB Be “RE: COMMUNIST PARTY, USA Te Ty NEGRO QUESTION re " -  - COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN RACIAL MATTERS eet . 109-3- 116 a ae ye Atlanta anticipates that the services of an additional investigative clerk will be required during normal office hours of the SCLC to insure full coverage in the event the additional tesurs are authorized, OBSERVATIONS: - Since the Attorney General has already authorized technical coverage of the SCLC and King, additional authority is not necessary - Since this is merely an extension of current coverage brought about by additional telephone service within the SCLC, RECOMMENDATIONS ¢ 1, That the attached letter to the Atlanta Office be approved advising that additional coverage requested is authorized and that the Atlanta Office will be advised by separate communication concerning the utilization of SA Eusch to hendle the installation and the additional equipment requested from the Laboratory, s  @, That this memorandum be referred to the Administretive Division for a determination as to whether SA Kusch is available and £o. the Laboratory in order that the equipnent reauested may be furnished to the Atlanta Office, It is suggested ‘that the Administrative Division coordinate its findings regarding the avgilability of SA Kusckh with the Laboratory in supplying additional equiprent requested, “rs ~ ~ wT oP 1, h iw f ohet . , RR ee j + i] Git of 40° os ak (f ahs iv pees AP EO YN, oF a Of . ce a eu Bey < it ye ai f . ! - - ss ‘ 62° we 4 4 4 pe" oe A a | : . . =. x! a ut ie 2.07 0 et . . u a vy ‘Df wed a, A yp or thn | np Fee TT a RAO SET Ne re - aoe oe ot Wr, I VRE EL ese ave Me gee Wak eee Say Tah eetaedek xo. = heparan ape oe oP ERS Hosta T82 p88 sere Page 70° i, .
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er ee o June 22, 1964 HARTIN LUTHER KING PRESIDENT, SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (SCLC) The following individuals are known to have been closely associated with Reverend King: (1) Reverend Ralph Abernathy, Atlanta, Georgia, Treasurer and Financial Secretary, SCLC (2) Reverend Mansfield Collins, Los Angeles, Caligzornia, who is associated with the festern Christian Leadership Conference (3) Reverend Logan Kearse, Pastor, Cornerstone Baptist Church, Baltimore, Haryland . (4) Reverend Bernard Lee, Atlanta, Georgia, Field Secretary, SCLC (5) Joe C. Lowery, Nashville, Tennessee (6) Reverend Wyatt T. Walker, Atlanta, Georgia, Executive Assistant to King and Executive Director, SCLC NW 35057 Doocld: 32909551 Page 73 _ , = :
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OPTIONAL FOAM NO. 10 re 4 3010-1068 --(AAY 9962 EDITION . GEA GIN, UG. NO. 27 UNITED SYATES § @eer . og Belmont oa . Le Mohr Lot nO, : an : mo, Cospet +a : Jogo Cote et 2 ot : . Callahan —----— Memorai adum ; SP Ghee > : : “ DeLoach tf TO : : ur. W. C. Sullivan © i . DATE: May 27, 1964 . Rosen Sullivan Tavel __-_ . . a0 : . Lene f ca Lt a * cee 7 J and . Deh col Trotter ______ ‘ FROM: Mr. J. F, Bland , JUNE -_ te ‘Holmes ———_—_ oT. Gandy ny i T. , nS “SUBJECT: ~ COMMUNIST PARTY, USA , ae NEGRO QUESTION : COMMUNIST IISLUENCE IN RACIAL MATTE IRS f Is -C Radiograns dated 5/2 1 22/64 from “Atle unta indicate that Yiartin Luther King, Jr., is to be in San Francisco from May 28 ‘to Hay 31, 1964. it wes indicated that King and his party would 3 probably stay at the Sheraton Palace Hotel while.in. San Francisco. ‘I spoke to SAC Lynum, San Francisco, 5/26/64 and told hin that it wes desired that coverage be afforded King during this: . current visit. SAC Lynun advised that San Francisco was considering rs what possible coverage could be given to King as had been handlea 2. by that office on a previous visit of King's in April, 1964, He 2 3 stated that coverage would only be considered if complete and fuil wh security could be assured, - SAC Lynum stated thet ne would be in touch with the Bureau pe “an connection with the efforts of the San Francisco office to oe , effect coverage of hing durins this current visit. “ACTIO a - For our information ; \ yf y < ~ whe e a3 Le JFB:iml’ (5) en Wit ge 1 - Mr, Sullivan oo TT) ed ‘Joe Mr, Baungércner ; Vid pe 7 1 - Hr, Gurley a Co — ~ow 2 - tir, Phillips ee oS f) . , . iG eee 2 "y a r { Aya . pg eS EX.] 9 2 eres Feo ers ‘ J / onmt ~- CK J . 11 JUN 4 ise » YE -) _ Fy i — L20¥3 a0, rbot merrsa Se YUN 5B 19644 | ee eee . : “s - ra Nw es Booka .32bbabos Page 78 - os ow ae ewe eemeeperyes ow swme ST ame
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NW S507 “ATTN: C. R. La France, Chief, £ Faun ec ee C4 he May 18, 1964 [imemo: Gaming Control,Boatde: Anvests igative Division. eat ana va fiwestigations |, Re: Martin Luther King Information received by this Agent indicated thai the above caplioned, during the eavly morning hours of April 27, i964, had been laying up with a local wiite prostitute and the prostilute had picked up a $100 reward for her services. This Agent, through informants, managed to pick up the name and number of this white prostitute and decided to check the above information out for what tt might be worth. = Ae ee ee ene neennnE we mA “BR Eo Serre apie COTTON AO Now, normally a situation like the one mentioned above wouldn’t be considered as anything new, but due to the above captioned's position as a God-fearing man of the cloth aid respected leader of the NAACP, it was decided that perhaps a casual inquiry made to the prostitute in question might shed an interesting side light to King's extra curricular activities. This Agent proned the above mentioned prostitute at about 11:45pm on May 15, 1964 and spoke to a girl named Gail, who agreed to meet this Agent at a designated spot on South Fifth Street. However, due to her being called out at adout the same time as this Agent called her, the meeting eventually came off at about 3a.m. on May 16, °-&4. Following is the information that Gail gave this Agent and, I write it as sre told if. Gail stated that aboxit 2 a.m. on April 27, 1964 she was culled os ne belinian of one af ire local koiels and toid to go fo the New Frontier Houlel ang Sée Clcra Word, wero nas ine Clara Ward Singers, @ Neitvo girl group singing at the New Frontier Hotel. Gail proceeded to the Vew Frontier Hotel aud approached Clara Ward in the Jobby. Afler introducing hersei to Gail, Clara Ward handed her S100 and said "I have a couble of friends in town that would like to n:ecet you and have you take care of them." Clava Ward then sigted thal ine reason she wus paying Gail the $200 was because these.two men cid not believe in paying &@ girl for her services and for Gail to keep quiet about receiving any money. nw ~ *~ Docld:32989551 Page §2_
” ~ @ @ Page Two Re: Marlin Luther King, et al Daie: May 18, 1964 Clara Ward then took this prostitute, Gati, to the Sands Holel bar where they had a drink, then Clara Ward made a prone call and shortly thereafter, Rev. Martin Luther King-approached them at the bar and they both accompanied him to his voom in ithe Sands Hoiel. Clara Ward iniroduced Gail to the Rev. King as a very good Jriend who worked as a dancer in the line at the Tropicana. Gail stated that she, the Rev. King and Clara Ward all sat down in his room and started drinking Vodka and Gin drinks and the Rev. Heng Started telling about his "juice" around the country, witch Gail sicied was apparently told to impress her on what a big man the Rev. King was, After a short time drinking and bragging, the Rev. King called, by phone, to another room wheve as he said, "my partner is staying, sleeping off a drunk", and spoke to "his partner", with the following remark, "don't call me a black son of a bitch but get your.damned ass down to my room because I have a beautiful white broad here". He then hung up and told Gail that he, the partner, told him he would be down pretty soon. Af this time both the Rev. King and Clara Ward stripped naked and told Gatl to do the same. Gail stated that she had another drink | and then stripped naked and sat down on a chair. At this time, the Rev. King went down on his knees and started nibdling on her right breast, while Clara Ward did the same with her left breast, Gail then stated, "I guess the Reverend got tived of that and put his head down between my legs and started nibbling on "'that''. After a while he got up and told Clara Ward to try some of it, so Clara Ward went down on Gail for awhile. Gail stated, "I thireClava Ward is queer". (The understatement of the year), The good Rev. King then laid Gail on the bed Gnd nad Inicrcenyse utth hey while Clava Ward sat by in the chaiy and uelcnid fie aciien Afler what Gail stated seemed like hours, King volled oir and had anciher avink, then Climbed bocce on again for @ second su arciuin. “icy enidle King voiled off agai: Gid @loul (kad linic, Hix's Pee a Negro male, name unknown, entered the room and had @ Gvitk Gia then sivipged naked at tie invitacion of King ard he head intercourse with Gail on the bed while both Clara Ward and the Rev. King wetched the action froin @ closeby position. During the momentary brears in the action, Clara Ward would do a little feeling and stroking of ner own. oe Catan ks eatte stern ee * Bn Syne Swe HW 35087 Doold: 32989551 Page 683
~ ute @ ; @ Page Three Re: Marlin Luther King ; Date: May 18, 1964 . Gail then stated that she was getling scared as they were pretiy drunk and all using filthy language and at last she told Clara Ward she would have to go. Clava Ward then told King that as Gail had to rehearse the following morning, they would have to leave. The Rev. King then whispered in Gail's ear, "I would like to try you Somelime again if I could get you away from Clara", At this lime Gail and Clara left and had another drink at the bar in the Sands before parting company. Gail stated to this investigator that "that was the worst orgy I've ever gone through" and added that a few days later Clara Ward called her on the phone and asked hey to come up to her, Clara's, voom for a few drinks later in the evening, which Gail stated she refused to do. The foregoing is a blow by blow account of the Rev. King's extra curricular activities duving his stay here in our fair city, which leads me to believe that the good doctor doesn't exactly practice what he preaches, or does he? Cond Saeed CC ATATAET Lo OT LTA CA CT WHB ie ‘ MW 55087 Docld: 32989551 Page #4 Ot
os SEC tfR ET . ° . @ — ay 18,° 1964 Re: kartin Luther Hing Inforiation received by tnis investigator iauicated that the ajove captioned, during the early morning hours of April 27, 1964, nau peen laying up with a locai waite prostitute and the orostitute naw pickec up a 3100 reward for her services. This investigator, tnrowh informants, managed to pick up tne name ana numer of tuis white prostitute ana decided to cneck tae above ‘inrormation out for what it mioht be worth. Now, normally a situation like the one mentioned above wouldn't be considerea as anything new, but ane to the asove ex tioned's xesition as a Sod-Yearing man of the cloth and respecteu Leauer 01 tuc o0n0, Lt wes Gecic8G tTuat peruaps an inquiry mde to tue prostitute in ques cion might shed an mportant Ziaqnt on Sing's conduct in view of his role as a national leader or tne Negro people. nis duvestiaator phoned the avove “entioned prostitute at about 11:45pm on iay 15, 1964 ana spoke to a girl naued Gail, who agreed to meet this investicator at a desicnated spot on soutn Fifth vireet., :ovever, uue to her being calles out at aduut the same time as this investigator calied her, tne mec cing eventually cane off at about 3 a... on ray 16, 1964. “Sollowing is the inforcation tnat Gail qave tris Luvestigator an., { write it as sie tolc it. Gail stated that about 2 a.m. on April 27, 1964 she was called by the beliman of one of the local notels ana toic to go to the New Frontier cotel ana see Clara “ara, who was tie Clara jard oingers, a Neoro cirl croup sincing at tne wer Frontier ‘iotel. Gail procecdec to tee New rrontior .otel ang @ prescsed Clara viard in the loboyv. Jfter invtrocucine herself to Gail, Clara “ard eo Me ee sanded her $100 anu said "Z nave a coudle of friends in town that woulc Like to neet you and hove you tv¥xe care of then." Clara ‘Yard then stated teat the recson spe WAS Davie “nil the v1ICO was because tuese iyo ven STON ROWE eer ST Ae renee oe ane oe - fe weg ti igeote aos zyeree * e =n * <* + ay ay? . ao CaG aut GUL LoVe ba ORDA CO. ark bat 2 VIN Coo fe A rhe h eu cee CULE Ae Teco ese Cay later, “, os 4. f < - - ae we ye 7 , 74 Je wate “f° Cisrvo ute then t wroacas umestitr a, iaah, to mie o1ecs eee dp cer rc tee ther or. Crier, Nee tees “org Wel t git we . ~ ane yo ‘ > 5 oa os re Sots ‘ 4 oni) Ske Sr d ey Carob te. y o« Vie ee ee ee at a ee *, the: at the par anc they o°th accomsantea bin vo eis rooa in the Sanus iotei. Clara varu incrouuceu Ga.l to tie we. ire as a very Good friend who wor’sed as a Gancer in the Line at the Propicena, + erro anne meron sweetened anne!
Ree’ IO e; Tartin Luther Sina, et al WS Gail stated that sne, tne Nev. Hing and Clara tard ail sat down in his room and started arinxsing Vodka and Gin drinks ana tue sev. ding started teliiug about ais "Jjaice” around the country, waica Gail stated was a marentiy tola to imtpress her On Waat a bic man tue tev. King vas. «after a s..ort wie drinking ana bragging, the sev. King caiied, by pnone, to another roon where as he said, "uy partner is stayiag, sleepinc off a arunk", ana spose to "ais partner", wita the foilwring renark, "don't call me a diack son of a bitch put get your cdamriea asS Cown to wy room pecause I have a bea autirel white proar here", “le then huna up and tolu Gail that he, the parwuce, ©.4G ul. he voul [e@ usm aretty ston. At this tine both tne Rev. King anu Clara Ward strivped naked ana tola Gail to do the saue. Gail stated that sie had another arink anc then stripped naked anu sat down on a chair At this time, the sev. Ting eit down on nis knees and started vibbling on ner right breast, waile Clara Yard did tle sane with ner left preast. Gail tuen stated, "IL guess the xeverend ‘got tired of that and put ais nesu aw vetveen my legs ans started nibvlind on "that". After a wnile he dot up anc told Clara Jard to try some of it, so Clara Yard rent down on Gail for awhile. Gail stated, "I think Clara ward is queer" rev. Xing then laid Gail on the bed and had intercourse With ner whine Clara ‘iard sai by in tne cnair ana watcnued tne action. after what Gail stated seened Like nours, ‘ind rolled off anc had another urink, toen clinded back on again for a secona qo arouna. After ait Tine rol.ed off acain ana adout that tine, “<ine's partner, a Negro tale, narie unscnown, entered the room ana haw a arin and then strizved aaxed at tie invita- tion of King ana he nad iaterconrse ‘vith Gail on tne bea Wuile Clara Yard ana tne ev. Ning watcned tne action fru a closebpy DNosition. iering the norieatary breaks in tne action, Ciara Vara would co a litrle feesing an. strokins of aor ovn. Cabb thin stuted tvat soe wes epeitcnc secral o8 tcc rere pretty urunr anc ail using raituy Rwagucee WH AL aed oo tas weet ones Tetons Fore ees tae bg Lit Pa yg eee ke tee US Reve. a. eee Llu lea TS kT, "TJ youla lice to try you Sowetine again if E conde cet sou san woe fron Ciar a’ A ° wit tuLs The Gould Cea ake whiabt Ley bea ata ntl goa heel? drink at the bar in the Sands vefore parting company.
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\ AK i ° . . . Sef a " , sO “a ' SAC, NEW YORK (100-136585) , ot “GSA GEN, JEG. NO. 27 UNITED STATES Gt oRNMENT -Memorantum — me DIRECTOR, FBI (100-106670) ~~~ DATE: 1/27/64 JUNE oY GT: ‘MARTIN LUTHER Qua, OR, SECURITY MATTER ~ C Soni” “Benth y salllaN “Re Bureau letter, 1/17/64. ~f She : Els he ple Due to lack of productivity, N¥J079-S*, covering as ice, 312 Vest i the Southern Christian Leadership Conference office 125th Street, New York City, was discontinued at 4:00 PM, 1/e4/o4, Sevwmoseotere (YTS [] Le Sara a bly “% Cp “fo G E24 Gb ae - Ce? Bureau (190-106670) (RA) - New 93-1365! ih 1 - New York (100-136585) (414) . = JAN 26 1954 (3) PORTERS AVR PS Oe AURA RD NM RRC « © . f ¥ ra fh S5097 Doolid: 32989551 Page #5 - . a _ r
7 _ OR TONAL FORM NO. 10° abe SIAY 1932 EO mon a Gee. REG. NO. 7 - ty “UNITED STATES PNET ; oF Qs. Me Cmoranaun ey Tan. : EE ee _ 8 64 "DIRECTOR, FBI “(100- 3-116) wet ee, DATE: ‘a/ (6° . . Ve j- . _ . oh, . a ot Ae # > Var . FROM +, Sac, “ATLANTA Go0- 6520) (P) - = . te SUBJECT: | \CouMUNTST PARTY, USA; =, re es . ,. NEGRO QUESTION, - SE RE COMMUNIST INFLUENCE _ IN RACTAL MATTERS | BEB Ce i: _ 1° Sopp nour satrrs Po ATLANTA, DIVISION Ce TO rar RE come Donte hove bale earmnibed tim kebls bene pabihatinw taken cahoarhdecds list bbeaeunmndbper i Py 4 4 + Reference is made to certain ‘sensitive-type coverage : pertaining to captioned matter in the Atlanta Office, . rs 7 “For Security reasons, it is logical ‘and practical to -use one Agent on a 24-hour shift basis involving three Agents. jo” However, only one Agent will be on each shift. Each Agent \ to nake his basic forty hour week. The hours are from Aa; Ol- p.m, fe) a.m, . Lo ; ' The above Schedule will be Followed UAC. 7. d. Bureau RM — - Ss - ane .: _ ne : ~ Atlante 95 28 nl eee eg _(-="100-6520) - an mt ng CL - 66-772) er Se aN HGR:mel an oo, a an — Gee (Ay PD.
“MW-SS5097 - Pood: S2SRISET ~* Pape BB eT ort wenn nc terme we ee epenman rernemtnmcamen Ne near te : _ ADDER DM: 2 mots ee -This in tallation in nvolves téchnical coverage SR Pa -.on- the residence of Martin Luther King and the Southern - a J. Christian Leadership Conference, both of ; Atlanta, Georgia. | 2 Both of these installations are part cra highly’ sensitive : ro -investigation, It is necessary thu: the personnel involved - oS a “be kept to a minimum for security 4 reasons. iy. a e oe ely “The “installation involved is located at rented | “w". ce -space away from the Atlanta Office, necessitating that ete ia there be Bureau personnel-on duty aro? and | the clock end it: a “is not feasible to dismantle the equipment each day. It -* ay - “would appear logical.that one Agent departing and one entering — wo ay at neon each day would cause less attention and afford more- ae “security t than Agents working an S-hour | Snitt. Therefore, FE it is recomne nded that the Schedule se forth by ‘Atle anta oa on 27 ' . ; — . ane + ~ 7 ~ ws Ly : . .- , -. . u ‘ an * . . . ric? 2 . > - * . ee x 4 . 7 - wv ws a - mire \ vane ¥ : . Me . . ce” ; ao . -™. . . 22. . en
FD-36 (Rev. §-22-64) ~ ‘- _— oe oa ‘Date: 6/7/65 (Type in plaintext or code) (Priority) : i TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (100-106670) “pi FROM: SAC, NEW YORK (100-136585) SUBJECT: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. SM-C Re Bureau teledbhone call of 6/3/65. authorigins microphone coverage of KING while in New York City at the Americana Hotel On 6/3/65, at reserved for ANDREW YOus: 3027 and 3029, were moni PE, “ry abe wm, ot Cha a sn + ~ KING was erfecved. Trace rooms, orod fron Poon ele) by NY 5litc-S*, BER PM, misur coverage on rooms Sg 2 9 On 6/4/65, at 3:00 PM, coverage “uIsccncirsa, Ts intelligence information was obtained. No further communication follows. : ‘ Dvr el He Abe we oe Px er aan . A fl HX Lid eo JUN-S 1935 ye Jo Lc?’ cae etna a: Bureau (100- 105670 (Ri) &- New Yor (100-135585) (42) - Jiik: ema (5) i ~ tnt, 3 ee a t ct 8 wahert § Gy nt, > : ase a“ 4 : Or ee - ‘ rd ined i ¥ ame 43 Approved: : ; 7] Sent MM Per ____ nm Vist 4 an 6 J, ‘4. “a S$BSe $Gu Agent in Charge “Yi 55097 “Doold: 32889551 | Page “BAA AF, “Ret ~ * oe - er vreeen wee wee
-EO-36 (Rev, 5-22-04 Lo -- - Dates 6/13/65 ! . PLAIN TEXT . . ee “oasis c faltewing in : Cypet in plaintext or code) a . - . . e * . ~ 4 soy et ra a 7 2 . SF nt gat (Priority) ee ee eee eee ete eet liven a be - Doe ZS " aati ; | e } fae ‘TO: °° | DIRECTOR, FBI (100-106670) JUNE FROM: | SAC, NEW YORK (100-136585) - . +. . . . . . . . . ~ " . ; ae , : C . SUBJECT: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. SM -C ‘ Re Bureau telephone call of 5/12/65, authorizing Misur coverage of KING at the Sheraton Atlantic Hotel, \ NYC, . a On 5/12/65, at 3:15 on room 1690-1, the suite = party was effected, <\/ “ | . On 5/13/65, at 5:20 pen. covera ze oe SpA J was discontinued. The source was Gesirsnated and monitoning took place in suite 1730-1. saad Gaeeinaaieaiaa : : Bete MB nel Gi care Uo (as 4 ~ New York at JMK : bxb Apprdved: Acai fi _ Sent Peer Au dis NS i3 Bert cial Agent in Charge Sse” 00 ’ “ NW 55097 Docld:32989551 Page 93, ", ee ra eer eee ee
FBI Date: | 4/5/65 ‘ . . OO QATIY Ahan ced grmmepmrtecenyns, (Tear eset the following in . (Type in plaintext or code) - | . 2 AIRTEL an ver een : _ « (Priority) en i ee eee ee ee ee ee ee ee eb ee _ | TO: ‘DIRECTOR, FBI (100-106670) : ;: m" _/ FROM: SAC, NEW YORK (100-136585) _ JUNE 4 * my . .e . 7 - SUBJECT: MARTIN LUTHER. KING » OR, . . SM-C ate! Re Bureau telephone call of 4/2/65, authorizing misur coverage of KING at the Americana Hotel, 53rd Street _ and Seventh Avenue, New York City. At 8:15 PM, on 4/2/65, misur coverage was effected on rooms 4619-21 at the Americana Hotel, tne suite occupied by KING, BERHARD LEE and ANDREW YOUNG. The scurce which Ale monitored their rooms was NY 5031-S*, and was in room 45195 /// ° Vw Americana Hotel lor fh gh Tet ¢ —— JL s On 4/3/65, at: 30-PM,—the-sow wrc|e~m cued O\. epex fo heretofore was discontinued. Mee ne ee oy No trespass was involved in this matter. Lis, ay At eee LAL yeas aa an oy ff. Cucterse, “hs EG, Deenre reg Oot / bli a eel Gee “ . . £ 2h wy A 3. Bureau (100-106670) (R33) : I~ Noi Yorke (100-136585) (42) 21 nor Ls np £ We hy ‘4 - ~~ 4 “ft - . Tis end cog 66 AL — beni? ue Approved: a Sent MO~er G APR 4 Special Agent in Charge SBie. NW 55097 Déeld: 32989551 Page 94- aa v “4 te EE en
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J ie ae ~, = OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10 5010-106 BAT $962 E01TION 7 "ls me GEMS REG, Nh, 27 ; 4 “WNITED STATES a eee we BEY 3 - a bg ioe . # del pach << 2 1 ~ Mr{ DeLoach —- s Casper Memorandum acy RES Wick, Sit 1 Li 3 NO nee peoember 18 9 ihe. TO “: Mr. W. C. Sul n . DATE: December 15, 196 Fa ies ; 3 r . . ulliva ; vo . me ’ eee | (luck ICES . - . \ coy , s JUNE 2 . Trotter 1 RA . on ele. Raom Z be : €. D. Brennan oft mo 7 ca i ‘Holmes . oot. ‘ . . . . - Gandy Het — , .o)06.)06, 6S Lo = Mr, Sullivan WPA ae 1 = Mr. C.D. Brennan SUBJECT: HARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. - ole - Mr, Rozamus . ; ‘SECURITY MATTER = + COMMUNIST os Le Bry Dots Wells . “Phis is to advise you of the microphone and wire tap i coverage that we have afforded Martin Luther King, Jr., President, ? /' Southern Christian 1 Leadership Conference, . “a efit ‘ <j ts As you are aware King has: been in close association! with _ individuals having Communist Party backgrounds since his rise to | |Prominence in the civil rights field, Among such individuals jjis his principtt advisor Stanley Levison, a long-time secret _jjeommunist whese membership in the Communist Party, USA, has been [leavicor tox as late as July, 1963, Clarence Jones, another close } i i f ' 4 7 a ew! advisor to King, was a former member and in a position of leadershir pan the Labor Youth League, acommunist front organization. Bayard ‘Rustin, another of King's close advisors, was a member of the Young lcommunist League in the early 1940's and is an admitted homosexual. On Cctober 10, 1963, Attorney General Robert F, Kennedy approved technical” ‘Sirveillancés on KingtS current residence or at any further address to which he “Ray move. He also approved _ the f i ; technical surveillance’ oi the Southern Christian Leadership, N i Conference New, York ‘City_ Office or any other a address to which it a ;| may be” moved, re N |p a . t ho } A wire tap was installed on King's residence, 563 Johnson t P .}] Avenue, Northeast, Atlanta, Georgia, on November 8, 1953, and ay ok 11 discontinued on April 30, 1965, when King moved from this address, It Nae { yas not reinstituted on his new residence, [; Yo -_ an ' From Gctober 24, 1963, to January 24, 1964, and from — Xx i) eet 7, 1964, to July 31, 1964, a wire tap was maintained on the vA Southern Christia an Leadersh hip Conference New York City Office, z ti In z eddition, on October 21, 1953, Attorney General Kennedy authorized 2 :a wire tap on the Southern. Christian Leadership Conference 3 * 3 ‘Headquarters at Atlanta, Georgia, which was maintained from cry oo} November 8, 1963, to June 21, 1966, when Attorney General Nicholas - a ext... ie deB. Katzenbach ordered it discontinued since he thought it might is") | A if be prejudicial to the possible prosecution of Hosea Williams, 2 BO A ’ Southern Christian Leadership Conference official, under Interstate’ S ; Transportation of Stolen Motor vensenes Statutes. Ce nA A AS. A Pie eden." we? ; “Ba :jmw | SENT DIRECTOR, vA 1 Bois «OVER Aer 6 J JAN LOS a] Joy eet ‘le EAL S JAN 23 TSP: Hy 55027 Doold: 20580 551, Page eee . een, w
_. Memorandum to Hr. W. C. Sullivan SO :° RE: - MARTIN LUTHER KING," JR. mL _ 7 200-106670 - . -- to a v ‘ In addition to the foregoing we maintained” 16 .microphonesand 4 wire taps of a few. days duration at various hotels and one temporary residence. These were installed, because of the possibility of a meeting between King and his communist advisors, The 4 wire taps were installed. under the original authority iven by the Attorney G General cn 10/10/63. concerning King’ s vesidences. ee ee notified ef three of these microphone installations, j | that a trespass was involved in the installation, | , ACTION: None, For information. \ by" oe 4 Lie FBS ST DOSLAT SILOS VSS En PEGS a To TE TT ne nae ee . Attorney General Katzenbach was specifically of these three instances the Attorney General vas Rivised H in In addition, concerning microphone coverage of | .{King, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy was furnished the \ /, jpertinent information obtained, perusal of which would indicate {that a microphone was the source of this information. i -* 7 ~ .
T GSA GiN. BUG. NO. 27 . CANED SYATES GOVERNMEN'F "os / Verio “GNHEaTL . TO ¢ : DIRECTOR, FBI (100-106670) | DATE: 8/23/85 ; F FROM : §AG, CHICAG ae a SUBJBCT: JARDIN LUTHUR KING, JR. SM - C “ ReBulet dated 3/24/66, and Atlanta letter to Bureau and Chicago dated 3/29/66, both having reference to promiscuous activities on the part of the subject. ther ita er CG 6732-C, who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised xecently as follows: oe apiece ay Taby arth sane Neer Ney piled STIPE PELE SET LDPE gf Sy WR REE BARBARA MOOLY is a light skinned Negro female, anproxi- mately 33 years of age, and is employed at the present tame as a secretary at the main offices of Sears Rosbuck and Company, 915 South Homan Avenue, Chicago, She resides in the Lake: “Meadows Apartment Development on Chicago's near south side, 500 Mast 33rd Street. She was formerly employed as a secretary at Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago. a Nh a oe tetra th Ae Bok, Af = Several years AKO, exactly when not known, MOC Lr was } introduced to KING by KIKG's Chicago attorney, CHAUROEY MUNRICGE, Hy =2 EGRMIDGE at that time carrying on an affair with JUDY Mocks, l roeeenaneie sister. hecording to this source, KING sces EALBARA | ee Re every time he comes to Chicago and doves not want lice to \ jsee other men, KING has reportedly advised MOORK that he is in i ‘jeve with her. . . Source later advised as follows; fe REE MARINE RYE me AR IO BS : The relationship between KING end MOORE has been going !on for the past two or three yetrs. On at lerat one coc be ¢ b ; fishe has sone to Ation! Coors), Te coe PF tal Ga. cee bl tle wt i ‘ . . . . . m= i COCHEIONS, ULGHN AYPAIVANE ax mat FSS vos tho Gat Vel @nat.or gird nero of this secon ss gasd . : a : ¥AG NOt Hnown at tle » than what sigue. th Puree UIA SL awl. “podacyekir go! oa Crsdecals roveh f355. la of we PTS we abe Rae PEL ens tet presence of this yvyounn at Avianita, whercuvon ho had her yoturr ta Chicrlo, Tha seaveo hes ne dndor.wetion conccrning the Specariecs ' of this travel on the part of either female as to its nature cr | by whom it sas financed, P 2 Ces Baveau (i) 2 o & * reed +N se g 2- Avionta (G0-6583) (Oo) Ss 1 - Chicaic 19 - : . ‘ Ea) a ; ‘ rok JCS: jd /inei poe pes : \ Ae? ; } 5) fet rc : 1p seedy . wh Saeiner Phat are bin U8 Sings Pont Regus ov the Papel Sarng Pen ” x . - WW 55097 Doold:32989551. Page 99 _. * [enn —— EE
CG 1000-35356 ao) on . ‘Source continued that sometime before the assassination of President JOHN Fy KENNEDY, BARBARA MOORE was again visiting KING,’ this tine in Flor “ida. While there MOORE mot an. attorney reportedly Close to President KENREDY” ; who began courting her. KING learned of these. attentions i and became: involved in a fist fight with this unknown attorney: — : over MOORE.” Fe oO 4 Source continued that each’ tine KING, was in - é Chicago he contacts MRE and has her visit hil, “ne is understood to pay MOORE $300 or $400 for each visit during i which he engayes in natural as well as unnatural. sexual. : relations with her, KING acditionally is unders ‘tcood to be involved with a white gird residing’ in Chicago, but the- identity of thi is party is not Knewn to the SOUTCE. ae The source for thé above | information iearne sd this ‘in the course of personal contact with MOORE with whon he = es has been intimate elv acquainted for a number of -ye | EES ES STN FORMANT ve, on 7/18/68 CG 6915-C-TE  .. Continuing with provided the following inf @ PRP nS 28 PEELE EEE i Bat a A a LAN Ba tT ein Prag ASHE The so- ~called former wife of JAMES IRVING, above mentioned, who is also an associate of is pi pee ty cS ROSEMAN STCHELL, 600 past Sore Street; qartment : 3 “Chicago, - MITCH one time maintained a common-law 1 olstionghe With years ego. She is’ 39 or 40 years of ‘age and is sel as _the owner of Kosemary Mitehehl Interioys, 522 Avenue, Chicago. .This source could .only (des ‘as known to be a good. friend of KING whois she 1966 or 1957, We is believed to visit. MET! whenever be is in Chicago, @tnou F source is MERE ERAN AD MAINS SNA GRIER Wi eh 9 A pt thay ML MW 55097 DocId:32989551 .Page 100 -
_ NW 55057 Jveterence is made to 3/4/53, under phe “Chic ago file ll : dated 12/13/62 under ° SIERC NG, aka,., Clerk- © a esey e Hospitals Chicago, \ letter contained a copy on and vequested Cnicago to oncerning Moc indicating ies ay 1S “& MOORE, LOF Au, AX AA, a 7 yr EBA RYO tegarding BA Chicago report of SA caption "MELDRED STRONG, 38978; veference also 5 the caption "BARB Veterans Administ Tilinois, Sai ORE For information of Atila subsequent LEM on this matter by Ch: reflecting that was born out of wed MPLDRED STRONG STRONG prior to thei g@ in about Jons, was also born out of ck to these two, During October, 1851, at the Cragin Savings and Loan during the-cour neon one participa Slain by tne Ch Lice Venarvument, He nad in his i with a no 7 OH: up Customers. bank robbery in and hed gaven hii ith the name of Doold: 32989551 i101 Page i i i i i f 4 4 é i y r p ‘ ‘ H ste renee nen Ae pea wate
The above is being furnished the Bureau and Atlanta for information only. ot , Chicago at this time does not feel this information is of the tyne which could be effectively used in a counter- intelligence fashion and, because of the nature and relationship . of these individuals involved with subject, no recommendations r are being made that they be interviecved, Jt should be borne ; in mind also that the information concerning MOORE was learned . by the source in personel contact with her. ' Chicago will remain alert for any additional informa- it] tion and -Bureau will be promptly advised of same, \ » WW 55097 Docld:32989551 Page 102 7 (  ————————
. ee . * Pe . ° 4 : SECRET . e L~ EY. Deloach ae : 64 wee tener ea eae ape eee ae 1 ~ [iss Hoines BAC Ry PT Gro? ADE 1 Be eetiiven \ SEH, GN) Ha eR ~ Me, Subliver ! a Ad 4. 2 Jf ab Jil toy AEDS Bed ‘ - - aien =. nungare SSN E af . - *oLe - z nw TY, SalIwos ae . . t De. . . io . Le kr, son a ae . . ~  L~ ie, Rozenus i — .aURS . - y 7 oO 445007 . a . s } #9 3 3 - . ov Pad Les (28) 100-448523 : _dune -22, 1966 ey - . 4h 4 . . ~ ° aan - i x8 _ at > . * = 4 . Z| ™~ 1 . - 3 4 2 =42 9 62% ae ae Pe ad Fone ote Sd q- = . ify memorandum of Auril #6, LSCC, pointed out he a st tne, t nqeatw any SE TZ “ « . +. rpwe cas = > that. & tccnnical surveillance on the hescuuarters oF the > ety, Sagat st ae YT chen stacey te. ae eed Las tasqane os outhera Christian Leadsrshin Conference, S20 Auburn on <T- os nate TF aa fe PIONS ~ ws Jan 7 fives “ue, 2.oTthsast, Atzieava, Georciea, provided valuable ntellige ence LnVorigtion, ~ + at * he gn, fo ot ote Ts * . in BCvOLGA mice with your notation on the shove nemorencui, this technical surveillance was discontinued Tas .on dune 21, 1906, . . . Ver truly yours . —s ae ra i 2 . n ~ ~ a) . i . y ste £5, Gan Edgar Ecover eA a ~ 4 & As x » 4 BY ene =s~ ne Sd Birector ~ MJIRisss (S$) 2 = = . . NOTES: . This menorandum is classified "Secret" since it f eo Concerns a technical surveillance, the unauthorized disclosure of which could r esult in serious Gamage to the Bareau's security coverzge to the detriment of national security. ws This technical surveillance was installed on 11/8/63. ioe ~Meniorancun of 10/27/95 justifying vhe con ecarel of the Pofal ‘/ installation was returned by the Attornuy General indicating approval. Youorandum dated 4/23/65, reconnending contiauance of , this technical surveillance was returned with a notation by the a Attorney General dated 6/20/63, “I think this coverace should be a discontinued articularly in light of pessible charges of a a &, ¥ erininal nature asainst Eosea Willians and possibly others." Psison . teLoach — _ sinf! dohr 10 ‘ an NOTE CONTINUED PEGE ine! Miek Ad ,, se fo JG PL. . yo aN 4 . eiichan vo SEChna2 : paced ae abe ° i <7 f vonra ~~ , .,? Fosed by \" Telt sate, « et ae ee ‘ GROUP L Ra an Or A: sal . Jf~ $+ . moses Iecluec? from automatic er JUL Le 185 f joy meftivan : aman ts F) ya z “nel —__ : ‘ BO“ rading are _. 3 ee 4 cf Troter -——-,  [- 7 feclussification ay a ip “ele. Room Af geen pepe ntenene eRe NRA RL OC Ae . ‘ x ives Lf. : ” . iandy ian fog 5 reervee ait LI mas wt ww owe Ae . naye-B5097 Deere? r3298955T~ “Page” "ros" SRA ee ey aE ER RIT T EOE So EN, TET eens «met. oo ical te te 2 mee meet epee fF eae . = : < - Teeet
} 7 Inspector J.A, flanta on 4 Om 34% In ry a4 sate fo ol > le em we 4 . % 6/21/83, instructing that this technical surveillance coverage ke discontinued immediately. It was discontinued ‘ at 1:00 p.n., 6/21/6S. . : fhe Attorney General's notation concerning Hosea re : * ; - orn eer eae Williams refers to an Interstate Trensportation of Stolen . ororu 4 a ria 2 yey 7 aed 4 Motor Vehicles case under investigaticn by the Bureau if wherein the princinal subject Harold Eolton Andrews allezes it he stole four automobiles for subsequent sale to the Couthern Christian Leadership Conference hended Br fartin Luther King, dr, Et was develoned by investisatio of tucese E stolen vehicles had been in the possess sea Wiliians \ who.is tho Dircetor of Voter Negistrati nats i orgeninstion, Due to the ramiticatians hus the Louvnern - Christian Leadership Conference and the cival rights movemont, i the Criminal Division cf the Lannartment has been directirg the . prosecution in this case rathor tuen the U.S, Attorney. 7 fy ~. Pa = lf : 7 F i Following preseutation of the case to a Federal Grand dury by ' U 2 7%, ; Departnental attorneys Andrews and one other person vere t indicted, however, Hosen Williams was not indicted. bi . . 1 . iE Ra . ti. . . ! x . | it - 2@- Lee i = a "| al ‘ £ . . j t re : H - * I , i ! TM Ne mentite 9ST ny egy Nee meen wete, ~ eye ee meee ome f ; a 4 1 rr es, a EO ts TT EE TEI TOE ee we P “ne > - 5 “ - - “ ; NW 55097 Déctd:32989551 Page 1047.75. et » av ord ag ne SECRET. whe * . Menorandum for the Attorney General ee . 90 a0 yd a RO Parlin pew heen ERIN Eb ETS wengaeh eee NM IM tt
“HY DRL. #7 OPRE  OPTtONAL FORM NO. 10 ° RA soi0-106 DeLoach ny — | MAY 1962 EDITION ourr “YT IN ® | oO _ UNITED ‘STATES cog! Memorandum a “syne ny aa -TO  .} Mr, Deloach me DATE: 1/21/66 J8EE ee * . . nr -_ . . ‘ . Trotter a me . : 7 or. Ts Ts) Loe Mr. DeLoach ° wick oon “FROM: W. C, Sullivan eT - Miss Holmes 0 ta” Holmes _ ae ee ~ Mr, Sullivan ri Gandy ~,Mr,. Baumgardner) a) ff ~ Hr, Rozamus (Aye fay ~ Mr. Bates SUBJECT: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. - : - SECURITY MATTER, - COMMUNIST 1 bad fe fall fo fot fot ; < special Agent in “Charge Roney, New York Office? called on 1/20/68 and advised that Martin Luther King, Jr., and some of his associates have a reservation at the Americana Hotel, beginning 1/21/66 for approxima tely four days, King and his party will have Rooms 3435 —3437—” The New York Office has | available Room 3335 from which it advises it can maintain a ~-3 microphone surveillance on King with full security assured je -and- without. the use of any. wiring. _ New eo. ~— We have had prior information that King planned to mset with some of his advisors with communist backgrounds, such «s Harry Wachtel and Clarence Jones this week in New York City. Past conferences with such advisors have shown the covzmunist influence exerted by them upon King relative to the racial situation as well as ‘the Vietnam situation-~™ ra aS. a sop qk sod - 72 Pam ee a a Pai rc ys New York Office requested author ctyf£5 HekeSthe microphone surveillance installation the night of 1/20-21/66 ars soy? ad (aaa eee , vA oT? ial “eet tah al ee 0 a Ee e to be activated 1/21/66 with jee ygecurity™ eesured, It! also. w > requested authotity for exp ain of up to $35 per day for . nN the monitoring room, ' . j } ACTION: “ Qe out s&r4 ALAM dbo ot” & } \ ae On New ‘you s assurance that full security was z : ce | available and since’time was of the essence, New York vas da: ‘ yy told to go ahead with the installation and was also authorized i. 5 > NY ‘to make the necessary expenditure for the monitoring room, yr 3 \ . Attached for approvel is a memorandum to the Attorney Genera 3 1 Js advising him that this microphone surveillance will be cotivated | 3 5 Ye ~ i, 1/21/66 and will be immediately discontinued upon King’s ‘ot ne pperety on or about 1/25/66. a t , Ala 5 2 2 A “ik, co boas eo + eae Sean om a. an Torin fF 7 eek we. j1 -~M, F, Row - "toon 6 IB a Us. ‘Bene ae? cof a fe corr 5 f . \\ 100~106670 \ Reger = dite, S anal wg et F En elgsure = Se yp DRS en SHEN, ne" aa: & WAR 3 may deh Pid , eee L- se the a) “HALE i : ad RATTAN Rae QOL ee te, Unc ACs ae 4, s+ mipi-sged~-peosansaseosse-—sage 208) ree: ee Se LET TS
STEELE EN TIPE EN REPLY oe, -” mF ITED STATES GOVERNMENT eae DeLoach ——— an 4 : 1 -Mr. DeLogw ~~ | Bishop —— .. ¢Memoranfum — | tis @ eS TO Mr. W. C, Sullivan (+ 7) pare:Décember 29 1967 : a : 1 - Mr, W. C. Sullivan / reer - FROM :G, C, Moore Gtihe 1 - Mr, G. C. Moore . Holmes — ; 1 - Mr. Rozamus : Gent 7 ome ams INFILTRATION L-Mr. DM. Wells ~~, “SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE Abe ee / "PURPOSE: / Attached for your approval isa memorandum to the Attorney General requesting a telephone surveillance of Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Atlanta, Georgia, in an effort to obtain intelligence of their plans for massive civil disobedience in the Nation's Capitol and 10 to 15 cities throughout the United States in the Spring of 1968, Af . _ BACKGROUND: ; ii" i On December 13, 1967, you approved an airtel j which was directed to Atlanta Office requesting them to ' conduct a survey as to the feasibility of instituting "a secure telephone surveillance of SCLC's headquarters, i _Atlanta, Georgia, By communication dated December 20, 1967, . - Atlanta recommends installation and advises it can be - accomplished with full security. OBSERVATIONS: ; . Since SCLC's President, Martin Luther King, Jr., ; has urged massive civil disobedience throughout the country : in an effort to spur Congress into action to help the plight of the Negro, it is felt that we need this - installation to obtain racial intelligence information 2 i . oy a om, a 2% at ; Enclosure Pm {nda Gur Me PUY IAT OAR ARE FB BGG BBP AEE PD ESEELS 100-438794 Sarg Lt FE FOGGY ee Boar 4 | . eS \) s. Bevedee | DMs elow 2 77 ; -\ A (7) co , | CONTINUED - OVER ecsnee nesree wenn | —_ —_ mr JAN" 5 1968 72 JAN 10 1983 | : tote . vps - * tere NW 55097 Docld:32999551 Page 106%,” ix. ae _
* Memorandum to Mr. W. C.’ Sullivan RE: COMMUNIST INFILTRATION - SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFEREN ICE 100- 438794 concerning their plans. King has warned that these massive demonstrations may result in riots, Because of this, we ' should be in a position to obtain intelligence so that appropriate countermeasures can be taken to protect the internal security of the United States, Currently there are 52 telephone surveillances in operation. Thirty-four , of those are in Bureau cases and 18 have been installed at” the written request of the State Department, RECOMMENDATION: The attached communication be directed to the Attorney General for his approval. << AG. astte i one ean Le ol Fa arte, pode & hon + hs \ - p. . Eco ge spent ee We wad “ a, Miter a i ie aoe ee LEE OLR ewes “NW 55097 Docld:33989551°> Page 107. #0; agg Spe eee ee
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MW 55097 os Henorandu a to Te a Cc. Sul Livan WEP “POOR PEOPLEMS CARPAZGH Peart eee ae Canoe] “people: wont to ‘the Un tea! Sta ates’ 1 to. protes t _ proposed ‘legislation to ban caaping on park. lana,” They, were not: allowed to enter ‘the Capitol . and rejoined. the roup’ at ‘the _Departnaat ‘of. Agricuiture e@ rhout 6 PM goo : “Yesterday. police o-arrested - veople ‘outside the: SRR IT LEN IMA IE AEN Y SA a OK SEEN . fence at the. campsite for carr ying na wel One. Of, ‘the mo ee “Was -rep ortedly ‘ansent without | leave from the: ‘Arny . Two! Pe ‘residents of Resurc ‘ection City were: arrested yeste arday tor: Brealing an American: £1ag. Trova around ‘the: Washington, Monument Pres SS: eoports.reflest! ‘that a ‘con ition of: “epapt as E Lantions ed. by, the - Rechenal Student AsGociation, “ ationvide OrEe7 infaetion of college students, pledged: support for 4 the. dune. 16, 2988, “denens tiation and predicted: at least * 25,000- atu dents ‘would’ attend. - One. of otir sources advised °°. that a group froam-the Students for a Denocr ratic Saciety, “ae militant. “youth | roup, wittch. has: bean extrene sly* critical of: ; United States policy: in Vietnan, plans, to. join. tne -campals n in Washington, B.C. - tonors ow fora demons tre tion at; the Offices of Education. cr an - oS ee he Poor People: s: me) be a peac The Puerto Rican Day of the originally scheduled fer dune 8, .1968)° 6 new planne dune 15, 1963, and groups of Puerta Ricans are. to ce Washingtoa, D.€,, Yor what is. planned. 34 oe -denoastre vtLox. con cerning Puerto: Rican dex — “the imate - tre vin entered Georgia pasbosas @n route to Atiar ta, ‘Georgia. a a by telets Inteliis poéId: 32989551 “Pagé ios “" ~ Y
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te Memorandum for Mr, Sullivan RE: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. REQUEST BY PRESIDENT LYNDON B, JOHNSON: FOR DETAILED FILE ACTION: ; That approval be granted for the attached letter to Mrs, Mildred Stegall at the White House transmitting this top secret, six-volume file, "Communications Concerning Martin Luther King, Jr." Cy oN J NW 55097 . Docld: 33989551. _
ST ee ar sere Re REL NO eal weil rleernends SOA need» RASC hie ad Bie oun eae sethantes he 6 NITED STATES GC? oN MENT femoran@sin' — Oty its ie; Golson 5 wet = C, D. Deloach SARSON: - JACK ANDERSON COLUMN NG MARTIN LUTHER KING RDI WASHINGT MN POST EDITION & MAY 24, 1968 . By momoranduzn of May 27, 1958, the Attorney -General oe. indicated that he is deeply troubled by the Drew Pearson ~ Jack ‘X3* anderson column in "The Washington Post" of May 24, 1858, which ~~, ‘dealt 7Lth th eRTt a1 ¢ fan Pa itl x rae D “Nad Gealt with the FBI's. elec tronic surve ance coverage of Dr. ~N Hartin Pnthes "xing, as requested and approved by former Attorney \{j General | a DE cennedy. “ar. | ~ torney General noted that a portion of this column must have come from secret documents, the contents of which were fmown t to only a very few people in the office of the Director end ; in the office of the Attorney General. He stated that the disclosure ic . of these fects in the public press evidences a lack of inteerity in the Devartment's system or in the personied emnoloyed at some _- relevant time in his office and the Director's cffice. Fe reauests advice on any information as to the manner in which these facts Were cisclosed, or any theory how such data may have been releesed. ff no such information is available, he requests that an ERaVEStIi~ . Savion be undertaxea, if the Director deems such an inquiry feasibie, a SF ey ofa ny, - = te Tes a a © aetermine how this release occurred, f00- LOG4 FO - Attached is a letter to the Attorney RES! BOoirding a l7 in this matter. The Attorney General is agsyrgd yeasgg tae BBE meade a thorough analysis of the captioned article and nes made td - erful check of our FBI officials who normaligeRBandle oszbects & ; h the press. ‘The Rvtorney Gcneval is assured that no efficiais 2 i . this Bureau were responsible in any way in furnishing information | Peavcon which formed the basis Yor this article. It points out 5 | hat the information in question could -have oviginated from a ret aivly wide yange of sources in that information. regarding our Qi Lectronic surveillance coverage of King received wide dissemination in the Government, including the Attorney General's Office, the *Solicitor General's Office, the White House, the Vice President 's Office, nilitary intelligence agencies, and the Central Intelligence . mn tet . ete wnita Beet ING , ER Se OD SP sees ae x JN 14 Li ' OS. eloacna - te 7 Gale * WY lo. Sulliven consiusn - ovat =~ JUN REELS .. - 7 . ; bobs NESE 2 Sr yeaah : ro a of. . . wk AC. . - oo CD YP TLE TMT MO LOLITAS VE YM et EP RY SME IAS SANT see Nenegem EY mmr mNer eT TYR [enue tngmn nce naee eno woe tmenn eS ete ror 7 te. oe Aton peenges TNT SRD Seayecney ee rrrewnene oe NW $5097 Wocla:33H99551 YPage 1147" it we rt ab eid s
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“UNTP STATES GOVE" @ ENT “nn 2 flow : . | ay =~ TG .°. £0 : Mr. J. Edgar Hoover ° a . DATE: May 2 oo, Director, FBI ; - . ; . . . . . ; . . y i;Ramsey Clark , v Attorney General “A ’ . 4 aw Sersoey octet, ee ae oes 4 Rr. Tavet i My. 7 rat ante faa . li igs Miss os] ys Q a . wna, cn pe ren eeh we eee SUBJECT? : | po fy’ 3 : 7 . . fir a f. . ¢ b an - 3 Iam deeply troubled by the Drew Pearson-Jack Ander son ” * column in the Washington Post on May 24th. Copies of the full column.and the portion run in the Post are attached. ledge of the fact. Severali know to be untrue. However, (there are a number which are true and must come from secret documents, the contents of which are known or need be known to only a very few people in the office of the Director of the . FBI and in the Office of the Attorney General. That these facts should become known outside of these offices and appear in the ft . public press evidences either a lack of integrity in our system or in the personnel employed at some relevant time in these. - ve. ° oifices. Neither failure is permissible. . 7 . | . A number of allegations made-therein are beyond my know- NG y oe { If you have any information as to how these facts were "| disseminated outside of these offices, or any theory as to how xy . they may have been, please advise me. If not, please undertake | ; ” whatever investigation you deem feasible to determine how this , : happened. In addition, I would like your suggestions as to any . lreform in the system of handling such sensitive, information as jmay be necessary to prevent such a breach of integrity from {happening again. © FILED Enclosures, . ’ e704 35 AM +2 1268 i 3 meretsor 5% Beet natal peace vq Cony gis GUN Let es.
Oy eet hel aia ean Si a te Se Sd ho i Tike W. aghingion We fe f By Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson |] The question of whether ‘Bobby Kennedy, when Altor- iiney General, ordered wide- ilscale wiretapping and eaves- dropping by the FBI has be- come the subject of some con-| | roversy. It is also very im- portant in gauging Kennedy's qualifications to be President, and whether he is telling the truth. After all, the credibility gap has become something of ‘lan issue these days. \ ‘In this connection, this col- ‘umn has learned that, whert dy ordered a wiretap put on the phone of the Rev. Dr, Mar- tin Luther King dr, Kennedy denies this ‘and other statements that he or- dered or candoned the wide- seale wiretapping or eaves- dropping unéerlaken by the FBI while he commanded the Justice Department. He states that nowhere in the Justice Department is there to be found a single eavesdrop or- der signed by hin. Senator [Pierre Salinger, Kennedy's press representa- ment to Richard Darwood of The Washington Post, travel- ing with the Senator in Ore- gor:*“While he was Attorney General, Sen. Kennedy never! awhorized any wiretaps ex- eenl In national security cases! Mere Do ns batt ref Pad b erry Goel RGuwne Kenn Lealy y Orde red I THE WASHINGTON POST Friday, Hay 24, 1968 Dis EG a a Wire ; . at the request of the FBI. He |torney General that Dr. King so a wiretap, King suspected Hoover was H<wever, . never, authorized any bugs at/traveled a lot, tapping his wires. King never realized that the person who originally ordered the monitoring was Robert F. Kennedy, the man who had anybody's request.”] might not be too effective. However, the facts {In the{Also he said that the wiretap eavesdropping on Dr. King are{would have a bad reaction live, gave the following state-|, irrefutable, and we can repor them in detail. j {among Negroes if discovered. The Attorney General re- 4Jmarked that he was not in the Attorney General Kennedy least interested in repereus- first ordered Dr. King bugged on July 16, 1963, His reason was that Dr. King was in touch with various Commu- nists and was being. influenced by them, . ' . The order caused surprise in the FBI. During the 1960 election campaign both Bobby and his brother, the late Pres- Attorney General, Mr. Kenne-jident, had offered to help Dr. King when he was arrested in Atlanta on Oct. 19 and refused to post bond jin connection with a civil rights sit-in. John I. Kennedy even is-{] sued a press release offering to help Dr. King, a gesture which had important effect on the Negro vote three weeks Jater. In Cook County it was the Negro vole which gave Kennedy his slender 8000-vote margin in ]INnois and won him the Presidency. FBI Objects “When, therefore, the brother of the President ordered a wiretap on Dr. King’s phone, the FBI was amazed and op- posed it. Courtney Evans, who served as Haison officer be- tween J. dear Woover and ~ Bobby Kennedy, told the At- sions. . \ He did not press the matter, and so the FBI did not place any taps on Dr. King’s wire, in July, 1963. However, in October of that year Bobby Kennedy signed an order for a tap on Dy, King’s wires, and thereafter Dr. King’s phone conversa- tions were monitored, This may have been why the highly publicized confronta- non between Dr. King and Jd. edgar Hoover turned out the way it did. On Nov. 18, 3964, Hoover called Dr. King “the notorious Har in the country” afler Dy. King had urged civil- rights workers not to report violence to the FRI on the ground that FBT agents were Southerners who would take no action. - Dr. King hurried to Wash- inglon for a showdown with Hoover. Emerging from the FBL director's office after their conference, Dr. Wing made a slatement surprisingly favorable ta the FBI. Ne had no ceviticism for Hoover. Inti- mates “have told us that Dr, offered to help of jail. one of the most headlined mourners at King’s funeral’ right up until the time of most TENET ae Pais ehcalin phen 2A OO on Oo get King out Later Kennedy was However, we can report that the FBI faithfully carried on Kennedy’s original instrue- tions and submitied regtiler re- ports on King’s activities— his death. They are considered of some imporlance now in try- ing to ‘track down King's as: sassin. The wiretaps on ings phone also led to the reporting of King’s movements around the country and various per- sons to whom he talked. These have been checked out for ene- mics and those who might he Interested in King, The King wiretap was prob- ably the most sensational of the taps inspired or ordered by Bobby Kennedy when he was Atiorney General, but it. was by no means the only one. his phase of his government career has been serutinized only casually in the past. Tow. ever, the public has a right to know all of his record before, voling on his qualifications to be President, © 1968, Bell-McCiure Syndlecte, Jae. ere te eee, assassinaling
oD pA ee ~ ; Mr. Mokr cen ‘ . © . r Mr Be @ Myr) Casyev . nae we mene 4 Poeeremem yrs aA . “ sO Mro Cenvad w0 7 , Me. Fels oo. i Mr. Bishop: AMr. Rosen wu. | Mr. Sulbvan.ww. Ban VTaveb w.u. Sir. ‘Mretier. Yele, Roum... ast anh Hemera RE: SENATOR HUGH SCOTT Mice Gandy ac (R - PENNSYLVANIA) nnn 5 PROPOSED BILL TO COMMEMORATE Laconcummcens | MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. | 7 4 Your attention is directed to the attached clipping from yesterday's 'Washineton Daily News" indicating that Senator Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania proposed that one million bronze commemorative medals be struck in honor of Martin Luther King. Senator Scott indicated he would introduce a bill to authorize the medals and "'a gold medal to be presented to Dr. King's widow.'' According to the article, the medals © would be sold at cost to the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Fund for Education at Morehouse College in Atlanta. Senator Scott was first elected to the House in 1940 and was re-elected to seven additional terms. He was in the Navy for two years during the war and was first elected to the Senate in 1958, being re-elected in 1964. Over the years we have had very cordial relations with Senator Scott, and the Director has regularly written him on his re-elections. He gave a tribute to the Director on the latter's 35% Anniversary. The Director sent him an autographed copy of "A Study of Communism" in 1968. In addition, on May 11, 1964, the Director thanked Senator Scott for his splendid comments on the Senate floor with regard to ire Director's administration of the FBI, On July 15, 1966, the Dircctor sent Senator Scott a letter in connection with the latter’s operation a Bethesda Naval Hospital, On May 3, 1965, according to a confidential source, Martin Luther King participated in a panel discussion two days before in a panel commemorating Law Day sponsored by the Federal Bar Association. It was reported that Senator Scott was in attendance at this meeting and was "fawning"' over King who gave the impression during his speech of trying to justify disobedience to the law. Enclosure ve | ' J - Mr. DeLoach Ni 1 - Mr. Bishop,¢ ; . CONTINUED - OVER NW ssos7_Médsivsadoaat! lhe 118 -
| . e : e M. A. Jones to Bishop Informal Memo _ RE: SENATOR HUGH SCOTT As indicated above, Senator Scott has always been very friendly. In the recent past, he has been sympathetic to the Bureau's viewpoint in connection with the Safe Streets and Crime Control Bill now pending on the Hill. RECOMMENDATION: In view of Senator Scott's friendly and cooperative attitude over the years, it is recommended that Mr, DeLoach brief him on a most confidential basis as to the. background of Martin Luther King, Obviously, Scott has been "hoodwinked" as to King's true background, of M. A. Jones MW 35037 Doocld: 32959551 Page 115 . EE EO eee
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« / / f é t ‘ oy" PE Le UPA ATES NO Myr, Tolson concerning on King. ment, but, LAO ed ve MEUM ENE TORR ALOE spec Cc I aske d him to read an FBI report me on one occasion t that he mz -source who hed allowed him | versazéon encéd with > CO ed information involving an old wire tan st point-blank if Weisi had allowed hin . He stated he. had already admitted to nat Weisl was his source in the Devart- ist refuse to reveal the identity of to read an FBI report.: this statement. : \ the The con- ‘We did disseminate an PBI report on King dated 3/12/68. -it may be that Anderson talking about this specific. report. that he possibly knows the date of the been given & chance fmaintain @ strict fappeacrs on Friday, 5/24/68. esr see “4. * ACTION. - Doold: 32989551 _ om) os Page i125 ‘mo comment" i . ba Re ath, pret to'read it. For record purposes. a ey § ‘ 4 Pay (cece fo aye Mo sae Neve Chewy . “is Ah A is pak HH ry oY fi. a yt cay wa ey Wy TAGES © a MEN LS Steg a) fate Ze aplnelh rE, asitevicc hs is bluffing ox it may be that he is t would be my thought “yeport, We never in the event but has not theless should Pearson's article ih APM R A meen meres, eres centers te 1 4
“OPTIONAL fOFM NO. TO ye <dvel (of the effect that Bobby Kennedy had specifically asked the FBI o tap the telephone of Nartin Luther King. I told Weisl I had not peard this rumor. I asked him what promptéd his question. He eplied that he had heard about this several times and, as a matter £ fact, a statement had appeared in a recent newspapes article. I reminded Weisl that Messrs. Gale, McAndrews, and I had . briefed him regarding all activities pertaining to Bobby Kennedy's requests for microphones and telephone taps during hils tenure as Attorney General. I stated this briefing, as he showld recall, concerned the basis on which the Department pleaded dnmunity in the civil suit against our agents in Las Vegas, Nevada. H ; Weisl stated he remembered the briefing and, as a matter lof fact, this was when the information first came to his attention. I asked Weisl why he was now asking me this specific question. - ee He replied because Drew Pearson had found out about this matter and ,, probably would print it in order to embarrass Bobby Kennedy. oan I asked Weisl if he had discussed this matter with Drew Set Pearson. He replied in the affirmative and stated his father, a Ed Weisl, Sr., had also discussed the matter with Pearson. Weisl u asked me if the FBI would have any objections to this matter being 2 brought out before the public. I told him it appeared as if the ee matter had already been brought out before the public. I stated a ‘he should keep several things in mind, i.e., (1) regardless of how . such an article was written, a segment of the Negro population of the United States would still feel very harshly toward the FBI and Ibeee £2) this would obviously cut off some of our sources of information. Soon i Weisl rebutted this statement with the fact that Riéhard ‘ mfee Harwood of the Washington Post had already Pre eee the fact that ty Aad a = a . “CONTINUED -~-=="ovex “ ht a — DD : CSH (5) peG-2h PN ME SED ad soon ees ey : : Yy. Gar et SY ey . . : Le MAY 2 1 A958 Coe nD ; . HAY 2ZLASOS he Le 5 v Ge COPY SENT TO MR. TOLSON . oe 7 ro Lath SUR 8 1988- [cory ser 20 un noisox woe Ei a S507 - postats2989551 Page i126 ~ tor t . $010~106 . : . MO =» UNITED STATES CC@ ment -- r oo, 8 i och Je 3 ry BS y 4. fat OL — emorandum . sux. | coe ——— . — . - > Fa vie TO - +: MR, TOLSON pATE: 5/17/68 en Ue ; ‘ ; cc Mr. DelLocach . — FROM : C. D. DeLoach uo Mr. Sullivan Hol oT ; Mr. Gale Fy _ . : - f) Mr. Bishop ny RE. SUBJECT: MARTIN LUTHER KING i ita (Previous request for J, 2 Ae . /' electronic coverage ned 6S fo hie fs by Robert IF. Kennedy) Geb ad } Ke a LEAK OF INFORMATION BY DEPARTMENT a 2) aaa ts, EdWeisl, J-“came over to see me at 4:15 p.m., 5/17/68. fie asked wie if the rumor was true that was going around Washington 3. ’ t
. the FBI had accumulated a number of tapes on King, as a result of ;the utilization of microphones, Weisl stated that Pearson would obviously indicate that Bobby. Kennedy had ordered the FBI to trike this action. I told Weisl that, nevertheless, certain Negro groups would still blame the FBI, whether we were ordered to take such action or not. Weisl stated he would txy to keep the above matter from tbeing printed, if the FBI felt so strongly about it. JI told him we held no. brief for Kennedy, in view of the shoddy way in which — he had treated the FBI; however, we did not want to be involved in any political maneuvers and action of. this nature would most certainly concern politics. Weisl stated he would try to keep this from appearing. t Richard Harwood did include in his recent article on the {Director a statement that the FBI had several tapes on Martin Luther (King, as a result of the utilization of microphones, This fact has also appeared in a number of other newspapers. Apparently Weisl ;ynas discussed this matter with Pearson---Paarson desiring to print Iche facts in order to embarrass Kennedy. . The record is quite clear, through the medium of memoranda written by former employee Courtney Evans, that Kennedy first }requested electronic coverage; however, Ivans succeeded in talking him out of it. Several months later Evans approached Kennedy and rrequested permission for such coverage, at which time Kennedy approved this coverage. While an expose of such facts could obviously hurt ‘Kennedy, such action would also harm the FBI from a public relations standpoint. We, therefore, should have no part in it and should idiscreetly discourage such action if brought to our attention. ACTION - , ; If such an article is printed by Pearson, we should follow a strict “no comment" policy. re Pade Il” NW 55097 Beold:32989551. Rage 127. ne 2 ee . * . © were hoe meezenee| cored a” eS ans mpc ot ee. oe mn od ° Fae aaa ¥ 25 wp atone ET rameter woman F . . par . . . me cpenweneee mw aM * preeenin ee eee ene a Te "cae ae ee ne een — eke rep meen etennittte ees roman sae enters
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NW 35057 @ 2. Le Whalen April 17, 1968 BIBLIOGRAPHY (MARTIN LUTHER KING) Books by King Stride Toward Freedom, 1958, Harper, $3.95. Paper 65¢ Measure of a Man, 1959, United Church, $1.00 Strength to Bove, 1963, Harver, $3.50. Paper 50¢ Why We Can't Wait, 1964, New American Library. Paper 60¢ Where Do We Go From Here?, 1967, Harper, $4.95 See Also: IL. Hoskins and the Editors of Quote, Quotable Martin Luther King, Grosset, $4.95. Docld: 32989551 Page 129 , s
Magazine Article by King "Civil Rights Bill Moves to Fore: excerpt from address" Christian Century, June 5, 1957, p. 700 "Most Durable Power,'t Christian Century, June 5, 1957, p. 708. "Negro and Negroes," Newsweek, February 24, 1958, p. 32. "Wonviolence and Racial Justice," Christian Century, February 6, 1957, pp. 165-67. "Equality Now," Nation, February 4+, 1961, pp. 91-95. '"Pull-scale Assault," Newsweek, February 29, 1960, pp. 24-25. "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence," Christian Century, April 13, 1960, pp. 439-41. "Revolt Without Violence: the Negroes! New Strategy" interview, U. S. News & “orld Report, March 31, 1960, pp. 76-78. "Suffering and Faith,” Christian Century, April 27, 1960, p. 510. *Case Against Tokenism," New York Times Magazine, August 5, 1962, p. 11 plus. "Fumbling on the New Frontier," Nation, March 3, 1962, pp. 190-3. "Hate Is Always Tragic: excerpts from address," Time, August 3, 1962, p. 13. "Time for Freedom Has Come," New York Times Magazine, Sevtember 10, 1961, p. 25 plus. "Who Is Their God?" Nation, October 13, 1962, pp. 209~10. "Bold Design For a New South," Nation, March 30, 1962, pp. 259-62. "Boycotts Will Be Used," interview, U, S. News & World Rerort, ‘ “ -_ aa ao}. cAl ener February 24, 16s4, cr. 59-61. "Disnute Between Hoover and King," U. S. News &@ “World Resort, February 7, 1964, r. 46 vilus. —~ a “ nan © "Dreare-T Wave a Drean," excercts From address, 7/02/t2 Newsweek, Sevtember 9, 1963, vo. 21. Doold: 32989551 Page 130 pier at each auimbiearuehs varane cock sa sc miadeene cc Ua) ocmhain tachunic aaatea Mendateneh tak tent eatien eas aattbaaed pnddnaiehens Aiésoaausen sad tiene aa aad D enadmaerimonad med ST ee Oren here ne ncukamemninsnene Sek haateoruntineeeniamanal asia Sain Sethe nes eaetint veneer aaa sean Mii aste cs aan PY la.acescaeom oan aan terete ee a
. t . { < f @ ® ia "Harmer of Civil Rights," Nation, March 9, 1964, pp. 230-4. "In a Word--Now,” New York Times Magazine, September 29, 1963, | pp. 91-2. . | "Ts It 411 Right to Break The Law?" U. S. News and ‘Jorld Report, August 12, 1963, p. 6. "It's a Difficult Thing to Teach the President," excerpts from interviews, Look, November 17, 1964, pp. 61 plus. "Letter From a Birmingham Jail," Christian Century, June 12, 1963, pp. 767-73. "Martin Luther King's Reaction: A Statement and a Disagreement," U. S. News & World Report, November 30, 1964, p. 58. "Negro Is Your Brother,” Atlantic, August 1963, p. 78 plus. "Speaking Out," Saturday Svening Post, November 7, 1964, p. 8 plus. : "Two Persnectives, one Goal," accepts Nobel Peace Prize, Time, 12/18/64, p. 21. "Visit with Martin Luther King," Look, February 12, 1963, pp. 92-6. ; f t "Behind the Selma March," Saturday Review, April 3, 1965, p. 16 plus. "Civil Right Number One: :right to vote," New York Times Magazine, March 14, 1965, p. 7 plus. | ; "Dreams of a Brighter Tomorrow," Bbony, March, 1965, pp. 34-5. "Let Justice Roll,'* Nation, March 15, 1965, po. 269-74. "Next Step: the North” Saturday Review, November 13, 1965, p. 5 "MnChristian Christian," Ebony, August, 1965, np. 76-80. ery 3] a | ©. 4, a < ron + : gL. Freedom's Crisis: last steep ascent," Naticn, March i+, te, pn. 288-92, ing rt ao = } ~ "Gilt cf Leve,™ Metalits, Decemter, 1966, rn. LU6-7. "wonviclence: the only road to Freedom," Stony, October, 1966, Dp. 27 plus. NW 55097 Docld:32989551 Page 131
"New Negro Threat: Mass Disobedience," excerpts from address, U. S. News & World Report, August 28, 1967, p. 10. "International Evening--Martin Luther King," summary of address, Publisher's ‘eekly, June £9, 1967, p. 52. "Martin Luther King Defines Black Power,” New York Times Magazine, June 11, 1967, np. 7 plus. | I i i i i NW 55087 Docld: 32989551 Page 132
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* ~ @ | v- -”™ 5 \ MARTIN LUTHER KING AT NATIONAL CATHEDRAL MARCH 31, 1968 I need not pause to say how perfectly delightful it is to be here this morning, to have the opportunity of standing in this very great and significant pulpit, and I do want to express my deep personal appreciation to Dean Sayre and all the Cathedral clergy for extending the invitation. It is always a rich and rewarding experience to take at least a brief break from our day~to~day demands in the struggle for freedom and human dignity and ability and enjoy envolvement in worship which concerns friends and goodwill all over our nation. Certainly there's always a deep and meaningful experience to be in a worship service. So, for many reasons I'm happy to be here today. I'm going to use as a subject from which to preach this morning, "Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution.” The text for the morning is found in the Book of Revelation. There are two passages there that I would like to quote from the 16th chapter of that Book, "Behold, I make all things new," ~ “Former things are passed away.". I'm sure that most of you have read that interesting story from the pen of Washington Irving entitied, "Rip Van Winkle." The one thing we usually remember about the story is that Rip Van Winkle slept twenty years, but there is ——Ww— bs 09%—Bocld 32889551 Page 135 “*
. .° ¥ ¢ another point in that story that all too many people overlook. There was a Sign in the inn from which Rip went up into the mountains for his long sleep. When Rip Van Winkle went up into the mountains, the sign had a picture of King George, III, of England. When he came down twenty years later, the sign had a picture of George Washington, the first President of the United States. Rip Van Winkle looked up at the picture of ; George Washington, and looking at the picture, he was amazed. He was completely lost. He knew not who he was. And this reveals to us the most striking thing about the story of Rip Van Winkle is not merely that Rip slept twenty years, but that he slept through a revolution. While he was peacefully snoring up in the mountains, a revolution was taking place that, in point, would change the course of history. Rip knew nothing about it, he was asleep. Yes, he slept through a revolution. One of the great tragedies of life is that all too many people find themselves living amidst a great period of social change and yet they fail to develop new attitudes, the new mental responses that the new situation demands. They end up sleeving through a revolution. As a matter of fact, there is a creat revolution taking place in the world toda\. Ih a@ sense it 18 a tripie revolution; that is, a technic lick. revolution in weaponery with the emergence of atomic and nuclear weapons of warfare. Then there is the human-rights —NWW55097_Docld:32989551_ Page 136 *
| | v - . « . - + t revolution, with the freedom explosion that is taking place . i all over the world. Yes, we do live in a period where changes are taking place. There is still the voice crying in } the abyss of time saying, Behold, I make all things new. Former things are passed away. Now, when anything new comes in history, it brings with it new challenges and new opportunitics. would like to deal with the challenges that we face today as a result of this triple revolution that is taking place in the world today. First, we are challenged to develop a world spectacle. No individual can live alone. No nation can live alone; and anyone who feels that he can live alone is sleeping through a revolution. The world in which we live is geographically one. The challenge that we face today is to make the one term appropriate. Now, it is true that the geographical oneness in the days to come will be to a large extent through modern man's scientific ingenuity. Modern man, through his scientific genius has been able to go long distances through great time and change. Our jet planes have traversed in mingics dsstances that once tock veexs aud even months. All of this tells us that our world is a neighbor- hood. Throurch our scientific and technological genius we Lave made of this world a neighborhood; and yet we have not yet the ethical committments to make us a brotherhood. Somehow and in some way we got to do this. We must all learn to live i, : i $9551 Page 137 ¥ Fa
. © @ together as brothers, or we will all perish together as fools. We are tied together in a single bond of destiny, thwarting any escape from the network of mutuality. Whatever people want directly, affects ail indirectly. For some strange reason that I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be; and you can't be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the way God's universe is made. This is the way of its structure. John Donne caught it years ago and finished in graphic times, "No man is an island entire unto himself. Everyman,is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . " and he goes on toward the end to say "For everyman's death diminishes me because I am a part of mankind. Therefor. never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolis for thee." We must seize this, believe it and live by it, if we are to remain awake through a great revolution. Secondly, we-are challenged to eradicate the last vestiges of racial injustice from our nation. I just say this morning that racial injustice is still the black men's burden and the vhite man's shame. It is an unhappy truth that racism is a way of life, and a vast majority Of white fmerivans; Sguben and unspoken, acknowlecse and deny subtly. Sometimes not so Subtly. The disease that’ racisn permeates and poisons the whole body politically. I can see nothing more urgent for America to work passionately to get rid of the disease of racism. Something positive must be done. MW 55037 Doold: 32889551 Page 136 ”
—— Everyone must share in its guilt; individuals and institutions. The Government must certainly share the guilt; individuals must share the guilt; even the Church must share the guilt. We must face the facts that 11:00 o'clock on Sunday morning when we stand to sing, "In Christ, there is no East nor West," we stand in the most segregated island of America. The hour has come for everybody from all of the institutions to disect from this body its cancer, and work to get rid of racism. And now as we have to do it, we must honestly admit certain things. We must get rid of certain myths that are constantly being disseminated all over our nation. One is a myth of time. There is a notion that only time can solve the problems of racial injustices. There are those who often appear to say to the Negroes that are in the white community, "Why don't you slow up? Stop pushing things so fa&t. Only time can solve the problems. If you will just be nice and patient and continue praying, in a hundred or two hundred years the problem will work itself out." There is an answer to that myth: It is that time is neutral. It can be used either constructively or destructively. I an sorry to say this mornings thet I am absolutely convinced that the forces of i171 Will in our nutiun, the e@atrenc taghuilsis in .ur nuilln, Lhe people on the wrong ground use time much more efiectively than the forces of good will. It may well be that we will have to impeach this generation. Not merely for patriotic words and devout actions of the bad people, but for the fallen silence Docld: 32989551 Page i139
and indifference of the good people who sit around and wait on time. Somewhere we will come to see that human progress never rolls in on wheels of inability. It comes through tireless efforts and persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers of God. Without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation. So we must help time and realize that the time is alwars richt to do ‘right. Now there is another myth that still gets around. It is kind of over-reliance on the boot~strap philosophy. Now those that still feel that if the Negro is to rise out of poverty, if the Negre is to rise out of slum conditions, if he is to rise out of degradation and segregation, he must do it all by himself and so they say the Negro must lift himself by his own bootstraps. They never stop to realize that no other ethnic group has been a slave on American soil. The people who say this never stop to realize the debt they owe us who were kept in Slavery 244 years. In 1863 the Negro was told he was free as a result of the Emancipation Proclamation being signed by Abraham Lincoln. He Wee met given ane bend to mane that Erecdam neaningfcl. It was something like keeping a person in prison for a numver of years and suacenly u:scovering that that person was not guilty of the crime for which he was convicted, and just go up to him and say now you are free. But you don't give him any crutch against time. You don't give him any money to get some clothes for his back or shoes for his feet. Yet this is the MW 35037 Doold: 32839551 Page 140 ; *
very thing that our nation did to the black man. [It simply set him free and just left him in ignorance, not knowing what to do. And we all know that at the same time the nation failed to do anything for the black man, through an Act of Congress, it has given away millions of acres of land west of the Mississippi which meant that it was willing to share with the white man the tools of economic force and grant power to them. They sent men to teach them to farm. Not only did they provide county agents but as the years unfolded they provided low-interest rates so they could mechanize their farms, and to this day, thousands of these very persons have been seizing millions of dollars in federal subsidies every year not to farm, and they are the very ones who tell Negroes they must lift themselves by their own bootstraps. It is all right to tell a man to lift himself by his bootstraps. But it is a cruel jest to say to a shoe- less man that he ought to lift himself by his own bootstraps. We must come to see that the roots of racism are buried deep in our country. And there must be something positive and natural in order to ,cv ria of ali Lhe eiiteot of racis. and tragedy of racial injustices. And there is another thing closely related to racism that I should like to mention as another challenge. We are challenged to rid our nation of the word poverty. Like a monstrous octopus, poverty spreads its nagging prehensal tenacles into hamlets and villages all over the world. Two-thirds of the people of the world go to bed hungry at night. They are ill-housed, they are ill-nourished. 7 HW 55057 Doold: 32989551 Page i4i rr
Hw 35057 I have seen it in Latin America; I have seen it in Africa; I have seen this poverty in Asia. I remember some years ago, Mrs.’ King and I journeyed to that great country known as India. And I never will forget the experience. It was a marvelous experience to meet and talk with the great leaders of India and get to takwith and speak to thousands and thousands cf people all over that vast country. These xperiences will remain dear to me as long as the haunts of memory Linger. But I say to you this morning, my friends, there are those in Christendom ~ when they see with their own eyes literally millions of people are going to bed hungry every night ~ when he sees with his own eyes God's children sleeping on the sidewalks at night ~ In Bombay, more than a million people sleep on the sidewalks every night. In Calcutta more than 600,000 sleep on the sidewalks everynight. They have no beds to sleep in; they have no houses to go in. He discovers that in our vast population, more than five hundred million people, some 480 million, make an annual income less than $9000 a year. Most of them have never seen a doctor or nurse, and I know that we Anericans Say we are mot concerned but. . . au ansver cang "On no . . " for the cestiny cf tue U. &. is tisd with the dGestiny cf Incia and every other nation. We spend in America wiliisons of Guvilars a day to store surplus. I know where we can store that food free of charge - in the stomachs of millions of God's children far who go to bed hungry. Maybe we spend/too much of our national DocTd: 32989551 Page i142
budget establishing military bases around the world, rather than basing our genuine concern and understanding in order to alleviate poverty abroad. I would remind you in our nation there are 40 million people who are poverty stricken. I have seen them here and there. I have seen them in the ghettos of the north. I have seen them in the rural areas of the south. I have seen them in Appalachia. I have been in the process of touring many areas of our country and I must confess it is some situation where I literally found myself crying. I was in Marks, Mississippi the other day, which is in Quitman county, the poorest county in the U. ‘Ss. I tell you I saw hundred of little Hack boys and girls walkirm the streets with no shoes to wear. I saw their mothers and their fathers trying to carry on the Head Start Program, but they had no money. The Federal Government hadn't funded them, they were trying to carry on. .. they raised a little money here and there; trying to get a little food to feed their children . . . trying to teach them something. And I saw mothers and fathers who said to me, not only were they unclothed, but they didn't get any kind of income - no oOld- age pension - no welfare - they didn't get anything. I said. “how co vou live?’ They said, "Well, we go arcund the neishbors and ask for a little something. When the berry season comes, we pick berries. When the rabbit season comes, we hunt and catch a few rabbits and. that is howve get it." MW 55037 Doold: 32809551 Page 143
Hw 35057 = ot @ . eS I was in Newark and Harlem just this week and I walked into the homes of welfare mothers. I saw such conditions ~ no wall-to-wall carpets - wall-to-wall rats. So I stood and talked and this welfare mother said to me even the landlord won't repair the place. "I have been living here 2 years. He has not made a single repair." She pointed out how a little boy was the victim of lead poisoning. She pointed out the wall and ceilings falling, and the hole where the rats cane in night after night. They have to stay awake to keep the rats and roaches from getting to the children. I said how much do you pay for this apartment. She said $125. I looked and said to myself it isn't worth $60. Poor people are forced to pay more for such living conditions. Tragedy rears so often. These 40 million people are @mbittered. Because America is so affluent and so rich ~ because thee are expressways carrying away from the ghettoes of the poor - Jesus told a parable one day. He reminds us a man went to hell because he didn't feed the poor. The man was Diabees (Phonetic). He was a rich man. And there was a poor man in Nazareth who was 7 wut OnLy @ sour wan, oot fas Sich. He nea sures asi CVE Ale body. He was so sick that he could hardly move. He manayed to ey set te the sate of Dieters everr env, Wanting to have gust the crumbs that had fallen from his table. Diabees did nothing about it ~ Now when he died, Diabees went to hell — there was LO DocTd: 32989551 Page i144 *
eo | e a rock between Lazarus and Diabees. There is nothing in that parable that says that Diabees went to hell because he was rich. Jesus never made the universal indictment against all wealth. It is true that one day a rich young man came to him and Jesus told him to sell all .. . Jesus was prescribing an individual surgery and not setting forth a universal diagnosis. If you will look at that parable and all its symbolicus, you vill remember that the conversation took place between heaven and hell. And the angels had long- distance calls. It was Abraham talking to Diabees. Now Abraham was a very rich man. If you go back in the Old Testament, you will see he was one of the richest men of his day. Diabees didn't go to hell because he was rich. It was Diabees didn't realize his wealth was an opportunity. It was not his riches that separated him from brother Lazarus. Diabees went to hell because he passed Lazarus every day and didn't really see him. He went to hell because he allowed his brother to become in- visible. Diabees went to hell because he maximized the minimum and minimized the maximum. And went to hell because he sought t -- sot ge et es ‘ 2 ++ 4 Piya ot wey ty rae meee © : 7w@ QA CUNSCLELTLGUS OLgeceuY 2M the War Q@yainust poveril. reas: rs LO can happen to America . . the richest country in the world. There's nothing wrong with that. This is Anerica of curortunttiv.- to help bridge the gulf between the have and the have nots. Tne question is whether America can do it. It has nothing to do with poverty. What is new is that we now have the techniques and resources to get rid of poverty. The real question is whether we have the will. Ina fewvweks, some of us are coning to Ll MW 55037 Doocld: 32959551 Page 145
«? S . @ Washington to see if the will is still alive. We are coming to Washington in a poor-peoples campaign. Everyone is bringing his pride along. The poor, the masses, we are going to bring all those who have known long years of hurt and neglect. We are going to bring those who have come to feel that life is a long and carved door with no exit sign. We're going to bring children, adults, and old people. "People who have never seen a doctor or dentist in their lives. ‘We are not coming io istRionic GesruRes engage in any histerte vistas. We are coming to demand the Government to adjust itself to the problem of poverty. We read one day we hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal. That they are endowed with their Creator in certain inevitable rights. That among these are life, liberty and pursuit of happiness. But if a man doesn't have a job or income, he has neither life, nor liberty, nor possibility for the pursuit of happiness. He merely exists. We are coming to ask America to be true to huge promise ‘of prophetic signs ‘ years ago. We are coming to engage in traumatic non-violent action to call attention to the growth between promises fulfilled. Touche the unvigille vielbaw. bly cu ve du il this vay ~ We Ge it this way because it is our experience a nation doesn't nove around questions of genuine equality, esneciallvy when the noar is involved until it is confronted massively. A great documentary is here to tell us that something should be done. fe met here some years ago in a White House conference on civil Yignts. We came out with the same recommendations that we will be demanding in our campaign here, but nothing has been done 12 MW 55087 Docld: 32989551 Page 146 ~ a ee
. about it. The President's Commission on technology, automation and economic progress recommended these things some time ago. Nothing has been done. Even a Presidential Board which was made up of mayors of other cities of our country, the leading businessmen, have said have these things done, still nothing has been done. Crime Commissions have come out this report, just a few days ago. Nothing has been done. In summary, nothing will be done till people of goodwill put their hearts and souls in motion. I believe this will make the difference. Yes, it will be a oor peoples campaign. This is the question facing America. Ultimately, a great nation is a conpassionaye nation. America has not met its obligations and its responsibilities to the poor. One day we Will have to stand before our God and history. We will talk in terms of things we've done. Yes, we will be able to say we built gargantuan bridges to span the seas. WE built hugh buildings to kiss the sky. Yes, we have made our submarines to penetrate oceantic denths. We brought forth many other thines of scientific and technological power. [It seems that I can hear God and history Saying That is not wt m = . & } . : <7 oe . . ~ . ae - = + Te FF emnrsh. dat Po vas hengrs ana vr .ead we not. I was o.mued . - } <P, ade oc ow t- ale + ro “ andi voy elothed ie not. Th tov du it unto the Tesst of wiesa > wae = - * 4 Sate eof ~~ on +27 - . - an - wey vault el, Sd Us 2 Uo Led. LUGtL 2S eh Gu Stiei savas America today and I want to say one other challenge we face - Sinply that we must find an alternative to war and bloodshed. Anyone who feels, and I fear that 2 lot of people feel this way -~ that war can solve the social problems of mankind, is 13 MW 35037 Doocld: 32959551 Page 147
. . S Sleeping through a revolution. President Kennedy said on one occasion mankind must put an end to war or war would put an end to mankind. The world must hear this. I pray God that America will hear this before it is too late because today we are fighting a war I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war in Vietnam has torn up progress in Geneva . . strengthened the military industrial conplex. It has strengthened the forces of reactionaries in our nations. It has put us against the self—determination of the vast majority of people. Put us in a position of protection of a corrupt regime that is stacked against this world. It played havoc with our domestic destiny. This day we are spending $500,000 to kill every Vietcong soldier and every time we kill one, we spend about $500,000. spend only $53 a year for every person trying to rise in poverty-stricken or so-called poverty programs which is not even a good skirmish against poverty. Not only that, put us in a position of appearing to the world that here we are ten thousand miles away from home, fighting for the so- when we do not even celled freedo:: of the Vietnamese nearle, cut our own house in order. We force young black men, a down sneer a fe wa _ ‘224 - beet 2.6 ils hr nr ree re ree aridi wih cone bach hoe, they can’ t hardly live on the Together. We could The judgment of God is on us today. go right down the line and see that something must be done, something must be done quickly. We have alienated ourselves from other isolated in the nations but we end up morally and politically 14 DoclTdad: 32989551 Page i146 ne reir te =f pp tt mm tt td te tyes png pn ni eg ne,
on™ S . @ world. For a few quiet nations like Taiwan, Thailand, South Korea, and a few others, this is where we are. Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. The best way to start is to put an end to the war in Vietnam because if it continues, we will inevitably come to the point of confronting China, which could lead the whole world to nuclear annihilation. It is no longer a choice, my friends, between violence and nonviolence. It is between nonviolence and nonexistence and the alternative to this armanent, the alternative to greater suspension of nuclear tests, the alternative to strengthen the United Nations and thereby disarming the whole world may well be a civilization plunged into the abyss of nuclear holocaust. The world could be transformed into an inferno that even the mind of Dante could not imagine - this is why I am raising my cause today - vorking wherever I can to arouse the conscience of the nation. J remember so well when I first took my stand against the war in Vietnam, how the critics took me on. They had their say in sometimes the most vicious way. One day a news- Ham eane to me and satd, Ir. Hine dan't rou thints routre eoing to have to Sto. agssaultin:s the war and neve more in - “2.4 * : . - - . » - 4 ran ca tow . oe -ston net oy t “> ane i ee ee ae . wee TF ow eer he am ta we Ow eed ’ wi weet a ee re nO weston ah hurts the budgé of the orzanizacion. Peéuple who respecced you have lost respect for you. Don't you feel that you really 15 MW 35037 Doocld: 32959551 Page 145 ee
HW S5037 Docld: 32989551 Page 150 wh _ - ought to change your position?. I looked at him and I had to say, Sir, I am sorry you don't know me. I am not the consensus leader. There comes a time when one must take the position that it is neither political nor popular but he must do it, because conscience tells him it is right. I believe today that there is the need for all people of good will to come with an active conscience. Say, in the words of the old Negro spiritual, we ain't gonna study war no more. This is the challenge facing modern man. Then we close by saying we have twelve days ahead to struggle for justice and peace. I would not yield to a politician of despair. I'm gonna maintain hope. As we come to Washington in this campaign, the cards are stacked against us. This time we will really confront a goal line. God, grant that we will be like David who stood up against Goliath in justice. Make America the truly the great America that it is called.to be. [I'll say to you that I'll go this spring and I believe we're goiny to get there. We have been scorned, but we are a people whose destiny - = a va - Po kann oA as det i one ae is tied un in the destiny of Amcrica. YDefore the rilvrin Mey at rar ys peg, t i; res . eee © raya ; ey ay * ~ ~ in ratnevs laneueu at Yivnouth, we were here. Par @uUruSs the v 3 as ye * 3? 4 meee Son pansy ae te yw gad eensry es, CER .£ ". ”, Tee eT . PO “aa “hk UPyY, CO. UPe tie Va, oSele WoreS G2 tue eec. aati. of Indeygencence, we were here. Le.ore tne beautizul worus c2 the Star Spangled Banner were written, we were here. More than two centuries, our forefathers labored here with outrages, the cotton cane, they built the homes of the families under the most humiliating and oppressive conditions. Yet out of 16
WW 55037 Doold: 32989551 _ a eS . abundant vitalities, they continue to grow and develop. If the unexpressable cruelities of Slavery could not stop us, the opposition that we now face will surely fail. We gonna win our freedom because both the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of the Almighty God are embodied in our ever-groving demand. J still can sing, we shall overcome. We shall overcome because ~ we shall overcome bugnswe UirLisie (fnonetic) was right. No lies can live forever. We shall overcome because true right is right. We shall overcome because .. . as we were Singing earlier today, truth forever on the scaffold .. . that scaffold svayed the future behind the dim unknown standard of God within the shadows keeping watch above his own. With this faith, we Will be able to transform the national course of our nation to a beautiful symphony of brotherhood. God grant that we will be participants in this newness, this megnificent development. If we will butdo it, we will bring about a new day of justice and brotherhood and peace. That day the morning Stars will sing together . . . and the sons of Ged will Shout . “5 wee GUY. Gla wlLeSsS you. 17 Page i151 nn
UNMAN: KING: SPEECH BY MARTIN LUTHER KING BROADCAST -BY STATION WOL AT 8:30 P.M., 3/31/68 (Commentator on WOL) Black ministers from around the country recently met to attack the problems of community leadership. We join Dr. KING as he delivers the closing Speech to this group. We have discussed many issues; we have deliberated; we have had fellowship together, and we have heard many eloquent, profound and passionate presentations. In areal sense, for so many of us, this has been a mountaintop experience. There are those transfiguring moments in life when we do ascend a mountaintop, where we are inspired, where we are lifted and where we feel a sense of eternity. But I want to say to you today that in a few hours we will be returning to the valley. The valley calls us. We will be returning to valleys filled with men and women who know the ache and anguish of poverty. We're going to be returning to valleys filled with thousands and thousands of young people who lost faith in America. We GO Dack to a valiey Pilied with black peopie who are in moments of despair because of their circumstances and ever again they unconsciously find themselves crying out with PAUL (LAWRENCE DUNBAR) (ph) a crust of bread and a corner to sleep in, a minute to smile, and MW 35037 Doocld:32959551 Page 152
HW 55037 = an { ) to weep in, a pint of joy to a peck of trouble, and never a laugh as the moans come double, and that is life. Now these cries are in the valley that we must go back to. The fact is that the vast majority of Negroes in America are still perishing on a lonely island of poverty in the midst of a vast ocean of material prosperity. Now you know what happens in the realm of semantics that different words are used when you deal with the poor, the oppressed, the separated. Whenever you have massive unemployment in the black communities, it's called a social problem. Whenever you have massive unemployment in the white community, it's called a depression. The fact is that that is a depression in the black community. Now the other thing is whenever the government provides opportunities and privileges for white people and rich people, they call it subsidies; when they do it for Negroes and poor people, they call it welfare. The fact is that everybody in this country lives on welfare. Suburbia was built with federally subsidized credit and tne highways that taxe our white prothers out to the sutures were butit with Leteracly subsidized money to the tune of 90 percent. HZveryrodcy is on welfare in this country. The problem is that we DoclTdad: 32989551 Page i153
" WW 55097 DoclTdad: 32989551 Page i154 all too often have socialism for the rich and ( ) free enterprise capitalism for the poor; that's the problem. As you know the economic problem is serious, and this has made for a lot of despair, made for a lot of bitterness, and a lot of anger in the black community; the situation is getting worse everyday. This anger has ended up in explosions of violence over the last few summers, and yet I don't see a riot as the answer; they don't pay off as from a practical point of view the enormity of the suffering and the loss of life far outweigh the gains that come as a result of our burned cities. We have to face this ( ) fact that no substantive change has come to America or to any city as the result of a riot; the only thing we see is a quick token poverty grant and maybe some water hydrant (squares) or what have you, and that's about ity no substantive change has come; no schools have moved toward more quality integrated education as a result. The job problem has not been solved as a result of the riots; we have to face it. So I don't see this as an answer, and vet ccmething has to be dcne to get this nation ts ie} see that it has a moral responsibility to see that everybody in this country should have a job or an income. Years ago America signed a huge promissory note and placed it
. a e @ .  ) « in its Declaration of Independence and talked about all men being created equal, and then it went on to say they are endowed by their Creator, and you know this creed did not say some men, it said all men; it didn't say all white men; it says all men which includes black men. And it goes on to say something else which ultimately distinguishes our form of government from other totalitarian regimes; it said that each individual had certain basic rights that are neither derived from or conferred by the state. In order to discover where they came from, it is necessary to move back behind the dim mist of eternity, they are God-given. Now this is what the nation said, but it hasn't lived up to that. #ight years from now we will celebrate 200 years of independence in this country, but I wonder if the black man will be able to celebrate it. What life have we know? Too often it's a life of unemployment, of misery and poverty. Wnat liberty have we known? Too often it is merely the iiberty to move from one Slum to anotner T don'v anow a . . a a . te if we can celebrate it eignt or nine years from now. Now . ~ ~ oF ae ad < we e. ase 38 ae awa toe aa Re we're gcing to weshingtcn and outline cur demanic; vwelre going to the seat of government with an outline cf demands; now why do we have to go? Because, number one, we must NW 55097 DoclTd: 325989551 Page i155 ur
@ @ find an alternative, the riots on the one hand and timid supplication for justice on the other and find a way to transmute the ( ) waves of the ghetto into a creative and constructive force. Well, that's one reason we need to go; people are angry; people are frustrated; they are bewildered, and you got to give an outlet, so we need to go to Washington for that reason. But the other reason is that this country never moves on the question of civil rights or genuine equality for the black man until it's made to move through pressure; it just doesn't happen; I wish it did; I tell you the truth, I'm tired of marching; I'm tired of going to jail; I'm being very honest about it. Now everybody .... not everybody but many people are saying that something should be done about the slums, about the economic problems that we face in the black community. I could mention source after source; three Presidential commissions have said it; they said everything that we gonna .... everything that we will demand in Washington they have already written down on paper and said it should be done; the Committee on Technoleny, Automation and E2onemic Progress said it; the Wnite House Conference of Civil Rights said it; after the Detroit riot a group was formed MW 55087 Docld: 32989551 Page 156
called Urban Coalition with the mayors in most of the big cities in our country, and even some of the conservative mayors agreed that a massive program has to come into being to provide jobs for everybody desiring jobs; this is what the Urban Coalition came out with. LEANSER (ph) had been one of the architects of it and others, but you had on there some of the outstanding | businessmen, DAVID ROCKEFELLER, HENRY FORD, and you can go right down the line. They have asked in a document | for everything that we'll be talking about in Washington. | "Newsweek" magazine, for the first time in its history, | broke from its past policies of not editorializing about things like this and said the time for action is now; it's urgent and they recommended all the things about that we are gonna be asking for. The Harris poll revealed that 68% of the American people feel that some kind of massive program ought to come into being to provide jobs for everyone desirous of working; it -vevealed that 64% of the American people feel that slums should be eradicated, and the communities rebuilt by the pesple wno live in them wnhietrn would be another maicive gob program. So it seems there is a concensus in the nation about this thing, and yet our Congress is sitting around fiddling while the cities are burning. They aren't going to do a single thing until we act ‘and -~6- MW 35087 Doold: 32809551 Page i157
until we act massively, until we create a non-violent erisis in this nation, and we are organizing right now some 15 communities. We want to start..out with 3,000 poor people who have been trained in the discipline of non-violence, a thorough understanding of the demands because they must be their demands, and that would be the first wave, but you see you don't deal with hard- hearted Pharoah with just one plague; you gotta keep plaguing Pharoah, and we want waves and waves; we want to start out with this group to be sure we have a disciplined group to set the pattern and start out and then every day and every week we just want waves of people coming in bringing back grievances to Washington, saying we demand change. This is a poor people's campaign, and those who come who are a little more affluent will come in a supportive role fighting for something for poor people. And I urge you to do it because this is so much of our ministry; this is what our ministry really means. You know, you find it in your congregations; there are some among us in the middle class who kind of float out of ty the muddy watere ond manasce to gat inte the frechn t ie flowing waters of the mainstream to a degree, and they forget the stench of the back waters. We must not allow our poorer brothers to be ignored; we, as preachers, must NW 35057 Doold: 32939551 Page 156
HW 55037 o join hands with them. PAUL KILLECK (ph) is right; sin is separation. What represents it more than what we see going on in our nation and in the world; we're separated from ourselves, separated from our neighbors, and finally separated from God, and we are going to Washington to try to deal with some of these problems, and I said earlier it is not MARTIN LUTHER KING; it's these men around me, they do the work. They're men who are humble but at the same time are dedicated to the struggle; they are humble enough to take cuts in salaries; I know what I'm talking about; they cowd make much more, but they are doing this, and I don't mind asking you that we need your support; I don't mind saying to you today that we want you to leave here committed to this church, SCLC is a church, a church in action. It is not no accident that most of the staff members and board members and leaders are preachers in SCLC, and I am not saying that other civil rights organizations should not be supported, but I am saying that it is conviction that preachers cre to te icentified with E°CLS bessuce it is 2 coctal action cnhuren, that is workin (Some applause) We need your support to sev buses and to get people into Washington. We got to feed people; you've got to do a lot of things. If everyone of you in your communities would help us, America will see a -~8- DoclTdad: 325989551 Page i159 eens
HW 55037 movement that it has never seen before. After we get to moving, people will be coming from everywhere, and IT want some congressman to go to the window and look out and say, I see a lot of people on these highways. Where are these people coming from? Who are they? And I want someone to go in there and say they are coming up out of Mississippi and Alabama. And I want somebody to go by there and say they are coming from the ghettos of Chicago, Detroit, Newark, New York, and Philadelphia. I want somebody to say they are coming up out of great trials; they are coming up out of years of neglect and years of hurt. Who are they? These are they. And I want somebody else to add, How many do you see out there? And I want somebody just to say, I've been trying to count them all, but it seems there need to be a number that no man can number. I am fired up over Washington ... wees L want you to be in Washington with us, and I am serious about this, the nation need this. And I am going on to say thay these are days that demand for us ac clergymen a committed empathy. And a kind of dangerous altruism. This is what is demanded of us today, a Gangerous altruism; we have got to give ourselves to others. Jesus told another parable, "One day a man came to Him and raised a lot of questions, and finally he ended up saying who is my neighbor?" Now that question DoclTdad: 325989551 Page 160
could have very easily ended up in a philosophical debate. | But Jesus immediately pulled that question out of mid | air and placed it on a dangerous curve between Jerusalem and Jericho, and He talked about a certain man that fell among thieves. You know the story, I don't have to go : through it. Finally the man who helped was a man of another race. And I want to tell you a little about it because I thought about it several times when I've been in the Holy Lands. We ask the question: Why? ...did the Priest and the Levi pass, and we come out with a lot of imaginary ideas; sometimes we say that they were busy; they had to get down to some ecclesiastical conference; at other times we say that maybe they were following a religious law which said that one was not to touch a human body 24 hours before carrying on a religious service, and then sometimes we say that this is a possibility that maybe the men were going down to Jericho to organize a Jericho road improvement association, and maybe they felt that it was better to get at the problem, at the cause of the source rather than get bogged down in an dndivicual cevect. That's a possibility, tut wren I think of this parable, my imagination goes somewhere elise. It is possible that these men went on the other side too because they were afraid. And it's possible, you see, ~ 10 ~ i NW 35057 Doold: 32989551 Page 161 .
Nw 35057 that when that Levi and Priest saw that man over there, they said that maybe the man is just a faker, and maybe he is just there to lure us over for quick and easy - seizure, and now they could have said that maybe the robbers are still around, and we better get on and get out of this situation. You know the words. The first question that the Priest asked; the first question that the Levi asked, was if I stop to help this man, what will happen to me? But the good Samaritan reversed the question: If I do not stop and help the man, what will happen to him? That is the ultimate question of life. So often we are thinking about our jobs, our prestige, our positions, and we find ourselves saying: If I take a stand for this cause, what will happen to me? Will my home get bombed? Will I get put in jail, or wili I jiose my prestige in a particular group that Iam in? That is divorced from the problem. What will happen to me is so often the question that we raise. Yeah, will I get put off the poverty board? What will nappen to me? But the great question is if I do not take a stand, what wili happen to our trothers and cur cigsterc who are suffering? This is the question that we ali have to weigh. I have weighed it in my life; I remember wnen I first took my position against the war in Vietnam, almost ~ll- Docild: 329859551 Page i162 &
every newspaper in the country critized me. They don't bother me too much now because too many people agree with me, but when I took the position at first, it was a iow period in my life; I could hardly open a newspaper. It wasn't only white people; it was Negroes. I must rush on to my conclusion, but I want to say that we are not only priests, but we are prophets. When God speaks, who can but prophesy. Prophesy until slums and rate. infested ghettos be a thing of the dead past and a dark past. And every man will be able to live in a decent sanitary house. Go out and prophesy until the vital industries of Appalachia are revitalized, and the wrinkled stomachs of Mississippi are filled. Go out and prophesy. Until brotherhood will no longer be the end of a world, at the end of a prayer, but the first item of business on every legislative agenda. Go out and prophesy. Until our state houses and city halls will be filled with men who will do justly, who will love mercy, and who will walk humbly with their God. ~Go out and prorhecy. Until every man will sit under his om vins and ris trite, ana none shali be afraid. It won't always be easy. Somevames it may cause one of your children to ask you, "Daddy, why do you have to go to jail so much?" It may mean losing a job; it may mean weary nights. -~l2- NW 55097 Docld:32989551 Page 163
It may mean standing amid the chilly winds of adversity, but if we are followers:of Jesus Christ, we know that Christianity is not a euphoria of unannoyed comfort and untroubled ease. What is it? It means taking up the | cause, taking it with all its (tich) and pack agony and | bearing that cross until it leaves the very marks of Jesus Christ on your body and on your soul. We need to take up the cross and follow Jesus, and finally as we leave, we are going back to a valley that is filled with despair; people have lost hope. We have the job of transforming the fatigue of despair into the buoyancy of hope. When people lose hope, they die spiritually and physiologically; keep the hope, the flame of hope burning. When people lose hope, they develop a disease called give-up-itis, and they develop a kind of nihilistic philosophy, which concludes that you can't change anything, so let us go on and disrupt for disruption's sake; let us go back and tell young men and young women that it is dark now; it is dismal, but mcrning will surely come; weeping may tarry for a night, but foy cometh in the morninz. Oh, I telteve that. Go tack end tell our brothers and sisters to wait until the morning; don't give up too early; tell the biack nationalists who want to give up on non-violence, don't give up yet; we haven't -13- NW 55057 Doold: 32989551 Page 164 ‘
NW 35057 Doold: 32909551 Page 165 tried it in the North on a massive scale yet; go back and tell them that if this building caught afire, and you got three or four buckets of water to try to put the | fire out, and it didn't put the fire out, you wouldn't | say that water can't put the fire out. You'd just say | that you need more water more efficiently and intelligently applied. It doesn't mean that non-violence won't work; | we haven't tried it on a massive scale in the North. | Everything that we have set out to get through a non-= violent movement, we have gotten that. It's a success story; tell them to wait until the next morning; don't give up yet. I'm not going to stop singing "We Shall Overcome" because I know that ( ) is long, but it bends toward Justice. I'm not going to stop singing "We Shall Overcome" because I know that the truth crushed to earth shall rise again. I'm not going to stop singing "We Shall Overcome" because I know that the Bible is right. You shall reap what you sow. I'm not going to stop singing "We Shall Overcome" because T know that one day tne God of the universe will be able to say to those who wern't listen to him; I'm nev a Fiayber, don't play with me; I will rise up and break the rackrone - j4 -
; | of your power. I'm not going to stop singing "We Shall Overcome" because mine eyes have seen the glory of the . coming of the Lord counting out the goodness where the | grapes of wrath are stored. Glory Hallelujah, His i truth is marching on. | | Thank you for listening and a special word of thanks to | those of you who support the work of the SCLC in our struggle for freedom and human dignity. - 15 - MW 55087 Docld: 32989551 Page 166
co . SECRET - SEE su. ™ erent = GG st Rey . ONT gyg STATES DEP ARTMENT OF JUSTICE Mr. Tolson. ——.. ~ Sst 3 MEE * "2 Mr. Delsach.._.. + FERAL BUREAU -OF ixvnsrroai@h Mr. Moher... ” ‘ . a , a " Shir Cusper___ - In in Reply, Please Refer to “WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535 ° Mr. Calakan — FileNo. (RI) 100-438794 re Mz, Conrad .. . - 4 . Myr. Felt. 2.2 oa sO . | April 2; L968. Cae . : , ONG an bw Reson ——. NN rT uj WET. "- MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL Me avd Mr. Prater. RE: COMMUNIST INFILTRATION ee Re Miss Holmes... SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE _~ | Miss Gandy Se” . Ae eee ~ menmeatias Cyegee pentose, songs cee wanmiucsewn Db ee it oe ce deenrporenr engl i | | } peer ae ee ae ’ RY By letter dated January 2, 19 68, authority -was “requested to institute a telephone surveillance on the national headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 330 Auburn Avenue, N.E.; Atlanta,. Georgia, because its President, Martin Luther King, Stes had publicly announced he would lead a massive civil disobe- dience in the nation's ‘Capital in the Spring of 1968, At that time it was pointed out that these massive demonstrations -could trigger riots. | By letter dated January 3, 1968, you declined authorization of this installation because, "There has not been an adequate demonstration of a direct threat to the “national security," ‘ | i : In view of the recent developments in Memphis, — Tennessee, where King led a march that ended in a riot, it is reasonable to assume the same thing could happen later this month. when King brings his "Poor People's March" to Washington, D, C. Seek Led utha Lunconn, Aid atmelinidanetn ile alee 4 ‘ See ea fd eeteash x uaieamnanias weeks ‘ King, the day after the Memphis riot, was in conference with his principal adviser and long-time secret Communist Party member, Stanley Levison, concerning the events of the preceding day. King stated he was considering calling off the Washington march. Levison advised him to continue his plans for the Washington march, “woe . _ . . : ~ = 2 tO . pe 7 oat 7 ne SECRET . , / aa ° ee a - + elt 7CROUP 2 ic . > . - gxeluded from eutons note? . 2 an i- ‘e downgrading at OR IER a * r mart =. ye aeciassification as SOBUES _ . a tee Te ~ _NW'55097 “DoclId:32989551 Page 167
Se | | SECRET }. . (MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL RE: COMMUNIST INFILTRATION SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE Despite this violence in Memphis, Levison and .King are continuing their plans for this massive civil disobedience to start the latter part of April, 1968, in Washington, D. C. In view of the internal security aspect involved, authority is requested to install telephone surveillances of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference at its national headquarters at the above-listed address and also~ at its local headquarters, 1401 U Street, N.W., Washington, D. C., so that we can keep apprised of the strategy and plans‘of this group, “Very truly yours, Ol Ged rere S\, Edgar’ UN oven Director . ” Approved ‘Date : SECRET -~2- arc ET OE EIT RE ET ET Te NE IAA aa aie ae ane ner ees wager tert * Mv 55097 ‘Docid: S2989551 Page i668. ‘ ‘ ° ns ee ere ee, it co ee
7 “AQP TIONAL FOP NO, 10 pyr 1967 EDtsloON GSA GEN. REG PHO, 27 UNITED STATES CO@RNMENT 5010-106 "  .° I. - Miss Holmes "Casper - Memorandum dla wc. selliven Se . _ Felt - - mo . . Gale TO : Mr. W. C. Sullivan . . DATE: March 29, 1968 ES om yore ot est Trotfer . Ly jb- “ : 1. - Mr. . G. C. Moore oO Tele. Room FROM =: G. C, Moor ‘ - . 1 -"Mr, Rozamus Gandy 1 - Mr. D. M. Wells Suneer: COMMUNIST INFILTRATION ” CSOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE (hye: we Rew crime Toimenmemmmanns oem Renares ment nee mate 5 sonst mee ot JUNE ae Pa * Foe - 7 fe . 4 fi -, a Cha . . LES: t. ie a ~ e PURPOSE: ° a ff pibkic. y Attached for your approval is a memorandum to the Attorney General requesting a telephone surveillance of Phe the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) head- #% quarters at Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D. C., in an effort to obtain intelligence data concerning massive civil . disobedience planned for the nation's Capital the end of April, 1968, by Martin Luther King, Jr. a \ a _ BACKGROUND: On January 2, 1968, we requested the Attorney i? General to authorize the installation of a telephone _ surveillance on the headquarters of SCLC in Atlanta, Georgia, /™~ because of possible riots which might ensue with King's planned Washington march. By letter dated January 3, 1968 the Attorney General denied our request advising, "There has not been an adequate demonstration of a direct threat to the national security." 402 prp 15 “” RECENT DEVELOPMENTS : - a aie ie cee pote 4 ’ a On March 28, 1968, King led a march in Memphis, Tennessee, which resulted in a riot. On March 29, 1953,,:243 705 3 King conferred with his principal adviser and lonz-tize } secret Communist Party member, Stanley Levison, concerning “== | this riot. King was considering calling off the Washington march and Levison advised him to continue with his plans, Hy . Enclosure - 4 | 100-438794 Se Lo LG go a mete (7) We CONTINUED - OVER z ore APe ts i . ey NW s097 Bocld: 32 p89551 Page 169- 4g ‘ &. _
oe " e =. ” air ‘ . 4 . in * . ~- - a ae 166 Memorandum to Mr, Sullivan - RE: COMMUNIST INFILTRATION SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP ‘CONFERENCE 100-438794 OBSERVATIONS : x .Since Levison, a long-time secret communist, is counseling. King to continue the Washington march in spite of the Memphis riot, it is felt we should again request the Attorney General to authorize a telephone surveillance of SCLC since it would appear that a threat to the national “security now exists, We have a total of 53..telephone surveillances in operation of which are in Bureau cases and 19 are at the written request of the State Department, _ RECOMMENDATION: The attached communication be directed to the neo General for his ey hapa eee Ban ie ouplat Baie uses fe (204 pages ent ye » Res Te Lhe TCR OP pl oe qo of = We - | ~2- . § Mi Sa8S7 poctlsageesest Page-$ 79. od - Fore Sree Tn meevermmegenrneg moemnggine aon > ae ements oo
Me. Bishop. j Mr. Casner. /Mr.. Calle than___ -Gonrad__. -E Rir. Felt... Mr. Gale. ar. Rosen. =F Mr. Sullivad<7 Mr. Vevel_ Mr. Trotter —| ‘} Tele. Room._ Liss Holmes___ Miss Gandy Br. Mole Ofties af tha A tener ‘Basie wt dete twa, &&® aaje Av Aaa me ah BS WN fe 95 TE 7 ‘s ~ Washington, 0. C. J ; . — > aaaeanle “HF, Sia = . . . _ an SECRET a , wet Mr. DeLoach ....... =| January 3, 1968 * Memorandum to: Mr. John Edgar Hoover, Director Federal Bureau of Investigation From: pe Ramsey Clark ft hep - 4 Attorney General a f van Re: Communist Infiltration Be as ARE Southern Christian Leadership Conference Be Find ween Your memorandum dated January 2, 1968 Iam declining authorization of the requested installation of the above telephone surveillance at the present time. There has . . 4 not been an adequate demonstration of a direct threat to the A he national security. Should further evidence be secured of sucha ! iva threat, or re-evaluation desired, please resubmit. i . Other investigative activities should be undertaken to provide . intelligence necessary to the protection of the national interest. c\. Ay Jp +f fo ocf- ~ o" ee oo id ae 4 — od Jc - é } a f 2 / “7 Ay . NE I LE Ota € ne fy wees aad 1 rn . ; * 6 JAN 9 1952 * . arene forsee e . i ~ - 1 TAN 1 G agg asl SECRET . . 4 24% ae ant i a See neha Relat and Hae ee ee EN ET AN or NW 55087 | Doold: 32989551 Page 27i_ Coola, a Pa ee a: ix
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