DISPATCH: BLACK NATIONALIST WRITERS IN PARIS.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: HEADQUARTERS
Document date: 01/19/1968
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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DISPATCH

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Chief of Station

ACTION REQUIRED - RIFERENCES

#4+5

CLASSIFICATION

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#5

PROCESSING ACTION

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NO BIDEXING REQUIRED•

ONLY GUAUFIED DESK

CAN TUDGE UNDEXING

MICROFILMI

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Foruarded under separate cover is a memorandum prepared

-by

#6

which deals with #5 -related

individuals and which is usefal background infomation on

this subject.

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Distributions

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ISS REFERENCE TO

DISPATCH SYMBOL ANO NUMBER

#2

DATE

8 FEB. 12S8

#186

19 Januasy 1968

MOS FILE NUMBER

CLASSIFICATION...

SECESIAS

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BECRET

#5

PARALE: COVER ATTACHMENT TO:

19 January 1963

Blaci nationalist iriters in Paris

1. no present trere do not seen to be many black nationalist (American Negro)

¡nicers rosiding in Paris,

apart iron Pilliam Gardner Smith,

Long-time resident,

no is ron at work on a book about his sunner trip to the lsa and neetings

nith black pover and other citil rights activists there.

2...

#8.

3.

#8

#8

5.

#8

• "aThes Is mentioned in william Gardner Smithis Last novel

"The Stone Face

Es restaurant Is a seting D'ace for all, American Negroes tino visit France, His

for thor Haynes gave a

Visited Paris earlier,

et 81. Like Smith,

he 1s probably not suca di a nationalist nilitant..

Haynes has a white French wife, and

#5

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"cout: Kiid, dartin Lither

io kartin inther KIlO 3ro, born 15 January 1229 in atienta, Guorgia,

nes been described as the most prominent leader of tho civil rights noveron

the is.

he is the President of the Southern Chridtian Leadership Conference,

(suic), and is â recipient of the Nobel Peace Prizeoy 1)

2. In Subject's bany activities in the civil rights moverênt, he has

sought and relied upon the advice of various indiriduals, Including the

fulloning:.:

1. Bayard RUSTIN Menber of the Young Communist League fran 1936 to

1947, socretary to Subject froz 1956 to 1960, Secretary of the

scle in 1962, 2000 and orsaniser of the larch on Washingtonin 465.

RUSTIN attended the Sixteenth National Convention of the CPUSA

in 1957 as a non-Connunist observer, and has especially ective !

in advising Subject on formulating a position on Viet Man 1n 1965-63.

Clarence JONES-General Counsel to the Ghandi Soclety for unan

Rights, and former ranber of the Labor Youth Leagued a Cowist

front.

C. Stanley LEVISON Ideological Communist end suspected secret lesber

of the CPUSAs

D.

Harry NACirDl-Executive Vice President of the Ghandi Society for

Auren Rights; homber of the lationed ianers Guild, a Cornist

front.

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Harry BELAFONTE-lenber of tho Yours Camarist Leajie befer:

conirie into proninenco as an entertziner.

3. iccordins to a sourco tho is considered invollabie, subject not wich

verious leaders of the Italian Connunist Party and of the Itelien Socialist varia

¿ä Sepienber 1964 in Pone. (Subject was in Rone on that date as part of a

tour of Western Eurbpu.) He allegedly dislossed with these Italian

politicians the ¿enonstrations against segregation in the US mich fere to

lu urbanized in Italy during the following months.

Lo Theloctober 1964 Issui of Vie liove, an Italián reely magazino

tinied by the Italian Connunist Party, (PCI), carried an article entitled

"what de regroes Ask of the President" which Vie inove clained Subject trote

'or its exclusive publication.

The article concerned the cirit rights

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

Communist audience.. Despite, the dato of its publication the article appeared su

lnve been written some months before.

5. in article appearing In the Washington Pest on 4 loverber 1964 suatcd

thai Subject was planning a visit to the Soviet inion. lie reportedly rai ssor.

SECRET

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vited to the iSsi, but Rev. Kalpi diatwati, spiresen for SuUJect,

refused to comment on the bource of the invitasion

Fused on:

# 2

Ta following documents, hold in #/ were not reviewed;

#2

PB I

INFO

The above memorandur was based exclusively.o that inforation contained in

noject's very incomplete

file.

No attempt ras nade to lizace

Lorenant locate or consolidate other Information concernin

subject.

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5 November 1967:

CHEE

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