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ra oe me “7a Pet I: 4 - se account whose accuracy was confirmed vesterday by a former hughranking Justice Department of ficial. The sssue of King’s bugging and wiretapp:ng during the Kennedy and Johnson ad- ; minisirations was revived last York lawyer uho had been a =o week in the Senate in- close friend and supporter a telligence committee, which King maintained the high we is Stanlev classification on Levison's evil rights ac witcha helped identity accorded it by the Bung since the davs of the PL ote a Eprmingham bus boycott with A spokesman for the free legal and financial ad- committee said yesterday that - Wier, according toal®l book the ideatity of the King By Laurence Stern Wawa en Pest fra a ge The mysterinus political tafiuence whose rame the FBI secretly invoked to persuade Robe: F. Kenneds to permit ; the _ wiretapping of Martin Lanter King JT. eas 6 New ‘ “+ meee area a : % weet en aes we. bas! eiptiet tr. peg ces fey tad steal wwe PF yates any em ecpe King Influencer’ Named” a ——— a ee oF ee ee ~ on eater T4 "2"=7e associate who triggered the wiretap and bugging was being kept secret for “national security” reasons rather than d pnvacy grounds. Levison's role in the King . Surveillance was described in Griail, however, in the 1971 book “Kennedy Justice” by New York writer Victor Navarky. The account received virtually no attention in the news media and neither the FBI nor Justice Depart- ment has previously com- f pITASY ZO SVC =T ‘11 Nidd-\"% xa ‘aud # “ts VID See KING, As, Cel. 2 . “TN oe i: Mesed I Influen cer of tified | Rev. King Is Iden a FOR an DATE 2A In the wiretap requests of Oct. 7 and 18. 1963, which bore ithe signed approval of Robert ‘General FBI Duecer') = "WASHINGTON POST" Edgar Hoover said the sur- 12/8/75 veillance was necessary “in sat WA da Bi Pages 1 & 8 tiew of the possible Com- | munist influence in the racial ‘ Situation.” Copies of the . suthorizalion released by the ; ” fenate committee Lest week ; deleted the identity of the © person named in Hoover 9AY Ss Ai the initialed onpreval f NOT "RECORDED . Kennedy's succesear, Kicholas Katzenback. also 46 jh xv Hib soit the installation of a bug? Was Perea mn a hew Vark *¢ City hotel rum because of the ed ___- ar infuence on King of **in- ” dividuals with OE Sh oF LE eT