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1 - Legal sunsel Division

(Attn: Mr. R. Heller)

1 • ME. H. N. Bassett

1 = Mr. i. Ryan

1 - Mr. G. J. Foster

January 9: 1979

Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division

Attention:

Mr. Robert L. Keuch

Director, FBI

SOUSE SELECT CUMMINIUS ON ASSASSTNATIONS

& MURAI GOVERNVENT

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

Reference is made to letter to the Attorney

General from G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director,

asan, dated December 20g 4978, which, in connection with

the HSCA's investigation into the assassination of

Martin üuther King, Jr., requested delivery of certain

material from files of FBI Headquarters.

Enclosed are an original and one copy of a

memorandum in response to referenced letter.

It is

requested that you furnish a copy of the enclosed memo

randum to the ESCA.

A ENCLOSURE

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Assoc. Dir.

Dep. AD Adm.

Dep. AD Inv..

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs.

Crim. Inv. -

Ident.

Intell.

Laboratory

Legal Coun.

Plan. & insp..

Rec. Mgnt.

Tech. Servs.

Training F

Pubtic-Aft. Ott

Telephone Rm.

Director's Sec'y

(7)

Ser 101 100-206670-X 114.

NOTE: Serial 100-106670-4045 attached a working paper

RECED Goeno290-1414

listing FBI actions taken to discredit and neutralize

IRing. This list was furnished the Department of Justice in

2975, following a review of the King matter by the Senate

Matelligence Committee, which desired all information

regarding Ring disseminated by the FBI outside the Execu-

tive Branch of Government.

16 MM: 7: 1979

Idelivery of the King security file only to 5/1/68, this

-document was not previously made available to the Committee

SA Aldhizer of the Congressional

on the co out,

Inquiry Unit, during a con-

ference with the HSCA regarding its final report, suggested

the Committee review this document to verify that most

-COINTELPRO-type activities against

Ring occurred

-1964-66 father than 1967-68, the latter of which

was the

spectel

period of interest to the #SCA. This discussion

ne

-was be

on the HSCA initial draft of its final report

which

creted the rai, through its connie at forts neinst

the atmosphere in which king was assassinated.

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Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division

Attention:

Mr. Robert L. Keuch

NOTE CONTINUED:

For record purposes, the following is noted. An

analysis of actions against King recorded in the memorandum

of 12/18/75, plus those carried out against King, the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Poor People's

Campaign, and the Sanitation Workers Strike, under the

Black Extremist and White Hate and CPUSA Counterintelligence

Programs revealed the following statistics:

In 1962 one COINTELPRO-type action was carried out

against King, none in 1963.

From 1964 through 1966, there

were 28 actions approved.

From 1/1/67 through the assassi-

nation, 4/4/68, only eight actions were taken.

Following

the assassination through 1971, there were only nine actions

taken.

Seven of these actions

concerned the Poor People's

Campaign.

The Committee desired the alphabetical and numeri-

cal listing of official and confidential files of former

Director Hoover to determine which, if any, of these files

would be of direct HSCA interest.

This matter was coordi-

nated with Mrs. Lottie Martin, Special File Room.

Committee was previously provided, from the official and

confidential files,

a file concerning King and the personal

files of former Assistant Director Sullivan, whose personal

files were incorporated into the alphabetical and numerical

listing.

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1 - Legal Counsel Division

(Attn: Mr. R. Heller)

1 - Mr. H. N. Bassett

1 - Mr. G. J. Foster

1 - Mr. D. Ryan

January 9, 1979

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HISCA)

Reference is made to letter to the Attorney

General fron G. Robert

Blakey. Chief Counsel and Director,

dated

December

20, 1978, which, in connection with

the

ASCA's

investigation into

the assassination of

Martin Luther King, Jr., requested delivery of certain

material from files of

FBI Headquarters.

This memorandum is to confirm that, in response

to Item 1 ot referenced letter, a copy of FBI memorandum

dated December 18, 1975, serial number 100-106670-4045, was

delivered to ASCA representative Paul T. Golden on Decem

ber 20, 1978.

Regarding Item 2, a copy of an alphabetical and

numerical listing

of official and conridential files oi

former Director J. Edgar Hoover was delivered to Mr. Golden

on December 20, 1978.

On December 26, 1978, another copy

of the numerical listing of these files was delivered to

USCA representative Alan Housman.

On this copy, the

estimated number of pages contained in each file was

indicated.

Where information is not provided, it is either

not retrievable or is not being furnished pursuant to the

Memorandum of Understanding.

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ORIGINAL AND ONE DELIVERED TO ASSISTANT

ATTORNEY GENERAL, CRIMINAL DIVISION,

ATTENTION:

MR. ROBERT L. KEUCH

Assoc. Dir. -_

Dep. AD Adm..

Dep. AD Inv.

Asst. Dir.:

Adm. Servs.

Crim. Inv,

Ident.

Intell.

Laboratory

Legal Coun.

Plan, & Insp.

Rec. Mgnt.

Tech. Servs.

Training

Public Affs. Off.

Telephone Rm.

Director's Sec'y -_

_ NOTE:

See letter to the Assistant Attorney General,

Criminal Division, attention

Mr. Robert L. Keuch,

from Director,

FBI, dated January 9, 1979, captioned as

-above.

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WALTER E. FAUNTROY, D.C.

YVONNE BRATHWAITE DURKE, CALF.

CHRIS. NEP. LITODD, CONN.

HAROLO E, FORD, TENN.

Terespinian. are.

ROBERT W. EDDAR, PA.

SAMUEL L. DE'INE, OHIO

STE.:ARTH. MCKINNEY, CONN.

CHARLES THO

HAROLD 5. 8%

(202) 225-4524

Select Committee on Assa

cations

M.D. House of Representatives

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December 20, 1978

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Agherek

The Honorable Griffin B. Bell

Attorney General of the United States

Department of Justice

Washington, DC

20530

Attention:

Robert L. Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear Mr. Attorney General:

In pursuit of its continuing investigation of the

assassination of Dr. King, you are hereby

requested to

prepare for delivery, on an expedited basis, the following

two items:

(1)

Memorandum from J.D. Deegan to W.R. Wannall,

dated 12/18/75, serial no. 100-106670-4045 of the Martin

Luther King Security File.

The memo is a working paper

summarizing actions to discredit and neutralize Martin

Luther King, JI.

A copy of an alphabetical and numerical listing

of official and confidential files of former Director

Hoover, together with an approximation of the volume of

material contained within each category of material.

request will supplement the Committee's former requests of

May

3, 1978 pertaining to personal files of Mr. Hoover,

and

of

February 15, 1978 pertaining to personal files

Mr. Sullivan.

Sincerely,

6L/61

12 44M671

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

GRB: pbn

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