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Stanley Levison — Part 12
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what role BOBBY KENNEDY played since there is no way of
really knowing. LEVISON remarked that MARTIN LUTHER KING
whether he felt BOBBY KENNEDY was involved or not, maintained
a friendly relationship with him. He said KING. even if he
felt BOBBY KENNEDY was involved, forgave him and that CORETTA
KING should take the same attitude,
LEVISON gave his opinion that the entire affair will
"drift away", and said "It's not the kind of thing you can
keep going’. He felt the entire thing would be forgotten.
LEVISON also commented that CORETTA KING'S suggestion |
that she get together with ETHEL KENNEDY could be fruitful
and should be done reasonably soon.
This information was furnished to the Bureau by
teletype dated 6/20/69, captioned "MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR}
SECURITY MATTER-C", An air mail copy was furnished Aflanta.
6/21/69
On 6/21/69, HARRY WACHTEL, NYC Attorney and an advisor
to the SCIC, discussed with LEVISON the newspaper publicity
in the NYC area about the wire tapping of MARTIN LUTHER $
telephones. WACHTEL said that guests at a party he attended
were trying to guess the identity of the Communist, Marxiste
Leninist lawyer whose phones had been tapped. WACHTEL could
only answer that it was not he.
LEVISON told WACHTEL to tell his clients who the
lawyer really was, He said he had already told MOE FONER,
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LEVISON and WACHTEL discussed an article on the
wire tapping of KING written by JAMES WECHSLER of the “New
York Post" newspaper, LEVISON claimed that WECHSLER was érunk
when he wrote the article. He also mentioned that he asked
WECHSLER about the article and told him it was ali right for
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