LIST OF ADVISORS FOR DR. MARTIN L. KING
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
To: MURCHISON, STEVE
Document date: 11/5/67
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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FROM : MURCHISON, STEVE

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TITLE : LIST OF ADVISORS FOR

. DR. MARTIN I. KING

DATE

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SUBJECTS : COMMUNISM

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KING, M. Ju. JR.

CIVIL RIGHTS MO

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8 NOV 1957

RIN, Martin Lither

2. Martin Luther KING Jr., born 15 January 1229 in Atianta, Georgia,

has been described as the most prominent leader of the civil rights movenent

So the 46s

He is the President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,

(SCiO), and is a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize,

24. In Subjectts kany activities in the civil rights movenent, he has

sought and relied upon the advice of various individuals, including the

tollowing:

A.. Bayard RUSTIN-Nember of the Young Comunist Leazue fron 2936 to

1941, secretary to Subject fron 1956 to 1960, Secretary of the

SCLO in 1962, NOQD and organizer of the March on Washingtonim 1465,

RUSTIN attended the Sixteenth National Convention of the CFUSA

in 1957 as a non-Communist observer, and was especially active

in advising Subject on formülating a position on Viet Nan in 1965-66.

B. Clarence JONES-General Counsel to the Ghandi Society for Hunan

Rights, and former member of the Labor louth Leagued a Camunist

front

0. Stanley LEVISON Ideological Coumunist and

suspected secret menber

of the CPUSAa

Da Harry WACHIEL Executive Vice President of the Ghandi Soolety tor

Junan Ishta, hember of the lationai laryers Guilde a Countst.

front.

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E. Harry BELAFONTE Member of the Young Conmunist League before

coning into prominence

as an entertainer»

According to a source tho is considered unreliable, subject met with

various leaders of the Italian Conmunist Party and of the Italien Socialist Party on

18 September 1964 in Rome. (Subject was in Rome on that date as part of a

tour of Western Burbpe.) He allegedly disUgssed with these Italian

politicians the demonstrations against segregation in the US which yere to

be organized in Italy during the following months.

4. TheVoctober 1964 issue of Vie Nuove, an Italian weekly magazine

owned by the Italian Conmunist Party, (PCI), carried an article entitled

what We Negroes Ask of the President" which Vie Nuove clained Subject vrote

for its exclusive publication. The article concerned the civil rights

question in the US and did not appear to be directed specifically to a

Communist audience. Despite, the date of its publication the article appeared to

have been written some months before.

5. An article appearing in the Washington Fost on l November 1964 stated

that Subject was planning a visit to the Soviet Union. He reportedly had been

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invited to the USSR, but Rev. Ralph ABERNATHI, spokesman for subject,

refused to comment on the source of the invitation»

Based on:

201-760966 (KING) L

201 - 275804

(RUSTIN)

DF2:7872

DBB- $8164

CSCI-376/02051-64

OIRT-6783

The following documents, held in RID/SD, were not reviewed:

TS 188608

TS 188606A

75-188613

DBB-17672 and DB3-17792, which contain information essentiel to Subjectta file,

both appear to have pages missing»

The above memorandum was based exclusively on that information contained in

Subjects very incomplete 201 file.

No attempt was made to lansocia

locate or consolidate other Information concerning

Subject.

Steve lurchison

5 November 1967

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