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NY 100-111180 ; fo. 7 SEQRET 9/21/67 | _ Source furnished information that MARTIN LUTHER KING, Jr., held a conference with ANDREW YOUNG, his assistant in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, HARRY WACHTEL and STANLEY LEVISON, both advisors to KING. KING sought their views on an invitation which he said he had received to go to Moscow with other Nobel Peace Prize winners to meet with Ambassadors from North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front. LEVISON wanted to know if KING knew anything of the origin or " purpose of the Moscow meeting. WACHTEL felt it was important to ascertain if the plans called for the committee going to Moscow to also meet with Representatives of the US Government. He believed that, unless this was done, the committee could be charged with lacking validity and being narrow and one-sided. It was agreed that KING would postpone his decision on ascepting the invitation until ANDREW YOUNG contacted an unnamed person in Geneva to get more details on the Moscow trip. Later the same date, LEVISON told WACHTEL that he had been in touch with ANDREW YOUNG and that "they" were pleased that KING was interested in going to Moscow, and, to accommodate KING, would change the scheduled date ofthe Moscow gathering. — The source aiso furnished informetion about KING's itinerary. This information was furnished to the Bureau and interested offices by airtels and LHM's dated 1 9/21 and 22/67, captioned, "MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., SM - Cc" 9/27/6T Source furnished information on 9/27/67, that KING again conferred with ANDREW YOUNG, HARRY WACHTEL and STANLEY LEVI£ZON to get some last minute advice on accepting the invitation togo to Moscow. KING expressed his belief that the proposed trip was a joint idea of the Nobel Prize Committee and the Friends Service Committee for the purpose of holding a dialogue between the { so-called belligerent parties in Vietnam and the Nobel Peace Prize winners. / —_—a i SORET re es 2 ee ee ee ce Ce Ty weet *