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Stanley Levison — Part 12
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LEVISON cautioned YOUNG to keep in mind the
fact that Negro income has increased and YOUNG said he would
Go nothing until he discussed it with LEVISON.
This information was furnished to the Bureau by
eirtel and LHM dated 4/1/69, captioned "COMINFIL SCLC - IS-C".
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On 4/1/69, CORETTA KING and STANLEY LEVISON held
e discussion on her press conference the previous Gay, the _
possibility of suit being instituted on CORETTA's hehalf
agesinst JAMES EARL RAY, and the question of whether RAY
was the lone assassin of MARTIN LUTHER KING.
During the discussion on theassassination of KING,
CORETTA told LEVISON that she had told CHAUNCEY (ESKRIDGE,
SCLC legal advisor in Chicago) that she does not trust
HOOVER or the FBI. She claimed the FBI had been following
KING around the south for years and "know everything".
CORETTA mentioned letters she has been receiving
and said one warned against trying to have January 15,
named a national holiday in memory of M‘RTIN LUTHER KING
because information possessed on KING will be exposed.
This information was furnished to the Bureau by
airtel dated 4/1/69, captioned "COMINFIL SCLC, IS-C",
4/8/69
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On 4/18/69, STANLEY LEVISON stated he has been
working with CORETTA KING on her forthcoming book because
it ‘had tb be completed by 4/19/69, or have the publication
date pushed back to 1970. He said that because of this
urgency he was able to get some things into the book that
the publisher wanted to keep out. He said these were things |
such as the Vietnam war and the fact that MARTIN LUTHER KING
did not have a one-dimensional negative attitude toward }
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