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Communist Party, United States of America, Negro Question, Communist Influence in Racial Matters On February 29, 1964, another confidential source, who hes furnished reliable information in the past, advised that Stanley Levison conferred with an unknown nale op that date. Levison took the opportunity to say that Bayard Rustin is scheduled to become the Northern Coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference on March 15, 1964, He added, however, that this might not materialize, He said he had recentiy conferred with Reverend Martin Luther King, at which time King indicated he might change these plans because his mail had not favored his association with Bayard Rustin, : mwcrmerred that as oF 3751 tine, anley Levison was a secret member of the Communist Party, United States of énerica (CPUSA), The "New York Herald Tribune" issue of August 14, 1963, page 7, column il, contains an article captioned "Thurmond Assails A Leader of March", The article stated that, in answer to charges by Senator Strom Thurmond, Bayard Rustin admitted joining the Young Communist League (YCL) in 1936, Rustin also reportedly stated that he broke completely with the YCL in June, 1941, ot te