Martin Luther King JR.
Agency: CIA
Originator: FBI
From: Hoover, J. Edgar, D/FBI
To: Helms, Richard DCI, CIA
Document date: 10/3/67
Document type: Paper-Textual Document

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

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File No.

October 3, 1967

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

The following information has been supplied by

confidential sources of this Bureau who have furnished reliable

information in the past.

Recently Stanley Levison, principal advisor to

Martin Luther King, Jr., President, Southern Christian Leadership

Conference, was in contact with Andrew Young) Executive Director,

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, concerning King's

Invitation to attend a conference of Nobal Peace Prize winners

"Young advised the

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committee that extended King,

Prize Committee but a group of private citizens composed of.

private Norwegian citizens, Quakers, and a former Chairman of

a Nobel Prize Committee.

Young noted that only Father Piri, former Nobel Prize

winner, Duncan Wood of Ganeva, Switzerland, and two unidentified

Norwegian's. would be going with King to Moscow:

Levison stated that in view of this information, he

felt differently about King going. Both Levison and Young

felt it would be better that King go to Moscow on his own at

some later time.

Levison advised Young to call Duncan

bod

and decline

the invitation, if King agreed.

Another source advised in April, 1964,

that Stanley

Levison was a secret member of the Communist Party, USA, in

July, 1963.

In late 1963 and early 1964, he criticized the

Communist Party for not being sufficiently militant in the

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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

civil rights struggle. Levison was described by the

Communist Party leaders as being to the "left"' of the

Communist Party in his position on civil rights.

His

differences with the Communist Party, however, are merely

tactical, and ha continues his ideological adherence to

communi sm.

Stanley Jerison is the owner and operator of

the Park Management Realty Company 1841 Broadway,

New York,

New York

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UNITED STATES DEPARTNEYT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INTESTICATION

October 3, 1967

BY COURIER SERVICE

Honorable Richard Helms

Director

Central Intelligence Agency

Washington, D. C.

Dear Mr. Helms:

For your information, I am enclosing

a communication which may be of Interest to you.

Upon removal of the enclosure, 1f

classified, this transmittal form becomes

unclassified.

Sincerely yours,

Edgar Hoo

Director

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