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FD-56 (R0v. 12-13-581)

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Date: 12/4/62

AIRTEL AIRMAIL,

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(Priority or Method of Mailing)

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TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (157-6-2)

FROM

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SUBTECT

RACIAL SITUATION

ALBANY, GA.

RM

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ReBuairtel to Atlanta, 11/21/62.

Enclosed, herewith is a copy of the report

released by the southern Regionas Council entitled

A Study in National Reaponsibility".

"Albany,

a Security Matüer - C.

He recently particidated i.

demonstrations In Atlanta,-Ga. protesting the President's

Cuban policy during

the recent Cuban crisis.

This report of ZINN's is dated merely

"I962" but it was released by the Southem Regional

Council in November 1962.

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CODE

RADIOGRAL

URGENT

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TO SAC NILANTA (157-315)

FROM DIPECIOR ISI (157-6-2)

RACIAL SITUATION, ALBANY, GIORGIA, RACIAL HATTERS

REBUAIRTEX ELEVIN TIENTY-ONE SIXTITTO INSTHUCTINE YOUR

OFTICS TO OPTAIN A COPY OF THE REPORT OF THE SOUSEERNCRECIONAL

COUNCIL BY HOMARD ZINE, CAPTIONED QUOTE ALBANY, AMSTUDY IN

NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY END QUOTE. SUTEL RESULTS-ON TOUR

EITORIS N0 OBTAIN A COPY OF THIS POPORE.

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

DEC 3 1352

TELETYPE 3:27 pry Get.

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Tolson

Belmont

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Callahan

Conrad

Deloach

Evans

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Sullivan.

Tavel

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Tele. Room

Imes

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SO DEC 111962

MAIL ROON TELETYPE UNIT I

19447190

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11/21/62

Alrtal

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SAC, Atlanta (157-315)

FrompC 3 Director, aBI (157-6-2) - 917

PATIAL SITUATION

AL,BANY, GEORGIA

RACIAL MATTERS

122-00

Reurairtel 11/19/62, which furnished a copy of your

report on "Albany," vritten by Howard Zinn and published by the

Southere Regional Council.

This does not appoar to be the report released by the

Southern Regional Council mentioned in the atlanta Constitution

arEICIe 01 11/19/52.

The report you furnished was published

january 8, 190%, and a copy of it has previousir been furnishe

the Bureau.

The quotes mentioned in the atlanta Consticution

articie attributed to Howard Zinn do not appear in the

January 8, 1962, report.

The report issued on January 8, 1962, is captioned

simply "Albany."

The report mentioned in the Atlanta Constitution

articie is captioned "Albany, A Study in National HesponsibtTity."

Your office should attempt to obtain a copy of the

report of the Southern Regional Council issued in November, 1962.

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Belmont

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Miss Gandy

FROM

SAG, ATLANTA / 157-3151

GRACIAL SITUATION, ALBANY, GEORGIA, RIS.

Colet

RE ATLANTA TELETYPE NOVEMBER FIFTEEN LAST CONCERNING

REPORT OF DR. HOWARD ZINN, HISTORY PROFESSOR, SPELMAN COLLEGE.

AN ARTICLE APPEARING ON PAGE EIGHTEEN OF THE ATLANTA

CONSTITUTION MORNING OF NOVEMBER NINETEEN SIXTYTWO, TAKEN

FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES QUOTED REV. MARTIN LUTHER/KING. JR.

IN WHICH HE SAID HE AGREED WITH THE REPORT ISSUED NOVEMBER

FOURTEEN LAST IN ATLANTA BY THE SOUTHERN REGIONAL COUNCIL

THAT THE FBI HAD NOT BEEN VIGOROUS IN LOOKING INTO DENIALS

¡OF CIVIL RIGHTS IN ALBANY AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS. STATED

QUOTE "

AGENTS OF THE FBI IN ALBANY, CA. SIDED WITH SEGREGATIONISTS.

UNQUOTE. QUOTE ONE OF THE GREAT PROBLEMS WE FACE WITH THE

*BI IN THE SOUTH, UNQUOTE HE SAID, QUOTE "IS THAT THE AGENTS. ARE

WHITE SOUTHERNERS WHO HAVE BEEN INFLUENCED BY THE MORES OF

THEIR COMMUNITY. TO MAINTAIN THEIR STATUS, THEY HAVE TO BE

FRIENDLY WITH THE LOCAL POLICE AND PEOPLE WHO ARE PROMOTING

SEGREGATION. EVERY TIME I SAW FBI MEN IN ALBANY, THEY WERE WITH

THE LOCAL POSTEE TORCE SINGTE 19

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AS THE BUREAU IS AWARE, THE ALBANY

10 NOV

MADE ,559 OF

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FIVE AGENTS, ONE FROM INDIANA: ONE FROM BOSTON, ONE FROM KINGSTON,

No Yo, ONE FROM MINNEAPOLIS AND ONE FROM GA. CLIPPING BEING

FORWARDED SPECIAL TODAY. RECOMMEND NO FURTHER ACTION IN THIS

MATTER.

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SUBJECT. FASTAY ORIEN

ALBANY,,

RM

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Remytels 11/15/62 and 11/19/62.

Enclosed herewith is a special report for the

Southern Regional Council by HOWARD ZINN as mentioned in

referenced tel,

11/15/62.

Enclosed also are two clippings from the Atlanta

Constitution,

FBI

Lags At Albany.

11/19/62 from Page 18, entitled "King Says

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UNITED STATES GOVERIM

Memorandum

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TO

:

Ar. Polson (u10

DATE: 11-15-62

FROM :

A. Rosea.

Tolson

Belmost

Hohy.

esper

*Callahan

Conrad

DeLoach

Evans

Gold

Rode

SuN,

Tavel

Trotter

Tale. Room

Holmes

Gandy

SUBJECT:

RACIAL SITUATION

O ALBANY, GEORGIA

RACIAL MATTERS

ITT.

111100

The Atlanta Office has advised that an article appeared in the

"Atlanta Constitution" on 11-15-62 based on a study called "Albany,

A study of Racial Responsibility." The study was written by

Dr • Howard Zinn,

who has been the subject of a security investigation

by this Bureau (100-360217).

Zinn was reportedly a member of the

Communist Party from 1949 through 1953 and attended Communist Party

meetings during that period.

The study by Zinn criticizes the FBI,

the Federal Government, and

the administration of the City of Albany,

Georgia.

is a history professor at Spelman College in Atlanta,

Georgia, and the study was published by the Southern Regional Couneil,

a group formed to advance equal opportunity for all the South's peoplo.

The full context

of the article is attached,

The article in one section states:

"Albany Negroes,

said Zinn, who is white, tend

to distrust local members of the FBI.

Spelman historian urges the creation of a

special corps of Agents to investigate civil

rights cases.

"With all the clear violations by local police

of Constitutional rights,' said Zinn, ' the FBI

has not made a single arrest on behalf of Negro

citizens.'"

360217

The Atlanta Office completely covered the activities at Albany, &

with the racial situation.

Enclosure

:. Il: REG-'26

1 - liz. Mohr

1 - Mr. DeLoach

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and

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Memorandum to Mr. Belmont

RE:

RACIAL SITUATION

ALBANY, GEORGIA

The report appears to be a slanted and biased document

similar to a previous report written by Zinn on Albany. Again

Zinn does not add

anything to the clarification of the racial

problem in the south.

ACTION

Zinn should not be dignified by contact by this Bureau,

and it is recommended that no action be taken in connection with

him.

ERC

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"ALBANY, A STUDY OF NATIONAL, RESE ONSIBILITY"

"'à study of Albany's racial struggles release

Wednesday charges that the

national Government has farlec

to protect the liberties of its citizens in the City of

Albany.

professor at Spelman College, a predominantly Negro private

school in Atlanta.

"Albany negroes, said Linn, who is white, tend to

distrust local members of

Bureau of Investigation.

The Spelman historian urges the creation of a special federal

corps of agents to investigate civil rights cases.

- "'With all the clear violations by local police of

Constitutional rights,' said Zinn, 'the FBI has not made a

single arrest on behalf of Negro citizens.'

"Zinn's study, called 'Albany, A Study in National

Responsibility,

was published by the Southern Regional

Council,

an interracial grouy

formed in 1944 to advance 'equal

opportunity for all the South's people.'

"Zinn's study aimed its chief criticism at the

Federal Government, pointing out that both Albany Negroes and

white citizens acted in accord with their expressed convictions.

"The 40-year-old professor said the Government reacted

'slowly and awkwardly' to the racial troubles which began in

Albany in December of 1961, during which nearly 1, 200 arrests

were made, chiefly of Negroes.

"Zinn was also critical of the 'failure of the city's

quietly arranged for compromise agreements with the Negro

population.'

"He also criticized the manner in which Police Chief

Laurie Pritchett handled the disturbances."

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FEDERAL BURICE DE INVESTIGATION

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

COMMUNICATIONS SECTION

NOV 1 5 196400

TELETYPE

Mr. Belmont.

Mr. Mohr-

Mr. Casper

Mr. Callaban.

Mr. Contad.

Mr.

DoT.

Mr.

URGENT

+11-15-62-11-51

AM EST

JWC

Mr.

Mr.

: Mr.

JO DIRECTOR, FBI /157-6-21

ATE THEREINT CONT

Mr.

Tarol.

1X°3A1S 1"

STAU

Tele. Room.

FROM SAC, ATLANTA

1157-3151

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Miss I:mes.

Gandy

RACIAL SITUATION, ALBAiI, GEORGIA, RM.

THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE APPEARED IN THE ATLANTA

CONSTITUTION MORNING OF NOVEMBER FIFTEEN INSTANT BASED ON A

STUDY CALLED QUOTE ALBANY, A STUDY OF NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY

UNQUOTE WRITTEN BY DR. HOWARD ZINN, HISTORY PROFESSOR,

SPELMAN COLLEGE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, PUBLISHED BY SOUTHERN

REGIONAL COUNCIL, AN INTERRACIAL GROUP FORMED TO ADVANCE

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL THE SOUTH-S PEOPLE. THE FOLLOWING

ARTICLE ENTITLED LUOTE Ü.S. LAXITY AT ALBANY IS CHARGED, QUOTE IS

VERBATIM.

QUOTE A STUDY OF ALBANY-S RACIAL STRUGGLES RELEASED

WEDNESDAY CHARGES THAT THE SINGLE QUOTE NATIONAL GOVERNMENT

FAILED TO PROTECT THE LIBERTIES OF ITS CITIZENS IN THE

CITY OF ALBANY, SINGLE QUOTE.

QUOTE CRITICISM CAME FROM DR. HOWARD ZINN, HISTORY

PROFESSOR AT SPELMAN COLLEGE, A PREDOMINANTLY NEGRO PRIVATE

SCHOOL IN ATLANTA

155-6=5-11:60

11 NOV 19 1952

QUOTE ALBANIANEGROES, SAIDINN, WHO IS WHITE, TEND

TO DISTRUST LOCAL MEMBERS OF THE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION.

THE SPELMAN HISTORIAN URGES THE CREATION OF A SPECIAL FEDERAL

END PAGE ONE

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CORPS OF AGENTS TO INVESTIGATE CIVIL RIGHTS CASES.

QUOTE SINGLE QUOTE WITH ALL'VIOLATIONS BY

LOCAL POLICE OF CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS, SINGLE QUIE SAID ZINN,

SINGLE QUOTE, THE FBI HAS NOT MADE A SINGLE ARREST ON BEHALF

OF NEGRO CITIZENS SINGLE QUOTE.

QUOTE ZINN-S STUDY, CALLED SINGLE QUOTE ALBANY, A

STUDY IN NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY SINGLE QUOTE WAS PUBLISHED

BY THE SOUTHERN REGIONAL CONUNCIL, AN INTERRACIAL GROUP FORMED

IN NINETEEN FORTYFOUR TO ADVANCE SINGLE QUOTE EQUAL OPPORTUNITY

FOR ALL THE SOUTH-S PEOPLE SINGLE QUOTE.

QUOTE ZINN-S STUDY AIMED ITS CHIEF CRITICISM AT THE

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, POINTING OUT THAT BOTH ALBANY NEGROES AND

WHITE CITIZENS ACTED IN ACCORD WITH THEIR EXPRESSED CONVICTIONS.

QUOTE THE FORTY YEAR OLD PROFESSOR SAID THE GOVERNMENT

REACTED QUOTE SLOWLY AND AWKWARDLY SINGLE QUOTE TO THE RACIAL

TROUBLES WHICH BEGAN IN ALBANY IN DECEMBER OF NINETEEN SOXTY

ONE, DURING WHICH NEARLY TWELVE HUNDRED ARRESTS WERE MADE,

CHIEFLY OF NEGROES.

QUOTE ZINN WAS ALSO CRITICAL OF THE SINGLE QUOTE

FAILURE OF THE CITY-S WHITE LEADERSHIP SINGLE QUOTE IN ALBANY,

CORR LINE 2 SHD READ

QUOTE SINGLE QUOTE WITH ALL THE CLEAR VIOLATIONS BY

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SUGGESTING THAT THE WHITE POPULATION OF THE CITY WOULD

SINGLE QUOTE RESPOND TO A LEADERSHIP WHICH MODERATELY AND

QUIETLY ARRANGED FOR COMPRIMISE AGGREEMENTS WITH THE NEGRO

POPULAZION SINGLE QUOTE.

QUOTE HE ALSO CRITICIZED THE MANNER IN WHICH POLICE

CHIEF LAURIE PRITCHETT HANDLED THE DISTURBANCES QUOTE.

DR. ZINN IS SUBJECT OF BUFILE ONE HUNDRED DASH

THREE SIX ZERO TWO ONE SEVEN, MEMBER OF CP FROM FORTY NINE

THROUGH FIFTYTHREE NYC AND ATTENDED CP MEETINGS DURING THAT

PERIOD. IT IS RECOMMENDED THAT ZINN NOT BE FURTHER DIGNIFIED

BY CONTACT FRCM THIS OFFICE AND NO ACTION BE TAKEN. ZINN-S REPORT

WILL BE SUBMITTED SEPARATELY.

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MAILED. 2

JAN 3 - 1962

COMM-FBI

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION

Unauthorized Disclosure

Subject to Criminal Sanctions

Tolson

Belmont

Mohr.

Callahan

Conrad

DeLoach

Evans

Malone

Rosen

Sullivan

Tavel -

Trotter.

Tele. Room -

Ingram -

THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

Director, F31

1 - Mr.

Rosen (McGowan)

1 - MI. Bland

1 - Mi. Haack

1-Mr. Kitchens

January 8, 1962

Fmpel6

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STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

SECURITY MATTER - €

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I thought you would be interested in knowing

that Levison, a New York attorney and businesshan wing

secret member of the Communist Party,

allegedly a close adviser ia the Reverend martin latherg

King, prominent southern Negro leader.

According to

our source, who has furnished reliable infomation in

Levison reportedly wrote the speech that

King delivered at the recene merican federation of

Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations convention

and ads King in financial matters. (Qui source also

so that ison sa

through his association wich king,

SENITE!

to the white house and has been?

Because of the sensitive nature of our

source, we have classified this communication "Sacret "

ії,

100-392452

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NOTE ON YELLOW: Subject's name in Security Index.

Department has been furnished reports on him.

Levison

has for a number of years been involved in Conmunist

Party. (or)(Reserve fund apparatus and other Chhancha

activities.

intormation concerning him obtained

from NY

only to

694gR information concerning Levison known

above informant, LSG-5824-S&

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UNITED STATES

TO

FROM :

SUBJECT:

Mr. Belmont

C. A. Evans

Einste

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

SECURITY MATTER - C

DATE:

2/2/62

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Belmont

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DeLoach :

Evans

Malone

Hosen

Gavel

Trotter.

Tele. Room

"Ingram

Gandy

Kitties

nis,

C'r

Deputy Attorney General White called and referred to the

Director's memorandum to the Attorney General of January 8, 1962.

In this memorandum the Attrney General was informed that Levison,

a New York attorney and businessman, who is a secret member of the

Communist Party, is allegedly a close adviser to the Reverend Martin

Luther King, prominent southern Negro leader. Levison is reported

to have written a speech delivered by King at the AFL-CIO convention.

Levison is also said to have access to the White House and to the Attorney

General through his association with King. SEuSIFivE

Our memaandum to the Attorney General was classified Secret

as information concerning him is known only to our informant and a limited

number of Communist Party leaders.

White asked that I meet with him so that the matter concerning

Levison could be discussed. It is White's feeling that definitely some action

should be taken.

c."!

Inasmuch as Levison is a secret member of the Communist

\ Party and his relationship with King is known only to our informant and a

limited number of Communist Party leaders, the Domestic Intelligence

Division will review our file for the purpose of determining if there is

any information of a non-classified nature which might be utilized by the

Department. As soon as this file review has been made, White will be

contacted in line with his request and a determination made as to what action

the Department has in mind with regard to this New York attorney, business-

man and secret member of the Communist Party: 33

100-392452-184

1 - Mr. Sullivan

1 - Mr. Rosen

•13 FEB 16 1962

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OPTIONAL, CORA NO., 1O

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UNITED STATES GI's document is prepared in response to your request and is not for di

Memorant side va Committe.

nonittee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized peror-

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

Malone -

TO

: Mr. IF. C. Sullivan

DATE: February

3,

1962

Suniyon

Tivel -

Trotter -

1 - Mr. Belmont

Tele. Room

Ingram -

FROM

: Mr. J. F. Bland:

FFMORIG

Mr. Evans

Gandy-

1

Mr.

Sullivan

V.

1.

MIX.

Rosen (McGowan)

SUBJECT: STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

SECURITY MATTEK - C

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1 - Mir. Kitchens

Deputy Attorney General

(DAG) White has requested that

Assistant Director Evans discuss with him the association of the

Reverend Martin Luther King and Levison since he feels some action

must be taken.

The Attorney General (AG) by letter dated 1/8/62-was advised

that Levison, a secret member of the Communist Party (CP), is allegedly

a close

adviser of the Reverend Martin Luther King, prominent southern

Negro leader, and wrote the speech that King delivered at the American

Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations convention.

The AG was also advised that Levison reportedly, through his associ

tion with king, had access to the Attorney eneral and to the hite

irritagions: 094-93

Information has since been received on 1/29/62 from

that Gus Hall, General Secretary, CPUSA, has claimed authorship of

King's speech.

New York and San Francisco have been requested to contact

the informants involved to see if they can throw any additional light

on specifically who was responsible for preparation of the speech,

although it is logical to assume that Levison consulted Hall

concerning the speech; thus, both may have had a part in its

preparation.

BACKGROUND :

EX 101

tell 150-392452-155

Levison,

is in the

Security Index.

NY 694-S* and CG 5024-S* have furnished Intormation

since 1952 concerning levison's aarvities mand continions tosss

0 to the CrUSA ducing rate

With the CP are known only tother Sil

informants and to a very few

national leaders of the c?.

13 FEB 16 1962

OBSERVATIONS:

The purpose in advising the AG of Levison's connection with

King was to alert him and the President that Levison was apparently

using his association with King as a means of gaining access to

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RE :

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

100-392452

Af and to be hite House and of the possible communist influence

Is has been accomplished.

It appears that White desires to furnish King,

Or

someone close to him, some information about Levison and to suggest

lat least that King break off his relations with Levison.

Since

1i Levison's connections with the CP are known to only a few top CP

the disclosure of any specific information about his

who are vital to the internal

security of the country.

However,

a f White or the AG feel a

compelling need to furnish King information about Levison, it is

believed that it would minimize the risk to the informants if King

were told in strict confidence that Levison has in the past been a

member of

the CP and that indications are he is still under its

influence.

White should

be advised that under no circumstances

should specific information as contained in the Director's letter be

discussed with King, since it would definitely endanger our informant

and the national security.

RECOMMENDATION:

That this memorandum be forwarded to Assistant Director

Evans for his guidance in discussing this matter with DAG White.

O Vesper

Hing a no good an

Tens Even

Beltant

26/62-CAEIMAN

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File

OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

UNITED STATE

Memoranaum

TO

Nir. Belmon

FRÓM :

C. A. Evans

SUBJECT:

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

SECURITY MATTER - C

DATE:

2/6/62

Tolson

Belmont

Hohr

„Gallahan

Conrad

DeLoach i

Evans

Malone

Rosen .

le) sullivan.

Tavel

Trotter

Tele. Roos

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116.1

2. 5o

09

Deputy Attorney General White was contacted with reference to

the Bureau's letter of January 8, 1962. In this letter the Department was

informed that Levison, a secret member of the Communist Party, is

allegedly a close adviser to the Reverend Martin Luther King. Levison,

a New York attorney and businessman, is reported to have written a speech

for King. Levison is also said to have access to the White House and to

the Attorney General through his association with King see

In discussing this matter with Mr. White, it was pointed out that

under no circumstances should any action be taken which would endanger

the position of our informant. White said he fully appreciated this. He

stated he had contacted Assistant Attorney General Marshallof the Civil

Rights Division about this relationship between Levison and King and was

told by Marshal that sometime ago King had been alerted to the past history

of Levison. Deputy Attorney General White said his only concern at this

time was whether he should alert anyone at the White House in view of the

allegation Levison might have access to the White House SENd i fain!

When it was pointed out to White that the only information reported

was that such access would be through Levison's association with King

c White concluded that he may have read the Director's memorandum too

prapidly as he had the impression Levison might have some direct contact

with the White House White said from the character-of-some of the people

over at the White House he would not-have«been-surprised if it were reported

that Levison actually.did.have.such-a.contact. The matter having been

clarified for him, White said he did not propose to take any further action

but was appreciative of this matter having been brought to his attention.

REC- 33

1 - Mr. Sullivan

1 - Mr. Rosen

FELT ENDSTERS ELDEN

CAE

document is prepared

en response to your na

intest lata is not for dissemi-

3 16 1952

nation outsise oar Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedinas 3y.

(6)

your Committee

and the content may not be disctosed to repitiorised person-

onel without

express ap iran of the FlI.

FER 12.1062

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SSC Request 10/6/75

Item 5

a. (Stanley David Levison)

Retain

SP-ZAmIZTG

11-1-00 .

1008

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Date:

12/2/69

fansmit the following in

(Type in plaintext or code)

-Via

Landrine Yest

AIRPED

(Priority)

TO:

FROM:

AZZ INFORMA ERN CONTAINED

HEREIN IS UNCLASSINISD

DATE 1-1-00 BYSPE ALMILK

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-392452)

SAC, NEW YORK (100-111180-SUB 10)

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

RM; IS-C

(00:

NEW YORK)

6. 0)

JUNE

ELsurel to NY, 9/19/69.

NY 3810-s* was discontinued on 9/24/69, because of

the subject's departure from the United States on a European

trip scheduled to extend until the latter part of October,

1969.

LISURA

on 8/8/69, an PD;

143 was suomitted recommending

continuation of MY

3810-50.

A review of information furnished

by this sourcelsince

of the NYO,

destine instating A

The information

furniehed. ov

since the death of MARTIN LUTHER KING,

Jr.. shows that

ISON considers KING'S replacement as SUIC

President, RALPH ABERNATHY, as being incompetent.

LEVISON does

have a good relationship with the Executive Vice-President of

the SCLC, ANDREN.

YOUNG,

and YOUNG does

SEck LEVISON'S counsel.

In addition, LaVISON ha's the admiration and respect of KING'S

widow, CORETTA KING, who seeks LEVISON'S edvice on her relation

ship with the scLC and her own activities such as public

appearances, speeches and writings. The source has continued

to supply. this type of information as indicated by NYairtel and

LHM, 9/17/69, entitled "COMINFIL SOLO; IS-C"

ELSA

The NYo believes that reinstating

would

develop more of the same type of information described

above

However, SCIC ie not engaged in any extremist black activity

at

the present time and there is no reason

¡to believe that its

REC-35

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New York (#43)

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nation outside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

Approved: -

your Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unoutherized persong visi

nol without the express approsal of the FBI

Per

Special Agent in Charge

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ITY 100-111180-SUB 10

future course will be other than that of non-violence as

advocated by MARTIN LUTHER KILG, Jy. and pledged by RALPH

ABERNATHY.

In addition, no information has been developed

recently that STANLEY LEVISON is under the influence of the

Communist Party or hes any contacts with the Party leadership

either as regards himself personally or his efforts on behalf

of the SCIC.

Therejore, it is believed that the intelligence

informtion to be obtained by the reinstating of /NX 3810=51/ does

not warrant a recommendation for reactivation of this source.

Its reactivation is not being recommended.

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:

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SUBJECT:

FBI

Date:

6/16/65

(Type in plaintext i code)

RECISTERED

(Priority)

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-392+52)

SAC, NEW YORK (100-111180)

"STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

IS-C

"JUNE"

Re NY airtel to Bureau, 5/18/65.

•565442

NY 3810-S&/ installed at 12:05 PM On 6/15/65.

Full security assured.

min

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15 JUN 77 1965

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SECRET

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No. (IS) 100-392452

May 24, 1965

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTCRNEY GENERAL

JUNE

RE:

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

INTERNAL SECURITY - COMMUNIST

SPEZALM

11-1-00

Stanley David Levison is a long-time communist

whose secret membership in the Commist Party; USA, has

and has exerted considerable influence in

the civil rights

movement through his counseling of King.

King and Levison

personally met in New York City on May i3, 1965, at which

time levison advised king concerning voter registration

activities in Alabama and also urged that ring support

demands for peace in Vietnam.

Levison resides at Apartment 3D, 585 West -Bud

Avenue, New Yorks City, telephone number SU 7-1430.

He is

an attorney and businessman with an office in Room 1106,

1841 Broadway Avenue,

New York City.

Your authority is requested for the installation

of a technical surveillance on the above residence of

Levison or at any other address to which Levison might move

in the future.

Subject to Criminal Sanctions

Unauthorized Disclosure

NATIONAL SECURITY

INFORMATION

Respectfully,

serpens

100-

ohn edga:

Hoover

72412-248

DireCtoX 33

APPROVED

DATE

ПАд4

5/25/05

EL705

SECRET

Mite46114-178/65

09/8

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GROUP 1

excluded from automatic

downgrading and

declassification

JUN 8 1965

You should then time fin

at ang tie he is acting as

attones for clients Whigets;,

with the 4.S.

palest

SPEC, MAIL N

JUN 1 0 1965

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FROM

:

SUBJECT:

OPTIGNAL FORM NO. 19

3010-106

HAT 1252 EDITION

GSA TEN.

REG. NO 3T

UNITED STATES GOY

INMENT

Memorandum

ROUTE IN ENVELOPE

* ADRIG

Ex. Sulli

ZAPORKNATON CONTAINCI

DATE:

5/21/65

TrID

illil00

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Gullivan

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STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

1

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INTERNAL SECURITY - COMMUNIST

Sale d

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conrad

Felt -

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Tave

Trotter .

Tele. Poon -

Holmes -

Gargy.

This document is prepared

in response to

your request and is not for dissemi-

nation outside your Committee.

Its use

limited to official proceedings by

your Committee and the content may nut

be disclosed to unauthorized person-

nel without the express

approval of the

FBI.

General's authority for a technical surveillance on

Stanley David Levison.

Security Index subject Levison is the long-time

communist whose Party nembership has

been established as

recently as July, 1953, and who is a

key advisor to Martin

Luther King, JX.,

and thus

a most effective influence in the

civil rights movement. While King and Levison have attempted

to keep their relation nip secret, we have recently noted

personal meetings

between the two

with levison exerting

Influence on King in an aren in addition to the civil rights

novement.

They met together in

a New York City hotel 5/13/65

when levison advised King relative to voter registration

activitics in Alabama and for sing to declare hinself strongly

for peace in Vietnam.

from time to tine in the past, we have had technical-

ipe coverage on Levison, both in his office and

residence.

The last coverage of his rocsdonce was installed 3/20/62 anc

discontinued 7/25/54 dus to she limited information being

obtained at that time which vas

probaily attributable to the

attempt by lovison to leey roi secret his consncts with and

concerning king. The few to Cifice has concucted a survey

and linds feasible tao installation ef a technical surveillance

assuncs can De

done with full secur.".

With the increasing immortance of the civil rights

moyenent and the recent incontions o levison more and nore

influoncing ling, it is believed that the reactivation or a

technical surveillance on levison's residence will prove very

productive to the Burcau.

No prosecution of Levison is con-

complain iù cue pardond in:

is now havelia investigative-

type technical surveillances in operation; at are awaiting

installation..

The Jinit on such technical surveillance

installations is

11!1.

10J-032152

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Jur

≥ 1965

CONTINUED - OVER

SPEC. MATI RIS

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Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan

Re:

Stanley Davis Levison

100-392452

RECOMMENDATION:

Attached for approval is a memorandum to the

Attorney General requesting his authority for a technical

surveillance on subject's residence.

Pet optio

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TO

THON

SUBJECT:

MAY SPOZ EDITION

GSA GEN. REG. NO. 27

UNITED STATES GOFERNMENT

• Memorandum

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-392452)

DATE:

2/13/64

SAC, LEW YORK (100-111180)

JUNE

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON •

IS-C

26.541

NX 4137-S*/has not been furnishing information oi

value and was discontinued at Buted, NYO, 12:00 noon, 2/13/

Location tank e

Or 118,90 GARROULEUISON

82-1652

I'nis document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

nation outside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

your Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person-

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

EX-115

REG- 24

-

Jureau (100-392452) (Ri)

1-

New

York (100-111100) (i-3 12)

JEO: smd

(3)

100-37-4-522

16 FEB 12 136-4

Lif sue

ATROL

DORI

SHUD

FEB 24 1964

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FBI

Date:

3/23/63

Transmit the following in

AIRIEL

Via

(Type in plain text or code)

REGISIERED MAIL

(Priority or Hethod of Mailing)

1 J

TO:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-392452)

SAC, NEW YORK (100-111130-SUB 12)

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

IS-C

(00:NY)

JUNE

Reuralrtel 9/20/53.

tzation

INY 4137-Sxltesur covering telephone TR 3-6542,

apartment 3-D, 585 West_End Ave., N7C, installed 1:00 p.m.

9/23/63.

Konitored suteal yo.

Full security assured.

Justification will be handled in conjunction vuth justifica-

tion of NY 3810-S

" per Bureau instructions.

ROCKASSTFIT IN 215 WEW DIAS

071-8-90 GARROW/LEWISON

82-1652

nation outside your Committee.

your Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

=

• 3-Bureau (100-392452) (RM)

*1-NY 100-111180-SU8 12

FIL: Unh

(5)

1.1c

слові

Approved:

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PLAIN POXT

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TO:

DIRECIOR, FBI (100-392452)

FROM:

SAC, NEW YORK (100-111180-SUB 10)

JUNE

SUBJECT:

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

IS-C

(00: NY)

ReBuairtel, 11/21/62.

Tesur covering LEVISON's residence, 585 West End

Avenue, New York City, telephone number sU 1=1430, installed

Symbol number NY 3810-s*

Full security

chut

Done

DECLASSIFIED BY 295 WEW DIS

07 1-5-10 GARROW LEVISON

82-1652

Bureau (100-392452) (RM)

New York (100-111180-3UB 10)

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SECRET

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Pleuse Refer to

File No. 100-392452

TYASHINGION 25, D. C.

November 20, 1962

11-1-00

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

RE:

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

SECURITY MATTER • C

Levison a New cor City attorney and

businessman;

is a

secret member of the Communist Party,

USA, and has long been active in Communist Party

Inancia. activitles.

He has acted as financial and

business adviser to the Communist farty on numerous

occasions,

, has operared vantous business enterprises

for it and has contributed lange sums of money to the

Communist Party.

Subject to

It is believed that valuable information

concerning Communist Party(financial matters) will be

obtained through the installation of a technical

surveillance in the subject's residence.

In view of

this,

I recommend

that authority be

granted to install

a technical surveillance in Levison's residence located

at 585 West End Avenue,

residence to which he may move in the

New York City' future.

or to any

Criminal Sanctions

Unauthorized Disclosure

Respectfully,

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION

g. Egan stover

John Edgar Hoover

100-312452-173

c01x7745475591155451320

7 NOV 26 1962

APPROVED

DATE

1/20/6°

18-21-62

REG- 14

PX-118

SECET

GrOUP

1

Excluded

from automatic

downgrading

and

declassification

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aFTIONAL PURER BU. IU

UNITED SIATES GOVERNMENT

emorandur

TO

Mr. Wo Co Sullivan Ve

- 11/=2

Tolson -

DATE: November 19, 1962

JUNE

FROM : Mr. J. F. Bland

1, - HT'O

1

Mro

Belmont

Sullivan

Bland

SUBJECT:

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

SECURITY MATTER - C

Donohue

• 1

hr:

Haack

I - Mi. Floyd

New York has requested authority to install a technical

Apartment 3-), 585 West End:

Casper

Callah 1a

Conrad

DeLouch

Evans

Gale -

Rosen

Sullivan

Tavel

Trottes

Tele. Roch

Holmes

Gandy

information in 1962 of close association between subject and the

Reverend fartin Luther king, Jro, prominent southern Negro leader.

Levison reportedly vrote the spsech that ming deilvered at the

American federation of Labor Longress or Industrial Organizations

Convention, aided King in financial natters and characterized

wholehearted Marxist"

sho has studied it and belleves

ito Clevison, allegedly has access to the white douse and

Autorney General through his association with Kingd

This information

previously furnished to Attorney General

and O'Donnell at the

White House.

Technical surveillance at Levison's office reports

Levison is close advisor to King and that he exerts tremendous

influence on King.

Informacion recently received indicates Levison

frequently uses telephone at his residence

to communicate with

King and

with dunter Pitts Idell, an associate of King's who has

been active in CP affairs.

A survey conducted on Bureau authority disclosed

installation can

be made with complete security.

Installation

technical surveillance in Levison's office was authorized

airtel 3/20/62g

IS UNCLASSIFIED

OBSERVATIC: SeNsitio

foreign

intelligire.z

operations

11-100

11though

NY 694-S*/ and the

technical installation in

subject's office

are able to furnish considerable information

ATI. INDON

concerning devison,

as complete coverage as possible is desired

more adequately determine Levison's association with and

DATE

Encolent 11-20-02

3%:

= 4/532÷176

REC: 22

100-392452

6г-

HOTTER ON 1

172÷

1115562305)

=ra

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

nel without the express approval of the FBI

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Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

100392452

influence on King, his possible association with Government and

Communist Party

O Levison pace, the acional costate tensested will not

currently have

affect the total count of technical installations.

RECOMMENDATION:

Attached for approval is a memorandum

to the Attorney

General requesting authority to install a technical surveillance

on Levison's residence,

Apartment 3m), 585 West End Avenue,

New York City®

WN7

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AIRTEL

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Date:

7/27/611

(Type in plain text or ecde)

(Priority or Method of hailing)

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-392452)

FROM:

SAC, NEW YORK (100-111180)

SUBJECT:

STANLEY

LEVISON

SM - C

JUNE

Reference telephone call from Inspector JOSEPH

SIZ00, 7-15-54

LI511S

At 2:20 p.m., 7/25/64,

NY 3810-S* and NY 3580-5*

discontinued.

#MDR16

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DATE 1-1-00 EX SP2ALM 17TG

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Date: 3/20/62

Transmit the following in

AIRTEL

PLAIN TEXT

RM

(Type in plain text or code)

Via

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

TO

:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-392452)

FROM

:

SAC, NEW YORK (100-111180)

JUNE

SUBJECT:

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

SM-C

(00: NY)

82-1652

Reurairtel 3/13/62, authorizing installation

of tesur, on subject's office, Room 601, 6 East 39th St.,

NYC, telephones MUrray Hill 4-2932, 2933 and 2934.

Tesur installed 2:45 PM, 3/20/62, assigned

symbol number at

: 3580- St

Tesur will be monitored at

Sutecy NYO

Full security assured.

9000K

13/ - Bureau (100-392452) (RM)

1 - NE 100-111180-SUB 8

(415) 40

1 - NY 100-111180 (415)

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SERI

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

WASBINGION 25, D. C.

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

100-392452

F.MDRIG

-11-1-00

March 6, 1962

MENIORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

RE:

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

SECURITY MATTER - C

Levison, a New York City attorney and business-

USA, and

ties.

He has contributed large suns of money to the

has operated various business enterprises

Communist far iye nted oase nancial and business adviser

to it on numerous occasions.

It is believed that valuable information concern-

• technical surveillance in

subject'soffice.

In view of this, I reconnena

that

authority be granted to install a

technical surveillance

in Levison's office located at o sast 39th street, New

York clty, or to any ortice to which he may move in the

future.

Respectfully,

Pum persioner

sooner

Director

APPROVED:

DATE:

3/12/6

REC- 43

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION

Unauthorized Disclosure

Subject to Criminal Sanctions

-25 MAR 15 1961

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

UNITED STATES GOVERN

•Memorandum

NT.

edit out

Mohr

Callahan

Conrad

DeLoach

Evans

Malone

rosen

TO

MT. W. C. Suly

DATE:

narch 6, 1962

JUNE

FROM:

sir. J. F. Blasa

- I - Nr. Belmont

Trotter

Tele. Room

Ingram

Gandy

1 - Mr. Sullivan

SUBJECT:

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

- dir. Bland

SECURITY LATTEK - C

1 - Mr.

Donahue

PECTER ATTRY COSTAINED

1 - Mir. Haack

•?.

1 - Mr. Kitchens

DNIAN-1-00÷1

SPRALM

New York has requested authority to install a

technical

surveillance in subject's office, 6 East 59th Street, New York City,

telephones is 4-2732, iU 4-2933 and nU 4-2934.

CAP. BUT

Levison's name in Security Index. He is an attorney and

¡ businessman who is involved in secret Coumaist arty financial

matters.

NY 694-5x furnished information in January and February,

1962, concerning clost association between subject and the

Reverend Martin

sings Jr, prominent-southern vegro leader.

Levison rotted he the erich that ree delivered at the

/. i

American Federation oftabor-Congress of Industrial Organizations

convention, aided him in financial matters, and characterized

King as "a wholehearted Marxist" who has studied it and believes

lin it. Levison allegedly has"access to the white House and

Attorney General through his association with king. Mis information

previously furnished

attorney General and O'DonnelT at the White House.

A survey conducted on Bureau authority disclosed installation

can be made with complete sucurity.. Installation of microphone

surveillance in Levison's office was authorized by airtel March 2, 1902.

OBSERVATIUNS:

31 though

IY 694-59 is sble to farnish some infomation

concernins Levison'

and microphone surveillance will also furnish

additional information, as complete coverage as possible is desireú

to more adequately determine his association with and influence on

King, his possiole association with Goverment and union officials

There are a technical surveillances in operation ano

installed for a total of,21

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2019-

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Tour Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthanied person

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Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan

Re:

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

100-392452

ACTION:

Attached for approval is a memorandum to the

Attorney General requesting authority to install a technical

surveillance on Levison's office, 6 East 39th Street,

New York City.

wers

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OPTIONAL FORM NO. 10

3010-101

UNITED STATES GO'

UNMENT

Memoranaum

DIPECTOR, FBI (100-392.452)

DATE:

11/15/62

FROM

SAC, NEW YORK (100-111180-Sub 6)

SUBJECT:

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

IS-C

(00: NY)

JUNE

"Re NY airtel, 8/16/62.

?..

31717 24

11""

11-1-00: SRZALMIATG

security situation regarding mate unit covering

subject's office (NY 3313-52) has not changed to date.

as Present coverage of LEVISON Includes a tesur

NY 3580-S*l covering his office at 6 E. 39th St., NiC.

Also a tesur survey of suoject's residence at 585 West

End Ave. has been completed and Bureau authority to

Install has been requested in separate communication.

It is felt that these two tesurs will

give

comprehensive coverage of

LEVISON's activities.

It is,

therefore recommended that mate unit covering subject's

office be permanently discontinued.

I'his document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi

nation outside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

your Committee and the content, may nut b? disclosed to unauthorized person-

nel without the express approval of the Fül .

2- Bureau (100-392452) (RM)

1-New York

(100-1111&0-Sus 6) (414)

FTL: rmv

(3)

3

REG- 14

100-3124521797

11 NOV I61952

tV 118

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FBI

Date:

8/16/62

Transmit the following in

PLAIN TEXT

(Type in plain text or code)

Via

AIRTEL

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-392452)

FROM:

SAC, NEW YORK (100-111180)

11l53e

JUNE

SUBJECT:

STANLEY LEVISON

IS .. C

ELSYR

on 8/16/62, at 4:50 AM, NY 3575-SX, mate unit

covering subject's office, was temporarily removed for

security reasons, as intormation received that new telephone

system to be installed :la LeVisoN's office.

.?"!

5P3 Am.H15

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi

nation outside your Committee.

Its case is limited to official proceedings by

Blosed io inalthorsed verson

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FBI

Date: 3/16/62

Transmit the following in

AIRIEL

PLAIN TEXT

(Type in plain text or code)

Via

RM

(Priorily or Method of Mailing)

TO

: DIRECIOR, FBI (100-392452)

FROM

: SAC, NEW YORK (100-111180)

PCLASSIFIE BY 2 WIEW TOM

11-4-40

SARROW LEVISON

JUNE

82-1652.

SUBJECT:

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

SM-C

(00: NY)

ReBuairtel 3/2/62, granting authority to

install misur in subject's

office, 6 E. 39ch St., NYC.

CEL 504"

Misur castalled 10:10 AM, 3/16/62 Symbol

number, AX 3575-S3t

Misur monitored at sutec

Full security assured.

NYC.

too corred as

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

nation outside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

your Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person-

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

NY (100-111100-JUB 6)(415,

1 • NY (100-11110011415

BIL: KMD

(6)

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Mohr

iNT

UNITED STATES GOVERN

Memorandu

Mre to Co Sullivant, Cs

FROM : MI. Jo F. Bla

Cullahan

Conrad

DeLoach -

Evans

Malone

Rosen

TO

DATE: March 2,, 1962

Sullivan

JINE

-dI.

Salmont we fater

Telee F

Tele. Room

Ingram -

J. # Mattergandy

Bland

SUBJECT: STANLEY DIVID LEVISON 100

SECURITY MATTER - C

1-Mr.

Sonohue

Haack

I-ir. Kitchens

SPALM HE

J.w. Done

0.e..

This memorandun sets forth justification

• об. місторлопе

survelllance in oftice of Stanley David Levison, o sast seth Street,

New York City.

Can Levison's name in Security index.

He is an attorney and

businessman who is involved in secret Communist Party (CP) financial

matters. MY 57-, Turnishey information in january and Februarv

concerning close association between subject and-the Reverend

Martin Luther king, Jr., roniment southern regro leader. Levison

reportedly wrote speech

that ring delivered it the fl CId convention,

aids him in Tinincial matters

und churucterized king" as "a whole-

hearted Marxist" who has studied it and believes in ii, Cevison

allegedly has access to the his intosation brevious turnisned

his association at ling.

General though

This intormation previously

Attorney Ceneral and O'Donnell at mite house.

of a microphone in office of levison.

authority disclosea installation can

be made with complete security,

although trespass will be necessary.

OBSERVATIONS:

Although / 627-55

is ible to furnish some information ca

cernig Levison, initional coverage is believed necessary to more

adequately deterine his influence on unt association with King, his

possible ussociacion vite coverment ofticials, and his nancial

activities in behulf of the cá, US..

RECCIENDATION:

That attiched circes

be sont to ver York giving it authority

New York City.

to install a microphone in inù otrico un Levicon at s dast 30th 5f76

BEC- 28

EX.

:I7,

25 MAR 13 1952

Enclosure

100-392452

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissem

nation outside your Committee.

Its l'se is limited to offimal proceedings by

HAD D1

Win Crimittee 'a'? the conter' man ait ar risclosce surcitiorised cogni

" out the express

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TD-36

FEDERAL BUREAU CE INVESTIGA ETON

UNITED STATES DEPARTENT

DE. STICE

22R1C

ĐTY

3/18/551

Transmit the following Teletype messago to:

DUREAU

JUNE.

SEA LOT DAVID INVISON, IN-U.

Reurairtel 3/17/55.

NY 1533-55 discontinued 2:00 Pil this date.

ELSUR

KELLY

JUNG

D1R: 11-1-00

Imit to resinin nroceedings by

022172 (1191'

103-711150

1903202113

= 3

15 AUCE 1955

19 AUG 29 1955

Approved

Spocial Agent in Charge

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FD-$6

21T:, 2.0.

Air-Tel

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

SIEGRET

UNITED STATES DEPARTUENIT OF JUSTICE

NE, NY; 5/5/55

JUN

Transmit the following Teletype message to:

Bureau.. June.

.. Urgent

L TD:

Mr. Timori

Mr.

EAr.

Hir.

21r.

Tele. 7-

Dir.

Mies

June. Stanley Davia Levisons IS - 6

TEOK::

Rebuairtel, 3/2/55, granting authority to instali termion residence

of subject.

Tavar installed I555 ốm, 5/5/55.

[Coverage at /sutec.

Sym.001 number/Nx-1533-5,

assigned.

-CONE. INFT

Location (5)

impels 11-2-00

CLASSIFIED BY SP-AALM /7T6

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X/

KELLY

nel, uithout the express approval of the FBI .

5. Belmont i

3. - Bureau (100-392452) (REGISTERED MAIL)

At INPORMATTON CANTITUT

HEREIN 15'10: 11;

WERE SHOW OTHERISE

RECORDED-SI

MULA C-61

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RE: MAY

- 1955

100-111160-5220 4

6 MAY 19 1955

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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATI

UNITED STATES DEFARTHENT OF JUSTICE

Mr. Bardrian.

de. Nair!.

Mr. Ass onto

Mr.

Mr.

Harbo

HiT.

R

Mr.

Turna -

Mr.

T

Mr. Mihr

Mr. Witorrowd

Tele. licoin -

Mr. Hulleman

AIN'T

Transmit the following Tetarra message to:

FBI, CILICAGO

DIRECTOR, FBI

4/30/5L

(AIR MAIL - RECISTERED)

JUNE. STANLEY DAVID LEVISON, SM-C. REMYATRIEL 4/24/540 •

MISUR AND TESUR ROOM ILLA, CONRAD HILTON HOTEL, DISCONTITUED

8:00 PM 4/29/54. INSTALLATION REMOVED

CC 5959-S*/ ASSIGIED TO IISUR AND CG 5961-S* ASSIGNED TO

TESUR FOR REPORT PURPOSTS.

live

BANISTER

100-27367 Sub-2

TEC : GHI

SPRAMHTE

nel without the express approval of the FBI

ciga di

44

23 v

Special Agent, In Gurge

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Office IMerc

Endum • UNITED ST

CES GOVERNMENT

TO

: THE DIRECTOR

¿DATE:

Apr 61 38, 1954

FROM : Ao Ho Belmont

Tolson

SUBJECT:

STANLEY Do

"137I5 011

Security Matter. C

ASAC ROy Moore of the Chicago Office called

6:15 pollo, 4/27/54, regarding Levison, who is staying

the conrad Hilton Hotel,

The bureau had authorized a

tel-nake on levison as he hod scheduled important meetings

dealing with Communist Fartu finances. Moore said the installa

thon is working to good erect

C1088.

glarin

• Machose 2 1a

• Rosen

Tracy

Har bo.

NOtI

Tolo. ROOM

Hease

Gandy_?

Moore aduised that Tictor Ludwig, one of the individucls

with whon Levison has been meeting, is staying in Room 1341-4 at

tre same notes and nos a meeting for thursday, April 29th, at

1:30 polo,

with Leon satzen, financial secretary of District fos

semi-underground.

Moore wanted authority to place a

ltel mike in Room 1341 1 and wanted to install it immediataly.

I explored with hin whether a microphone would not be

more feasible as only this one meeting is to be covered. He said

microphone coverage could be installed with complete security.

to be taking there pace a easiere the com

Partu, told Toore to go ahead with a microphone installation,

linters advised to the contrary.

RECOMENDATION:

If you approvs, Chicago will be permitted to install

this microphone.

;.

AHB:OSH

#mDal6

SP•S ALM/HTG

11-1-00

-50

1/

c.. /EX. - 10%

NN 55074

: 44755-51

13 MI

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

nation outside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

Your committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person-

nel without the express approval of the FBI .

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FEDERAL, BURCAU OF INVESTICATICN

UNITED STATES EEPARTUENT OF JUSTIO

Me. Heariman.

Mr. Nichols-

Mr. Trimate

XIr.

Mr. Rosen

Mr. Tenem

Mr. Tracy

120rd

COL.

Sentinant

Mr. Holluman

Miss Gandy-

ATSTEIN

PERSONAL AND

Transmit the following. antetung mossage to:

FBI, CHIGAO (100-27347)

AFRIL 24, 1954

Kimbelt

DIRECTOR, FBI

V.

- 11-1-00

SPEZALMING

JUNE.

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON; SC. TELIKE SURVEILIANCE INSTALLED

12:30 F.M. APRII, 24, 1954 IN ROOLI 1444A CONRAD EILEON HOTEL FHONE

TA 2-4400. FOUR I23 SACTOR: CORD STILLED AND ERIS IO LONITORINSUR

PLANE ROOME IL43A GUNCEALED IN TELEPHONE CONDUIT.

SY POL NURBER /CE 5959-53

ILi.

ASSTGHED FOR REPORT PURFOSES.

How Do

BANISTER

REGES DRED

12r.

introat

en

RECORDED-53

" is

Afd au dig

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

your Committce and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

Approvad: di

Special Agent in Charge

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IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO

FILE TÃO..

#MDR16

11-1-00

SEEN

Miteù States Beparintent uf J1

Jeneral Bureau ut Inucatigation

3uashington 25, 2. 0.

April 21, 1954

PERSONAL AND COMOBINTAI

KEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAI

RE:

June

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

SECURITY MATTER • C

(COMMUNIST UNDERGROUND OPERATIONS)

Information has been received from reliable

confidential informants that stanley David Levison, an

important functionary of the communist movement engaged

in secret finercial transations i the port o the

commun sishlym has rented tuo rooms at the conrad Hilton

Hotel in Chicago, Illizois, for April 24, 1954. Further

information has been received that Levison will hole a

"stockholders" meeting with Farry it in the lasalle

-an.

operations orche conmaist

sPacEy wilt be discussed. i

sire

In view of the above, it is recommended that

you authorize a technial surveillance on stanley savid

Levison at these two rooms for the period on or about

April 24, 1954, or at any location unich may be used by

hi for this particular meeting.

Respectfullya

::?!

N John Edgar. Hoover

NITEGUOT

Approved: 2143

Date: 4-22-54

RECORDED - 93

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION

Unauthorized Disclosure

Subject to Criminal Sanctions

I 2

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Office Memoridum • UNITED

• UNITED ST

ES

GOVERNMENT

TO

: The Director

FROM : AT. Boardman

SUBJECT: STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

SECURITE MATTER - C

(CORDUNIST UEDERGROUND OF MATIONS) *

BUjILe 100-392452)

11t00

DATE: ApTiI 20, 1954

JUVE

#MDR16

Balsant

He s

There is aitached hereto an airtel from the

Chicago Office requesting a telephone-microphone

installation on Stanley David Levison who has rented tug

single rooms at the conrad Hilton Hotel in Chicago on

April 24, 1954

Seractine frigen intergers ippities

Information has been received through New forl

Torment wreas that Levison has been furnished pari

of the jinancial recordo ye donnunist Party, USA,

deceased. Levison's trip to

with ForTy Miller of lasalle Leathers Company on enuerprise

Dobr

Tale. Fe.

1935€

actiuities of the communist fartyi

It is inperative that the bureau cover this meeting

at the conrad Hilton Hotel if at all possible as it is

believed extrenely pertinent inforuation concerning secret

Linancial

perations of the communist Party i be

discussed.

A

survey authorined by the Bureau has found

that

a microphone surveilance is not practical and that a

telephone microphone installation is necessary. Altiough

such an installation will nos be legal, it is believed

I that the intelligerce inforation io be obtained will make

such an installation necerary and desirable.

The Chicago

ojirce has aduised that jill security and cooperation ute

assured through the assisience of forner SAC Go P. Moswain

who is connected with the conrad Aulion Hotela.

NEGROED - 93

i i

RECOLLEARASION:

INDEXED - 93

41

EAPR.O

It is recommended that this technical installation

I'be authorized to cover tiis meeting on April 24y 1954s. IS.

you agree, there is attached hereto a letter the

Attornay General requesting authorization for the installation

Attachnent

2020"33

This document is prepared in response to your requestiand is not for dissemi-

nation outside your: Committee.

Its use is

limited to official proceedings o

sour committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person

nel without the express approval of the FBI .:

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MIR-ITI

#DERAL BUBEAU OF INVESTIGATION

UNITED STATES DEPARTHENT OF JUSTICE

"I'a

tr. jmeatin

Vir. Rico-

#Ir.

Wuhr

sie.

32. F

MIT. inde

NY, AT; 12/8/54

JUNE

1 Tessa janer

Transmit the following Teletype message to:

EUREAU ...JUNE. ..URGENTr. in lomaT

hiss Gandy-

JUNE. STANLEY DAVID LEVISON; IS - C. REFUTZI, 12/7/54. SERVICES CY/S -1070-

DISCONTINUED 9:00 Aii, 12/8/54.

ELSYK

KELLY

FMDE16

(3-

EUREAU (REGISTERED DAILY

1701..

: 141-00.

• This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

nation outside your Committee.

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

2laznt

RECORDED-38

PEc!

7-1

CJS: JH (#7-1)

100-121180-Sub 2

Approved:

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TUTE

Mr.

LEDERAL BURZAU OF INVESTIGATION

UNITED STATES DEPARTNENT OF JUSTICES

3/12/54

JUNE

Transmit the folloring Teletype message

to:

Jius Gin.

JUNS. DEI 1ÃY DEVIO LOVISOL; IS-GO BEFUIRED 2/21/54 GRATIONS AURORE

TO INSCIE,L TAGUR OF SUBJECT'S RESIDENO2, 30% W.104th ST.iVC, TREPRCNE,

MUSIC 2-750L TESUR INSTALLED 2:20

-Pollo, 3/19/54. SYBOL NUMBER

X-1070-3) (COVRICS AT SUES.

ELSUR

beatin e

b-1

11/2/00

CLASSIFIED BY SPO2 ALMIZTE

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X/

ALL, INTORMATION CONTATIN

HEREIN IS UNGLASSIT MONT

THERE SHOWW OTHEREISE.

KELLY

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi

nation outside your Committee.

your committee ad the coit.

lis use us limura to official proceedings oy

nel minut the card on mee

lisclosed to i citionzed person-

Notic

- 2U2ZAU (ENCESTERTO TAILY

ROSEVLG

100-377780-3116 2

hSCORDE3-04

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IN REPLY, PLEASE REFER TO

FILE NO..

S÷ 0

niten States Departntent ni Jr

Mederal Burzan ut instigation

Mashungton 25, 2. (.

February 18, 1954

FEMARIG

SEZALMIATE

11-1-00

PERSONAL AND CONFOITIAI

MEMORAWDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

52s.3a

RE: STANLEX DAVID

LEVISON

SECURITY MATTER • C

H: 152303038711

In connection with an investigation of the

Communist

Party USA in New York City it is deemed

admisable to place a technical surveillance on the

residence of Stanley David Levison.

(Levison is acting as assistant to William

Weiner in controlling the finances of the Communist

Party both in its open and undereround operations.

He has contributea larse sums®

Communist

Party and is arfiliated. ith several business

is interests

from the prosit of maich tunds are reportedly supplied

to the Communist Partys)

In order to follow the underground operations

requested to install

technical surveillance on the residence

of. Stanley

Davia Levison at 309 west 10lth street, New York City,

telephone number onument 2-7504 or any address to

which he may nove in one luture.

Respectfully,

sinners

-

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION

Unauthorized Disclosure

Subject to Criminal Sanctions

A loan uzar Hoover

Dirgetor

Approved:

9103

RECORCED - 54

E cy

R

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30

FES 26 1954

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Office Memondum

* UNITED S

TO

THE DIRECTOR

TES GOVERNMENT

DATE: February 18;

1954

FROM : MR. D. M. LADD

EMORIG

SUBJECT:

STANLEY DAVID LEVISON

SECURITY MATTER = C

Bureau File 100-392452

ATT

:11h1/00

SRIAMT

Bran

The New York Office has requested authority

to install a technical surveillance on the residence of

Stanley David Levison at 309 West l04th Street, New York

City, telephone number ilonument 2-7504, as an aid in

following the underground operations and financial

activitles of the Communist Party USA in New York Citya.

foison -

Ladd-

Nichols.

Beirant.

Clegi,

Giatin

Harbo

Rosca

Tracy

Gearty

Hots -

Icle. Roos--

Holoman.

Sizzo.

Misa Grady.

17:

or business enterert ent

to ths comminist Parton

is artiliated with a number

the profits of which

"unds are reportedly supplied to the Communist party

Some at these enterprises are reported to be trades

Reality Corporation

all of New York City, sunset

Praves Incorporated, caltrornia and ta salle Leather.

He has beek.

He 13 on

RECO: MENDATION:

That the attached memorandun be senu to the

Attorney General requesting authority to install a

tecanical surveillance on Levison.

:..

RECORDED - 18

sister

FEB 25 1954

i.

Attachme document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi

nation outside your Committee.

official proceedings by

Jo: your Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person.

nel without the express approval of

the FBI.

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2-36 (Rev. 10-29-631

Transmit the following in

AIRTEL

Via

FET

Date:

(Type in plain ernie

(Priority"

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-247858)

FROM:

SAC, NEW YORK (100-91330)

:*1l-1-00

JURE

SUBJECT: HUNTER PITTS O' DELI

IS-C; ISA-50

Re Bureau airtel, 10/6/64.

INY 4171-S ]covering residence of subject discontinued

12:00 noon, 10/7/64.

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

JJK: gmd

(5)

Bureau (100-247898), (RM)

REC- 15

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100-25816

1& OCT

1964

CA DUBO

300

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1964

Special Agent in Charge

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Transmit tre felixiry in

Via -

10/17,53

Type is pis text or code)

(Priority or Method of Mciling)

SPLALMIING

TO:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-353916)

SiC, NEW YORK (100-91330)

JUNE

1.00

HUNTER PITTS Ö'DELL

IS-C; ISA-50

(00: NY)

ELSUR

CONFINET a

NY

cover AD 4-4.044

on 10/16/63, at 22: 45 Am 4772-, 138 5t

installed to

listed to JAMeS E.

Nicholas

Avenue, New Jork, New York (residence of HUNTER PITIS O'DELI) .

Full security ascured.

'his document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi

nation outside your Committee.

Its use i limited to official proceedings by

your Committee and the content may nut b? disclosed to unauthorized person

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

REC-22

Bureau (100-358916) (RM)*

New York (100-91330) (414)

= OCT I87963

JF0: gmd

(5)

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approved:

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FASEINGION 2J, D.C.

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

(IS) 100-353916

SPHALM TE

1- -Oc

October: 2, 1963

MEIIORANDOM FCT INES ATTORIOZ GENETAL

RE: HUNTS 2ICA5 O'DELE

In connection wich our investigation of Conmunisi

Party activities in the Unised atries, ve have received

information that the subject, la secret samber os the

National Committee,] Communisy Party, Ud.

has been

considered by the Party as an incividu: io be placed

in charge of

an oilice of tha Party inspired publicution

"Freedomways" which is to be opened in Atlanta, Georgia.

This oifice will also serve

as headquarters for Party

work in the South,] Subject's exiensive Communist Party

background and his recent associntion with Hartin Luther

King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference

indicate the likelihood he is a key individual involved

with the efforts of the Cormunist Party, USA, to extend

its influence into the Negro integration movement.

It is requested that you authorize technical

surveillance coverage on the subject at 488 Saint Nicholas

Avenue, New York, New York, or at any address to which

he may move in the future.

# SeNsiTive freigh

Respectfully,

John Edgar Hoover

Director

EX-1:

APPROVED

DATE

Milkents

10/4/6 3-

at Len, surfue.

TOX

SECRET

1-p.65

GROUP

Excluded Ipom automatic

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATIONnsrading

and

Unauthorized Disclosure

declassificatio

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OPTIONAL FOPM NO, iO

5010-106

JAAY 1962 EDITION

GSA GEN, REG, NO, 27

~ UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

Fei..

MEr

TO

Mr'. W. C. Sullivan

JUNE

FROM :

Mr. F. J. Baumgardner

SUBJECT:

HUNTER PITTS

TO' DELI

INTERNAL SECURITY • C

IT INTCZILATION CONTATI

F6100 SPEALM 11F6

DATE: October 1, 1963

1 - 15. Belmoni

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Sullivan

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Baungardne"

1 = Hi. Donolue

Forsych

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Fairict

GGI-

Hoe dins,

Silver

Tar

Tere. Roor:

Holes

Gaindy

My memorandun dated 9/13/63 recomnended a survey be

conducted to determine the feasibility of a technical surveillan:

(tesur) on the residence of O'Dell in New York City.

The

New York Office has conducted this survey and advised a desir

is feasible with full security.

It is recommended the artached

letter be forwarded to the Attorney General to obtain approval

Lor this tesur.

Hunter Pitts O'Dell was Secretly elected to che

Natzona. Committee, Communist Party, USA, at the Party's last

National Convention in December, 1959 *LIn July, 1952, Gus

Hall, General Secretary, Communist Party, USA,

as representing the National Committee, Communist Party, UsA, and

as the "brain trust" for Martin Luther King,

lesder of the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLO) • O'Dell is a

close associate

to take charge of the New York oflice of the SCLC. Newspapers

publicized O'Dell's communist background in late

1962 and

although King announced O'Dell's resignation, he continued his

additional publieity.f

your Committee and the content. may-nut

and confidentof Stanley Levison, secret Commnist

Party member and cuntributor, and was recommended to king by Levi

approval

nation outside your Committee:

This document is prepared in response

Its use

to

employ with the SCLC.

King again announced that O'Dell had

the ScIC, although our investigation determined O'Dell was

the recipient of SCLC funds and he visited the building housing

the SCLC after King's announcement. Recent data indicates the

Party plans to have an office of the communist-inspired publication

"Freedomways" opened in Atlanta, Georgia, with O'Dell in charge

220E

FBI.

be disclosed

limited

your request and

and that this office will serve as headquarters for Party worl

in the south. d

In view of O'Dell's Party background and his known

interest in the integration movement, there is a strong presumption

the is a key individual involved with

the efforts of the Communist

Party, Usa, to extend its influence

ninto the Negro integration

movenent.

unauthenzed persos-

official procedings-

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Henorantum to Mr. Sullivan

RS: HUNTER PITTS O'DELI

100-358916

We presently have 57 investigative-type resurs

installed and&/are

expe of tosur is isgaitins installation. The linit lor tinis

ACTION:

It is reconmended the attached letter be forwarded

to the Attorney General to obtain approval for this tesur.

da.

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ROUTE IN ENVELOPE

CODE

11/23/GG

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TEIETY.

REG- 44

+ 11-8160-2890

TO SAC, NEW YORK

FROM DIRECTOR, FBI

TELEPHONE SURVEILLANCES

UR CENT

1 = Mr. Rozanus

SENT BX CODED ALLENCE

nel without the express

approval of

your Committee and the content may

nation outside

YOUr

Committee.

this document is prepared in

the

nut

Its use

response to

FBI

be

disclosed

limited

your request

to unauthorized person

official proceedings by

and

not for dissemi

JUNE.

IMMEDIATELY DISCONTINUE ALL TELEPHONE SURVEILLANCES IN

FOLLOWING CASES: "CHU TING-MIN, GASTON TSPINAL MACEO, I

HARLEM

FRUGRESSIVE LABOR CLUB, CLARENCE BEAN JONES, ISIDORS CYBaY

TIREDLEMAN, NORMAN JOHN KEES, JOSEPH OVER, BARAN. DARTAN,

IT BACON HARRIS, JEANG HENG RANG, TRACK MISSION TO SIS

UNITED NATIONS (UND, MALE MISSION TO THE UN, "MONGOLIAN MISSION TO

THE UN, SOVIET MISSION TO THE UN (RESIDENCE, OF PERSONNEL

MELLON ESTATE), SOVIET MISSION TO THE UN (RESIDENCE OF PERSONNEL

PRATT ESTATE), AND' SYRIAN MISSION TO THE UN

* sensitive foreigns

iNtelligence opeRAtioNs

SUTEL DATE AND TIME DISCONTINUED.

(3)

NOTE:

decreasing our telephone

been reviewed and the above are those to be discontinued in

order to come within the ceiling.

Teletype necessary in view

urgency of this matter.

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7:00 PM EST

URGENT

_DIRECTOR

FROM

NEW YORK

11/29/66

M.FoRo

1811 ENCODED

1868

JUNE

TELEPHONE SURVEILLANCES.

REBUTEL ELEVEN IWENTYNINE SIXTYSIX•

ALL TELEPHONE SURVEILLANCES AS SET FORTH IN BUTEL DISCONTINUED

SIX PM ELEVEN IWENTYNINE SIXTYSIX EXCEPT ISIDORE GIBBY NEEDLEMAN, WHICH

WILL BE DISCONTINUED AS SOON AS SECURITY PERMITS.

13:28410

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END

WA GREY

FBI WASH DC

seNsitive foReigN

intelligence operatioNs.

GASTON ESPINAL MACEO - ASpiro

6 FEB

I 1967

HARLEM PROGRESSIVE LABOR CLUB -14

CLARENCE BENJAMIN JONES - ELUsiaN

ISIDORE GIBBY NEEDLEMAN-

NORMAN JOHN REES

JOSEPH ULVER

BAHRAM M. DARIAN

LAMENT RACON TARS ARM

SANG HENG-KANG -

KALI MISSION TO THE UNITED NATIONS - Zanta ri

MALI MISSION TO THE UN-T

MONGOLIAN MISSION TO THE UN ALO

SOVIET MISSION TO THE UN, (RESIDENCE OF PERSONNEL

MILLER ESTATE)

SOVIET MISSION TO

THE UN, (RESIDENCE OF PERSONNEL

PRATT ESTATE)

SYRIAN MISSION TO THE

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

nation outside your Committee.

Its use is limited to

official proceedings by

your Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person.

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

INTA

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

PA

Transmit the following in

AIRTEL

Via

FBI.

Date:

4/14/66

(Type in plaintexe or codel

(Priority)

TO

: DIRECTOR, FBI (100-407018)

FROM : SAC, NEW YORK (100-73250-Sub 2)

SUBJECT:

CLARENCE JONES

SM-C

(00: NY)

11-1-00

JUNE

Re Bureau airtel, 2/11/66.

ELSUR

Information received from ny 4092-S* during the

=

period since JoNEs moved to the coliseum Building to the

Intramerican Life Corp

office does not warrant its retention.

Accordingly, NY 4092-S 1s being discontinued as of 5:00 p.m.,

4/14/65.

ELSUR

SP-JALMITTG

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for aissemi-

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

your committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person

nel without the express approval of the FBl .

REG 32

100-407018-91

3-Bureau

(100-407010) (RM)

I-New York (100-73250-sub 2'

JEO: rmv

(5}

711-0

J5 APR 1:51966

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i Speckal Agent in Charge

APR 96

1966

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•V. 5-22-01)

FBI

Date:

3/15/66

Transmit the following in

(T'ype in plaintext or code)

Via -

AIRTEL

SMORTG

(Priority)

SP2AM/716

-

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-407018)

-111:00

FROM:

"SAC; NEW YORK (100-73250-SUB 2)

JUNE

SUBJECT:

CLARENCE JONES

SM-- C.

100:

NY)

ReBuairtel,

2/11/66, and New York airtel, 3/4/66.

ELSUR

GONE. LATE

NY 5496-SX installed 6:15 PM, 3/14/66, at 10

Columbus Circle,

on JONES' business office,

Intramerican Life

Corporation.

Coverage presently includes CI 5-0730, CI 5-0731

and CI 5-0732. Efforts continuing to include CI 5-0733 in

coverage.

Bureau will be advised of date of inclusion of this

number.

Full security is assured.

I'has document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissem

nation outside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by.

your Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorzed person-

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

" Bureau (100-407018) (RM)

New York (100-73250-SUB 2) (42)

JF0: gmd

(5)

BEC-10

100-46761%-

14

MAR 71966

ECe Wick

Approved: =

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Date:

8/18,65

Transmit the following in

AIRTET,

(I'ype in plaintext or code)

• Via

(Priorily)

TO:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-407018)

•FROM:

SAC, NEW YORK (100-73250-Sub 2)

"UNE

SUBJECT: CLARENCE BENJAMIN JONES

SM-C

(OC: NY)

11-100

SALAMIT

6

"ELSUR

NY 5182-Sx installed 8/10/05.

Tesur includes the

unlisted #543-6533 and regular 7543-9594. Full security assured.

Bureau will be kept advised.

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi.

nation outside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

sur Committee and the content may nut ba disclosed to unauthorized person-

l shout the express approval of the EJI.

REC- 61

1011-401919-7

25 AUG I 9 1965

37-

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1

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NPD: jec

(5)

•;..

AUG I Speciagent in Charge

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AIRTEL

FBI

Date:

2/28/64

(Type in plain text or code)

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

...

TO:

1o.

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-407018)

FROM:

SAC,

NEW YORK. (100-73250-SUB 2)

. *

*11-1-00

JUNE

SUBJECT:

CLARENCE BENJAMIN JONES

SM-C

Re New York

FD 143 to Bureau, 2/19/64.

ELSUR

LNY 4096-SA discontinued or this date at 12:00 noon.

Inasmuch as there has not been sufficient information developed

by chis

source, it is being discontinued.

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi-

nation outside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

your committee and the content may nut b: disclosed to unauthorized person.

nel without the express approval of tửe FBI.

EX-115

Bureau (100-407018) (RM)

New York (100-73250-SUB 2) (414)

JCS: gmd

(5.)

-

Approved:

• MAR 1 0 1964

Special Agent in Charge

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TO "

FROM

SUBJECT:

FBI

Date:

POET

JUNE

8/5/63

"Type in plain text or code)

(Priority or Method of Mailing)

DIRECIOR, FBI (100-407018)

ALT IUVORKATTON CONTAT 2AL

HEREIN IS LJSESSIFSOE

WHELE SHOT UTHARVES

6

SAC, NEW YORK (100-73250 Sub 2)

CLARENCE BENJAMIN

PONES

SM - C

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X

ReBuairtel 7/23/63.

Tesur installed at 5505 Independence Ave.

Bronx, NY, subject's residence, telephone number KI 9-2804,

at 2:35 pm this date.

Full security assured.

symbol

number Ny 4099-S#lassigned apd is being handled by Sutec,

(s)

This document is prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi

nation outside your Committee.

Its use ii limited to official proceedings by

your Committee and the content may nut h' disclosed to unauthorized person-

nel without the express amount of the r. I

ô. Wicksi

Bureau (100-407018) (RM)

New York (100-73250

Sub

BEC 28

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SECRETT

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...

FBI

Date: 8/1/63

LÓL&

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AIRIEL

(T'ype in plain text or code)

Vis

(Priority or Method of Mdiling)

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINS

HERFIS IS UNGLASSIFTAS INCH

FEELE SHOWN DEHARNISE.

: DIRECTOR, FBI (100-407018)

JUNE

FROM : SAC, NEW YORK (100-73250-Sub 2)

#MDR 16 18/2/00

SUEJECT: CLARENCE BENJAMIN JONES

SM-C

C4 3103/2 Am.)T6

DECLASSIFY ON: 25X/

ReBuairtel, 7/23/63.

Authorized tesurs on six lines covering

• the

following phones installed 5:50 PM, 7/29/63:

BEekman 3-3690'

BEekman 3-5660*

BEekman 3-5661

BEekman 3-8340

BEekman 13-0341

Coded Trunk G-55'

These phones are located at the offices of

Lubelt, Lubelt and Jones

165 Broadway, NYC. NYO utilizing

sambol number NY 4092-sx/for these six lines.

WOE ELSUR

Authorized tesurs on three lines covering the

following telephone numbers installed 3:15 PM, 7/30/63:

Bureau (100-407018) (RM)

I - New York (100-73250-Sub

uPD: Imk.

(5)

EX-103

REC- 39

2)

12

AUG

AILIN

This document is prepared in response to your reques

nation outside your Committee.

Anctst without the lepress approval of the Fseht

....ww uSpecial. Agent in Charge

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NY 100-73250-Su3 2

LExington 2-2989

LExington 2-2990

LExingion 2-2991

These phones are Located at the oilice

of. the

Ghandi Society for Human Rights, 15 Em 40tn St., NeC.

NYO utilizing symbol number NY 4090-S*for these three

lines.

Full security assured and all above resurs.

seing monitored by sutec Nya (S

-LOCATION

Lease lines for subject's residence are presently

being constructed by Ny Iclephone Company.

Bureau

will be advised as soon as this

desur on subject's

residence can be established.

:

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SSC Request 10/6/75

Item 5

f. (Student Non-Yiolent Coordinating

Committee (SNCC) )

Retain

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1008

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FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-64)

FBI

. l'

Date:

3/5/65

• Transmit the following in

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AIRHAIL

(Priorily)

!

TO

FROM

:

SUBJECI

JUNE

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-439190)

"SAC, ATLANTA (100-6488-D)

SOMINTIL OF SINCC,

IS - C

Re Atlanta airtel dated 7/9/65,

captioned as above, and phone call

8/5/65 from

Inspector FRED BAUNGÄRDNER.

This is to advise that

as of

4:10.p.m.

8/5/65 TESURS designated as(AT 1388-S*

and /ẤT 1389-S* have been discontinued.

ELSUR

ELSUR

1/5ea7540. itintr

"i si thin files nickle:

7721.

ari.

Bureau

1 - Atlanta

Fut

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DECLOO SPLALMITE

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document is preparentoin

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Committee.

your Committee and the content may

nut be disclosed to unauthorized person-

nel without...

the express

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AIRMAIL

(Priority)

Sea aim 1156

---H-1-00

JUNE

!,

TO

:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-439190)

nel without the areas armagal of the Il

your Committee and the content may nut

nation outside your Committee.

Its use

This document is prepared in response to

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29

"isolesed to unauthorized person

limitsit to

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your request and is

proceedings by

not for dissemi

FROM

SUBJECT

:

SAC, ATLANTA

(100-6488-D)

Gine in time a der.

COMINFIL OF SNCC

IS -

ReBuairtel to Atlanta 6/24/65. /

Inscallation completed this date.

I.

Symbol NumberlAT 1388-S* is assigned

to the following live telephone

688-0331

688-0332

688-0333

688-0335

688-0338

These phones are located in the headquarters

office of SNCC at 360-62 Nelson Street, S.

W., Atlanta,

Georgia. Leased line obtained from 25 Auburn Avenue,

N. I., t

Atlanta, Georgia, to 300 West Peachtree Street, N. W. in

order to effect

necessary coverage.

The above five phone numbers are in rotary

series, and for this reason only one Symbol Number desig-

nated.

REG- 52

— Bureau (RM)

2 - Atlanta

LIKENST

100-431124-420

We 34154222

aS JUL T 1965

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(Priority)

AT 100-6488-1

11.

TAT 1389-S& is assigned to WATS Line

084-2864.

This WATS Line is designated for use in

thirty-eight (38) continental states.

The phone is

Locaced in headquarter's of SNCC located at 360-62

Leased line

300 West Peach

cree Street, N. W., Atlanta, Georgia, in order 10

effect coverage.

Monitoring operations instituted, results

of which will be furnished the Bureau.

Origin

termination of leased lines in above installation are

identical; namely, 25 Auburn Avenue to 300 West Peach

tree Street.

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer to

File No.

(IS) 100-439190

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535

June 15, 1965

MAMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAI.

RE: COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF STUDENT

NON-VIOLENT COORDINATING COMMITTEE

INTERNAL SECURITY • COMMUNIST

The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee has

been described by confidential informants as the principal

target for Communist Party infiltration among the various

civil rights organizations. John Lewis, Chairman, and

James Forman, Executive Secretary, have made public appear-

ances with leaders of communist front groups.

John Lewis

has been reported by reliable informants as stating he will

accept any individuals, including communists, into his

This and related investigations have identified

individuals with subversive backgrounds who hold key positions

in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.

The Student

• Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

maintains its headquarters at 8% Raymond Street, Northwest,

Atlanta,

Georgia, and is in the process of moving to

360-362 Nelson Street, Southwest, Atlanta, Georgia.

Authority is requested for the installation of a

technical surveillance on the above headquarters of the

Student Non-Violent Coordinating Conmittee and at any new

location to which it may move in the future.

Respectfully,

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION

Unauthorized Disclosure

Subject to Criminal Sanctions

APPROVED

DATE

6/08/15

REC- 28

Accessass

John Edgar

Hoover

Director 6

JUL

6 1965

EX-113

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SUBJECT:

COMMUNESE LAPIIIRATIOH ON C1UD812

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NON-VIOUR COURDIDOTS CARMI

Sullivan

INTERNAH SECUOY • COMUN162

1

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• NIX.

Baumgardner

:H=1-00 SPALMATE

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HiT o

Honohue

sour

Marcin

Atlanta Offico has conpletod a technical survey of the

headquarters of captioned organination and advises that a

nel without the

express

your Committee and the

nation outside your

This

approval of

content may

Committee.

the

nut

document is prepared in response to

Its use 2s

be disclosed to unauthorized person

limitat to

official proceedings bu

your request and is not for disservi

technical surveillance may bo installed as this location under

secure conditions.

Atlanta recommendo that this installation be

made in the building occupied by an anovering service utriized

by this organization since this location is remote from the

headquarters building. This survillance wili be monitored in

the existing technical plant located outside the Atlanta Ofties.

The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee has

beef

the principal target for connunice intiltration among the various

civil rights organizations.

John lewis, the Chairman, has stated

that he will accept any individuals, including conmunists,

Into

the organization.

He has publicly identified himself with

Communist Party members and as recently as April, 1505, he

spoke at an affair sponsored by "Freedomways" in tribute to

Paul Robeson.

On that occasion, he described Robeson as the

spiritual father of the Student

Non-Violent Coordinating Committee

and referred to his many years of "persecution" by the Government.

On April 30, 1965, James Forman, the Executive Secretary, met

wich Martin Luther King, JX., Harry Belafonte and Clarence Jones

to iron out differences existing between the Student Non-Violent L

Coordinating Committee and the Southern Christian Leadership

Conference,

At that time Forman refused to go along with King's

proposal that they make a public statement renouncing communism.

During the course of this and related investigations,

such as the Mississippi Summer Exoject, we have developed

evidence of communist participation in civil rights activities

sponsored by this organization.

At the present time, the Student

Non-Violent Coordinating Conmittee is preparing to send several

thousand individuals into Alabama, Mississippi and Arkansas in

connection with voter registration efforts.

Since all this

activity will be directed through their headquarters in Atlanta,

a technical installation would provide excellent coverage of any

efforts by the Communist Party or Communist Party members to direct

these civil rights activities. This source nould supplement the

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curiage to now have on the headquarters of Martin Iuther

4128: STo In Atienta which has furnished very valuable

infornation regarding the contacts made by King and his

associntes with subversive individuals.

ACTION:

Attached for approval is a memorandum to the

Attorney teneral requesting his authority for a technical

surveillance on headquarters of this organization. It is

noted that no prosecutive action involving this organization

is contenpleted at the present time. We now have 60linvestigative

type technical inctallations in operation; Lafare awarting

installatiOn.

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OPTIOMIL FORM NO, 10

UNITED STATES GOVERNA

Memorandum

ROUTE IN EI

JUNE

TO

: Mr. W. C. Sullivan

DATE:

112,

FROM

:

lix. I. do Baungaranor

fond frid

SUBJECT: CLARENCE BENJAMIN JONES

SECURITY. MATTER - COMMUNISE

Tolso;

Belmont.

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VELOPE

Callahan

Conrad -

DeLoach

Evans _

July 22, 1963

Gale

Rosen.

Sultramu

Mr.

Belmont

Tavel -

Mr o

Evans

Trotter -

NT.

Rosen

Tele. Room

Holmes -

Mr.

Sullivan

Gands?

Mr o

Brungaraner Bland

Bland

Mr o

Donohue

Mr.

Shaw

This is a recommendation requesting the Attorney General's

authority for the installation of a technical surveillauce covering

the home telephone of Clarence Benjamin Jones, as well as the tele-

phones covering Jones's law firm and the Ghandi Society for Human

Rights, a Negro welfare organization in which Jones plays a ver

active part.

You will recall that on 7/16/63 the Attorney General

advised

Assistant Director Ivans 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 Maxein Lucher king, leader oi

the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Clarence Benjamin

Jones, a New York City attorney, who is closely associated with sing.

The Attorney Generas indicated he was not concerned with the reper

cussions if it should ever become known that such surveillances had

been put into effect and that. he thought it advisable to have as

complete coverage as possible.

way, New York City.

He is the General Counsel for the Ghandi Society

fox Human Rights, 15 East 40th Street, New York City, an organization

Iormed to lend support to Martin Luther King.

is on the Reserve

Index.

He is extremely active in racial matters and serves as the

Counsel for Martin Luther Ring. In 1953-54 Jones was an active member

of the Labor Youth League, an organization cited as subversive under

Executive Order 10450.

He has recently been in frequent contact with

Communist Party, USA,

leaders in New York City concerning racial

matters.

Pursuant to the Attorney General's request that considera-

tion be given to placing a technical surveillance on Jones, our New

York Office was requested to conduct a survey to ascertain if such

coverage is leasible and could be conducted with full security.

New

York teletype 7/19/63 discloses that technical surveillance coverage

on Jones's residence, law

firm and the Ghandi Society for Human Rights,

Where Jones spends a

great

deal of time, is feasible and can be con-

ducted with full security.

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100-407018

the document is prepared in resyonse to sourete and so i emin

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Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan

RE:

CLARENCE BENJAMIN JONES

100-407018

At present there are [57l investigative-type technical

surveillances in operation and[olbeing installed.

The limit is f75]

The Atlanta Office has been requested to conduct a survey

relative to the feasibility of plaing a technical surveillance on

Martin Luther'King and as soon as this survey is completed a recom-

mendation will be made relative to instituting coverage on King.

OBSERVATION:

In view of the Attorney General's request that our coverage

the Ghandi Soclety for Human Rights.

RECOMMENDATION:

That the attached memorandum for the Attorney General go

forward requesting authority to install a technical surveillance on

Jones's

residence; law firm; and the Ghandi Society for Human Rights.

JitL

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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

In Reply, Please Refer 10

File No. 100-407018

WASHINGTON 25, D. C.

July 22, 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

RE: CLARENCE BENJAMIN JONES

SECURITY MATTER - C

Avenue, Bronx, New York. He is a partner in the law firm of

Lubell,

Lukall and Jones, 165 Broadway, New York City.

Jones

is also the General Counsel for the Ghandi Society for Human

Rights, 15 East 40th Street, New Jork City, an organization

forned

to lend support to Martin Luther king, the leader of

the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

In 1953-54 Jones was an active member of the Labor

Youth League, an organization cited as subversive under

Executive Order 10450.

He has recently been in frequent

contact with Conmunist Party, USh, leaders in New York City

concerning racial

• matters.

Pursuant to your request that in view of the possi

ble communist influence in the racial situation consideration

be given to placing a technical surveillance on Jones, it is

requested that authority be granted to place a technical

surveillance on Jones

at his current residence,

5505 Inde

pendence Avenue, Bronx, New York; at his law office,

165 Broadway, New York City; and at the Chandi Society for

Human Rights, 15 East 40th

Street, New York City.

Respectfully,

ALL INFORUATION CONTAINED

HEREIN IS USTLASSISJA

DATS 1-23-81 05P/85 K

John Edgar Hoover

DireCtOr

This document is prepared in response to

your request and is

not for dissemi-

nation outside your Committee.

Its use

limited to

official proceedings by

your Committee and the content may nut

disclosed

to unauthorized

person

nel

express approval of

APPROVED

DATE

7-23-65

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FROM:

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Date:

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TO

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FROM

:

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI (100-3-116)

SAC, NEW YORK (100-151548) -

CPUSA

NEGRO QUESTION

COMMUNIST INFLUENCE

IN RACIAL MATTERS.

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In Reply, Please Refer 10

File No. 100-3-116

-SECRET

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

PASHINGION 25, D. G.

October 28, 1963

MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL

1

COMMUNIST PARTY, USA

NEGRO QUESTION

COMMUNIST INFLUENCE

• IN RACIAL MATTERS

INTERNAL SECURITY - C

18253760

ALL INFORNATION DOTIALO

CCIN IS UNCLASSIN

BAT 815/86 BX SPS CH

Bayard Rustin resides at Apartment 9J, 340 West 28th

Street, New York, New York.

Rustin, who was the Deputy

Director of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington, con-

tinues to participate in the current Negro

civil rights.

According to a confidential source who has

furnished reliable information in the past, Benjamin J.

Davis, National Secretary, Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) ,

while at a recent meeting of the National Board, CPUSA,

indicated that he is maintaining liaison with Rustin.

Davis

nel without the

express

approval

of

your Committee and the contor: may

nation outside

YOUn

"Commi ce.

This document is prepared in response

also commented recently,

according to this same source, that

the Negroes are now willing to know what the Communist Party

has

to say and to welcome whatever support the communists

can give "in this new stage, which is how to break the resist

ance of the Dixiecrats and how to stop the McCarran Act."

In order to obtain further information concerning

'the plans of the CPUSA relating to influence in racial

matters, It is requested that authority be granted to place

a technical surveillance on the residence of Bayard Rustin

or on any future residence to which he moves.

tie

nut

to

FLI

Respectfully,

edge strover

John Edgar

Director

sclosed

1a22""1, to

to

your request and

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum ROUTE IN ENVELOPE

TO •

Mr. N. C. SullIvan JUNE

FROM : Nir. I. J. BaumgardnexTB

SUBJECT: COMMUNIST PARTY, USA

NEGRO QUESTION.

COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN RACIAL MATTERS,

INTERNAL SECURITY - COMMUNIST

DATE: October 25, 1963

-

Mr.

hir

Belmont (v

Evans

NT.

Mr.

Sullivan

Baumgardner

Bland

Donohue /

Denz-

Tolson

Belmont

Mohr .

Casper

Callahan

Conrad

DeLoach'=

Evans

sale /

Rosar

"Sullivan

Tavel

Trotter

Tele. Room

Holmes -

Gandy -

This is a recommendation requesting the

Attorney General's

authority for installation of a technical surveillance (tesur) on

I New York, New York.

the residence of Bayard Rustin, Apartment ed, 310 Hest 2umper eE,

Background

• 11-1-00 SP-ZALMIZIG

Bayard Rustin, at one time an ardent pacifist, reportedly

joined the Young Communist League in 1936.

In a speech

• in 1950 he

stated he was a former Communist Party (CP) member. Rustin, who/was

the Deputy Director of the 8/28/63 March on Washington, has been

arrested on several occasions for activities in connection with racial

demonstrations.

He was secretary to Martin Luther King, Jr., 1956 to

1960 and recent information indicates he may take a position

• in the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

On 9/20/63 Rustin contacted

Benjamin J, Davis, National Secretary, Communist Party, USA (CPUSA) , atya

which time they (Rustin and Davis) mutually agreed to get together for

further personal discussions. At a meeting of the National Board, CPUS.

neld on 9/25/65, Davis stated that Rustin calls him constantly. bavis :

recently commented that the Negroes are now willing-to know what

has to say and will welcome whatever support, and leadershe communists

can give.

REC- 53"

NOV 7 1963

Observations

The increasing importance attached to communist influence

in racial matters necessitates our giving all aspects of this matter

preferred attention.

Coverage of contacts between Party lunctionaries

and recognized leaders in the current Negro struggle for civil rights

is one of the most important goals of our investigations. It is impera

tive that we penetrate the Party's liaison with Rustin in order to stay

on top of this matter. The requested tesur should aîford excellent

coverage not only of the Party influence on Rustin, but also furnish

current information concerning influential leaders

in the current

Negro struggle who are considered sympathetic and receptive to an

approach by

the Party.

This information is not otherwise available.

100-3-116

5-

1 - 100-158790 (Rustin)

RCD: kmj

I'n's document as prepared in response to your request and is not for dissemi

nation outside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings by

your committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized persor

nel without the express approval of the fBl.

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Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan

COMMUNIST PARTY, USA

NEGRO QUESTION

COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN RACIAL MATTERS

100-3-116

At present there are (55 investigative tesurs in operation

others which are pending, for a total of TO.

RECOMMENDATION:

That the attached memorandum for the Attorney General go

forward requesting authority to install a tesur on Bayard Rustin.

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• UNITED (STATES GOVERN

• Memorandum

IT

Belmont

TO

:#. C. Sullivan

FROM : J. F. Bland

1

1

1

1

SUBJECT:

- Belmont

- Mohr

DATE:

- DeLoach

Evans

Rosen

Emse 16

July 13, 1963

• Sullivan

SPEALM

1

- Bland

1

1

McGowan

- Forsyth

Callahan

hrad

Evans -

Gale -

Rosen -

Sullivan

Tavel -

Trotter.

Tele. Room

Holmes

Gandy -

MARTIN LUTHER KING

SECURITY MATTER - C.

RACIAL MATTERS

1121100

The "Evening Star" of 7/12 and the "Hashington Post" of

• 7/13/63

state that Governor Ross R. Barnett of Mississippi testified on 7/12/63

before the Senate Commerce Conmittee in opposicion to a proposed public

accommodations bill.

According to the newspapers, Governor Barnett, during his

testimony, held up a printed sheet containing a picture

and titled

"Martin Luther King at Communist Training School""

Governor Barnett said

the picture showed King and some persons identified on the sheet as

communists at a school

in Tennessee.

In this connection, Senator Mike

Monroney D - Oklahoma) asked Governor Barnett if he had

checked the

picture and the printed allegations with the rBl. Governor Barnett said

he had not but suggested that the Committee might want to do so.

This printed sheet is undoubtedly a flier which consists of a

picture of a group of individuals seated in an auditorium, one of whom

is hartin Luther king, and actually relates to a 1957 Labor way week end

seminar at the Highlander Folk School (HES),

Monteagle, Tennessee,

which

was attended by King.

• According to a publication circurated extensively

by the Georgia Commission on Education, which allegedly had an "undercover"

agent in attendance,

the seminar "was held to discuss methods and tactics

for precipitating racial strife and disturbances."

The publication

Nfurther characterized the HFS as a "communist training school."

FBI files concerning the HES show that this school was the

subject of a security investigation which was closed in 1943. Information

was developed that Communist Party (CP) members had been on the school

staff.and the

school had followed the practice of welcoming communists

No information was developed that the schoot oftered

courses of instruction on communism nor that the CP ever succeeded

couraining contral of the school. Due to its interracial character that

however, the HFS has been the subject of numerous past allegations

it represents the headquarters for communism in Eastern Tennessee,

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sUb at comittee and the content may nut i disclosed downauthorized person

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Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan

Re:

MARTIN LUTHER KING

on 6/28/63 Departmental attorneys in preparing material for

the Attorney General asked concerning this flier and were reierred to

the above information concerning the flier as furnished to the atiorney

General on 5/23/61.

The Bureau has not been asked for any information concerning

the flier by the Senate Committee; nowever, press inquiries have been

received concerning the matter and have been answered "No Comment" by

Nr. DeLoach's Office.

ACTION:

None.

For information.

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Red Rights

Plot Seen

By Barnett

Negro Movement

1-

Called Conspiracy

To Divide Nation

By Richard I. Lyons

al

Stall Reporter

П-

Gov. Ross R. Barnett of

IS Mississippe charged yester-

v. day that Negro demonstra-

a-Itions for equal rights are

n "largely Communist-in-

j-spired," part of a world

e conspiracy "to divide and

conquer ou rcountry from

within."

He also told the Senate

-President Kennedy and his

d Commerce Committee

brother, Attorney General

Robert F. Kennedy, have en-

couraged demonstrations and

are "sowing the seeds of hate

and violence" from which the

Nation

"could reap a bloody

harvest."

Barrett was challenged by

Democrats on the Committee

on both counts, and was chid-

ed by Chairman Warren G.

Magnuson (D-Wash.) as being|

"oft'

base" in equating

the

merits of legislations with the

views of some suha profess to

Ibe for it.

110.:n0

K-

et

The Governor, symbol of all-

out resistance

to

desegrega-

tion, was invited by Sen. Strom

Thurmond (D-S. C.) to testify

in

on the President's bill to bar

discrimination in public ac-

In-

commodations.

Barnett

said!

its passage would mean the

"complete end of constitution- rc

al

government in America"ni:

and

"racial violence of unim-it

aginable scope."

to MonToney Disagrees

Stir.

Sen. A. S. Mike Monrones Hr

(D-Okla.)

the . first

d

strongly disagree"

with Bar-

nett that the

President or fie

$ Attorney General were encour-hr

aging demonstrations c. sow-d

ing hatred.

cr

Barnett said he based that S

on the President's civil rights si

speech

to

the

Nation last|v

month, which Barnett inter-

1232-6

pleted

as encouraging demon-la

strations. Monroney asked for C

proof that a Communist con- 1l

spiracy is behind the Negroes';

fight for rights.

Barnett held up a printedic

Sheet

containing

a picture n

and

titled

"Martin Luther

King at Communist Training!

School." Barnett said the pic-ti

ed ture showed King and some t)

'e- persons

identified

011

sheet as

the

Communists at a S

at school in Tennessee.

Monroney asked Barnett ifla

to had not, but suggested that

the Committee might want to

do so.

service,"

said Monroney,

ry to brush oif these demon-.

trations as part oi a foreigni

conspiracy. I don't think thisk

Committee feels there is ait

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The Evening Star

New York Herald Tribune

New York Journal-American

New York Mirror -

New York Daily News -

New York Post -

The New York Times

The Worker

The New Leader

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Negro Demonstrations Largely

Red Inspired, Burnett Charges

Communist conspiracy in- everyone in this room"—a ref-ment on her hands, said Bar-

volved.

erence

to

the

Communist-/nett.

Thurmond said he was one

hunting McCarthy era of the

Racial questions

should be

s member

of

the

Committee

early 1950s.

left to the states, said Barnett.

t who did believe a Communist

"That was a tragic period

"If New York wants to in--

s conspiracy was behind

the and should not be reprated," tegrate and end up with a

a civil rights movement, but he

said Hart.

"The witness says mongrel

race,

that's

their

- added he believed many

"sin-

he does not know that Martin business," said the Governor.

cere" people also have taken

Luther King is a Communist, lIf Mississippi prefers segre-

o mart in demonstrations.

but it will raise doubts in the gation to

"preserve the purity

Sen. Philip A.

Hart (D. minds of some. I would walk of the races," that should be

- Mich.) said he hoped the hear-

with Martin

Luther King. Ilits business,

he said.

ying was not "creating an at-

hope that would not make me

Sen.

Winston

1.

Prouty

"mosphere this country experi- suspect."

(R-Vt.) said that if Commu-

Jenced within the memory of

Magnuson asked:

nists were trying to use the

"What

do

demonstrations

race issue, wouldn't it be bet-

20-41

or pictures have to do with

ter to

guarantee

Negroes

my decision on a matter I

rights and remove this weap-

have thought about for years?

on? No, said Barnett.

What if demonstrations were

Hart said the civil rightsi

inspired by

the Communist

struggle has taken a new turn

Party, the John Birch Society

because demonstrations have

or the Elks Club? What do

destroyed the argument that

they have to do with my hon-

Negroes are satisfied and like

est convictions? Some great

segregation.

churchmen have demonstra-

Barnett

answered that a

ted. If no one demonstrated,

Jackson, Miss.,

Negro recently

people might think there was

told him:

"Governor, if you

no interest in the issue."

spend one Saturday night on

Farrish st. (Negro night life

Barnett argued that a pub-

center you would never want

Jic accommodations law would

to be a white man again."

James J. Kilpatrick, editor

"Every citizen has the right of the Richmond News Leader

Sto own and operate his owr

and vice chairman of the Vir-

fit with-

from any

ginia Commission on Consti-

Barnett.

"Thei

tutional Government, also tes-

tified

against the public ac-

a mome is his castlet a

man's

commodations bill. He ques-

Does not

tioned the constitutionality of

this same

basic

American

Federal regulation of private

constitutional fact of life apply

business, regardless of how de-

equally to a man's private

sirable"

it might be consid-.

business?'

ered.

He told of a woman in lVi-

Despite talk of wanting to

nona, Miss., who operated a exempt little

establishments,

restaurant in a bus terminal.

the main thrust of the bill is

Ordered to desegregate it, she

bound to be against the "Mrs.

tried but both whites and Nc-

kroes stopped

eating

Murphys,"

said Kilpatrick, be-

there. cause the big restaurants, ho-

She was forced to

close

anditels and stores are desegre-

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Mississippi's Gov. Ross Barnett, at left, is

the Senate Commerce Committee yester-

shown-with Sen. John Stennis (D-Miss day in opposition to ra prupised public

as the governor prepared to testify before

accommodations bill.

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UNITED STATES GOVER

Memorandum

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TO

Mr. Belmont

FROM

C. A. Evans

Car

SUBJECT:

MARTIN LUTHER KING

SECURITY MATTER - C

RACIAL MATTERS

DATE:

July 16, 1963

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During the testimony of Governor Barnett of Mississippi,

he referred to a photograph of Martin luther King at what was

described as a "Communist Training School."

This photograph

showed King and some other persons identified on the sheet as

nel without the

communists at a school in Tennessee. A review of this photograph

Tennessee, which was attended by King.

approvals

your Committee, and the content

nation outside your Committee.

This document is

by the Bureau determined it undoubtedly was a flier which consists

of a picture of a group of individuals seated in an auditorium,

express

At approximately 9:20 a.m. this morning, Assistant Attorge

General Burke Marshall telephonically contacted ny office from ther

Attorney Goneral's Cifice and relerred to the photograph of

Martin Luther King mentioned above. According to Marshall, three

prepared in response to

individuals identified on the photograph with King are "1.

Abnee se

Party, 2.

Aubrey. Yalliams, described as eresident of the southern

Conterence Educational Fund, and 3. Miles liorton, described as

Director of the Highlander Folk School."

to

st? - Mr. Marshall advised that the Attorney General would like

to have'furnished to him as soon as possible

this morning a briet

squib on each of the three persons mentioned above.

The Attorney

Géteral is to leave for testimony before the Interstate Commerce

official pröccedings

request and is not fon

Conmittee. at around 10:15 and would like to have this material by

that time.

ACTION

ST-1033

• JUL 31) 1963

dissemi-

If approved, "a-bries statement concerning each of these

individuals will be furnished to the Attorney

General's

office/ as

SOOn aS POSSible BE LEAVEN TO MR. MARSHALL

1 - MX. DeLoach

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UNITED STATES GOV

This

ument is prepared in response to you

equest and is not trellisemi

mation outside your Committee.

limited to official prochetings by

Memorand' on the entre come on to be deodored to utentioned son

TO

Mr. DeLoach

DATE: 7-16-63

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SUBJECT:

ABNER WINSTON BERRY

MYLES HORTON

AUBREY WILLIS WILLIAMS

A United Press-International News Service release of July 12, 1963,

reported Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett displayed a poster-size photograph to

the Senate Commerce Committee which he claimed showed Negro leader Dr. Martin

Luther King "at a communist training school." Governor Barnett said the picture

was taken at the Highlander Folk School of Monteagle, Tennessee, and he identifieu

those in the picture with Dr. King as Abner Berry, Myles Horton and Aubrey Williams

Mr. Tolson noted, "We should check our files."

INFORMATION IN BUFILES:

Both Abner Winston Berry and Aubrey Willis Williams are Security

Index.subjects. Berry, a Negro, was born on June 12, 1902, at Beaumont, Texas.

He joined the Communist Party in 1929, and from 1930 until 1958, he held high-level

positions within the Party. In 1951, he relinquished editorship of the Harlem edition

of "The Worker" in order to assume the position of Negro Affairs Editor of the

"Daily Worker." He held this position until the "Daily Worker" ceased operation in

January, 1958. In'September, 1958, Berry was reported to have left the Party;

however, he attended the 17th Communist Party National Convention on December 9-12,;

11959 at New York City. He resides in Newark, New Jersey, and is currently employed

as an editor by the Antara Indonesian News Agency, with offices in the United Nations

Building, New York City. This Agency publishes a daily bulletin which has been

described as an Indonesian propaganda outlet owned and operated by the Government of

Indonesia; however, investigation indicates it actually appears to be a privately owned

firm with no subsidization by the Indonesian Government. Berry has been interviewed

on three occasions by Special Agents, but he refused to cooperate, saying only that he

had severed his connections with the

Party because it became a futile organization.

Aubrey Willis Williams is Chairman of the National Committee to

Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee (NCAHUAC) cited as an

organization set up to lead and direct the Communist Party's "operation abolition"

( campaign. The NCAHUAC was organized by Williams and Frank Wilkinoong

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M. A. Jones to DeLoach

RE: ABNER WINSTON BERRY

individual with a known and admitted past Communist Party membership and

continued Party affiliation. Over the years, Williams has spoken before and supported

a number of left-wing and communist-led groups, although he has publicly

and in

appearance before Senate investigating committees, disclaimed any connection with or

knowledge of the Communist Party. He has worked energetically to discredit the FBI

and Director Hoover. As of July 19, 1961, Williams was president and a member of

the board of directors of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc. (SCEF)?

originally known as the Southern Conference for Human Welfare which had been cited as

a communist front. A listing of the officers of SCEF, dated January, 1963, indicates

Williams is now President Emeritus of the organization. A confidential informant

advised on June 29, 1956, that during the time the Southern Conference for Human

Welfare was in existence, Communist Party members were affiliated with it and worked

actively in it. Since the formation of SCEF, rank and file Party members have not

been encouraged to work in it; however, certain Party members in the New Orleans

area had been assigned to participate in the organization to further communist

principles.

On June 20, 1963, Myles Horton identified himself to the FBI as

Director of the Highlander Research and Education Center of Knoxville, Tennessee.

This is the successor to the Highlander Folk School, originally at Monteagle, Tennessee,

of which Horton was also the director. The latter school was supported primarily by

donations from individuals and labor unions and it offered courses of instruction in labor

organization, social economics and the 'eneral field of labor education. It was known

to have Communist Party members on its staff and it followed the practice of securing

communists as students. It was never known to have offered courses of instructions in

communism nor vas the Party known to have succeeded in gaining control of the school.

There were many allegations that it represented the headquarters for communism in

Eastern Tennessee; however, these claims were never substantiated. The Tennessee

Courts revoked the Highlander Folk School's charter on the grounds that it violated the

criminal laws of the State. A State Charter for the Knoxville School was issued on

August 28, 1961.

On April 21, 1942, a confidential informant advised that Myles Horton

was a speaker before the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. On April 19, 1949,

Paul Crouch, a self-admitted former Communist Party member, described Horton as

a left-wing Socialist who was always close to the Communist Party, meeting with

officials and representatives to discuss policy and procedure during the period from

2939 to 1941. Crouch said Horton could be described as a close follower and sympa-

thizer of the Party line in 1941. He also said Horton's wife, Zylphia, was even closer

to the Party than her husband and that when Crouch last saw her in 1941, she was giving

serious consideration to joining the Party. Another confidential informant stated in

December, 1950, that Horton continued to follow the Party line during the period 1947 to

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M.A. Jones to DeLoach Memo

RE: ABNER WINSTON BERRY

1950, and that he associated with known Party members. This informant doubted that

Horton was actually a communist member. On December 7, 1950, and January 5,

1951, another confidential informant who is a former member of the Party, advised

that Horton was not a member even though he had close association with Party mem-

bers. He said Horton had been criticized by Party members as an opportunist who

used the Party for his own purposes.

Horton was reported to be listed as one of the speakers for a "Bill

of Rights Dinner' which was to be sponsored by the Emergency Civil Liberties

Committee on December 15, 1959.

RECOMMENDATION:

None. For information.

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Tolson

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HOES CaLL RIGhTSE WASHINGTOI

CHARGING THAT TRE CURRENT WAVE OF CIVIL RIGHIS AGITATION WA.

COMMUNIST-INSPIPED, BARNETT DISPLAYED A POSTER-SIZED PHOTOGRAPH WHICH

HE CLAIMED SHOWED NEGRO LEADER DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING AT A COMMUNIST

TRAINING SCHOOL."

HE SAID THE PICTURE WAS TAKEN AT THE HIGHLANDER FOLK SCHOOL, MT •

EAGLE

TENNESSEE AS

TENS' SUBVERSIVE.

BEFORE THE SCHOOL WAS SHUT DOWN BY THE STATE OF

HE SAID HE GOT THE PICTURE FROM THE GEORGIA

STAID COMMISSION ON EDUCATION.

ABOUT 400 PERSONS, PREDOMINANTLY WHITE YOUTHS, PACKED THE HEARING

THURMOND REPEATEDLY CALLED FOR ORDER AS THE AUDIENCE:

OBVIOUSLY

SYMPATHETIC TO THE PROPOSED LEGISLATION, MOANED OR TITTERED DURING THE

TESTIMONY •

BARNETT SAID THE PRESIDENT AND THE ATTORNEY GENERAL HAD ENCOURAGED

LEMONSTRATIONS SUCH AS FREEDOM RIDES AND THE LIKE.

HE SAID THE

PRESIDENT'S RECENT TELEVISED CIVIL RIGHTS ADDRESS

SUBSTANCE

THAT HE HAD NOT SEEN TREATED FAIRLY AND "WHAT ELSE CAN HE

DO BUT RESORT TO THE STREETS."

HE SAID HE BELIEVED THERE

HAD BEEN MORE SUCH ACTIVITY IN THE WEEKS

SINCE THE PRESIDENT'S SPEECH.

WHO CALLED ON BARNETT TO

BACK UP HIS CHARGES, SAID HE

DISAGREED

MONRONE "STRONGLY" WITH THE GOVERNOR'S

STATEMENT.

MONRONEY SAID HE DID NOT THINK THE PRESIDENT'S COMMENTS COULD BE

READ AS ENCOURAGING DEMONSTRATIONS.

HE SAID HE

ALSO DISAGREED WITH

BARNETT'S CONSLUSION THAT CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVITY WAS COMMUNIST-INSPIRED.

BARNETT REPLIED BY PRODUCING THE PHOTOGRAPH.

MONRONEY ASKED BARNETT WHETHER HE HAD EVER SOUGHT INFORMATION FROM •

FBI DIRECTOR J. EDGAR HOOVER OR FROM OTHER AUTHORITIES SUCH AS THE

HOUSE COMMITTEE ON UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES

THE BACKGROUND OF

CIVIL RIGHTS LEADERS.

BARNETT SAID THAT

HE HAD "NO EVIDENCE" FROM

THOSE PICTURED GEST RING TERE COMMUNISTS.

BUT SUGGESTED THAT THE COMMITTEE ASK HOOVER WHETHER SOME OF

ENCLOSURE

BARNETT IDENTIFIED THOSE IN THE PICTURE WITH KING AS AUDREY

WILLIAMS,

DIRECTOR OF THE SOUTHERN CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND OF

OF THEL SANSEL ABNER BERRY, A NEGRO, AND MYLES HORTON A TORMER DIRECTOR

OF THE SCHOOL•

MONRONEY SAID CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVITY COULD NOT

RUG" AS COMMUNIST-INSPIRED!

BARNETT AGREED.

ERROND,

UNDER THE

THAT SOME

CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVITIES WERE

CIN THE RIGMOS ACATORS ESSENCENSPIRED BY THEE

BUT HE REPEATED HIS CLAIM THAT

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Friday, July 26, 1963 THE MIANT HERALD

25-A

• Rights Leaders 'Not Red,' FBI Says |

WASHINGTON - (TIPI)

sissippi and George C. Wal-

lers of the major civil rights natural

and inevitable that! (CORE)

_ the

tivo groups

Attorney

General

Robert

F.

Ince of Alabama charge that

are Communists, or Communists have made efforts which have been in the fore-

Kennedy notified Congress

Communist influences were

Communist-controled. This is to infiltrate the civil rights front of the integration fight.

Thursday that an FBI check

has shown no cridence that any

back

of much of the Negro

civil rights protest activity.

to Dr. Martin Luther groups and to exploit the cur-l

of the

leaders

of the

major

King Jr., about shom parlicu-rent racial situation. I view of Cold War Heroes

civil

rights

movements

are

The senator wrote FBI Di-

Communists

lar accusations

Or'

were made, as

the real injustics that exist and

Communist-rector J. Edgar Hoover for his

the

well as other leaders."

resentment

controlled.

these

efforts

against them, May Gel Medal

Kennedy

also wrote

Sen.

vious and the latier turned the

have

heen y's.

Barnett in his apnearance|markably unsuccessful."

WASHINGTON. (AP)

letter over to Kennedy,

A. S.

before

the Senate Commitlec

(Milie) Monroney,

Ôila), that Communist errorts

Montoncy

"I'he

attorney

general re-offered a photograph showinglabout the leadership

said he inquired Cold War heroes will be eligi-

to infiltrate integration groups plied: "Based on all available King at a

school which

the National Association

of

the ble for the nation's top mili-

for the tary decoration

- the Medal

have heen "remarkably unsuc- information from the FBI and governor said was Cornmunist- Arvancement of Colored Pen-lot Honor -- under a bill Presi-

cessful."

other sources, we have no evi-dominated.

ple

(NAACP)

and the Con-dent Kennedy signed into law

SIonroney is a member of

dence that any of the top leadil. Kennedy also ivrote: "It isigress

of

Racial

Equality Thursday.

the senate Commerce Com-

mitter which recently heard

Gor's. Ross Barnett of Mis-

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PIIIONAL TORM NO, 10

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MAY 19OZ EDITION

GSA GEN. SEG. NO, 37

UNITED STATES GOV

Memorandum

MENT

. - Belmont

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TO

:W. C. Sullivan

DATE: 7/18/63

FROM

:Ro W. Smith

11-1-00

1 - Evans

1:- Sullivan

ullivan

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Holmes -

1 - Jones

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•SUBJECT: REQUESTS FROM SENATOR WARREN G. MAGNUSON

AND CONGRESSMAN JEFFERY COHELAN

CONCERNING CURRENT RACIAL AGITATION

1

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By Lettes dated 7/16/63, Senatos Magnuson enclosed a leaflet M?!

containing the photograph of Martin Iuther

King and others at what was

described as a "Communist Training School.". Senatoz Magnuson requested

insormation concerning the auchenticity of the photograph, Intormation

as to the highlances geschool thece the photograph was allegecly take

and the status of the Geongia Commission on Education which printed the

leaflet.

fir

ho

By lecter dated 7/15/63, with a similar enclosure, Congressma

the

Cohelan requasted information regarding King and the school.

appi

It is believed that these requests, which are similar in natur

committee.

to the previous request of Senatos Monroney, should be handled in the same

manner by advising the correspondents that because of Departmental poliey

their requests are being fozuarded to the Depastment for its sonsideration

Enclosed los that purpose are separate letters to Senator Magnuson and

Congressman Cohelan.

Senator Magnuson is on Special Correspondents' ilfr

in 1944 by the California Labor School, an organization designated as

subversive pursuant to Executive Order 10450.

He is also known in the

past to have favored the abolition of the House Committee on Un-American

Activities.

Py separate comunication, the Attorney General is being

furnished one copy each of correspondents' letters, enclosures, and our

thorized

replies. We are also furnishing pertinent information and calling

attention to the data previously submitted to him regarding this matter

ins = 1

contained in the Director's letter to the Attorney General dated 7/16/63

person

roceedings

by

not for dissemi-

RECOMMENDATION:

1105-7212000

NOT RECORDED 1 JUL 25 1963

Congressman Cohelan.

That the enclosed letters bolgelt 28 1963atos Maguson and

Inclosures prot

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RESENG. FRAGNUSON, WASH, CHAIRMA

OHN. 9-HASTORE, R.

MORRIS COTTON,

i. E. PIIKE MONRONEY, OKLA.

THRUSTC! B. MOh, uN, KY

STROM THURMOND, S.C.

HUGH SCOTT, PA.

FRANK J. LAUSCHE, OHIO

WINSTON L. PROUTY, VT.

RALpH YARBOROUGH, TEX.

J. GLENN BEALL, MD.

CLAIR ENGLE, CALIF.

E. L. BARTLETT, ALASKA

ANCE HARTKE, IND.

GALE V. MCGEE, WYO.

HILIP A. HART, MICI

OWARD W. CANNON, NE

EDWARD JARRETT, CHIEF CLERK

United States Senate

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE

Mr. Tolson k

Mr. Belmont

Mir. Mehr--

Mr. Casper.

Mr. Callahan

Mr. Conrad

Mr. Nanch

vans.

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Mr. Tintter.

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nel without the

express

approval of

the

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youx Committee and the content may nut & disclosed

nation outside your Committee.

This document is

Its m'è

prepared in response to

limind to

unauthorized

official

your request and is

person

proceedings by

Bot for

dissemi-

Dear Mr. Director:

I am enclosing a leaflet which was included in the official

hearing record on S. 1732, the Administration's Public Accommo-

dations Civil Rights bill.

It was submitted by the Governor

of Mississippi, Ross Barnett, as part of his statement to demon~

strate that the recent racial demonstrations in the South and

elsewhere are inspired and organized by communists.

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Could you at the earliest possible time advise me of the

authenticity of the picture, the status of the organization

printing it (the

"Georgia Commission

on Education, the nature

and character of the Highlander Folk School of Monteagle, Tenn.,

as well as any other facts that might be pertinent in evaluat-

ing the implications of the material.

A reply with the return of the leaflet for inclusion in the

record would be very helpful. My thanks in advance.

3

Personal regards.

вщий Тадині

MAGNUSON

Honorable J. Edgar Hoover

Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation

1 33 11,23

Department of Justice

Washington 25, D. C.

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nel without the express

your Committee

nation outside

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approval of

the

FBI.

and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized

your Committee.

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prepared in response to

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your re

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1 - Mr. Sullivan

ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED

1 - Mr. M.A. Jones

My dear scamoc:

HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED

BY 502 Am 1 = Mr. Bland

1- Mr. Baumgaroner

DANG 121-00-

1 - Section tickler

1'- Mr. Garner

Reference is tade to your letter dated only do, 1000,

with the enclosed leniles and your reaucet for Incormaton cor

corning thus auchenticity of the picture in the leattoe, the natore

ace character of too Highlander folk schook, and the status of

the Georgia Commonasion on mducation.. In line with separtental

polley, youe requent and a cozy ot the tootlet are being dorwardsd

so tho Attorndy Guneral for lie consideration.

il:

Farmant to yous roguoat, & on returring to leaflet.

incorely yourog

li Edgar Hoover

MAILED 6.1

JUL 1 8 1963

COMM-FBI

Paclosure

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Assistant Attorney General

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CONF

The littorncy Ccacral

1 - Mr. Belmont

1 - Mr. Mohr

THIS 18

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1 - Mr.

DeLoach

Director, FLI

1 - Mr. M.A. Jones

1 - Mr.

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Inclosed are lottore from Senator Warren C. Magnuson and Congressanon

Juttery Schelan, which are celleorplanatorg. i have intora ed tach by lodor than cate

that I uni roferring his letter to you for your conducration in line Fith Expartocatai

polies" Copies of by lettere in this regard are alo attacbed.

¿a you will not, each latter tranomittud a leadet containing a photogra

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M9s and othero purportedly in attondanco ut a semiuas at tae

ligilanton. Ois 0000k ovur the Labor Day weekend in 1007 and requected latornilipo

pertinent to the valtalty of the lentlet.

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Ingemallor concerning the school and thou kdoutted in the leadict with

ADING

SingeMbasrary, dobroy Millame, and tigles Moriose mad furained to you by

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letter cated idly 17, 1906, captioned "Lastin Luther bing, occurity watter-O, Fachi

Mattera.""

wor your adcdonal in ormation, newapaper arboles luciente that the Scorgia

Commision on Egucation, waich is too legloldio invocating body of the stato oi

Gorgia, bent a pistogrugher named win triand to the labor Tay, lool, woekend

nominar at the lighlunder doks school. c royartedly door both still and crocion

picturce of tho individuale ond activities there on that occuoton, Toc Commission later

2n01 ned those photographs in a large folace and is knovo to have cirentates thou

if the labor say aucting.

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JUL 1 8 1363г

Perry, in & coluca in the Copterbor A Jia%duens of the "Daily

"COMM-FEr

ease coast cor munist nowapaper, stated that he dad altended the woukerd

nated cane

tanter doll whoos ovor the Labor Iny muttonentout. actry

run intour king and dubcoy

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SENATOR WARREN G. MAGNUSON & CONGRESSMAN

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JEFFERY COHELAN CONCERNING CURRENT RACIAL

Sullivan

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IS ADIDATIONEERENIAITY INYORMATIC LASSIFICATION

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CONZI

The Afternog General

A Wealtngton Capital Hema servies dispatch for July &a, 1060, quoted

Marin Lother Fang as statior test his only vet to the richianees folk schoos mua

tor' a sprech ho bad wade de the ochoot's 10ch Menivercary colebastion la 1001. 1c

asded that tho picture of him at tao coacot which had seen cisplaged by Governda hose

Barnet, of mlenssiot, to the sonate Comultee on Commerco od dudy Ji, 150t,

Gypsrently voe taken during this viait.

- Jinclosures (0)

1 • The Esputy Attorey Genernl • Enclocures (0)

2 • Mr. Rarike Maroball o Enclosuria (0)

nosistant attorney General

VOTE:

This letter is classified Confidential since it contains information

furnished from confidential informants whose revelation could

cause harm to the national defense.

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UNITED' STATES GOVERNM

"I

Memorandum

Tolson -

belmont.

Mahr -

"Cougar-

Callahen -

Conrad.

DeLouch

TO

Mx. W. C. SullivanuCh

DATE:

July 18, 1963

DO FROM :

R. W. Smith

-11-1:00

Trotter -

Tale. Room

Holmes -

Gandy

SUBJECT:

REQUESTS FROM SENATOR WARREN G. MAGNUSON

AND CONGRESSMAN JEFFERY COHELAN

CONCERNING CURRENT RACIAL, AGITATION

ER. W. Sa

Reference my memorandum dated 7/18/63, captioned as above, which

acknowledged receipt of letters and enclosures from Senator Magnuson and

Congressman Cohelan and informed them that their requests are being forwarded

to the Attorney General for his consideration.

Senator Magnuson requested information as to the authenticity of a

photograph of Martin Luther King and others taken at the Highlander Folk School,

the status of the Georgia Commission on Education which printed the photograph,

and information relating to the Fighlander Folk School. Congressman Cohelan

also requested information regarding King and the school.

Information concerning the Highlander Folk School and those in the

photograph with King--Abner Winston Berry, Aubrey Williams, and Myles Horton --

was furnished to the Attorney General by letter dated 7/17/63, captioned

"Martin Luther King, Security Matter-C, Racial Matters."

• The enclosed memorandum contains additional information for the

Attorney General.

The Georgia Commission on Education, a legislative investigating body

of the State of Georgia, sent a photographer to a seminar at the Highlander Folk

activitiese Later the commi, son penished these poo tirares in a large do eno

Enclosures seut

= 7-18-63

105-x2

NOT RECORDED

1 - Mr. Belmont

1 - Mr. M:A. Jones : 176 JUL 24 1963

1 - Mr. Mohr

3 1 - Mr. Baumgardner

1 - Mr. DeLoach

1 - Mr. Bland

1 - Mr. Evans

1 - Section tickler

• 1 - Mr. Sullivan

1 - Mr. Garner

10.101 23 1963

3 3 51:23

/ RSG/aab

(11)

This document is prepared in response to your request and ls not for dissemi-

nation outside

your Committen ides use is limited to official proceedings by

your Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person

h A. JUL 30 1963

unhout the express approval of the FBI.

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Memo Smith to Sullivan

RE:

REQUESTS FROM SENATOR WARREN G. MAGNUSON

AND CONGRESSMAN JEFFERY COHELAN

CONCERNING CURRENT RACIAL AGITATION

Information in our files shows that Abner Berry, Aubrey Williams,

and King were present at this Labor Day seminar at the school. King was quoted

by a press service on July 13, 1963, as having admitted that he attended the 25th

anniversary celebration of the school in 1957 and that the picture of him was

apparently taken during this visit.

RECOMMENDATION:

That the enclosed letter be sent to the Attorney General.

2

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The Attorney Genezal

July 16,

• 1963

Director, FBI

ST-103800 REC10/9-104670-1666

MARTIN LU:BER KING

SECURITY MATTEN • C

RACIAL HATTERS

1

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MT.

- MI.

Belmon t

Evans

Stanley

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The following 19 a brief summary of infornation in O

this Bureau'g files concerning Abner #. BeIsT, Aubrey Willians,

and lyles Horton:

REC'D- READING ROOM

JUL IF

soner vanston Bereta Merge, was born on dune 12,

1902, 31 Beaumont, Texas.

2929₽

and fron 1930 to 105ine heir higi level positions

wICh13 che Party.

in loSle reiscuished oditorship of the

Harlen edition of mhe Vorker" it order to assume the position

of Hegra-Affairs Editor

ce The tsaily forker." He held this

position until the "aily orker" ceased operation in January,

Subject

1958.

Int September, 1050, Betsy was reported to have left the

Party; however, he antended soo 1?ch Cormunist Party National

Convention on December 9 - 12, 1059, at New Yort City.

resides in Newark, lew jersey,

and is currently enployed as

an editor

by the Autara Indonesian News Agency, with offices

in the Usited Nations Building, New York City.

This agency

publishes: a daily bulletin which has been described as an

Indonesian propaganda outlet owned and operated by the

Government of Indonesia; howeves, investigation indicates

it actanily appears to be a privately owned firu with no

subsidization by the Indonesian Covernment. Upon being

to Criminal Sanctions

Unauthorized Disclosure

prot

intervieved on three occasions by Special Agents of the rBl,&

Darry lias refused to cooperate, indicating that he had severed

2. 39 PM G3 NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATIO

МОРЯ

his connections with the Conmunist Party beczuse it becane &

futile organization.

Aubrey willis Willians is Chairnan of the Nationl

"committee to mbolish the House Un-American, adtilit as Committee;

cited as an orcanization set un to lead anacatect the Communist

Party's "operation abolition" campaigy.

This committee was

organized by lilians and rank. Wiltinson,

a known and admitted past Conmunict Faridinabershiy. s

Over the

years Williams has spoken before,

and supported, a number of

jeft-wing and commnist-led groups, although he has publicly.

«] - Hr?

DeLoach

NOTE: Information obtained from memo Jones

Rosen 2- DeLoach, 7/16/63, Captioned "Abner Winston

Berry,

Sullivan

Males Horton.

12716/03, 45me Cat S Evans

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CO

ENTIAL

The Attorney General

and in appearances before Senate investigating committees,

disclaimed any connection with, or knowledge of, the Communist

Pasty.

He has worked energetioally to discredit the FBI and

the Director.

As of July, 1951, Willzams was President and

& member of the Board of Directors of the Southern Conference

Iducational Fund, Incorporated, previously known as the

Southern Conference fOr Human Heliare, Cited as & Communist

tront.

& iisting or the oiiiceig of the Southern Conterence

[ducational fund dated in January, 10S3, Indicates Williams

is now president emeritus of this orgarization.

According

to a confidential informant, in June of 1956, during the time

the Southern Conference So% Human Welfare was in existence,

Commnist Pasty nembers were affiliated with it and worked

actively in it. Jince the lormation of the Southern Conference

Educational Fund, mark and file Party members have not been

encouraged to work in it; however, cartain Party menbers in

the New Orleans area had been assigned so participate in the

organization to further communist principles.

on June 20, 1903, Myles Horton identified himsels

to the FBI as Director of the lighlander Research and

Education Center of Knowville,, Tennessee.

This is the

successor to the Highlander Folk School, originally at

Monteagle, Tennessee, of which Horton was also the director...

The latter school was supported primarily by donations from

individuals and labor unions and it offered courses of

instruction in labor organization, social economics and

the general field of labor education. It was known to have

and it followed the

practice of securing communists as students.. However,

according to information received,. it was never known

have offered courses of instructions in communism, nor was

the Party inown to have succeeded in gaining control of the

school:

There were many allegations that it represented the

headquarters for communism in eastern fennessee; however,

these claims were never sabstantated. The Tennessee Courts

revoked the lligilander Folk School's charter on the grounds

that it violated the crininal lavs of the state. A state

charter for the Knoxville school was issued on hugust 23, 1961.

On April 21, 1942, a confidentini Informant advised

that lyles liozion was a speaker before the Southern Conference

fox luman Welfare.. On April 19, 1949, Paul Crouch, a sell-

admitted

former Communist Party

member, described Horter as

CONFIDD

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CONFIDiTIAL

The Attorney General

a Left wing scolalist who was always close io the Communist

Party, meting with officials and representatives to discuss

policy and procedure during the period from 1959 to 1941.

This informant also described Horion's wife, Zylphia, as

being even closer to the Party in 1941.

Another confidential

Informant advised this Bureau in 1950 that Ilorton continued

to follow the Communist Party line during the period 1947 to

1950 and that he associated with know Party members.

This

informant doubted that Horion was actually a Communist Party

member. In 1950 and 1951 a third contidential informant,

who is a former member of the Party, advised that llorton

was not a member even though he had close association with

Party members. He stated Horton had been criticined by the

Party members as an opportunist who used the Party los his

ow purposes.

Forton was reported to be listed as one of the

spoakers for a "Bill of Rights Dinner' which was to be

sponscred by the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee on

December 15, 1959.

The above confirms information furnished to

Asaistant Attorney General Burke Marshall on the morning

of july 16, 1963,

* = MI. Busie Marshall

Assistant Attorney General

2 - Dix'. I. Walter reagley

Assistant Attorney General

NOTE: (CONTINUED) Classified confidentiat as information

furnished from confidential informants

whose revelation could cause harm to the

national defense.

3

cONFIDENTIAL

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NATIONALI

SECRET

Unauthorized Disclosure

CURITY INFOEMATION

Subject to Criminal Sanctions

The Attorney General

..1 ~ Mr. Belmont

July 1%, 1903

1 - Mr. Mohr

REC- 42.

Mr. DeLoach

1 - Mr. M.A.Jones

ST-Induractor, 128/57-6-

-Mr. Evans

1 - Mr. Baumgardner

- Mr. Sullivan

1 - Mr. Bland

RENUBOT FROM LEMATORS CONLONET

1 - Section tickler

CONCERN CURE DECLE AUTATION

1 - Mr. Garner

5H84 OFTEN

#MORIG

SPLALMIATE

..:.

11-1-00

For your intormntion, thure is enclouse a copy of a luttur catou July 3%,

1965, recolved rod iptator i. do talke soarong waich le bull esplanatory.

have adviace senator monrondy by lotter on this cate that, in inó with cartsenter

polley, i m rocering hie letter to you.

In substance, tho Communiot Party, Una (COUS)) le not abla to assume a

role of leacdeclay in the raciad unzost it this and. Lorever, ino barcy io attir ghing

to exploit the currcut mucal eituation tarough propaganto and participation in

¿smonetrations and emer activitica Whicrover poseiolie

through taeue tacles,

Farty bopes ultimataly to progroso ironi lie current supporting role to a gosition of

úccisive leaderolip.

rEach dE the CPURA'o hope to play a more dscisive male de linkue with

stanley Lovison's role as an arvisor to hurtin luther ring.

Farty ciscidla regar

Lovicon, a-secrut mumber of te GPlad, as bang cagaged in the most luckortuat

work in the Party today bucause of hia aacociation vid sing. icon nas coLoria

Due o cause of herbeing a minister of ration, com not curate

delivered at To convention os the Amorican Focuration of labor Congrers of lackotrial

Organization (ilL-CIU) in liozion ta i-cen box, 1001.

F

T=17U1L!

DUEA.

REsistant, the ta restate a date fit Otal, sio hao been vichie to sho

National commite of thu CPuch in Lecember.

1002, noer the chas onen

Cornalies Jaunuse

Ling adopted levion's sunguacon and amloya s silinhis

organizabon as sourcen notian I sacramp concrane (010.

Ling announcile in in

Milinockon tie polo.

Lowever, d'nal counce to us octate silly to tris

Belredr

Ca lahan

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¿SENATOR A.

TRACTOY'S VIEWS RE CR

ED I M2LICE

7-17-63

TELE

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age

11A

MIKE MONRONEY, REQUEST FOR

CURRENT FACTAL AGIZATION.

ЕГНОИ!

SEE NOSE ON PAGE THREE RE

CLASSIFICATIONIS

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The Attorney General

Nicently, informnion resetrod indeated that,, wille Levison still retains

has strong commudei conviedcas 2ud still acto m an citectiva Party advisor to zing:

he is becoming critical di eno Barty's roic in sne reladonhig. it believes toe zaity

has lost stuctige arong Regroew Istly because it ins not bein zuaciently asgrassive

and edectve in promoting civll riacts for the degro and otheredee activaly tonersing

itaelt in Mogro causes.

Eing rebortedly attended a Labor Fay weckeri serkar in 20357 at the

Etyalander Dals school in sconteagla, fencesses.

according to a publication circulated

conceruing the zoosing by tao weorge mommimion oi duacoc, meach allogonly bat

an andercover agent in attentanco, the meelns was holy to iséuse matious end.

tastes for prosighting racial curde and cucurbanced Due CPu. kerbere wore

on the schooL ctat aud the gehool lollowed the poley oi Waleomag comaid statonts,

the C2uct tha sotia control of the school.

solierted

ere to sule ten

In June, 1000, ta ¿OLC was roported to have:

manus trom the soviet

and Carcasiorada intende mi ta kunal isation l and do pha

In recoat years, King has sigued a pedicon arsioz abolition of the Moues

Committee on in-american ctivicles and petition requiting the reisase of two

imprizoned Communist Party loaders.

NAACE pileials are aware that the NadCP is & communist target. i a

result, the NanCy has taken a line vend against communiin and tas warned les

branches to be constantly slart againet coumunist elocts to inaltato true doo

constitution of the intake contaits ar anticommut clause which prohuite Eraser

ship in the organization by know Communist darty membara.

There is no indication that any ci the kay figures de the Nance are or

have won niembars of te communist carty.

loy bilkins, isecutive secretary of

the Winch, has best strongly ancommunist and has caccavored lo lovy the MACe

The following natonal offfeurs of the NAxC2 had communict iront

ailazois min no instance catchsia nunhur of yeurs ago, but houd is anorn to

have bach a tommmist marty member:

artus splogar, Eresidont, Binboy Stoplon b.

ipottomood, Canirman of the koaro of tirectors; and kobert I. Carton, Loneral vosasca.

S00

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The storney General

There is no evidenee that any of the following top leaders of CORE are or

have been Communist Party momberg:. Jawes L. Farmer, Natioual Director: Fame T.

BicCala, Feld Lirector; and Gorcon&. Curey, Mirector, Pregram and Traizing

Dorartment. Carey was cue di tha founders of the Conlerence of Young vocisists (CY3)

in 100t and was a member at large ot the inecutive committee of tyl. The CYs was

controlled ly the Trotakyite iociallot horkers Farty, which has been designated as

cubercive pursuant to maecutive Oreer 10150.

Full details of the activitles related herein previoualy have been furnished

for the Departmont's libes in individual reports and related communicationa.

Enclosures 68)

2, • The Deputy Attorney Soneral • Enclosures (a)

& -Wer. Barise Marshall • Enclosures (2)

Assiotant Attorney General

Note:

This letter is classified Secret inasmuch as it contains information

from highly sensitive sources, the unauthorized disclosure of which

could result in serious damage to the Nation and have an adverse

effect upon the national defense interests of the country.

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1-Mr. Belmont

I-Mr. Mohr

1-Mr. DeLoach

1-MI. Evans

191-116-

+: 88613157-6-133

IMI. Sullivan

I-M M.A Jones

I-Mr. Baumgardner

1-Mx. Bland

1-Section tickler

ImMI. Garner

July 17, 1963

BY SPECIAL MESSENGER

.16

more

Honorable A. B. Miko Monroney

AT.T, T

Unitod States Senate

Vashington, D. C.

SPLALM HTG

My dear Senstor:

SPECIAL

Beference is made to your lotter dated

July 12, 1963, requesting information concerning

the esten: to

which the current sacial agitation

is communist Instigated and information concerning

ulleged subversive affiliations of Martin Luther

King, di., and the loaders of the National

Association for the Advancement of Colored People

and the Congress of Racial Equality.

In line with

Departmonial palley, your request for this

Information is being tronsmlited to the httorney

General for

his consideration.

Sincerely yOUS,

17

Ju 17

BY GOURIER SYC.

04 JUL18

COMMSEEI

TT. Edgar Hoover

NOTE:

See memorandum Smith to Sullivan, 7-17-63,

RSG: JMS:aab: jdd,

Xe:

SENATOR A..S, MIKE MONRONEY,

your Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to

nation outside your

Committee.

Its use is limited to

REQUEST FOR DIRECTOR'S VIEWS RE CURRENT RACIAL

AGITATION.

This document is prepared in response to your request and is

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OPTIONAL ¡O¿M NO. ' 10"

Fir

UNITED STATES. GOVEKNMEN

Memorandum

Tolson -

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lohr

DATE:

7-17-63

FROM : 'Mr. R. H. Smith

4A54

Sulladoe

•Trotter —

Holmes

Gandy

LAT

SUBJECT:

SENATOR A. S. MIKE MONRONEY

REQUEST FOR DIRECTOR'S VIEWS

11-1-00=

RE CURRENT RACIAL AGITATION

Racial

vii:

kw.'

By letter dated 1-12.63 senator A. No Mike monroney

requested the Director's views concerning the claim of Governor

is communist instigated.

Senator Monroney included with his letter

a transcript of Governor Barnett's remaris and requested informativn

concerning

the alleged subversive affiliations of Martin Luther King, JI.,

and the leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of

Colored PeOpla (NAACP) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).

Mr. Tolson suggested that we write a short note to Senator

Monroney acknowledging receipt of his communication and advising that,

in line with Departmental policy, his request for information is

weing transmitted to the attorney General for appiopriate consideration.

Mr. Tolson further suggested that we also prepare a memorandum for the.

Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General transmitting Senator

Monroney's letter and the transcript of Governor Barnett's statenent,:

along with the information contained in Mr. Sullivan's memorandum on

this matter dated 7-16-63. The Director noted:

"I share Tolson's views."

Accordingly, we have prepared the enclosed letter to

Senator Monroney and the enclosed memorandum for the Attorney General,

with copies for the Deputy Attorney General and Assistant Attorney

General Burke Marshall, in line with Mr. Tolson's suggestion.

RECOMMENDATION:

REG-42 1526-1.

ST-116

That the enclosed letters be sent.

5 AUG

81963.

enclosures

Jur

1 - MI. Belmont

~ MX. Mohr

2 - MI..

DeLoach

Hir:

1

MI•

Evans

Mr.

sullITan;

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MoA-JOnES"

MI.

Baumgardner

BIX•

Bland

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Section tickterdocument is prepared in response to you›

equest and is not for dissema-

Mr. Garner nution outside your Committée.

Its use is lanated to official proceedings by

AKSG: JMS: aab: jda wur Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person-

i do 2-10014 1 80 wetonit the expres agroud of.

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UNITED STATES GOVERNM

Memorandum

TO

: DIRECTOR

DATE: 7/16/63

FROM

:* CLYDE TOLSON

Tolson

Belmont

Casper

Callahary

Conradi

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SUBJECT:

Racial Dittie

reil

Please note the attached correspondence. I do not believe the

suggested approach is proper. It seems to me that we should write a short

note to Senator Monroney, acknöwledging receipt of his communication and

advising that in line with departmental policy his request for information

is being transmitted to the Attorney General for appropriate consideration.

We can, at the same time, prepare a memorandum to the Attorney General

and the Deputy Attorney General transmitting Senator Monroney's letter

together with the enclusure (a copy of Governor Barnett's statement) anc

advise him of the information contained in Mr. Sullivan's memorandum

of July 16 concerning Martin Luther King, NAACP and CORE.

It seems to me that the letter proposed by Mr. Sullivan and Mr. Evans

can only result in your being called before the committee personally to

answer detailed questions concerning the current racial agitation.

without the

your Committee

nation

ortside

This document is

CT:DSS

#mDe1G

have Tolson's.

express

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7-17-63

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1-17-63

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Tolson

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Holmes.

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EMORIE

-

Racial

MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIRECTÓR:

§I think it might be well for Mr. Evans to

personally deliver the original of the memorandum

to the Attorney General and the copy of the memo-

randum indicated for the Deputy Attorney General

so that if any questions are raised Mr. Evans can'

make it very clear that the Bureau does not furnish

information of the type requested by Senator

CT:DSS

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your Committee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorzed

nation outside your Committee.

Monroney to members of the Congress, but that

matters of this kind have been handled in the past

through the Department.

nel without the express approval of the FBI.

person-

This document is preme in response to i in rest after orce dissemen

piratits

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, ATiONAL :ORM NO, 10

• UNISED STATES GOVERN

Memorandum

NT

TO

:Mr. VY. C. Sullivan

18-72> DaTe: Jully:16, 1963

C.

FROM

SUBJECT:

-R. W. Smith

SENATOR A.S. IIIKE. MONRONEY

RENUEST FOR DIRECTOR'S VIETS

¡CURRENT RACIAL AGITATION

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Tolson

Belmont

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Callahan

Conrad.

DeLoach

Evans

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Tele. Room.

•Holmes -

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By enclosed letter, 1/12/05,

Director's views concerning

Senator Monroney requested the.

the claim

that much of the current racial

agitation is connunisi-instigated.

There is enclosed a letter to Senator Monroney, with whom we

have had cordial relations, pointing out that while communists strive

to or one there rather at a fading outr

their activities have been of a

inlS 1s a raccua:

state-

and is supported most concretely in today's situation by statéments

in the last nonth by four separate Party leaders who lamented in

Party meetings, the lace mels re cPusA Negro fuestion 6/19

any Party leadership in the current Negro

ana 7/12/63; DE 004ES Celet 1/5/63 re CRusA vegro Question; & i-

INF 59

allegation

Senator Monroney also requested the Director's comnents un

that the Reverend Martin Luther King and other Icaders of

such organizations as the National Association

Coloreri

• People (NAACP) and the Congress of Racial Equality (CCRS) have

subversive affiliations.

King and leaders of the

NiACP and CORe discloses the following:

Martin Luther King

express

King has not been identified as a member of the Commist

Party: horevat, he Has been descrine by a commist Party inctional

natian outside your Cammittee.

I'has document

gis prepared in

king associates with Party members, and his nate haspeen linied vie

communist front groups.

may.

INITIVE.

NAACP

RÉC- 11'5

15'4-6-

NACh officials are aware that

the NACP is a conmunist tales

The MACP hasnaken alim stand against comminisn and has varned

^lo

branches to be constantly tiert against commist torts to infiltrate

Aw sS6

Sc Chiệs

RSG: J3 mls' (10)

1-MT.

'Belmont; l-Mr. Mohr; 1-in: DeLoach;

1-Dr.

M. A.

Jones; i-ir. Sullivan; 1-ir.

Baungardner;

I-lir.

Bland; 1-Scction fickler; I-iIT. Garnen

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AUG 8 1963

Directe

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Memo to Mir. Sullivan

RE:

SENATOR A. S. NIKE MONRONEY

REQUEST FOR DIRECTOR'S VIENS

RE CURRENT RACIAL AGITATION

and has endeavored to

Roy Wilkins, keep the Nace clean of communists..

executive secretary, is strongly anticonmnist

'Severa]

other national officers of the NiC? had connunist front affiliations

a number of years ago -- in no instance extensive -- and none have bzen

known to ve cormunist larty menders.

CORE

There is no evidence that any of CORE's top leaders ara

nembers of the communist farty or nave any communist sympathies.

As

a matter of fact, coRe's top leaders have been very cooperative witi

IlS.

GBSERVATION

The reply to Senator Monroney is absolutely factial and sound,

and cannot be used to embarrass the Bureau, It is purposely

general

in nature.

In regard to the

Senator

s request for specific information

about alleged subversive affiliations of Martin Luther King,

the leaders

of the MACP and CORE, it is believed best to advise him as

we have

done in the letter that he may wish to cirect that request to the

Deputy Attorney General

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach.

In the first place,

anything ve might reveal about king could jeopardize a highly placec

source:

in acclition, we do not want to say anything that night possidi]

appear to contradict

something the attorney General may say in his

testimony today.

LETTER TO deB. KATZENBACH

Enclosed is a brief letter to the Deputy Attorney General

Nicholas de3. Katzenbach furnishing hin vith a copy of the Senator's

letter and the Director's reply.

RECONNTUNDAT IONS:

(1) That the enclosed letter to Senator Montoney be sent.

(2) That the enclosed letter to Deputy Attorney General

deB. Katzenbach be sent.

wes.

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• CARL HAYDEN, ARIZ., CHAIRMAN

RICHARD B. RUSSELL, GA

LEVERETT SALTONS

DENNIS CHAVEZ, N

MeX.

MILTON R. YOUNG,

ILLEN J, ELLETSER, LA

KARL E. MUNDT, S.

PETER HILL, ALEI.

MARGARET CHASE &

1H, MAINE

JOHYL. MCCLELLAN, ARK.

THOMAS H. KUCHEL,

sUF.

A. WILLIS RODERTSON, VA.

ROMAN L. HRUSKA, DaIR.

WARREN G. MAGNUSON, WASH.

GORDON ALLOTT, COLO.

SPESSARD L, HOLLAND, FLA.

NORRIS COTTON, N.H.

JOHN STENNIS, MISS,

CLIFFORD P. CASE, NJ.

JOHN O, PASTORE, R.l.

JACOB K. JAVITS, N.Y.

ESTES KEFAUVER, TENN.

A. 5. MIKE MONRONEY, OKLA.

ALAN BIBLE, NEV.

ROBERT C. BYRD, SY. VA.

GALE W. MCGEE, MYO.

HUBERT H. HUM! HREY, MINN.

EVERARE H-SMITH, CLERK

THOMAS J. SCOTT, ASST. CLERK

Writed States & nate

COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS

July 12, 1963

Mr. Tolson!

SMir. Belmoff.

Mr. Mihr ..

Mr. Casper..

Mr. Callahan

Mr. Сатал

Mr. MILAN

Mr. Evans...

Mr. Gale….

Mr. Rosen!

Mr. Sullitan

Mr. Tavel.

Mr. Irrtter

Tele. Room.

Miss H-ines

Miss Gandy.

The Honorable J. Edgar Hoover

Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation

Washington 25, D..C.

літ,!

SPRALM HE

My dear Mr. Hoover:

You have no doubt seen the statements made today by the Honorable

Ross Barnett, Governor of Mississippi, in his testimony before the

Commerce Committee on the pending civil rights legislation. The

Governor made a number of statements concerning alleged Communist

activities, and I have had a number of inquiries from my constituents

lin a similar vein.

nel uithout the express approval of

your

nation

This

Undoubtedly the Governor's testimony before the Committee today will

result ingmany additional inquiries concerning the validity of these

allegations. It is my purpose to be as factual and informative as possible

in responding to my constituents who indicate great concern as a resült of

them, an

Committee and the content may not

outside

your Committee.

document is prepared in response to

Its use

It would be most helpful to me in preparing responses to these constituents

if you could provide me with your expert views and reactions to these

allegations to the effect that much of the current racial agitation is Com-

munist-instigated. In particular, I would appreciate having your comments

concerning the allegation that the Reverend Martin Luther King, and other

leaders of civil rights organizations, including the NAACP and CORE, have

subversive affiliations. Perhaps better than any other American, you are

qualified to place these allegations in proper perspective.

* am enclosing for your convenience a copy of diverzor Barnett's prepared"

ENCLOSURE

os discloser to unauthorized person-

amitra to oral proceeings oy

our equest und is hotpordissemi

statement, but I will also refer you to his subsequent testimony, during

which he elaborated by naming specific individuals and orgapiatien ta

With kindest regards and best wishes, I am

ENCLOSURD

E AUG 8 1963

XP. PROC. 1°

JUL 15 1963

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iih

Mike Monroney

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STATEPENT BY GOVERNOR ROSS R. BARNETT OF

SENATE COMMERCE COMMITTEE, JULY 12, 1963.

SSISSIPPI BEFORE U.S.

Gentlemen, we are facing one of the most critical times in the

history of our nation. Minority groups in our country have taken to

the streets to agitate, to demonstrate; to breach the peace, and to

provoke violence calculated to blackmail this Congress into passing

legislation in direct violation of thu u........

"--tes Constitution.

You have been forced to consider this legislation through the

pressure.and blackmail of mobs in the streets.

The President and the Attorney General have encouraged

somonstratiors, fraçdon rides, alt-ins, pieketing and actual violation

of local laws. What is happening in our nation today fits the

pattern of what has "been happaring throughout the world insofar as

the Conmunist activity 1s concerned. Compare the Communist tastics

With a Cuba, a Laos, a Berlin, a Viet Nam, a Haiti, or other parts

of the world. Communist tactics are to create a crisis and let 1t

cool off. The same tactics are being practiced in the United States

through a Ermingham, and letting 1t cool off; a jackson, and

letting 1t cool off; a Danville, Virginia; a Cambridge, Maryland;

riots in Philadelphia; and in New York City. It's the same old

Communist offensive of attack with a hammer and then withdraw.

Attack with a hammer and then withdraw--each time causing more 111

will, more racial unrest and pushing a weage further between

existing good relations of the people of a nation. It is the divide,

disrupt and conquer technique. The passage of this Civil Rights

legislation will positively provoke more violence, not just in the

South, but throughout all areas of our nation. I am convinced that

this is a part of the world Communist conspiracy to divide and

conquer our country from within.

The Communists are, therefore, championing the cause of the

Negroes In America as an Important part of their drive to mobilize

- both colored and white for the overthrow of our government.

There are those who are so anxious to hold high the banner of

the Civil Rights Issue that they fail to read some of the writing

on the banner.

They all to realize that the comminist Party hopes

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fan

the flamer into a holocaust in

Northern racial

strife

areas.

Io date, they have been disappointed and defeated by the due

process of law in the South where law enforcement agencies and level-

headed citizens have been able to contain the aggravations of the

outside racil agitators.

Gentlemen, It is obvious to many of us throughout the country

chat the racial agitation, strife and conflict that has been stirred

up throughout our entire nation is largely Communist-inspired. Racial

agitators In Mississipp1 and leaders of demonstrations in other

states have backgrounds that have made many of us, Including our

ocal police, state investigating ageneles, and the PEl, to be

concerned about the real motivation behind these so-called Civi

Rights leaders. *.

Your passage of this legislation will be no cure-all for the

problems that this nation faces because of racial strife and conflict.

The passage of this legislation will, however, mean the complete end

of Constitutional government in America and result'in racial violençe

of uninaginable scope. Even the New font Ilmes hag said that "with :

every negro advance, momentum for more violence and agitation

Increases, not decreases."

This legislation is so all-inclusive and so sweeping in its

scope that it has been termed by many as the "WHITE SLAVE BILL".

Gentlemen, you have all learned through your personal

experiences that to try to appease, accommodate, or give concessions

to the demands of the arrogant leads oniy to additional conflicts and

additional problems which you didn't face before." Certainly, you

are familiar with the results of our policy of appeasement towards

Cuba and Laos. The passage of this Civil Rights legislation will

lead

us into an area of conflict between the races, the Ilke of which

have never known. There will be no end to the constant pressure

for more

and more and more.

The Atormy Gesotal Das stutod that the pranngo of tile B111

would nove the problem of so-called discrimination in public

accommodatinns out of the streets and into the courts. I question

tins steroment. The Altonner General das beso personally sespossible

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e purpose of government should b

protect the Individual and

to see to 1t that no one interferes with his private property. The

present administration seems to have adopted the very heart of the

Soclalistic philosophy that the private rights of men are to be

tolerated only at the suffrage of the State. What we are seeing

today 1s a grasp for power by certain men in public nifice who would

give to an all-powerful central Government full control over all.

phases of the lives of our neople. I see this legislation as an

attempt by greedy, minorities to prostitute the purpose of law and

government

as a

protector of private property,

and

to use the law to

plunder the property of others.

If you pass this legislation, you are allowing a minority in our

country to force Itself upon the majority of the citizens of our

nation. What and where are the rights of the majority? The powers

Oi the Attorney General under this legislation will be so sweeping

and so encompassing as to comprise a serious threat, in Itself, to

the safety and stability of the nation. The Attorney General in his

testimony has stated, "I think that It is an Injustice that needs to

be remedied. We have to find the tools with which to remedy that

Injustice," In other words, regardless of the constitution, bes

through this legislation, asks for the power to run roughshod over

the rights of every individual and dictate to every citizen what he

coula or could not do with his prevate property and business, ei

1s the equal protection of the law?

I challenge the newspapers and news media of our country to :

awaken the man on the street, the small business man, all those who

respect law and order; to the fact that this legislation 1s an open

attack on the rights of every individual to the control of his

personal, private property.

Every citizen has the right to own and operate his own business

as he sees fit without interference

from any source. To give to an

011-powerful Contral Adverument the right to force the owner of a

private business to unwillingly do business with anyone creates a

new and special right for a minority group in this nation that

destroys the property and personal rights of every citizen.

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enator Russell has stated and the

ess has failed to report,

"Our American system has always rejected the idea that one group of

citizens may deprive another of legal rights and property by process

of agitation, demonstration, Intimidation, law defiance and civil

disobedience. Every Negro citizen possesses every right that is

possessed by any white citizen. But there is nothing in either the

Constituton or in Christian principles or common sense and reason

which would compel one citizen to share his rights with ore of

another

race at the same place and at the same time. Such compulsion

would amount to a complete denial of inalienable rights of the

adividual to choose or select his

associates."

Gentlemen, what could be more unequal and discrimatory than to

give one particular class of citizens the privilege of by-passing the

normal channels of Justice, which other catizens must follow. Under

this legislation, any agitator or irouble-maker of crank could bring

the owner of any business

establishment into federal court by merely

writing a letter to the U.S. Attorney General. The agitator would.

be represented, at no vost to hiraselt, by the orridiale and attoreys

of the Federal Government. If this legislation passes, American

citizens will have no rights in the ownership and use of their

private property, unless they use it in a way that federal officialdom

considers to be consistent with the so-called public interest. Today,

It seems to many Americans, the demands of the racial agitation

groups fix official opinion as to what 1s the public interest.

Tomorrow, the public interest could well be something else. It

could even invade the home--or even the bedroom of the individual.

The legitimate purpose of government is to protect a man's home

as his castle. Does not this same basic American Constitutional

fact

of life apply equally to a man's own private business? The

legislation you have under consideration would use federal police

power (as exemplified in our system of Federal courts) to destroy a

- man's personal property simply to satisfy racial minorities. Can

there be no end to the current insanity that would compel the mixing

of races in social activities to achieve WHAT? You can name It

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The head of the NACP here in Washingtos

D. C. (where Negro

criminal violence against white people is creating something akin

to a reign of terror) said on a national television program in

early May of this year, that Negro violence is coming and that the

NAACP Will promote the violence 1f whites do not immediately give

the Negro what he demands. What does he demand. Does he honestly

know just what he'really wants? Whatever he may want will not come

-

as a result of this or any other legislative act. You can be certain

of that basic fact!

The race problem can never be solved by passage

of laws, court edicts, or by breaches of the peace.

ONE ESTABLISHMENT GOES OUT OF BUSINESS

I have said that the free enterprise system has contributed much

to making our nation great and that many establishments would go out

of business if they were required to integrate.

I am prepared to

gIve you one specific example in Mississippi.

Mrs. Marjorie Staley of Winora, Mississippi, has operated a

restaurant as a Continental Trailways Bus Terminal for quite a while.

Apparently, she was making good and had a good business but she sias

told to either integrate or close the business. She chose to close:

her business rather than integrate. It Is my understanding that

Trailways officials had been directed by the Justice Department to

warn her to either close or integrate. She has approximately

$20,000.00 of equipment in the restaurant. She had seven or eight.

people employed - three whites and three or four Negroes. She had

a payroll of $2,000.00 per month:

Now her business is closed, seven

or eight people, Negroes and whites, are out of employment, and she

has $20,000.00 worth of equipment on her hands.

Prior to the time she closed this business,

she served both

white and colored in separate compartments - one for the whites and

one for the Negroes. Apparently, everyone was happy the way it was

being operated. Everyone was well pleased--customers as well as

employees, and Mrs. Staley.

This is one example that neither Congress nor the courts can

change attitudes and custor.s.

Mrs. Staley is a widow and earned her livelshood operating her

restaurant.

There is a communist nation just 90 miles from our shores and

yet, with this and all the other problems we face as a nation, the

whole attention of the congress and our nation at this critical era

in history is diverted to this tragic and mis-named Civil Rights

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legislation.

Perhaps this is all a part of a great conspiracy to

divert our attention to this domestic Issue so that we may neglect

other and far more important matters..

Gentlemen, I have done some research on this matter as to the

constitutionality of the proposed bill.

Section 3 0f Senate Bill 1732 provides that all persons shall

pe entitled, without discrimination or segregation on account of

race, color, religion, or national origin, to the

full and equal

enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages,

and accommodations. of hotels, motels and numerous other private

business

enterprises.

section 2(n) provides that alleged existing discriminatory

practices "take on' the character of action by the states and there:

fore fall within the ambit of the equal protection of the Fourteenth

Amendment to the Constitution of the United States."

Section 2(1) takes the position that congress has the right

to enact this proposed legislation in order to remove alleged

burdens on and obstructions to commerce under the Commerce Clause

of the constitution of the United States.

Congress does not have the

power to enact this legislati on

under the Fourteenth Amendment

3

The businesses sought to be controlled are purely private in:

character and

as such fall within the ambit of what Is commonly

known as "free enterprise." Every loyal conservative American has

a deep and abiding faith in our free enterprise system. He also

stands ever vigilant to protect the citizen's right to own, control

and operate his private business as he sees fit. The right to do

business or to decline to do business with any individual is an

inseparable part of said citizen's right to operate and control his

privately owned business. If this right is destroyed by the Federal

Government, the citizen has been deprived of one of his inalienable

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"No State shall make or enforce any law which

shall abridge the privileges or immunities of

citizens of the United States; nor shall any

State deprive any person of life, liberty, or

property, without due process of law; nor deny

to any person within its jurisdiction the

equai protection of the laws."

It should be noted that the Fourteenth Amendment 1s a pro-

hibition against State action. It is not a prohibition against

the action of one citizen against another. Each Individual has a

legal right to discriminate against another individual. Any

control over such individual action by the operation of a private

business lies wholly within the power of the

State legislatures

under the Tenth Amendment to the constitution of the United states.

Some states have passed legislation similar to this; some have not.

Each State has the right to make its own decision.

Mississippi has taken no action on this question. In our state

the owner of each business is free to make his own decision as to

whom he will serve:

Eighty years ago in United States v. Nichols, entitled the

Civil Rights cases, 109 U.S. 3, 3 S.CT. 18, 27:1. Ed. 835, the

supreme court of the United States held Sections I and 2 of the

Civil Rights Act of 1875 unconstitutional, said gots provided that

all persona in the United itates were entitled to the sull and

equal enjoyment of accommondations, advantages, facilities and

privileges of inns' and places of amusement. In holding that

Congress had no right to pass such a law under the Fourteenth

Amendment, the Court said:

"It is state action of a particular character

that 1s prohibitod. Individual invasion or

Individual rights is not the subject-matter

of the Amendment. "

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"And so in the present case, until some state

law has been passed or some state action

through its officers or agents has been taken,

adverse to the rights of citizens

sought to be

protected by the 14th Amenament, no legislation

of the United States under said Amendment, nor.

any proceeding under such legislation,, can be

called into activity; for the prohibitions of

the Amenament are against state laws

and acts

under state authority."

****

"Such legislation cannot properly cover the

whole domain of raghts appertaining to life,

liberty and property, defining them and

providing for their vindication. That would be

to establish a code of municipal law pegulative

of all private rights between man and man in

society. It would be to make Congress take the

place of the State Legislatures and to supersede

them. It is absurd to affirm that, because the

rights of life, liberty and property, which

include all civil rights that men have, are,

by the Amendment sought to be protected against

Invasion on the part of the State without due

process of law, Congress may, therefore provide

due process of law for their vindication in •

every case; and that, because the denial by a

State to any persons,

of the equal protection of

the laws, is prohibited by the Amendment, therefore

Congress may establish laws for their eçual

protection. In fine, the legislation which

congress is authorized to adopt in this behalf

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1s not general legislation upon

the rights of the- citizen,

but corrective legislation, that 1s, as may be

necessary and

proper for, counteracting such laws as the States may adopt or

enforce, and which, by the Arendment, they are Brohibited from

making or enforcing, or such acts and proceedings as the

States nay' connit or take, and which, by the Amendment, they

are prohibited from comnitting or taking."

****

"An inspection of the law shows that it makes no reference

whatever to any supposed or apprehended violation of the lith

Amendent on the part. of the States. It is not predicated on

any such view, It proceeds ex directo to declare that

certain acts committed by individuals shelt be deemed offenses,

and shall be prosecuted and punished by proceedings in the

courts of the Uniteà States. "

****

• .

"In other words, It steps Into the domain of local Jurisprudence,

and lays down rules for the conduct of individuals in society

towards each other, and imposes sanctions for the enforcement

of those miles, without referring in any manner to any supposed

action of the State or 1ts authorities.

"If this legislation is appropriate for enforcing the

prohibitions of the Amendment, It is difficult to see where

It is to stop. Why may not Congress with equal show of

authority enact a code of laws for the enforcement and

vindication of all rights of life, liberty and property? If It

Is supposable that the States may deprive persons of life.

liberty and property without due process of law, and the

Amendment itself does suppose this, why should not Congress

proceed at once to prescribe due process of law for the

protection of every one of these fundamental rights, in every

possible casa, as well as to prescribe equal privileges in

inns, public conveyances and theaters? The truth 1s, that the

Im11cat1on of a power to lezislate in this manner is based

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and not merely power to provide modes

of redress against such

state legislation or action. The assumption 1s certainly

unsound. It is repugnant to the 'lOth Amendment of the

Constitution, which declares that powers not delegated to the

• United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the

States, are reserved to the States respectively or to the people."

The CIv1] Rights Cases arose out of the denial by a hotel

Of Its accommodations to persons of color and the dental by

theaters of their accommodation to colored persons:

In 1959 a Howard

Johnson Restaurant denied service to Charles E. Williams, a colored

attorney for the Internal Revenue Service. He brought suit claiming

thạt such action violated the Civil Rights Acts of 1875 and the

Commerce Clause of the Federal Constitution. In Williams V. Howard

Johnson Restaurants, U.S.C.A.4th, 258 F.2d 845, the Court re-affirma

the doctrine of the Civil Rights Cases, and said:

"Sections 1 and 2 of the Civil Rights Act of 1875, upon which the

plaintiff's position is based in part, provided that all persons

In the United States should be entitled to the full and equal

enjoyment of accommodations, advantages, facilities and

privileges of inns, public conveyances and places of amusement,

and that any person who should violate this provision by denying

to any citizen the full enjoyment of any of the enumerated

accommodations, facilities or privileges should for every such

offense forfeit and pay the sum of $500 to the person aggrieved.

• The Supreme Court of the United States, however, held in Civil

Rights Cases 109 U.S. 3, 3 S.Ct. 18, 27 L.Ed, 835,, that these

sections of the Act were unconstitutional and were not

authorized by either the Thirteenth or Fourteenth Amendments of

the Constitution. The court pointed out that the Fourteenth

Amendment was prohibitory upon the states only, so as to

Invalidate all state statutes which abridge the privileges or

Immunities of citizens of the United States or deprive them or

life, liberty or property without due process of law, or deny to

any person the equal protection of the laws; but that the

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From a legal point of view, it

1s

perfectly clear that

Congress does not have the power to control the activities of private

business owners under the Fourteenth Amendment.

*;

r."

Congress does not have the power

to enact this legislation under

the Commerce Clause of the

• Constitution of the United States.

Article I, Section VIII, Clause 3 provides:

"The Congress shall have Power: . . . to regulate Commerce

with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and

with the Indian Tribes; ..."•

No one can reasonably contend that the operation of a

hotel, restaurant or drug store in Mississippi constitutes commerce

among the several States. The Supreme Court of the United States

clearly did not think so in the CIvil Rights Cases, because it said:

"Has Congress constitutional power to make such a law? Of

course, no one will contend that the power to pass it was

contained in the Constitution before the adoption of the

last three Amendrients."

The last three Amendments referred to were the 13th, 14th,

and 15th. The Commerce Clause was a part of the Constitution

from it inception. The Supreme Court, therefore, said that no one

would even contend that Congress had the power to pass such law

prior to the adoption of the 13th Amendment.

Of course, the right to control commerce among the States

Includes the right. to control interstate transportation, and

Congress has done so in this field by Iitle 28 U.S.C.A., Section 3(1),

which forbids a carrier to subject any person to undue or unreasonable

prejudice or disadvantage in any respect. The right of the Congress

to deny discrimination Incident to interstate commerce has been upheld

In a number

of

cases.

Mitche21 v. United States, 313 U.S. 80, 61 S, Ct.

873, 85 I. Ed. 1201;

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Henderson v. United States, 339 U.S. 816, 70 S.Ct. 843, 94 L.Ed. 1302.

In like manner, the Supreme Court has also held that certain State

action constituted an unlawful burden on interstate commerce in this

field. Morgan v. Virginia, 328 U.S. 373, 66 S.Ct. 1050, 90 L.Ed. 1317.

In the Civil Rights Cases, the Supreme Court recognized the

power of Congress to regulate public conveyances passing from one

state to another, and said:

"And whether Congress, in the exercise of its power to

regulate conmarce amongst the several States, might or might

not pass a law legulating rights in public conveyances passing

from one State to anothes, is also a question which is

not now before us, as the sections in question are not

conceived in any such view."

It is clear, therefore, that the Supreme Court was not unmindful

of the power of Congress under the Commerce Clause when it decided:

the Civil Rights Cases and when it held that no one would even

contend that Congress had the right to pass this type of legislation

under the Commerce Clause of prior to the adoption of the 13th, 14th,

and 15th Amendments.

Who would seriously contend that the operation of a restaurant

on Capitol Street in Jackson, Mississippi, could be classified as

as commerce among the several States? If such action constitutes

commerce among the States simply because some of the products handled

were manufactured outside of Mississippi, every act of every citizen

• in every State could be controlled by Congress on the same basis.

The Constitution should not be stretched entirely out of shape in an

effort to reach what is believed by some to be an evil, the correction

of which is a matter for each State to make its own decision. This

issue was raised in Williams v. Howard Johnson Restaurant, supra, and

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interstate commerce because it is

ucated beside an interstate

highway and serves interstate travelers.

He suggests that

a Federal policy has been developed in numerous decisions

which requires the elimination of racial restrictions on

transportation in interstate commerce and the admission of

Negroes to railroad cars, sleeping cars and dining cars

without discrimination as to color; and he argues that

the commerce clause of the Constitation (Article I, Section 8,

• Clause 3), which empowers Congress to regulate commerce among

the states, is self-executing so that even

without a prohibitory

statute no person engaged in interstate commerce may place

undue restrictions upon it.

"The cases upon which the plaintiff relies in each instance

disclosed discriminatory action against persons of the

colored race by carriers engaged in the transportation of

passengers in interstate commerce."

"In every instance the conduct condemned was that of an

organization directly engaged in interstate commerce and the

line of authority would be persuasive in the determination of

the present controversy if it could be said that the defendant

restaurant was so engaged. We think, however, that the cases

cited are not applicable because ve do not find that a restaurant

• Is engaged in interstate commerce merely because in the course

of its business of furnishing accommodations to the general

public it serves persons who are traveling from state to state.

As an instrument of local commerce, the restaurant is not

subject to the constitutional and statutory provisions

discussed above and, thus, is at liberty to deal with such

persons as it may select."

Neither the fect that some customers of an establishnent may

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t to control by Congress. In El

eth Hospital. Inc.

v. Richerdson, U.S.C.A.8th, 269 F.2d 167, the Court held

that the treatment of some patients wilo were travelling in

Interstate commerce did not destroy the purely local character

of the services furnished by the hospital, and said:

"The fact that some of plaintiff's patients

might travel in interstate commerce does not alter

the local character of plaintiff's hospital' IE

the converse were true, every country stote

that obtains its goods fiom or serves customers

residing outside the state would be selling in

interstate cormerce. Untfomlv.. the courts have held to

the contrary. A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v.

United States, 1935, 295 U.S. 495, 55 S. Ct. 837, 79 I.Ed. 1570;

Lawson v. Woodnere, 4 Cir., 1954, 217 F.28 148, 150;

Jewel Tea Co. V. Williams, 10 Cir., 1941, 118. F.28 202,

207; Lipson v. Socony-Vacuum Corp., 1 CiT:: 1937,

87 I. 2d 265, 267, certiorari granted 300 U,s. 651, 57 S.Ct.

612, 81 L.Edi 862 certiorari dismissed 301 u.S. 711, 57

S.Ct. 788, 81 L.Ed. 1364."

Congress is now asked to control the operation of country

stores and hotels. on the theory that their operation constitutes

commerce among the several States. The statement of the

proposition is so ridiculous that it need not be further

refuted.

It is my understanding that the Attorney General of the

United States has suggested to this Committee that it disregard

the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in

the Civil Rights Cases. I have always been under the impression

that it was the duty of the Attorney Gencral of the United States

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In conclusion, I would like to a

certain members of the

Congress two questions: (1) How long do you plan to bow to the

unrcasonable and unconstitutional demands of selfish minorities

In your state? (2) When do you expect to begin to, represent the

great majority of your own people?

Another question naturally follows--how far do you think the

great white majority of this nation will stand to be pushed?

I have received and am receiving daily letters from substantial

eVeryday citizens in every state of this nation and I say to you

seriously that our

fine white citizens have stood just about as

much of this minority insanity as they can take..

Centlemen, you are just 'about to hear fron that great, silent,

substantial whete majority back kome.

When John Doe and Ole Joe Q. Doakes on Main Street in every

city, town, village and cross-road in your state, finds out exactly

what is really in this legislation--just what the present U.S.

Attorney General and the Negro minorities want today-turmoil

will really break loose in this nation.

If you think 500,000 Negroes marching on Washington is something,

pass this legislation and you'll find out what one hundred million

angry white Americans will do.

Please think deeplyion these matters. Think seriously as to

how much the white man will take in having his rights chipped

away with new legislation such as this and by each decision of the

Federal Courts. Are there no rights of the individual sacred

today in this country?

Equality in a social sense is attainable only in total

slavery. Justice Brandeis said, "One of the inalienable rights

of men is to be let alone." This certainly applies to the hard-

working, snall business man?

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What we are about to experience ir

our nation today is tyranny

of the mob. The intent of this legislation is to steal away the

fundamental rights of man to own and manage his private property

as he sees fit.

The President and Attorney General are sewing the seeds of

hate and violence. The nation could reap a bloody harvest.

Gentlemen, if you pass this Civil Rights legisiation, -you are

passing it under the threat of mob action and violence on tire

part of Negro groups cat under various types of intimidation

From the Erecutiv- Bianch of this government. This legislation

mst be defeated if this nation is to survive as a Constitutional

Republic of Sovereiga States.

The decision is yours.

May God have mercy on your souls!

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SUBJECT:

REQUESTS FROM MEMBERS UF

CONGRESS CONCERNING ALLEGED

COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN THE

CURRENT RACIAL SITUATION

T..

Septony, joes no. 10 .

UNITED « STATES GOVER

iENT

Memorandum

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TO

Mr.

Bernont

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DATE:

July 29, 1963

Tolson

Belmont

Mohr .

Casper

Callahan

Conrad

Syans

Gale.

FROM

C. A. Evans

Tavel

Trotter -

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Holmes

Gandy -

Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall of the Civil Rights

Division was contacted this morning and this natter was discussed with him

further?

He pointed nut that he had not received any additional requests for

such information as to communist influence in the racial situation irom any

other members of Congress but that he fully expected there would be further

inquiries, In this connection it was pointed out to Marshall the undesirability

of making the specific comments previously noted as to giving complete clearance

to Martin Lutheil King and the use of the language "communist-controlled" as

Marshall has had fuit details as to King's association with Stanley Levison, the

concealed communist,and Hunter Pitts O'Deli, who had been elected to the

National Committee of the Communist Party (USA), og under an anas e

ensite sign tille

In addition, as a illustration, Marshall was informed of the case

involving Lee Pressman who had denied for years being a communisi and then •

later admitted it for a Congressional Committee.

Marshall said that he was most appreciative of our warning him

about these pitfalls and he would be guided accordingly in any future statements.

He added that he would also appreciate our continuing to highlight for him any

information indicating communist activity in the Negro movement.

Marshall said he had been endeavoring to see Senators Monroney

(D. - Okla.) and Magnuson (D. - Washington) but had not accomplished this to

date. Senator Magnuson is reportedly seriously ill in the hospital; (This has

not been publicized.) and Senator Monroney has cancelled two appointments

Marshall had with him as Montoney was tied up with the railroad strike

legislation.

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Memorandum to Mr. Belmont

RE: REQUESTS FROM MEMBERS OF

CONGRESS CONCERNING ALLEGED

COMMUNIST INFLUENCE IN THE

CURRENT RACIAL SITUATION

Marshall said that over the weekend he had received information

that the United Mine, Mill and Smelters Workers in Savannah was making

available office space for use by the Negro groups. He noted that the Negros

are short of tunds and are prone to accept aid wherever they can obtain it. fi

this represents communist activity in Savannah, Marshall said he would

appreciate recsiving any details we might obtain.

ACTION TO BE TAKEN:

The Savannah Division will be instructed to ascertain whether

the local of the United Mine, Mill and Smelters Workers in Savannah is subjecied

to communist influence at this time and whether such intluence may be a factor

in the support that union is reportedly to be currently giving to the Negro

movement. A memorandum should be prepared following the results of this

inquiry.

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CIONAL FORM NO. 10

UNITED STATES GET

Memorandum

TO

BIR. BELMONICNT

FROM : C. A. Evany

SUBJECT:O

RACIAL "SITUATION

E. 4411/00

SASHMILIE

DATE: 7/19/63

cc Mr. Belmont

MT.

Rosen

MI.

Sullivan

Mr. Evans

Mr.

McGowan

Mr. Baumgaranos f

Tolson

Belmont

Mohr —

Casper

Cail-jan

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earlier conversation concerning: Congressional requests which had been

received by the Director, relating to alleged communist iniluence in

that there was "ho immediate urgency in recontacting Senator Monroney,

in view of recent contacts had with him by Departmental representatives.

(renaia unresolved ta, 10ng-

Today, I pointed out that these requests should not be: allowed to

Assistant AG Marshall advised that he had drafted a proposed

letter to be used

in replying to these Congressional requests, since

he had ascertained that a written reply is desired, particularly by

Senator Monroney.

In' his letter Marshall proposes to paraphrase the

(President's statement at his press conference on 7/17/63:

Marshall's

letter will, of course, make no reference to the President's state-

ment, but merely indicate that this is the conclusion, predicated

upon reports and other information supplied to the Department.

In those instances where the Department is dealing with a.

Member of Congress believed to be trustworthy, Marshall plans to

deliver his letters personally and to explain

that the classified

nature or the. reports precludes the furnishing of specific intorma-

tion in writing or in testimony. Marshall feels that he can talk

confidentiallyiin this way to Senator Magnuson and thus forestall

any

for further information.

It was noted that, as a result of

with Stänley:Levison and accepting assistance from him. It was,

therefose, believed that since this may get back to Members of

Congress,

Marshall should talk with the ingividual Senators, where

this can be done on a confidential basis.

results. of his contacts in this regard.

Marshall said be would, of course, keep us advised of thall

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nation outsiue your Committec.

Its use is limited to official pioceedings by

your committce and the content may nut be disclosed to unat

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Tha Attorney Genera?

July 31, 1983

J - Mr. Belmont

Director, FBi

I « Mr'. Mobr

1 - Ar. Deloach

1 • Mir. Evans

HUNTER PITES O'DELI

I • hi. Sullivan

INPITAL SUCURITY * C

1 - Hir, bialmfeldt

LITENNAL SECURITY ACE OF 1950

2 - Ir.

Brennan

1 - Mr. Baungardnes

1 • He. Bland

1 • Ms.

mere is atsached for your consideration a copy

Bye:

of & letter cased duly ad, 15i3, received Iron Saacos

madel, together with a copy of the suly do. bo

antitled "onetine Communist Organisor leads Rev. King's

Office in I.T."

I have advised Senator Fussell by letter

of this dace that,

in line with Departmental poliCy, I am

roterring hia letter to you.

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You have been sept advised by conmunication,

the latest of which was dased July 17, 1903, captioned

without the

your committee

nation outside

This

• Your

document is

Request Iron Senator lonroney Concerning Racial Agitation,"

02 Hunter Pitts D'fall's association with the Reverend

Martin Inthor King, de,, and with the Southern Chaistian

express

and the

Loadershiz Conference (SCuC),

in addacion, copies of

investigative reposes concerning D'Dell have been submitted

to the Intornal Socurity Division of the Dapariment of

prepared in

Justice on a contizuing basis.

The last such report

bubyitted vas dated June 28, 1963, at New York, New York.

approval of

For your further infornation, a telephone call iì

the

content may nutr

Committee.

che ozzice of the sCue in New fork City on July 30, 1963,

Its use as

response

reoulied in a statenent by an unidentified female employee

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that tunder Fitts O'Dell was no longer employed by

the saig

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Mir. Sullivan

lir. Mainfeldt

Me, Brennan

• Mr. Baungardner

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• Mr. Ryan

Honorable Richard B. Russell

United States Senate

Washington, D. G.

My dear Senatos:

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Reference is made to your letter

dated July 27, 1963, requesting advice regarding

an article which

appeazed in che Atlanta, Georgia,

the express

"Constitution" of Inursday, july 26, 1963, captioned

"onetino

Coumunist Organizer Heads Rey, King's Oilice

20 N.%."

approval

in response to your inquiry and in 1100

of

with Departmental policy, I

an referring your letter

to the Attorney General Zor hie consideration,

trust you will understand ny position.

Sincerely youra,

MAILED 8

4UG2 - 1963.

COMM-FBI

Il. Edgar. Hoover

NODE:

See memorandun Baungardner to Sullivan

capcioned "Hunter Pitts O'Dell,

your Cosmittce und the content may nut b: woulused to unauthorized person-

nation onsite your Committee.

Its use

ferris document is prepared in response to

sour.

request

dated July 30,

1903,

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and is

not for dissense

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¡July 27, 1963.

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Mr. Callahan

Mr. Gontad...

Mr. Detach Li

Mr.

Mr

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Mr. Trotter.

Tele. Room._

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Monorable J. Edgar Hoover, Director

Federal Bureau of Investigation

Department of Justice

Washington 25, D. C.

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Dear Mr. Hoover:

Permit me to call to your attention the article,

"Onetime Communist Organizer Heads Rev. King's Office in

N.Y. " which I have marked on the attached tearsheets from

the Atlanta, Georgia CONSTITUTION of Thursday, July 25,

1963.

I would appreciate your advising me as to whether'..

the information contained in this article is correct

according to your records and whether this information

was available to you when you advised the Attorney General

that in your opinion there was no Communist connection

with the Soythern Christian Leadership Conference which

is abilhated

Martin Luther King

sincerely,

will

1/90/63 ter

EX-103

Richard B. Russell

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Thas dostment

* prepared in response to your roguanant is not for dissemi

nation oviside your Committee.

Its use is limited to official proceedings ba

ain Cornmittee and the content may nut be disclosed to unauthorized person

nel without the express approval of

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Onetime Communist Organizer

Heads Rev. King's Office in N. Y

By BILL SHIPP

Constilution State News Editor

Dr. King said at the time tha;

'Dell was identified by a com

O'Dell had worked briefly ani

temporarily as a technician 3n

me cute at too ling

SCLC voter registration projects,

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munist cause.

A 39-year-old Negro, who has.

been identified as a district orga-

i nizer

for the Communist Party,

lUSA, is now director of the New

York Office of Dr. Martin Luther

King Jr.'s Southern

Leadership Confergice.

Christian

He is Jack H. O'Dell, who re-

sides at 488 St.

Nicholas Ave.,

New York City.

Dr. King said on Oct. 31, 1962

that O'Dell had

resigned fron

SQLC. He said

again on Dec. if

trat O'Dell was

no longer with

spiC. And one

of Dr.

King's

ten aides told the Constitution on

July 18, 1963 that O'Dell was no

longer with SCLC.

O'Dell, who works in the New

• York SCLC office at 312 W. 125th

Street, has in recent months been

engaged in fund-raising activities

and

mailing literature

Di.

King's organization.

Once in December, 1962, and on

three occasions in January, 1963,

O'Dell registered at the Waluhaje

apartments in Atlanta as a repre-

sentative of SCLC.

In January 1963, O'Dell,

In one ath to saval a said

Delta Air Lines plane.

ony a

* O'Dell's expenses. for at least

one of his trios to atlanta were

paid by SCLC.

Among those working out of the

SCLC office in New York is Ben-

I jamin Van Clarke, 19, executive

secretary of the Chatnam County

Crusade for Voters and a leader

of

recent massive

night street

demonstrations in Savannah.

Dr. King announced O'Dell's

resignation last fall after news

stories appeared in the St. Louis

Globe - Democrat and the New

19875 Times Pic

Picayune daheung

but "ceased functioning there long

before this publicity appeared."

At that time, O'Dell gave his

employment

King denied that O'Dell had

as

an

insurance

agent in Montgomery, Ala. His

served as southeastern director of

SCLC,

name was listed as Hunter Pittsy

"He has never had any adminis-

O'Dell.

trative post in SCLC," King said.

At the hearing, O'Dell contended

"all the immunity the Constitu-

• O'Dell, born in Detroit, was iden-

tified with the Communist Party

tion gives me as a Negro -the

First and Fifth amendments and

ras late as 1958.

any others" in refusing to say,

O'Den,

who also is known fas

whether he was a Communist.

Hunter Pitts O'Dell, has been

Identified by Robert Morris, coun-

Richard Arens, chief counsel for

self for the internal securities sup

the committee, displayed a Com-

_committee of the U.S. Senate, as

munist plan for activities in tha

an organizer for the Communist

Sduth for the years 1955 and

Party,

U.S.A., in the New Or

asha staff consultant on the Voter

leans, La., area.

Education Project

The Rev. Andrew Young,

ad."

At the time he was an organiz-

ministrator of the SCLC school

O'Dell' was employed

waiter in New Orleans.

has been identified as a

at Dorchester,

said O'Dell re-

signed from SCLC last fall, pend

ing an investigation of his activi-

member of the National Commit-

ties by SCLC.

of the Community Party,

U.S.A.

"Nothing was found to indicate

that he was a Communist," the

Morris said that O'Dell also!

Rev. Mr. Young said.

"But the i

has given directions for Commu-

resignation was made perma-

nist

activities under the names,

nent."

John Vesey and Ben Jones.

The SCLC is a tax-exempt or-

He attended SCLC's civil rights

ganization under Georgia and fed

school at Dorchester

Center in

eral tax regulations.

Liberty County in 1962.

O'Dell said in January of 1962

The sed the schie soon

"Citizenship Work

that he had severed all ties with

the Communist Paity.

3 Dorchester, lists J. H. O'Del

O'Dell was an organizer of

"Freedom Rally" in Macon in

ment Nov.,20, 1961, announcing)

1962 at which Dr. King was the,

that Jack O'Dell of SCLC would

announced speaker.

address a Civil rights conference.

The National Guardian, a leitist

O'Dell did not show up for the

newspaper, carried an advertist-

meeting.

1156. He said the plan was takin

from the premises occupied is

In July 1958,, O'Dell was called

dDell in New Orleans.

to testify before the House Com-

mittee on Un-American Activities

Arens also said O'Dell was den-

which was then convened in At-

tified in 1957 as the "tus mon"

in Louisiana communism

since

¿lanta.

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OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10

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GEN, REG. NO, 27

UNITED STATES GU

RNMENT

Memorandum

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palment -

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TO

FROM

Mr. I. J. Baumgaganer

SUBJECT:

HUNTER PITTS O DELL

INTERNAL SECURITY - C

INTERNAL SECURITY ACT OF 1950

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DATE:

July

30, 1963

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I-Mr.

Evans

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Sullivan

I-MT.

Malmfeldt

1-Mr.

Brennan

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Baungardner

I-Mr.

Bland

Dimmerine

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Ryan

By letter to the Director dated July 27,

1963, Senator

Richard B. Russell réferred to an article in the Atlanta,

Georgiag

"Constitution" of July 25, 1963, entitled "Onetime Communist

urganizer Heads Rev. King's Office in N.Y." This article concernec

Hunter Pitts O'Dell

The article further states that O'Dell was District Organizer and •

a member of the National Committee of the Conmunist Party, USA (CPUSA

your Comma

naton outsau

This document

Senator Russell requested advice as to whether the

informatior contained in

this article is correct according to fBI!

records and whether this information was available to the Director

when the Attorney General was advised that "...in your (the

Directorts, opinion there was no communist connection with the

Southern_Christian Leadership Conference which is headed by

Sut

DI. Martin Luther King."

I The information in the article in the Atlanta, Georgia,

"Constitution": is substantially correct.

The Bureau cannot, however

supportathe statement that O'Dell is currently in charge of the

New York Office of the SCLC although in October, 1961, he Claimed

to be in charge of the office and as late as July 24, 1963, was

conducting business on behalf of the SCLC.

However, a telephone

the SCLC office in New York City on July 30, 1963, resulted

in the seceipt of information from an unidentified temale employee

that Hunter Pitts O'Dell was no longer employed by the scue.

We have previously furnished the Department copies of

our investigative repots setting out the background and conmunist

affiliation of O'Dell and his connection with the scue and with

Rev. Martin Luther-King 'By separate communications to the

Its use 2:

response to

be ausclosed

limited to;

your request

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Memorandum to Mr. Sullivan

RE: HUNTER PITTS O' DELL

100-358916

Although we could, of coursé, respond directly to Senator

Russell's inquiry, such action could well result in the Director's

being subpoenaed.

We believe the Senator's communication should

be handled by referring it to the Attorney General for his

consideration. He have followed this procedure in connection with

prior correspondence from members of Congress regarding possible

communist activity in the current racial situation. In the

transmittal letter to the Attorney General, we are pointing

out that the Bureau has submitted investigative reports regarding

O'Dell to the Department of Justice and that by letter dated

July 17, 1963, and in prior communications directed to him, we

have furnished the highlights and pertinent information regarding

O'Dell's Communist Party affiliation and his connections with ..

King and the SCLC.

We are also directing a short note to Senator Russell

acknowledging receipt of his communication and advising that, in

line with Department policy, his letter has been transmitted

to

the Attorney General for appropriate consideration.

RECOMMENDATION:

That the enclosed letters be transmitted.

ABR

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OPTIONA

• UNITED STATES GOVERNME

Memorandum

TO

Mr. Belmont 1s

FROM :

C. A. Evans

SUBJECT:

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

SECURITY MATTER - C

DATE:

August 1, 1963

Tolson

Amatione

Callahan

•Cale .

Rosen

Sullivan

Tavel

Trotter

Tele. Room

Holmes -

Gandy

The Attorney General asked me to see him this morning. On being

contacted he handed me a copy of the revort in captioned matter prepared by

Special Agent Daniel J. Quigley at New York dated July 22, 1963, classified

secret, which had been transmitted to the Records Administration Office of the

Department by Form O-ô dated July 29, 1953.

the Attorhey central tea pe synopsis of the report which is: "subiest

described as a confirmed Marxist--Leninist aS Oflune,1963. Information con-

cerning subject's association during 1962, and 1963, with Stanley Levison and

Hunter Pitts O'Dell, described as CP members set forth. " The Attorney General

also referred to the statement on page two of the report under the heading "Evidence

of Communist Party Sympathies; Martin Luther King, Jr. has been described as

confirmed Marxist - Lepinist AY Ill, June, 1963- "

The Attorney General stated that if this report got up to the Hill at

t his time, he,would be impeached. He noted that it this report got out, jeworla

be alleged the FBI said King was a confirmed Marxist Leninist as ate as r

June, 1963. - The Attorney General went on to say that the report had been reviewed

in detail by Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall who had told him there

wasn't'anything new here concerning King's alleged communist sympathies but

that it was the timing of the report and its possible misuse which concerned him.

The Attorney General went on to say that he didn't feel he could fully trust every-

one in the Internal Security Division of the Department.

I pointed out to the Attorney General that first of all this report was

classified secret and was just a summary report to bring our files and that of the

Department's up to date.

He said that while this was undoubtedly true, the sub-

mission of the report at this time in this form presented definite hazards.

He

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Memorandum to Mr. Belmont

RE: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

therefore asked that the report be resubmitted to him with a cover memorandum

setting forth the exact evidence available to support the statement that King has

been described as a confirmed Marxist - Leninist as of June, 1963.

ACTION BEING TAKEN:

seto freign Fittingo: is operatess

The Domestic Intelligence Division has been alerted to the Attorney

General's request and is preparing a memorandum to him which will serve as

a cover in resubmitting the New York report.

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SEX

The Attorney General

1 100-106670-24

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Director, FBI

Mr. Belmont

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Mohr

ME.

DeLoach

Mr.

Evangsugust 2, 1963

Mr.

Sullivan

Mr.

Bland

- Mr. Forsyth

MARTIN LUTHER KING

JR.

SECURITY MATTER - C

RACIAL, MATTERS

FIMORIG

SPAALMING

11-2-00

Reference is made to your conversation with

Assistant Director Courtney A. Evans of this Bureau on

August 1, 1953.

Subject to Criminal

individual.

Sanctions

Unauthorized Disclosure

This report contains infornation to the effect

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMAT

that Martin Luther King, Jr.,

was described as a confirned

Marxist-Leninist as.0f June.

1263. This description or

sen tire

Stanley Levison,

a tire needed a te an is scare paction

again in 1903.

my letter of February 14

ny letter of July 11

1963, captioned

"Request From Senator

Monroney Concerning Current Racial Agitation," both of which

contain infornation to the effect that Levison has characterized

Entertis

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Callahan

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DeLoach.

Evans

Gole

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This letter and report are classified "eurer" in

view of the highly sensitive position held by the informant.

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UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

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SPZALMIHTG

TO

: Mr. W. C. Sulliwan

SUBJECT:

MARTIN LUTHER KING

SECURITY MATTER - C

JR.

DATE:

August 1, 1963

1

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1

pal pend peal pond

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Mr.

Evans

Mr.

Sullivan

Mr.

Bland

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Reference is made to memorandum Mr. Evans to Mr: Belmont

General concerning a statement in a report furnished the Department

on King to the effect that King was described as a Confirmed

Marxist-Leninist as Of-June 1963.

The Attorney General asked that the report be resubmitted

to him with a cover memorandum setting forth the exact evidence

available to support the statement that King had been described as

The source of the

500.

SCIS

real Marist-teninisto This is how a true Marxist-leninist acts.

Because of the highly

sensitive position held by the informant

this information was paraphrased in the report of July 22, 1963,

in order to protect his identity.

BRUE

we reported that bevisa

individual who has-studied lassil and believes in it but cannote

inổ

Lavolony ning current racial agitation.

ACTION:

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Th accordance, with the Attorney General's request,

is attached a letter containing as an enclosure a copy of the

report of July 22, u1963es

In the letter we are pointing out /4

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Memorandum for Mr. Sullivan

RE: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

100-106670

the source of the description c

f King as a confirmed Marxist-Leninist,

namely Stanley Levison,

, a secret member of the Communist Party

and a close associate of King•

In addition,

we are drawing his

attention to the fact that similar information was made available

mentioned above.

mentioned the letter is februaed that this let funds enclosure

should be personally delivered to the Attorney General by Mr. Evans

$1543

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FD-208 (Rev, 51-59)

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INV-STIGATION

REPORTING OFFICE

NEW YORK

OFFICE OF ORIGIN

ATLANTA

TITLE OF CASE

MARTIN LUTHER KING

* JR.

DATE / 1L

INVESTIGATIVE PERIOD

7/22/63

5/7-7/12/63

REPORT MADE BY

DANIEL J. QUIGLEY

CHARACTER OF CASE

TYPED BY

mbo

SECURITY MATTER-C

D've

P 4 817/25983

REFERENCES:

0n 55157384

dated 5/3/63

Report of SA ROBERT R. NICHOIS at Atlanta,

dated 4/13/620%t Of SA JOHN J. ELLIOT at New YORE,

Bulet to New York, 5/1/62:

without the express

• RUC -

nation outside your Committee.

ADMINISTRATIVE:

Itsoice

T'his document is prepared in response to

furnished by Ny T-1 could reasonably result in the

identification of this source, and thus impair the futures

effectiveness thereof, which impairment would have an

adverse effect upon the national defense of the United

States.

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SPECIAL AGENT

IN CHARGE

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the toLlowing intormation is being reported

under the administrative data inasmuch as oy its

said information tends to Identify MY bol ss/t

a valuable informant, as the source. Unless this

It is not to be included, even in paraphrased iorm,

in the investigative section of a report:

on 6/13/63,

ogles+ furnished the following

information to SA ALEXANDER C. BURLINSON:

Fund functionary

On 612031 NA-S That In a recent meeting

LEMENT HARRIS, CP, LUSA Reserve

(U)

with STANTRY-LEVISON, the latter furnishea him the

SENTITLE

following information:

The LEVISONs, particularly STANLEy

are still

MARTIN LUTHER KING's "brain trust"--now more than ever before.

This is so despitetheract that ata meering oI StANLY

ENCELEVISON, ROY LEVISON, HUNTER PITTS O'DELL, MARTIN LUTHER

"the Attorney General's chief assistant," the

Tire tin

Attorney General's

assistant, pointing to the Levisons

and HUNTER PITTS O'DELL, stated to MARTIN LUTHER KING,

"These men are Party members;

watch out ior Enem.

MARTIN LUTHER KING

did not "bat an eyelash"

upon hearing the: Assistant Attorney General's remark,

and

after the latter left the meeting, those in the group

smiled-at each other. STANLEY LEVISON said to KING,

at this time,

Everything that KING does he first aiscusses

- with STANLEY LEVISON and he accepts LEVISON's advice

within

the latter's local jurisdiction.

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Coring

THAL'

MARTIN LUTHER KING was asked by a group of

newspaper reporters whether he takes orders from

"the Communists,"

and also, whether he took "orders from

STANLEY LEVISON.

" KING's response was that he took

orders only from Goà.

By reason of the fact that the LEVISONs feel

that the Party has done little, if anyühing, to assist

the fight for civil rights for Negroes, and further, since

they fee. that the Party, as a result of this "do nothing"

attitude, has lost prestige, they will no longer permit

the Party to dominate or control

their activities in

the MARTIN LUTHER KING movement. They are severing

themselves financially and in a

disciplinary way, from

Party.

The LEVISONS and O'DELL are still Party members

but"do not desire to be openly

"linked up" with the Party.

Although they are "disenchanted" with the Party, they

are not quitting the Party.

With respect to the MARTIN

LUTHER KING movement; they will act on their own initiative

and will not accept

instructions from the Party.

LEM HARRIS then advised that the Pastu

however,

-st111 WOuld Ike.tOcontrol che MARTIN LUTHER KING movement.

BEN DAVIS has been assigned to be "liaison or Intermediary"

with the LEVISONs and HUNTER PITS O DELL. Whether or not

the INVISONs and O'pEll will maintain liaison regarding

matters concerning the MARTIN LUTHER KING movement is a

matter for them to decide. In view f uvISoNs statement

with respect to advising MARTIN LUTHER KING independently

of Party instructions, it woul seem that DAVIS may not have

any success in maintaining liaison with the LEviSoNs and

HUNTER PITTS @ DEGE.

The LEVISONs and O'DELL are aware of

the fact that BEN DAVIS has been given this assignment

by the Party:

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genuine, Marxist-Leninist from the top

o1 his toes.

In the Party

LUTHER KING Is fOllowing a Marxist len nist Tine

NY 694-S7 advised that he asked LEM HARRIS whether

or not, to the latters möwledge, MARTIN LUTHER-KING WaS

a member of the CrUSALEM HARRIS replied that he did

not know

on 7/23/62, NY 694-s* advised that on that

date GUS HALI General Secretary, PuSAStated that

HUNTER PITS O'DELL 1S Sta representing the CP, USA and

that beis still on the National

comnittee: CP"USA.

ALL further remarked that o palifis brain"trust"

for "LUTHER

KING "

"and is doing an excellent job.

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INFORMANTS:

Identity of Source

NY I-1

NX 694-5*712630T

NY

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NY

3903-$

File Number Where Located

(134-9092A-41]64)(U)

NY T-3

NY 2750-S IN FORMAT

characterization of BEN DAVIS.

NY T-4

NY 3575-S* Elu de

NY T-5

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Identity of Source

NY T-T

ALBERT BROWN

Chairman CozumbIa CONF SOLICE

IXie in 1954,

(per request

File Number Where Located

characterization of CLARENCE JONES.

NY I-8

EDWARD MORAN

Assistant Clerk

Appellate Division

First Department™

NYS Suorene. Court.

STO CONFSARCE

Madison aver and 25th

Street. NYC

(per request)

characterization of CLARENCE JONES.

..

The following sources were contacted in May

and June, 1963, and had no information concerning the

subject not previously reported:

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1117-S

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3624-5

2381-S

INFORMANTS.

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FD-204 (Rev. 3-3-59)

UN., ED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION

Copy to:

Report of:

Date:

Field Office File #:

Title:

DANIEL J. QUIGLEY

7/22/63

10U-130503

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

Ofice: New Yorli, New York

Bureau File #:

100-106640

Character:

SECURITY MATTER-C

Synopsis:

Information concerning

D• DELI, described as CP mempers set fortn.

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B9317.94

NATIONAL SECURITY INFORMATION

Unauthorized Disclosure

Subject to Criminal Sanctions

Tudea fron

This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to

your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.

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DETAILS:

i ty

AFFILIATION WITH THE COMMUNIST MOVEMENT

Evidence of Communist Party Sympathies

MARTIN LUTHER-KING Rhas been described

sullas a concirmed versist tentast

ATTU, FOREST WRITE ETIN

June, 1963

B. Support of the communist Party (CP)

On May 17, 1963, BEN DAVIS wrote a letter to

Reverend MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. stating that he

completely supports his work, and that he (DAVIS)

and his co-workers are 100% for him. DAVIS hopes

they can "get together" when KING comes to New York

NY T-2

May 17, 1963

BENJAMIN J. DAVIS

BENJAMIN J. DAVIS on May 6, 1962, stated

he is National Secretary of the Communist

Party, United States of America (CP, USA).

NY I-3

May 7, 1962

..

_ CP Associates

1. STANLEY LEVISON

As of February, 1963, STANLEY LEVISON

member of the CP, USA and

regular basis.

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NY T-1

February, 1963

On March 22, 1962, STANLEY LEVISON stated

that MARTIN called him early yesterday morning before

he went to church and told LEVISON that "COBERTA" had

been invited to go to Geneva by the women's. Strike

for Peace Convention. KING stated that Mrs. CYRUS

EATON would be going with the delegation of about

30 women, most of whom are housewives.

LEVISON indicated that KING was concerned":

with idea that the "Communist label would be pinned

on us,"

but on the other hand he desired to do everything

possible on the question of making evidence of friendship

towards the soviet Union.

NY I-4

Mach 26, 1962

on June 11, 1902, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

visited

the office of STANLEY LEVISON, 6 East 394

Street, New York City.

LEVISON at this time told KING that he was

glad that KING had followed his advice in calling off

the - planned sit-in demonstration in Atlanta, following

the plane crash which took the lives of many prominent

Atlantans •

KING agreed it was a good idea, a smart

i move which undoubtedly achieved better feelings toward

his group.

LEVISON and KING discussed future affairs

planned by the National Association for the Advancement

of Colored People (NAACP). KING detailed one in particular

which they planned to hold at the Waldorf Hotel, Indicating

it would be saled at $25.00 a plate with an expected

attendance of 1,000.

LEVISON commented that he thought

it was priced too high, and thought that 300 would

be a more accurate figure for attendance.

NY T-5

June 11, 1962

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On September 10, 1962, STANLEY LEVISON

was in contact with CIARENCE JONES, With respect to

the church burnings in the south.

JONES and LEVISON

said that MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. should not be

silent with regard to this matter, but should send

some sort of a

, "hot wire" to "KENNEDY" along the

lines that the Government ¿cannot control a small

community. They stated the wire should be indignant

that athe

and a comparison should be made in the telegram

that the United States' world-wide obligations are

so great that it can not take care of a small community.

JONES stated that he would suggest

the idea of the

telegram to MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

NY T-5

September 10, 1962

CLARENCE JONES

CIA RENCE/JONES is currently the Acting

Executive Secretary of the Ghandi Society

for Human Rights.

On February 26, 1957, a photograph of

CLARENCE JONES

as the person whom he knew

•during late 1953, or early 1954, to be a

member of and in a position of leadershir

in the Labor Youth League (LYL).

NY. I-7

• February 26, 1957

The IYL has been designated by the Attorney

General of the United States pursuant to

Executive Order 10450.

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On September 13, 1962, source advised that

CLARENCE JONES, in illing out an application,

listed the fact that he belonged to

columbia University Chapter of the Young

Progressives of America (YPA) during 1949-

1953.

NY T-8

September 13; 1962

HERBERT ROMERSTEIN, a self-admitted former

Communist and YPA member, in testimony before

a subcommittee of the Committee of the

April 12

up on the

Party (CP). YPA members were active within

the organization as Communists and the

organizations was developed along CP lines.

ROMERSTEIN also related that YPA leadership

was composed of CP members.

On February 5, 1963, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

contacted STANLEY LEVISON in New York City. LEVISON

said that he had some notes for KING for tonight

(February 5, 1963). KING said that was the reason

for his call. KING indicated that he was attending

a dinner at the Essex House at 59th Street at about

6:30 pollo that evening. LEVISON agreed to meetKING

at KING's room at the Sheraton-Atlantic Hotel at

• 5:00 p.M. at which time LEVISON would give KING the

notes.

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On March 6, 1963, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

and STANLEY LEVISON had a lengthy, discussion in which

they discussed an article

the magazine "The Nation, "that KING was preparing for

Among otheritems, LEVISON and KING aiscussec

the president's Civil Righis message.

KING said he

made a statement after the message came out to the

effect that "if we can get a significant break-

through in voter registration, it will mean a great

deal.... in

far enough. "the total struggle, but it doesn't go

KING referred to

the schizophrenic

trend of the administration, on one hand it appoints

a THURGOOD MARSHALI, as a Federal Judge, and then

appoints judges in the south who are outright segregatzonists."

KING stated that "KENNEDY has often said to me

that you can't get this through.... there is no point

in introducing strong civil rights legislation because

you can't get it through."

KING concluded by stating

that his contention is that if he (President KENNEDY)

would get out and really fight - crusade for it,

it wouid have a stronger chance of getting through."

IEVISON agreed with KING on this observation.

NY I-6

March 6, 1963

On March 10, 1963, STANLEY LEVISON waS in

contact with MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

KING stated that

he would be in New York sometime

next week and wanted

to get a group together at Harry's to discuss "this

Birmingham thing.

KING added

"we decided to postpone

that thing until the day after the election because

BULL O'CONNOR is in the runoff, and we feel that if

we make a move before that time, he could use that

to his advantage.

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KING then tola LEVISON that going into Birmingham

Is going to be a difficult matter; that they are going

to do everything they can to destroy the image of the

Southern Christian Leadership Conference, particularly

the Birmingham newspapers. Now, since they played this

thing up so much 'we were wondering if it would be

better to continue sending the circulars through

the usual channels."

LIVISON agreed and conluded

by stating, "There is no sense giving them a timely

red herring."

NY T-6

March 10, 1963

on May 21, 1963, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. had

a lengthy discussion with

STANLEY LEVISON. LEVISON

inquired of king as to the feeling of the Birmingham

community to the

expulsion o1 Negro students by the

Birmingham Board of Education.

KING replied that he

thought "we" could hold them together.

He does not,

In his opinion, want to follow an unwise act on the

part of the Board of Education, with an unwise act

"our part." KING believes that (EUGENE) "BULL"

O'CONNOR, City Commissioner of Public Safety, is

doing this to provoke the Negro community to the point

that they will do something to so confuse the situation

that it will upset the agreement now in effect.

LEVISON suggested that KING issue a statement that

he will not be trapped by these tactics. KING stated

chat he had made it very clear that this was a temporar

nove and that it would be unwise to move without

looking at the total situation.

LEVISON told KING that he had a discussion with

CLARENCE JONES, Chief Counsel, Ghandi Society of Human

Rights, concerning setting up temporary educational

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facilities for the expelled students and going to the

public and to prominent individuals, to ask for contributions

for this purpose.

KING thought this was a good idea,

but he hoped it would not be necessary as

"we

are going to get them back in school, "he feit that

LEVISON then suggested that KING write a

book concerning his experiences in Birmingham.

NY T-6

May 21, 1963

On May 23, 1963, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. -waS

in contact with STANLEY IEVISON and discussed

a

fund raising luncheon to be held in New York City.

• NY T-5

May 23, 1963

On June 1-2, 1963, a discussion was held

between STANLEY LEVISON, a. New York Attorney, MARTIN

LUTHER KING, JR., Leader of the Southern Christian

During the discussion, KING mentioned that ROY WILKINS

of the NAACP had been

imprisoned but may now be out

on bond.

LEVISON suggested that KING send a telegram

to the president protesting the incarceration oi

WILKINS®

KING told LEVISON he had read his, LEVISON's,

'memorandum, but did not quite understand what LEVISON

proposed be done now.

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LEVISON explained that it was his thought that

"the Birmingham pattern" can be followed in other cities

where there are unresolved problems.

He noted that in

Atlanta, there is no bi-racial committee and the

establishment of one could be a first demand.

In other

cities, it may be desirable to have

direct action first

"followed by the Birmingham pattern."

LEVISON said

that each city should be examined separately.

KING commented that he las never seen the

Negro community as arousea, as determined, as enthusiasti?

as at this time. He said that "more than ever before

is this national determination and feeling that time

Is running out."

He stated that he thought "we are

on the threshold of a significant breakthrough and

the greatest weapon is mass demonstration."

KING stated "we are at the point where we can

nobize all tene righteous indignation into a

KING suggested that there be a mass march

or the impression be given that a mass march of "literally

thousands and

thousands of people is going to be organized

on Washington."

He added "the threat itself may so

frighten the president that he would have to do something."

He asked IEVISON "are we ready for that?"

LEVISON said there were two things which must

i be considered:

1. There must be unanimity among all groups.

Is there more pressure generated on

Washington by the series of local situations than by

a mass march on Washington?

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KING said that he felt there could be unanimity.

"pressure builds from the bottom"

and the NAACP would

exert much pressure on WILKINS.

With respect to the second point raised by

LEVISON, KING pointed out he was not thinking of

concentrating on Washington alone,

but was thinking

of activity in every state. He said there should

be simultaneous protest on the local level "and at

the same time a work stoppage would be called for

He stated that the sort of thing he

envisioned would have such an impact that "something

would have to give." He again asked LEVISON if

LEVISON thought the time was right for such a move •

and LEVISON agreed that "the time is now."

CLARENCE JONES suggested that KING should

discuss his proposal with ROY WILKINS and PHIL,

before any announcement is made publicly. He felt the

timing of such a move is most important.

LEVISON felt that KING was the proper person

to make such an announcement and felt that it could

be announced when KING addresses a scheduled Trade

Union meeting and at his commencement address at City

College of New York on June 12, 1963. Following this,

LEVISON felt

KInG sould discuss. it with both ROY

WILKINS and 'PHIL" LEVISON felt that since it was then

publicly announced, WILKINs would have a hard time

objecting.

KING was of the opinion that he should call

a special press conference, possibly in Atlanta, and

make his announcement.

. with this proposal and suggested he implement it in

his speeches.

The Identity of PHIL Is unknown to the source.

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KING stated that in all probability, he would

get a call from Washington, suggesting that since

the

president is leaving for Europe shortly, it would

be embarrassing for him.

LEVISON commented that because of the President's

trip to Europe,

he will nave to pay attention.

He

again suggested that a press conterence would have

a real impact, but suggested that PHIL" should be

advised belorehand.

KING said that such an undertaking would

require a reai job of mobilization and people would

be needed Iult time.

LEVISON said the eflect of such an announcement

will "tip" une President

"towards Civil Rignts LegislatiOi

and inis new legislation"wiit be a powertul lever.

KING suggested that either LEVISON Or JONES

see "PHil" and "two of you work out ine statement

along tue lines of the new militancy troughout üne

coutry.

KING Jelt tnat such undertaking wouid take

six to eight weeks to organize.

LEVISON said that the summer can ve a lactor

as many organizations are on vacation.

It was indicated

that CLARENCE JONES nad attended

a meeting at which

the National Council of Churches had expressed

LEVISON

meetings as

"this is new when White Church leadership

Is looking for something in the way of direct action."

He said this would give it the biggest, broadest front

ever as "you can see the effect of Negroes joined

the National Council of Churches and not just the

Negro

churches.

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When JONES demurred to LEVISON's proposal,

LEVISON agreed that perhaps it would be inadvisable.

LEVISON asked KING if he would bewilling to

appear on a television program with JAMES, BALDWIN.

the writer.

KING was not enthusiastic about the idea

because he felt that BALDWIN was uninformed regarding

his movement.

KING noted that BALDWIN, although

considered a spokesman of the Negro people, by the

press, is not a civil rights leader..

NY T-6

June 1-2, 1963

on June 4, 1963, MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. wais

in cortact with STANLEY LEVISON.

LEVISON and KING

discussed an article about KING that was to appear

in the next issue of the "Saturday Evening Post."

IEVISON and KING also discussed an appearance by KING

on some television program in New York City.

NY T-5

June 4, 1963

On June 6, 1963, STANLEY LEVISON had a discussion

with MARTIN LUTHER KING,

JR.

KING inquired if LEVISON

had had an opportunity to talk with PHIL.

LEVISON

replied that CLARENCE JONES reached PHIL in Chicago,

According to

personally.

In view of the fact that PHIL's organization

had planned a similar march in the fall, and that if

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any kind of march on Washington is to take place now,

it would make the march in the fall by PHIL's organization

anti-climatic.

the march by his organization, and that proposed by

KING could be coincided in the immediate future: LEVISON

suggested that KING attempt to contact PHIL as soon as

pussible in order to discuss this matter in detail.

KING asked LEVISON If LEVISON, along with

JACK O'DET,I (HUNTER PITTS O'DELL) WOuld

be able to

get some statistics on the annual Negro income of

the average Negro family, as against the annual income

of the averag: white family on a national level, and

then for some southern states, like Alavama, where

"we" are now working.

KING would like to use these

statistics at a

luncheon in New York City on June 12,

1963.

LEVISON stated that hewould attempt to get

the statistics along with JACK O'DELL, and

pointed out

that the main poiht of these statistics is that the

gap between Negro and white income today is greater

than the gap that existed between Negro and white

income during the Depression days.

KING and LEVISON

made arrangements to discuss these and other matters

later in the week.

NY T-6

June 6, 1963

HUNTER PITTS O'DELI

In July, 1962, HUNTER PITTS O'DELL WaS

considered by the Ce, USA as a member o1

its National Committee.

NY T-1

July, 1962

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