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ne pegs tare ee re Review of Bureau Files eS aa Memorandum to Mr. W. C, Sullivan RE: MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR 100-106670 DETAILS: See EM We have never investigated Mra. King. Our files contain numerous references to her in corimection with her husband's activities and her own activities in pacifist organiszationa such as the Women's International League for Peace and Freedon, Book Review In her acknowledgment at the front of the beck Mrs. King stated that Stanley Levison had read tha entire manuscript and had offered many useful suggestions. She also acknowledged the valuable legal and personal assistance she got from Harry Wachtel. Later in the book she said Levison and Wachtel were two of King's dear friends and that King sought their advice and used them as sounding boards for his ideas. She said Levison always worked in the background and his contribution was indispensable. She added that Levison and Wachtel were two of the most important supporters of her husband's work and that they continued to assist her in many valuable vays to this day. (Wh). OTHER 0/3 \ Levison, a white attorney, is identified as a secret. member of the Communist Party (CP) as late as 1963. He did not think thejCP's program on civil rights was sufficiently militan and his break with the CP was tactical rather than idaclogical. in 1944 and Wachtel's name was ; also contatimed in CP records | although his relationship with the CP is not known. . In April, 1969, one of our sources reported that Levison said he was busy working with’Mrs. King on her book. He said that because it was completed just before the deadline he was able to get some things into it that the publisher wanted to keep out. He said two of the things he got into the bock were »2a