MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., A CURRENT ANALYSIS.
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Document date: 3/12/68
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SUBJECT: MARTIN LUTHER KING,

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INTRODUCTION•

Washington Spring Project..•

Black Nationalist Terror

Strong Communist Influence..

Explosive Situation..

FORMATION OF SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE.0...ata

Background of Founder...•

Subversives Attracted....o

Communist Exposed.............••.

King Speaks at Rally Honoring Communist

Former Communist Advisor5.....0oo

Advisory Committee Established for King.

King Wins Nobel Peace Prizé.....•

King's Attraction for Communist Advisors....

COMMUNIST OBJECTIVES

The Peace Issue Appears

THE EMERGENCE OF THE PEACE ISSUE IN KING'S GROUP

Role as a Peacemaker®

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Continued Pressure by Press.

Anti-Vietnam War Resolution..

"'Face the Nation"

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INTRObUCTION

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Since 1956, 'Martin Luther King, Jr., has occupied

a

prominent role in the drive for equal rights for Negroes

In the

United States. During this critical period in our Nation's

history, much has depended on him as the individual Negroes in

great numbers have looked to for leadership in their drive

to

achieve equality. Much depends on him still in these

times

when racial tensions have created, an atmosphere of fear and

foreboding among many Negroes and whites alike. The course

King chooses to follow at this critical time .could have

momentous impact on the future of race relations in the

United States, and for that reason: this paper has been prepaxed

to give some insight into the nature of the man himself as

well as the 'nature of his views, goals, objectives, tactics

and the reasons therefor.

Washington Spring xojegt

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Martin Luther King, Irt, President of the Souther

Christian

Leadership/Conference, (SCLC), has stated publicly

that he and 3,000 of his followers will march on. Washington,

D. G.,

this spring.

He has announced that he will lead a massive

civil disobedience campaign that widl disrupt the normal

course of business and, in fact, close down the Nation's

Capital. He originally announced this project on August 15,

1967, in Atlanta, Georgia, on the occasion of the tenth

anniversary of the SCLC.

King predicted that this massive civil disobedience

will be more effective than riots.

Concerning civil disobedience,

King declared, "To dislocate the function of a city without

destroying it can be more effective than a riot, because it

can be longer lasting, costly to society, but not wantonly

destructive.

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King has referred to this campaign as the

"Washington

Spring Project" and the "Poor People's March," which is

reportedly being staged to pressure Congress into passing

legislation favorable to the Negro.

It is King's contention

that the Government of the United States does not move until

it is confronted dramatically.

To add to the dramatic.

confrontation, King has boasted he and his entourage are

coming to Washington to, stay; that his followers will conduct

sit-ins, camp-ins, and sleep-ins at every Government facility.

available including the lawn of the White House,

He has

bragged that he will fill up the jails of Washingion and

surrounding towns

Black Nationalist Terror

One serious danger" in the confrontation lies in the

proposed action of the black nationalist groups which plan to

attempt to seize the initiative and escalate the nonviolent

demonstrations into violence, dr

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King has met with black nationalists and attempted

to solicit their support. Stokely Carmichael of the Student

Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an extremist Black

Nationalist organization, has conferred with King. Carmichael

endorses the objectives of King and advises he will not oppose

or interfere with the "Washington Spring Project's" plans

for

nonviolence.' However, he also states his role will be governed

by what SNCC decides.

King is aware of the possibility of violence because

one of his aides proclaimed recently to the press,"Jail will

be the safest place in Washington this spring." However, in

spite of this potentially explosive situation, King continues

his plans. He adroitly uses this possibility as a lever to

attempt to pressure Congress into action by warning that the

"Washington Spring Project" may be the last chance in this

country for

peaceful change with respect to civil rights

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Strong Communist Influence

Another complicating factor in the picture is the

degree of communist influence on King. One of King's

principal advisors is Stanley David Levisons Ostensibly

only a New York City attorney

Tand businessman, Levison is,

'in fact, a shrewd, dedicated communist. Levison has spent

the major part of his life advancing communist interests:

Levison 'gravitated to Martin Luther King, Jr.,

1956. He has been as dedicated in his support of King as he

has been in advancing communist goals. He has actively

involved himself in fund-raising drives for King; served as

his legal counsel in certain matters, suggested speech

material for him, discussed with King demonstrations in

which King was involved, guided him in regard to acceptance

or rejection of various public appearances and speaking

commitments, and helped him with mattets related to articles

and books King has prepared:

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Levison edited most of the chapters of King's new

book entitled

'Where Do 'We Go From Here; Chaos Or Community?"

Levison wrote one chapter of this book and the publisher's

representative complained to King and Levison that it was

obvious certain 'sections of the book were written by different

individuals,

Stanley Levison has told Clarence Jones, another

advisor to King, that under no circumstances should King be

permitted to say anything vithout their approving it. Levison

also informed Jones that King is such a slow thinker he is

usually not prepared to make statements without help from

sr

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Levison is actively participating in the planning

for King's "Washington Spring Project."

Explosive: Situation

The combined forces of the communist influence and

the black nationalists advocating violence give the "Washington

spring Frojest a potentia: for an extremely explosive si mea

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FORMATION OF SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE.

Background of Founder

Martin Luther King, Jr., was born January 15, 1929,

at Atlanta, Georgia. - His name at birth was Michael Luther

King, STo

In 1935, his first name was changed to Martin.

King received an A.Bo degree in 1948 from Morehouse College,

Atlanta, Georgia. He then entered Crozer Theological!

Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania, where he was one of six

Negroes among 100 students. He won the Plafker Award as

the most outstanding student, was President of the Senior

Class, and received the J. Lewis Crozer Fellowship 'for !!

graduate study at the university of his choice.

King

graduated from Crozer Theological Seminary with a Bachelor

of Divinity, degree in 1951 and did graduate work at Boston

University, Boston, Massachusetts, where he secured a Ph.D.

degree in 1955.

Upon graduation, he jits offered the pastorate of

two Baptist churches in

the East and teaching posts in three

colleges. King chose the pastorate at the Dexter Avenue Baptist

Church in Montgomery, Alabama. After becoming established in

his church, he founded the Montgomery Improvement Association

and'led local Negroes in the Montgomery Bus Boycott that

attracted national attention. In March of 1957, he

founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

with himself as President. He still holds that position

today•

He

is also co-pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church,

Atlanta, Georgia.

Subversives Attracted

Stanley Levison was attracted to King and SCIC when

King: gained national attention. Levison soon developed a

close relationship with King and was known in King's group as

"Assistant Chief." In 1961, he was assistant treasurer of

SCLC®

Prior to joining forces with King, Levison led a

double life, for the Communist Party, USA (CPUSA,). Outwardly

appoint a poor.

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he was a sucçessful businessman but he was also the clandestine

fund-raiser for the CPUSA, He was entrusted with raising and

handling secret funds for the Party and used some of these

funds to finance his own activities.

Through Levison's

influencé,

other subversives were

aten the member of the PUt 0 am, 6 by Vat An 2962,

when in tentio is tent to his he a tenan comeding

O'Dell, who

then head of SCIC's New York Office. King

said he

Liked the idea. At the time, King was well aware of

Levison's

and O'Dell's communist affiliations.

The reason King enjoyed this close relationship with

communists i's best explained by the fact that Levison, i

Februazy, 1962, passed the word to Gus Hall, General Seecetary,

CPUSA,

"King is a whole-hearted Marxist who has studied it

(Marxism), believes in it and agrees with it, but_because of

does" not dare to espouse

te publicly..

his being a minister of religibar 1962, Levison told & CPUSA

•" Further, in March,

functionary that King was concerned about a "commnist label"

being "pinned on us" but that, at the same time, he wanted to

do everything possible tó evidence Friendship toward the

Soviet Union, In addition, King has been described within

the CPUSA as a true, genuine Marxist-Leninist. "Erom the top

of his head to the tips of his toes.

The feeling within the

CPUSA at that time was, and still is, that King definitely

follows a Marzist-Leninist line.

Communist Fixposed

King was forced to get rid of Hunter Pitts O'Dell

in October, 1962, when several newspaper articles exposed

O'Dell's connection with SCLC and his communist affiliationse

King still tried to hide O'Dell in his organization until

July, 1963, when he accepted O'Dell's "resignation." As

King put it, O'Dell's release was not because of connections

between O'Dell and the CPUSA but because of the emotional

public response in

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O'Dell has continued his efforts to make his

presence felt in the civil rights movement in behalf of the

CPUSA. The Winter, 1967, issue of ("Freedomways,).self-

described as a review of

the Negro

treedoin movement, LIsts

O'Dell as Associate Managing Editor. Actually, "Exeedomways"

is a CPUSA-initiated and CPUSA-supported publication

espousing the communist viewpoint of Negro problems.

King Speaks at Rally Honoring Communist

On February 23, 1968, King was the guest speaker

at a rally of

more. than one thousand people at Carnegie Hall,

New York Cíty, sponsored by "Freedomways," celebrating the

100th anniversary of the birth of W.E.B. DuBois, famous

O'Dell, was also listed as me of the speakers-at this affair.

• Stanley-Levison confided to

Clarence Jones that King

"Freedomways" rally. He

commented: "King has never read

anything as badly," and, "as though he did not understand

what he was feading."

Former: Communist Advisors

Bayatd Rustin is a former advisor to King and a one-

time assistant

secretary of the SCIC.

Rustin has publicly

admitted affiliation with the communist movement in the late

1930's.

He was also one of a selected number of observers

permitted to attend the CPUSA's National Convention in 1957.

King said he had to let Rustin go because of problems arising

his homosexual activities.

Rustin has long been so inclined,

having been arrested in New York City in 1946 for offering to

I commit a lewd or indecent act. Rustin was arrested again in

Pasadena, California, in 1953, for offering to engage in an act.

•of sex perversion of

a homosexual nature, which he admitted

and for which he was sentenced to serve, 60 days.

Advisory Committee Established for King

On"June 22, 1964, an advisory and research committee

was formed, with King's approval, for the purpose of writing y

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king's, speeches and guiding his actions. Among the members

of the group were lawrence Reddick

Bayard Rustin, Clarence

Jones and Harry' Wachtel

Reddiclyis a former member of the CPUSA: : On March 5,

1944, Wachtel's nane was on a list of names, whose significance

is not known,

maintained at the headquarters of the Kings

County Communist Party, New York.

On the same date, records

at this headquarters contained the name of Wachtel's wife,

Leonora;

on a list of newly elected officers of the Bath Beach

Club of the Kings County Communist Party, New York.

In addition to being on the Advisory Committee,

Clarence Jones, "a Negro attorney, is also General Counselor

for the Gandhi Society for Human Rights, a fund raising

adjunct; of the SCIC:

association vor santee 1sot and used Jones as the

•King attempted to hide his:

intermediary.

During the mid-1950's, Jones held a position.

of leadership'in the Labor Youth League, an organization

which has been designated as subversive pursuant to Executive

Order 10450.

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'Clarence Jones married Anne Aston Warder Norton, Snes

She is the daughter of deceased publisher

William H. Notton.

on June 3, 1956. " Between 1947 and 1950 she was identified

as a Communist Party club member at sarah Lawrence College.

In the early 1950's

she was also active in the labor Youth

League. On' April 5, 1955, she was observed as the driver of

a station wagon which was used to transport Communist Party

underground leaders in connection with an official Communist

Party meeting®

In 1956, she was described by a self admitted

communist as a "hard-core comminist.

King Wins Nobel Peace Prize

In October, 1964, it was announced that King, a

35-year-old Baptist minister, was being awarded the Nobel

Peace Prize.

on tovember 34, 1964, Kens contacted Jones and Te

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asked that Jones and Levison, among others, submit five-minute :

speeches which King could use in accepting the Nobel Peace

Prize. King would select

the best material Exon. these speeches.

King's Attraction for Communist Advisors

Two previous aides of King were Cordy

Vivian, whọ

Fomerly served as Director of Affiliates of the SCLC, and

RandoLph Blackwell who at one time acted as SCiC Program

Coordinaton Both of these individuals are former members

of the CPUSA

""During the early stages of development and formation

of the SCIC, the following eight individuals helped shape and

"limold the' policies of this organization, and, as noted, all have

had communist affiliations:

' Stanley David Levison

1 ¡ Clarence Jones:

Harry Wachtel

"Cordy I: Vivian

Randolph Blackwell

Hunter Pitts O'Dell

Lawrence Reddick

Bayard Rustin

"Assistant Chief"

Advisory Committee

Advisory Committee

Director of Affiliates

_Program Coordinator

Administrative Assistant

Advisory Committee

' Advisory Committee

Levison, Jones, and Wachtel contirued to

exert strong

¡de influence ori King and the souc. In addition, ar

the tenth anniversary convention of SCLC at Atlanta, Georgia,

on August 14, 1967, a brochure listed :

Reddick as:

'historian of SCLC.

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III. " COMMUNIST OBJECTIVES

1' During the early 1960's, the CPUSA was striving

to obtain a Negro-labor coalition to achieve its goals in

this country. At that time, the CPUSA "Party Line" was:

"Big business attacks on the rights of labor are continuing.

In order to 'defeat this offensive, organized labor, assisted

by communists, must launch a countercrusade, which can

succeed only if it is based on the united action of the entire

trade-union movement."

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Also, communisls had-recognized the error of

their ways by proclaiming that the communist program fox

"self-determination" of the Negro in the "Black Belt" area

of the South had been discarded. The new policy was to

seek complete economic, political, and social equality for

the Negro with all other American citizens. In a May, 1961,

issue, the communist newspaper, "The Worker!' stated,

"Communists will do their utmost to strengthen and unite

the Negro movement and bring to it the backing of the

working people.":

Martin' Luther King, Jx., and his organization

were made to order to achieve these objectives.: King and

his group were demonstrating and conducting voter-registration

campaigns to align the Negro movement solidly behind King.

The Peace' Issue Appears

This activity continued, with yuch fanfare until

the passage of the Civil Rights Act. of 1964 by the Congress.

This was the most far-reaching civil rights act passed

since the reconstruction era.

Now it was no longer newsworthy

to demonstrate for Negro rights.

The passage of this Act

was one factor that took King off the front pages of the

daily newspapers.!.:"

The second factor that had a bearing on King's

lack of publicity, and change of policy was the Gulf of

Tonkin incident on August 2, 1964.

Because of this, the i

United States took a more active role in the Vietnam Wak..

The CPUSA then started to demand through its propaganda:

machine that the escalation of the war in Vietnam be

stopped.

The activities in Vietnam were now more important

news than was' the Negro freedom movement.

The CPUSA also realized that even though the

peace issue was of primary importance, a secondary issue

not to be forgotten

was the freedom movement.

Abandoning

its previous

efforts to form a Negro-labor coalition,

the CPUSA now started touting a Negro-peace coalition that

would form a massive movement to force the United States

Government to change its foreign and domestic policies.

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"The Worker," in April, 1965, claimed that this

coalition was starting to form when it

stated, "The civil

rights movement was coming to see the identity of interests

of the Negro people's freedom movement with the anti

imperialist objective of ending the neo-colonialist war

of the' United States against the people of Vietnam."

IV. ' THE EMERGENCE OF THE PEACE ISSUE IN KING'S GROUP

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Role as a Peacemakéi

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King and his aides helped form this coalition

of "peace" and "freedom" groups.

They saw an opportunity

to again propel King into the international spotlight by

proposing he make peace in Vietnam.

On August 12, 1965, King announced publicly that

he wouid appeal personally to President Ho Chi Minh of

North Vietnam to join a conference to end the Vietnam war.

He said he would also send letters th leaders of South Vietnam,

the Soviet Union, and the United. States in this regard.

This "move on the part of King was engineered by.

Bayard Rustit and Harry Wachtel. In early August they met and

"discussed how to inject King into

the Vietnam issue

It was

decided to:have King write these world leaders utilizing King's

prestige as a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. This action,

they felt, would cast an image of king as a great moral leader

and extend his influence beyond the civil rights movement.

": Subsequently, a leading newspaper sent King 12

questions to answer which would clarify his position on Vietname

Upon receipt of these questions, King referred them to Stanley

Levison to answer.

Because of the unfavorable public reaction to

King's announcement, a conference with his top advisors was

held in early September, 1965, at which time it was decided

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attendance at this conference.

Admiration Lost

1 In early: 1966, King was lamenting to Harry Wachtel

about a nationally known figure, who at one time was a heavy

contributor to and admirer of King but was displeased.

because of King's

When we went intostand on Vietnam, Wachtel reminded kings

this Vietnam thing, we decided that he

who controls the purse

strings doesn't control our philosophy."

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Continued Pressure by Press

After the resumption of bombing of North Vietnam

in February, 1966, King conferred with Stanley Levison and

Bayard Rustin concerning a statement for the press.

King

informed them that the press häd been bothering him for a

statement, but he dared not take any action until he discussed

the matter with them. It was agreed that King would say he .

was deeply impressed by the large number of Senators who

called for a cessation of the bombings.

Levison reiterated

that King should point out how much opposition there is to

the bombingson: permi

Anti-Vietnam War Reselution

Miami, was the scene of the Southern Christian Leader

ship Conference executive board meeting in the Spring, 1966.

During thịs

two-day conference, the sessions ran into the

early morning hours attempting to draft a resolution on the

Vietnam war. While there appeared to be general agreement.

Stanley Levison and Harry

Wachtel continued to argue for a

stronger resolution than was presented. They wanted a

resolution that would condemn participation by United States

troops in Vietnam.

The conference finally adopted a resolution

calling on the Government to desist aiding the military junta

in Vietnam and to seriously consider a prompt withdrawal.

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-"Face the Nation"

In May, 1966, King was extended an invitation to

appear on the Columbia Broadcasting System's program "Face

the Nation."

Prior to this appearance, king sought the advice

of Stanley Levison and Clarence Jones.

King wanted their

thinking on the more important questions he might be asked.

Levison noted the possibility that ring might be questioned

on the Vietnam war. Jones advised King to use the Southern

Christian Leadership Conference resolution on Vietnam as his

text. i Levison suggested that king should also point out how

untalk It was that Negroes were shouldering a neavier burden

in the war and that more Negroes were in combat than other

When King appeared on the program, he suggested

the United States stop bombing North Vietnam, negotiate

with the Viet Cong, and recognize Red China,

Senate Hearings

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Prior to his appearance before & Senate Sub-Conmittee

hearing on urban affairs in December, 1966, King contacted

bevison for counsel concerning his testimony nucing chis

discussion, it was agreed that king mist reiterate during

his testimony that the war in Vletnam is standing in the

way of the Implementation of any of his civil rights projects

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Invitation to confusion, chaos, discuptions, and

During his subsequent testimony before this committee,.

he spoke critically of the war in Vietnam along these lines.

"The Nation"' Symposium

In late February, 1967, King spoke before a symposium

sponsored by "The Nation" magazine concerning the problems of

redirecting

"American Power."

After this speech in which King

was higaly, critical

of the United States Involvement in

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Vietnam, Levison congratulated him. Levison was pleased with

the publicity King's speech received, commenting that King's

appearance on"

panel with four United States Senators was

the appropriate occasion for him to express his antiwar

sentiments.

'"Over the years a number of individuals who have

been employed at one time or another by "The Nation" in bag

editorial and writing capacities have been identified with

the communist movement.

Riverside Church Speech

In early April, 1967, King accepted an invitation to

speak. before the group, "Clergy and Laymen Concerned About

Vietnamy' This is an interdenominationa

committee formed

• to mobilize religious opinion against

the war

Prior to this speech, king and Andrew Young, Executive

Director of SCLC, spent approximately eight houzs in conference

with King's top advisors in New York, New York.

Stanley Levison

and Harry Wachtel were present at this conference

:. Later that same day, King spoke at the Riverside

Church, 'New York, New York, before this group, at which time

he was highly critical of the United States involvement in

the Vietnam War''" He referred to the United States Government

as "the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." He

proposed a five-step process to extricate the United States

from this conflict.

Comments in the news media coverage of King's

remarks pointed out'that the five points are similar in concept

to the conditions imposed by North Vietnam as a prerequisite

to negotiations.: 'It is interesting to note that King's

proposals parallel the propaganda line which the Communist

Party, USA, has been projecting regarding the war in Vietnam.

Spring Mobilization:

At a conference in the Fall of 1966, of the Peace

and San /Francisco, California. Of the one hundred seventeen

individuals in attendance, seventy-five were members of the

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Socialist Workers Party or its youth group, the Young Socialist

Alliance®

The Conmunist Party was represented by Arnold

Johnson and James West, both of whom are members of the

Communist Party, USA, National Committee.

This group subsequently changed its name to Spelne,

Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.

Reverend

James Bevel, on leave from the Southern Christian Leadership

Conference,

was appointed Executive Director of this Comnittee.

On April 13, 1967, Levison and King were in contact

to discuss the progress Levison was making in the wilting of

the speech King was to deliver on April 15, 1967,

to a rally

of the Spring Mobilization Conmittee at the United Nations.

Levison discussed part of the speech which King enthusiastically

accepted.

King particulariy liked the part indicating that

the United States should unilaterally withdrar from Vietnan.

He also enjoyed the part where he would appeal to the country

to "demand insistently that our Governmentihonor Hanol's

promise to negotiate if the bombligs cease.!

The CPUSA was delighted with King's actlons in

this regard. The recognized leader of 22 million Negroes

had openly attacked his country's palicy in Vietnam.

He

participated in the largest rally ever staged against the

Vietnam war by being the keynote speaker. In his speech

King again called for the withdrawal of United States troops

from Vietnam.

' King was helping the CPUSA achieve its goal

of uniting the Negro movement with the peace Issue.

"The Worker" expressed the CPUSA's pleasure in

the May 7, 1967, issue where it stated in part, "When

Dr. King insists upon the connection between aggressive

foreign policy and regressive domestic policy he insists

upon what is true and consequential. When Di. King points:

to the racism common in colonialism and jim crow he points

that which is historically demonstrable. When Dr. King

affirms that the present war in Vietnam threatens all

democratic and progressive advance in the United States

and does so For economic, political, ethical and psychological

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reasons,, again he is saying what every fact and every day's

events confirn.: Hence Di. King, precisely as a leader in

the struggle against jim crow, must be--and is--a leader

in the struggle against war."

Being the astute advisor he is, and to keep

• King

from being openly aligned with the CPUSA, Levison advised

King to align himself with those individuals who have I.

power'rather than be aligned with a fringe antivar element.

He was to make the new alignment after his April 15, 1967,

speech.

King for President

The fringe element Levison referred to was

attempting tỏ

conferred concerning King's political possibilities.

According to Wachtel, a pacifist group was meeting that day

in an effort to get king to agree, to run for President with

Dr. Benjamin Spock, the antiwar agitator, as his Vice

Presidential candidate. Both Levison and Wachtel agreed

that it was too early and that King should not agree to run

at this

s time. a

The CPUSA again seized the opportunity to cause

dissension and unrest in the country by announcing they would

support king, and Spock on a peace ticket.

At a May Day, 1967,

program in Berkeley, Califocnia, Gus Hall stated, "The Party

forces should begin work right now to elect these two men

because they

are for peace in Vietnam."

Early in May, 1967, Levison was still concerned

with King's being

identified with the peace movement rather

than '

civil rights. When approached by peace groups attempting

to get King'to continue to run. for President, Levison Informed

those representatives that King would talk. on

Vietnam on

occasion to various

groups, but that would be the extent of

his involvement.

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aran errort to evaluate his position, King and the

SCIC held a retreat in Frogmore, South Carolina, on May 21,

1967, to determine the relationship of the schc to the peace

movement. King and other top functionaries'

concluded that

the SCLC would give no overt of covert support to anti-Vietnam

war demonstrations.

The Birth of Washington Spring Project

On July 19, 1967, Levison was in conference with

King concerning the

'Newark, New Jersey, riot. Levison

indicated he was concerned about King's failure to make any

public statement concerning the racial disturbances.

King

Informed Levison that he had been considering making a

statement but did not merely want to condenn the riots buf

also

to condemn the conditions which lead to clots,

Levison suggested that King advocate a program with

dramatic qualities similar to the Horks'Project Administration

of the 1930$.

This new program would be implemented by the

Federal Government to employ the jobless. youth.

Levison

continued that this program worked in,a period when the

United States was almost

bankrupt and should work even

better now that the country is almost sick with money.

King

agreed that Levison's idea had meric and he would publicly.

call upon

the Federal Government to do something

along this

King waited until the Tenth Annual Convention of

the SCLe before he made these plans public.

On August 15,

1967, he delivered an address at the convention urging new

massive givil disobedience which would include general

strikes,

'school boycotts, and a camp-in at Washington, D. C.

All this would' be to force Congress to take action

to improve

the lot of the Negro:

SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LLADERSHIP CONFERENCE FINANCES

The foremost problen in conducting such a campaign

Hi making

errangements to handle

As he

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họs in the past, King turned to Levison to help him handle

chis, problem as well as all finencing of the SCLC. At a

retreat in September, 1967, it was decided that SCC would

attempt to raise $1, 500,000 during the coming year. It was

contemplated that this noney would be realized through the

mail-appeal program of SCIC under the general supervision

of

Levison.

During the fiscal year July 1, 1966, to June 30,

1967, SCLC realized income in the amount of $901,021.52.

The total expenses of SCIC for this period were $859,933.34.

This indicated, income

exceeded expenses by $41.088.18.

A Tax Dodge

i.r.

The: SCIC sex up Foundations to serve as tax exempt

organizations. that would solicit funds for SCLC, Io this end

the American Foundation on Nonviolence lof New York City, and

the Southern Christian Leadershir foundatior of Chicago,

Illinois, were established. As money is needed by SOLC,

Harry Wachtel reportedly funnels the money from the American

Foundation on Nonviolence to SChe.

Funds from Firms and/ Foundations.

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In February, 1967, the firm of Merri

. Zynche

Blerce, Fennet, and Smith, a stock brokerage

contributed $15,000 to SCLO.

In August, 1967, Edward Lamb

of the Edward Lamb Foundation Toledo, Ohio, donated some

stock to soLd which had a market valua of $6,000.

Edward

Lamb is a well-known successful businessman in Toledo, Ohio.

It was learned in Novenber, 1957, that the ford

Foundation was about to give SCIC $230, 000. This money was

to train Negro ministers in 25 cities throughout the Nation

to become qualified leaders in the ghetto areas.

Funds from Individuals

'In" October, 1955.

Governor of New York Nelson

Rockefeller matched the $25,000 donation which King made to

the Gandhi Soclety for Human Rights, another fund-raising

adjunct of sac.

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In February,: 1967, it was learned that Harzy) Belafonte

well-known entertainer, periormed on a television program in

Paris,' france, for the benerit of sell. As a resul

SCIC was

to receive $10,000.

During the year 1967, Anne Labouisse FarnsworthD

also known as Mrs. Peter Farasworth jand heiress to the Clark

Thread Fortune, donated $50,000 to

SCIC

In January,

1968,

it was learned she was in the process

of donating $100,000

to King's group.

•Funds from Government Agencies

In early December, 1966, it was determined that

King's organization was about to participate in a four-million-

dollar loan from the Federal Housing Administration because

of SCIC's involvement in a slum clearance program in Chicago,

Illinois.

Under existing Government regulations SCLC would

share in the ten per cent profit allowed, or $400,000.

Levison made available $12,500 of his own money so that SCIC

could participate in this program and share in the profits.

¿r It was also determined that in November, 1967; the

Department of Labor negotiated a contract with SCLC to train

Negroes for 'employment in Atlanta, Georgia.

Of the $61,000

involved In

the contract, $13,000 went to SCIC and $48,000

went to the grocers in Atlanta for providing on-the-job

training to the previously unemployed Negroes.

Funds for Washington Spring Project

"In February, i1968, Levison was in conference with

one of King's aides concerning methods of raising funds for

the "Washington Spring Project." Levison suggested that a

meeting be held in the home of Harry Belafonte of approximately

60 Individuals who have contributed $1,000 or more to SCIC

in the past.

Levison advised that some of the people to be

l invited to this meeting would be Governor and Mrs. Nelson

Rooseyelt III.

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• In early March, 1968, Levison was continuing. his

efforts to raise 'funds for the,

"Washingcon Spring Project."

He was quite pleased with his curent results and notified

Clarence Jones that he had sent out a mailing to 80,000

individuals who have contributed to King's organization in

the past two years, soliciting funds. Levison remarked that

the returns were running ahead of last year's response with

$15,000 being received in one day.

KING'S PERSONAL CONDUCT

With the funds that he had received from the Ford.

Foundation, King held the first of two workslops in Miami,

Florida, In February, 1968, t

to train Negro ministers in

uban leadership. One Negro minister in attendance later_

expressed his, disgust with the behind-the-scene drinking,

fornication, and homosexuality that went on at the conference.

Several Negro and white prostitutes were brought in from_the:

Miami area...

An all-night sex orsy was held with these:

prostitutes and some of the delegates in attendance.

One room had a large table in it which was filled

with whiskey. The two Negro prostitutes were paid $50.00

to put on a sex. show for the entertainment of guests. A

variety of sex acts deviating from the normal were observed.

Previous Sexual Experiences

This activity is not new to King and his associates.

As early as January, 1964, King engaged in another, two-day.

drunken sex orgy in Washington, D. C.

Many of those present

engaged In sexual acts,

, natural as well as unnatural, for

the entertälnment of onlookers..

When one of the females shied

away from engaging in an unnatural act, King and other of the

males present discussed how :

she was to be caught and initiated

in this respect.

" Throughout the ensuing years and until this date

King has continued to carry on his sexual aberrations secretly

while holding himself out to public view as a moral leader of

religious conviction.

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King's Mistress

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It was learned in February, 1968, from a very

responsible Los Angeles individual in a position to know, that

King has been having an illicit love affair with the wife of

a prominent Negro dentist in Los Angeles, California,

i since

1962.' He believes King fathered a baby girl born to this

woman inasmuch as her; husband is allegedly sterile.

The child resembles King to a great degree and King

contributes, to the support of this child. He calls this

woman every Wednesday and frequently meets her in various

cities throughout the country.

The individual who reported this is himself'

prominent Negro who is related by law to King's mistress.

He

advised he has known King since 1960 and refers to him as

"hypocrite."

He also reported that king is having itticit

love affairs with three other women, one of whom is Joan.

Baez, the nationally known folk singer.-

The prominent

Negro who furnished the information said he was appalled that

a man of King's. low character could cause so much trouble for

both Negroes and the Government. • :

wAs can be seen from the above,

it is a fact that

King not only regularly indulges in adulterous acts but enjoys

the abnormal by engaging in group sexual orgies..

King's Histörical Aspect

• These facts about the Nobel Peace Prize winner make

his remarks seem incongruous when he replied after winning

this cherished award, "History has thrust me into this

position.:: It would both be immoral and a sign of ingratitude

•if I did not face my moral responsibility to do what I can in

the civil rights

struggle."

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