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. _ * . . ie ( 4 wif, Reim #:- t . . . . . . . et eG Mr. Uae . . loots. Fitune .- 47) To; Mr. A. H, Belmont . Date: September 25, L9G or, Gale, os | ; . : A: Mr, Reed, -| From; Hr. W. C. Sul}, xph . Zo pr. Sates a 0 O “ Mr..7e:-l Re: COYNUNIST PARTY, USA wie these NEGRO QUESTION |Z Tele. Tove — . COMMUNIST INDLUENCD IN RACIAL MATTERS °° Miss Gaics- INTE:HAL SECURITY - C ———— Predicetion: | 2 Reference is made to the enclosed memorandum dated 9/16/63 and to the attached proposed SAC Letter. a, On returning from a few days leave I have been advised of | the Diractcr's continued dissatisfaction with the manner in whick - we prepared a Brief on the above-captioned matter and subsequent.. | memoranda on the Same subject matter. This situation is very disturbing to those of us in the Domestic Intelligence Division responsible for this area of work, and we certainly want to de . ° everything possibie to correct our shortcomings. We absolutely will |zct be stubborn about admitting any mistakes we have made or be stiff-necked and unbending concerning our analysis of this mctter. The Director indicated he would not approve our last SAC Letter . until there was # Clarification and 2 meeting of minds relative to the question of the extent of communist influence over Negrocs and their leaders, In this menorandum I will seriously and sincerely. try to clarify a most regretable situation. It is prepared not on official office memorandum but rather on plain bond believing that this discussion need not be made a matter of official record. Common Agreement: a=: : . _ First, I am sure we all are in agreement.on the following which was in both the cover memorandum and the detailed brief attached: (1) for the past 44 years the Communist Party, USA, has | spent enormous sums of money and ceaseless efforts to influcnce . - "Negroes and to make comaunists out of them; (2) the 19 million Negroes in the country today constitute the greatest single racial target of the Communist Party, USA; (3) Negro leader Martin Luther : | King, _. _does have as an extremely important . " padvisor _1(4) we are right now in this nation engaged in a form.of social -revolution and the time has never been so right for exploitation of the Negroes by communist propagandists; and (5).-the Communist Party could in the future make prodigious strides and great successes wit) ' the American Negro to the serious detriment of our national securit) In addition to the above, the materizl furnished contained many pas of specific examples of communist policies. programe—and-xttivitics Enclosures Genk P-a-4 ta =170-