} HW 55509 O O tle eee ‘file reviews has shown, portions of. summaries. of the transcripts were widely disseminated among governmental officials. These disseminations included a rather comprehensive six volume transmittal by the Bureau in June, 1968. This was at the apparent request of the President through Special Counsel Larry Temple for all to information concerning Dr. King, including the instructions and approval of former Attorney General Kennedy regarding the electronic surveillance of King (Memo R. W. Smith to ‘William Sullivan, June 2, 1968, referring to memo DeLoach to Tolson, May 24, 1968, setting forth the President’ s request) . Included with the transcripts were several summaries, previously disseminated, and several hundred pages of Bureau commmications to the White House from 1962 to 1968 regarding King and his associates. The purpose of the White House request was not stated, but it was the most complete accumlation of transmitted informa- tion on the electronic surveillance of King which we encountered during our review of Bureau files. The task force noted the timing of the alleged. White House request and subsequent transmittal particularly in light of ~130- DoclId: 32199526 Page 139 __
ene O. Director Hoover's commmnication to the White House on March 26, 1968 (included in the transmittal) which advised that Robert Kennedy had attempted to contact: Dr. King before announcing his candidacy for th2 Presidency (HQ 100-106670-3262). ' The task force reviewed selected portions of all of the transcripts in the King file as well as selected portions of several tapes from which the transcripts were obtained. An inventory of the tapes reviewed is set forth below: 1) Washington, D.C., 1/5-6/64 (Willard Hotel, 15 reels) - Reel Nos. 1-6, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 14 2) Atlanta Tape (symbol) (one reel) 3) Composite Tape 12/15/64 Track No. 1 - Washington, D.C. recordings (edited version of 15 reels). Essentially, we reviewed the tapes by listening to the beginning, middle, and end of each tape and compared it to the corresponding transcript. They were basically accurate transcriptions in the sense that what was in the transcripts was also on the tapes. However, some material on the tapes was not put on the transcripts apparently because either that portion of the recording was garbled or unclear or it was considered unimportant. | : { -131- f HW 55509 Docld:32199528 Page 140
CO | © Qur review of the composite tape, the Atlanta tape and the agents handwritten notes included in the ‘box with the recordings from the Willard Hotel gave an additional indication of where the Bureau's interest lay with respect to Dr. King. The composite tape contained "highlights" of the fifteen reels of tape from the Willard | Hotel and appeared to consist of little more than episodes of private conversations and activities which the Bureau chose to extract from the original recordings. The Atlanta tape was obtained from the telephone tap on the King residence and consisted of several of Dr. King's conversations. These included conversations of Dr. King with his wife regarding his personal life and had nothing to do with his political or civil rights activities. The handwritten notes from the original Willard tapes contained . notations as to what point in the tape a particular personal activity or conversation took place. _ | 5. COINIELPRO Type and Other Illegal Activities The task force has documented an extensive progran within the FBI during the years 1964 to 1968 to discredit Dr. King. Pursuant to a Bureau meeting on. Decenber 23, 1963 to plan a King strategy and the Sullivan proposal in January, 1964 to promote a new black leader, the FBI accelerated its -132- , HW 55509 Docld: 32199528 Page 141 ,
C 0 2 . program of disseminating derogatory information, which was heavily fraught with the Bureau's own characteriza- tions of King, to various individuals and organizations who were in critical positions vis-a-vis the civil rights leader. Our review has essentially confirmed those already performed by the Civil Rights Division and the Senate Select Committee and we, therefore, do not dwell on those areas which they have already covered. We did find, however, additional proposed activities against Dr. King, some of which were approved by the Director. They are instructive | not only in revealing the extent to which the Bureau was willing to carry its efforts but also in showing the atmosphere among some of the rank and file which this program against King created. In November, 1964, the Bureau discovered that Dr. King was desirous of meeting with high British officials while in England during King's planned trip to Europe. Section Chief Baumgardner recommended a briefing for the purpose of informing British officials concerning King's purported commmist affiliations and private -life | (HO 100-106670-522, 523). Within three days the briefings ! had been completed (HQ 100-106670-525, 534, 535). -133- HW 55509 DBocld:321995276 Page 142 ,
_ One particular dissemination, the contents of which _ was not revealed in the files, was apparently initiated _and carried out personally by the Director. On. January 22, 1965, the SAC in Atlanta advised Mr. Sullivan that, pursuant to their electronic surveillance, the Bureau learned that King had phoned Ralph Abernathy. and complained that Hoover had had a meeting with a particular Atlanta . official while in Washington attending the Inauguration. “According to King, when this official returned to Atlanta he contacted Dr. King senior and passed on a "good deal" of information. According to Sullivan's. memo to Belmont, Dr. King, Jr. was very upset (HQ .100- , | a 106670-768). The files did not reveal any formal proposal : for this briefing but Section Chief. Baumgardner later speculated that the Atlanta official was Chief of Police Jenkins | since the Director had met with him on January. 18, 1965 (HQ 100-106670-780). The files do not indicate whether the Director suggested that the information be passed on to Dr. King's father. oe “134-0 | Y WW 55509 DocId: 32199528 Page 143
In connection with the ‘post- -assassination efforts to declare a national holiday in memory of Dr. King the Senate Select Committee has outlined in its report the attempts by the Bureau to prevent | . such a declaration by briefing various members of Congress on King's background (HQ 100-106670-3586) . We discovered that the Bureau also sent a monograph on King to the President and the Attorney General in 1969 for this same purpose (HQ 100-106670-3559). The Bureau's efforts to discredit Dr. King's movement also included attempts to damage the reputation of King's family and friends. The Bureau fo looked very closely at Coretta King although a security investigation was never opened. This included scrutinizing her travels in an attempt to: uncover possible facts embarrassing to her. . These attempts also included a plan, proposed -135- ) HW 55509 Docld:32199528 Page 144
OQ | oO by Assistant to the Director Deloach and approved by Hoover to leak information to the press that Coretta King and Ralph Abernathy were deliberately plotting to keep the assassination in the news by claiming a conspiracy existed in order to keep monetary contributions flowing for their benefit CHQ 44-38861- -5654). . Ralph Abernathy and Andrew Young also ) became Bureau targets. _ Shortly after the assassination the field was instructed to report any information on. possible ' ‘immoral activities" of King' Ss two associates (HQ 62- 108052-Unrecorded serial, Atlanta to Director, april 29, 1968). Presumably | there were COINTELPRO type purposes behind this request. The Atlanta Field Office in attempting to demonstrate | the initiative and imagination demanded by Headquarters i - proposed additional measures against Ralph Abernathy. The 7 Bureau learned that after Dr. King's death, Rev. Abernathy | may have voiced some concern over possible assassination attempts on his om life. The Atlanta office proposed that. the Bureau begin notifying Abernathy directly (instead of. only informing the police) of all threats against him in order to confuse and worry him (HQ 62-108052-Unrecorded serial, Atlanta to Director, March 28, 1969). This activity was not approved by Headquarters. ~136- OWW 55509 Doocld:37199578 Page 145 —
Bureau files indicate that the FBI may have also attempted to, help the executive branch in its efforts to deal with Abernathy after King" s death. In a memo to Associate Director Tolson, Director Hoover ‘related a telephone conversation with former Vice President Agnew in which Mr. Agnew expressed concern over the inflammatory" statements which Abernathy had made. The Vice President was secking information from Hoover which could be useful in destroying the credibility of Rev. Abernathy. Hoover agreed to the request (HQ 100- 106670-Unrecorded serial, Hoover to Tolson, May 18, 1970). We did not find what information, if any, was forwarded to the Vice President. . ' Finally, we discovered that a series of illegal surreptitious entries was conducted by the FBI. Some of these entries had as one purpose, among others, the obtaining of information about Dr. King. The FBI in the review of its indices was unable to locate records of any entries onto the premises of Dr. “King or the SCLC. -137- - le P HW 55509 Doold:37199578 Page 146 —
The agents began to retrieve information about Dr. King during these entries through the use of photo- graphs. In one instance a supervisor in the appropriate field office requested authority to conduct an entry for the express purpose of obtaining information about Dr. King. The proposed entry was approved at Head- quarters pursuant to a telephone call by an Inspector and was later conducted. On four subsequent occasions the Bureau again conducted entries and obtained information concerning King and the SCLC. On one such occasion a specimen of King's handwriting was obtained. The purpose of \ gathering this piece of intelligence was not revealed. Bureau policy at the time of these entries required “the approval of such field requests by Director Hoover or Associate Director Tolson (Memo Director, FBL, to Attorney General, September 23, 1975). We assume that such approval was granted. Handwritten -138- Y AW 55509 Docld:321995276 Page 147
notations on the field office memos indicate that | the Bureau was advised of the entries in each case. We also raise: the issue of these illegal entries because aside from being violative of Fourth Amendment rights the entries ran the risk of invading a privileged relationship. We note in passing that.the FBI continued to. employ an informant in the SCLC despite the fact that the informant conceded to agents.that the informant had embezzled some SCLC fimds. The Bureau voiced strong . disapproval of these activities. Yet, no legal or © oo disciplinary action was ever.taken with respect to oN the informant (HQ 134-11126-56, 57). B. Critical Evaluation of the Security Investigation In the area of domestic intelligence the mandate of the FBI has been both broadly and vaguely defined. It is stated in the Code of Federal Regulations as follows: -139- ' -~ ---- — - “ : —— — | HW 55509 Docld:3271995276 Page 146
O @ (The FBI snall:) carry out the Presidential directive of Septerber 6, 1939, as reaffirmed by Presidential directives of January 8, 1943, July 24, 1950 and December 15, 1953, designating _ the Federal Bureau of Investigation to take charge of investigative work in matters relating to espionage, sabotage, subversive activities, - and related matters (28 CFR 0.85 (d)). Given this charter and the history of the sometimes overpowering influence of the views of the late Director J. Edgar Hoover on his subordinates and on succesive Attorneys General, it was understandable that a security investigation should be initiated into the possible influence of the Cammmist Party, U.S.A., on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Two of King's close advisors, at the outset of the security matter, were reported to be . Commmist ‘Party members by sources relied upon by the Bureau. The security investigation continued for almost six years until Dr. King's death. It verified, in our view, that one alleged Cammmist was a very influential advisor: to Dr. King. (and hence the Southern Christian Leadership Conference). on the strategy and tactics of King's leadership of. the black civil rights movement of the early and mid-sixties. Another had no such weight although he seemed to be of use to King. But this very lengthy investigative concentration on King and on -140- Wo MW 55509 Docld:32199528 Page 149 _
the principal advisor established, in our opinion, ‘that he ‘did not "sell" Dr. King any course of conduct or of advocacy which can be identified as commmist or , "Party Line". King, himself never varied publicly or privately from his commitment to non-violence and did not advocate the overthrow of the government of the \ United States by violence or subversion. To the contrary, he advocated an end to the discrimination and disenfran- chisement of minority groups which the Constitution and the courts denounced in terms as strong as his. We concluded that Dr. King was no threat to domestic security. And the Bureau's continued intense surveillance and investigation of the advisor clearly developed that he had disassociated himself from the Commmist Party in 1963 because he felt it failed adequately to serve the civil rights movement. Thus the linch-pin of the security investigation of Dr. King had pulled himself out. We think the security investigation which included both physical and technical surveillance, should have been terminated on the basis of what was learned in 1963. ; That it was intensified and augmented by a COINTELPRO type campaign against Dr. King was unwarranted; the COINTELPRO type campaign, moreover, was ultra vires and very probably - in violation of 18 U.S.C. 241 (and 242), i.e. felonious. : -141- ) HW 55509 Docld:32199528 Page 150 —
IV. RECOMMENDATIONS A. As To The Murder Investigation The task force does not fault the technical irae competence of the investigation conducted into the bs death of Dr. King. We found no new evidence which calls for action by State or Federal Authorities. Our concern has developed over administrative concomitants of the crime detection tactics. 1. The progress of such sensitive cases as the King murder investigation and the development of legally sufficient evidence to sustain prosecution are properly the ultimate responsibility of the Division of the Department having supervision of the kind of _ criminal prosecution involved.. The Division head should delineate what progress reports he wishes. The Bureau. should not be permitted to manipulate its submission of reports to serve its purposes, such as the protection of its public relation efforts, or the prevention of the responsible Division of the Department from causing the Bureau to pursue a line of inquiry which the Bureau does not approve. ‘The Attorney General and. his Assistants are the officers most accountable to the electorate and they, not the police agency, must maintain effective supervision. -143- ¥ WW O55509 DoclId:39199598 Page 152 ©
O QO Not 2. As a corollary of our espousal of tighter Department authority over the FBI, we recommend that the Bureau's public relations activities and press relations be controlled by the Attorney General's Office of Public Information. Clear directives to prevent the development of personality cults around particular Bureau Directors and officials should be drawn. Bureau press releases should be cleared through the Office of Public Information. 3. The task force recommends that in sensitive cases no criminal action be instituted by the Bureau without the closest coordination and consultation with the supervising Division of the Department. This supervision by the Depart- ‘ment should be as tight as the control and consultation the Bureau had with its Field Offices as exhibited in our review of the assassination investigation. 4. It was observed that almost no blacks were in the FBI special agent's corps in the 1960's and none in the Bureau's hierarchy. This undoubtedly had the effect of limiting not only the outlook and understanding of the problems of race relations, but also must have hindered the ability of investigators to commmicate fully with blacks during the murder investigation. By way of illustration had there been black agents in the Memphis Field Office participating fully in the investigation of Dr. King's murder, it is umlikely that the interviews with -144- fF AW 55509 Docld:32199526 Page 153
O O at least three black members of the Memphis Police and Fire Department would have been overlooked. It is also very probable that black citizen "lead" input would have been greater. B. As To The Security Investigation The task force was charged to address itself particularly to the question of whether the nature of the relationship between the Bureau and Dr. King called for criminal prosecution, disciplinary proceedings, or other appropriate action. Our responses follow. 1. Because the five year statute of limitations has long since rum we cannot recomend criminal prosecution of any Bureau persomel, past or present, responsible for the possible criminal harrassment of Dr. King. (18 U.S.C. 3282). No evidence of a continuing conspiracy was found. 2. The responsibility for initiating and prolonging the security investigation rested on the deceased Director of the Bureau and his immediate lieutenants, some of whom are also deceased and the remainder of whom are retired. ! They are beyond the reach of disciplinary action. The few Bureau personnel who had anything to do with the King security investigation and who are still in active service, did not make command decisions and merely followed orders. We do not -145- HW 55509 Docld:321995298 Page 154
think they are the proper subjects of any disciplinary action. Some of the activities conducted, such as the technical electronic surveillance, had the approval of the then Attorney General. The Courts had not adequately dealt with what authority rested in the executive branch to initiate such surveillance in the interest of 'national security’. We do not think the "leg men'' in the Bureau should be held to an undefinéd standard of behavior, much less a standard not observed by the highest legal officer of the government. 7 The Bureau's COINTELPRO type activities, the illicit dissemination of raw investigative data to discredit Dr. King, the efforts to intimidate him, to break up his marriage, and the explicit and implicit efforts to black- an mail him, were not fully know to the Department , but were " none-the-less ordered and directed by Director Hoover,. Assistant to the Director DeLoach, Assistant Director Sullivan and the Section Chief under him. | | In our view their subordinates were far removed from decision’ responsibility. Moreover, we think the | subordinates clearly felt that, by reason of Director | Hoover's overpowering and intimidating domination of the ‘Bureau, they had no choice but to implement the Bureau's directions. Pumitive action against the very few -146- f WW 55509 Docld:32199528 Page 155
CO ~~" remaining subordinate agents would seam to the task force to be inappropriate in these circumstances and at this | very late date. | 3. The Bureau's illicit surveillance produced tapes and transcripts concerning ‘King and many others. These may be sought by King's heirs and representatives. "Worse still, they may be sought by members of the public at large under the Freedom of Information Act. We reconmend that these tapes and transcripts be sealed and sent to the National Archives and that the Congress be - asked to pass legislation denying any access to then whatever and authorizing and directing their total destruction along with the destruction of material in reports and memoranda derived from then.” 4. The potential for abuse by the individual occupying the office of Director of the FBI has been amply demonstrated by our investigation. We think it is a responsibility ‘of the Department in the first instance and, secondarily, of the Congress to oversee the conduct of the FBI (and the other police agencies of the govern- ment). We endorse the establisiment by the Attorney | General of the Office of Professional Responsibility on December 9, 1975, as an effective means for intra-departmental policing of the Bureau. We also think the permanent _ -147- HW 55509 DBocld:32199526 Page 156
CO | © Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is an appro- priate agency of the legislative arm to oversee the performance of the Bureau. Both the Office of Pro- fessional Responsibility and the Senate Select Committee should be expressly designated in their respective enabling regulations and resolutions to be a place to which Bureau subordinates may complain, confidentially _ and with impmity, of orders whtich they believe to threaten a violation of the civil rights and liberties of citizens and inhabitants of the United States. 5. It seems to us that the tmauthorized malicious dissemination of investigative data from FBI files should be more than the presently prescribed misdemeanor (5 USC 552a(i)(1)). A felony penalty should be added. Parenthetically, it should be noted here that it should be made clear that it is improper (but not criminal) | | -148- # WW 55509 Docld:321995276 Page 157
e @ for the Bureau to by-pass the Attorney General and deal . directly with the White House. 6. The task force recommends that the FBI have no authority to engage in COINTELPRO type activities which involve affirmative punitive action following Star Chamber decisions with respect to citizens or inhabitants (See 18 U.S.C. 241 and 242). We believe that the guide- lines which the present Attorney General has established to govern the FBI's domestic security investigations effectively preclude these activities. Those guidelines moreover, appear to us to permit only strictly legal investigative techniques to be employed in full scale danestic security investigations. This too we endorse. The foregoing comprises our report and recommenda- tions. It is respectfully submitted. The in Luther King, Jr. i k Force had January 11, 1977 -149- HW 55509 DBocld:321995278 Page 153
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spo maser mary JAMES EARL RAY eee eee Some Known Expenditures: Aoril 23,°1967 - June 8, "1968 Serial .. Iten | | Amount | Date Serial _ ite Amount Date 5246 “Rent for one week at 2731 $13.61 4/30/67 N. Sheffield; Chicago 5448 1959 Chrysler; Chicago $200.00 6/ 5/67 5413 "1962 Plymouth; East St. $209.50 7/14/67 5437X Bourgarde Motel; Dorion, $17.28 7/17/67 Canada a 2192 Rent for Apt. at Harkey, $150.00 7/19/67 ; Apts., 2585 Notre Dame Street, ~ Montreal at $75/mo; Montreal 4692. ~ Suit at English Scotch $75.06 7/21/67 Woolen Company; Montreal 2192 Book ordered from Futura $9.00 1/24/67 Books in Inglewood, Calif.; Montreal . 2068 . Correspondence course at $17.50 | 71/28/67 Locksmithing Institute in New Jersey; Montreal 5402 Grey Rocks Inn fram 7/30 $195.15 8/5/67 to 8/5; Canada 2192 Formula for making glass. $1.00 8/9/67 purchase by money order to E.Z. Foumla; Montreal ~ 5400 Granada Hotel; Birminghan $4.50 8/26/67 2324 ~ Roan and board for one week $22.50 ~ 8/26/67 | 628: . .1966 White Ford Mustang; $1,995.09 - 8/30/67 Bimninghan | 5324. . ~~ +Room and board; Birminghan $22.50 9/2/67 2324 Room and board; Birminghan $22.50 9/9/67 2324 Dance lessons; Bimninghas $10.69 9/12/67 ~156- Li f HW 55509 Docld:32199526 Page 170
PO O Serial Iter - amount "Date 2324 _Reom and beard; Birmingham $22.50 | 9/16/67 2324 Room and board; Bixmmingham $22.50 9/23/67 1135 Camera equipment, Superior $337.24 9/28/67 : Bulk Film Co.; Birmingham r 2118 Room only; Birmingham — $17.50 9/20/67 1422 .38 Caliber, Liberty | : Chief Revolver $65.00 | 10/1/67 5496 Hotel San Francisco - 10/10; Acapulco $6.00 10/11/67 5496 Pancho Villa - 10/15; | $3.20 10/16/67 Guadalajara , 5496 Pancho Villa - 10/18; ~ $3.20 10/19/67 Guadalajara 5150 Hotel Rio at $4.80/day- $91.20 11/6/67 10/19-11/6; Puerto Vallarta 5150 Elisa Arellano to rent $48.00 ily /67 apt.; Puerto Vallarta 5150 , - Hotel Tropicana at $7.20 $43.20. ‘41/13/67 day - 11/7-11/13; Puerto Vallarta — 668 Rent at 1535 N. Serrano; $127.50 11/13/67 668 Utilities at 1535 N. ! Serrano; Los Angeles $10.00 11/20/67 4143 Appointment with Dr. Mark $25.00 11/27/67 _ Freeman; Beverly Hills . 4143 Appointment with Dr. Mark $25.00 11/30/67 4143 ‘Appointment with Dr. Mark $25.00 12/4/67 | 4143 Dance lessons at National $29.00 | 12/5/67 Dance Studio; Los Angeles 4143 Appointment with Freeman $25.00 - 19/6/67 4143 Dance lessons $29.00 12/7/67 — ~157- : HW 55509 DBocld:321995276 Page 171
O ameun i ——— Appointment with Freeman $25.00 12/11/67 “Dance lessons -- $29.00 12/12/67 6 745 a ‘ 22 2325 Dance lessons - $100.00 12/14/67? | 52 4143 - Appointment with Freeman ~ $25.00 12/14/67 74 “ 5399 “Provincial Motel - 12/17- - $24.00 12/19/67 ; 12/19; New Orleans 6 a 745 22 2325 Dance lessons - = °° $364.00 12/21/67 22 2325 -. Locksmithing Institute; $15.00 1/8/68 Los Angeles ; ; 22 2325 International School of $20.00 1/19/68 Bartending; Los Angeles 22 2325 ‘International School of . $105.00 1/20/68 Bartending; Los Angeles. - 22 2225 Rent at St. Francis Hotel; $85.00 1/21/68 Los Angeles 12 1500 Free Press of Los Angeles $4.25 1/29/68 (22 2325 Locksmithing Institute $7.50 1/31/68 2 1500 C.M. Hedgpeth, mail forward- $3.00 2/1/68 ing service 6 668 Rent at St. Francis Hotel $85.00 2/21/68 12 1500 Futura Books $6.44 2/26/68 12 . 1500 ‘Tiffany Enterprises $9.98 2/26/68 | 22 2325 ‘Locksmithing Institute $7.50 2/26/68 | . \ 22 2325 Locksmith Ledger "$5.25 2/26/68 12 . 1428 Locksmithing Institute _ $15.00 3/8/68 8 1033 Roan/week at 113 14th St.; Atlanta $10.00 3/24/68 -153- H HW 55509 DoclId:32199526 Page 172 ,
1428 5725. 432 1033 630 46 4454 "4454 Serial 5502 327, CO Ten Kt Flemingo Motel. 3/22; Selma ; Locksmithing Institute; Atlanta Travelodge Motel; Birmingham Purchase of rifle Birmingham Room in Atlanta Rexall Drugstore; Whitehaven, Tenn. Rooming house on Main St.; Memphis Binoculars; Memphis ‘Rent/vieek at -962 Dundas St.; Toronto Round trip airplane ticket; Toronto -159- f HW 55509 Docld: 32199528 Page 173 $7.50 ve $8.48 " §248.59 $10.00 $1.83 $8.50 ~ $41.55 $9.60 $345.00 —_—_—— ° 3/23/68 3/28/68 3/29/68 3/29/68 3/21/68 4/3/68 4/4/68 4/4/68 4/16/68 5/2/€8
Known Income: Anril 23, 1967 - June 2, 1368 Section Serial 68 5100 Payroll checks from Indian Trail Restaurant Winnetka, Tllinois May 7 $ 57.69 | May 14 84.89 . May 21 84.89 I May 28 84.89 ° June 4 89.63 June ll 89.63 June 18 95.19 June 25 77.53 oO $664.34 - f - r. | -160- | HW 55509 Docld:32199526 Page 175
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READING BIBLIOGRAPHY Bishop, Jim. The Days of Martin Luther King, Jr. G.P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1971. Frank, Gerold. An American Death. Doubleday & Company, New York, 1972. oo Hocn, Paul, and Scott, Peter, and Stetter, Russell. The Assassinations, Dallas and Beyond. Random House, 1976. Huie, William Bradford. He Slew the Dreamer. Delacorte Press, New York, 1968. McMillan, George. The Making of an Assassin. Little Brown & Co., 1976. ; Seigenthaler, John. A Search for Justice. Aurora Publ., Nashville, 1971. -161- —— 7 = ~ : 1 AW 55509 Docld: 321995276 Page 17T?
UNITED ‘STATES GOV © .AENT ’ —_ M Sm | | ok to OU: UNR. A. ROSEN. pate: May 22, 1961 “8 . tn , ° i, A ; fullivea _. . . ; * ele. Roos — rrow : MR. G. H. SCATTERDAY reno fA rr nr ' SUBJECT: | | . . Tf "MARTIN LUTUER KING. JR.; | | Paes Oe LO wc. NO -162- | . ~ wee ms q __ YAW 55509 DoclId:32199526 Page 179
at ah Sweet . Cc) ° ° o a . Ro “ oO Memorandum to a K it Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., prominent integrationist 2 ° Af 7 ate + ” r who led bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama. and “sit-in demonstra- tions," has been associated with National Association for the Advancement of Colored:People and Congress of Racial Equality. King. has not been investigated by the F3l, J ta oe eee OU 700 Ae he ate . ; aes rf ate LUN - “”\ . . , . ) “Bureau “files reveal: King thanked Socialist Workers Party  Wartin Luther King, Jr. { ah Ee (cited by Attorney General) for support of bus boycott, attended meetings of Progressive Party (cited by Subcommittee of Senate Judiciary Comnittee); and was honorary chairman éf Young Socialist ‘ League campaign on behalf of victims of racist terror. “A a “King in 1950's mentioned as’ potential victim of assassin- F ation plot and in_]957_attended_Coumunist Party training school y |{\seninar and reportedly gave closing speech. King President of ee mee cee a ' -163- HW 55509 DBocld:32199526 Page 130
Memorandum to Mr, Rosen rs . , Southern Christian Leadership Conference (to further Negro vote revistration) and advised "The Civil Rights law...is_ meaningless unless we. go out and make use of it." King thanked Benjamin Davis, Jr., Comaunist Party official, for giving blood when he was in a hospital following assault. King in 1960 indicated his support for Committee to Secure Justice for Morton Sobell (cited by House Committee on Un-American Activities (UCUA) as communist front) and in 1961 wrote article in "The Nation" which called for integration of FBI to help speed integration. King attended meetings with integration leaders in Montgomery, Alabama, 5-21-61. —, i HW 55509" DovTd:39199528_ Page 162, ——--———— ee ee ene eee
UNITED STATES GCVERNME' Memoranciin To. : ee H. Belmont | DATE: August 30, 1963 . < FROM : Mr, W. C, Sullivin. “ SUBJECT: “COMMUNIST PARTY, USA " NEGRO_QUESTION | Is-C _ . Con ay ra } aa i 3 - . : - Reference is made to.the enclosed material: on which the [. _Director has written: "This memo reminds me vividly of those I | received when Castro took over Cuba’ ‘Yop contended then that Castro and his cohorts were not Communists and not influenced by Communists. Time ‘alone proved yow wrong. I for one can't ignore the memos re King, et al as. having only an infinitesimal effect on the efforts to exploit the American Negro by the Communists." | The Director is correct. We were completely wrong about ; believing the evidence was not sufficient to determine some years ago | ‘that Fidel Castro was not a conmunist or tunder communist influence. On ‘investigating ‘and writing about communism and the American Negro, we . had better remember this and profit by the lesson it should teach us. ~ i do think that much of the difficulty ‘relating to the memoram | \ ‘dum rightly questioned by the Director is to be found centered in the . word "influence," We do not have, and no Government agency or private Organization has, any yardstick which can accurately measure "influence 13 this particular context, even when we know it does exist such as in he case of the obvious influence ‘of over Martin Luther King and King'S influencé“6ver™ “S6ther neers Yeadevs." Personally, I believe in the light of King's powerful ‘demagogic speech yesterday he stands head and shoulders over all other Negro leaders put together when it comes to influencing great masses of ‘Negroes. We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in_ this Nation froa, the. Standpoing } "! ot. communism, the Negro_ ‘and national. “security. ; , " On determining membership of Negroes in the Communist Fatty, we are. not confronted with the same problem. We do have here accurate «= ' yardsticks for establishing membership. Of course, our standards are very exacting This means there are many Negroes who are fellow- travellers, sympathizers or who aid the Party, knowingly or unknowingly, but do not qualify as members. These we must not ignore. The old communist pring’)ple still holds: "Communism must:-be, built with non- | ‘communist hapisj"' Therefore, it may be unrealistic ‘to limit ourscives as we have been (lot ng. Fo legalistic-proof or definitely conclusivs —:suence ane 1 ‘Enclosuk” a Lone cee —_ -165- # AW 55509 Docld: 321995276 Page 134