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+ ae ; Neer eT woe es & Mee lg Morph tee. + we te fn the testimony lest week King, under ing from ellegations against Levison ~~ enghe w.retap end bugging the Attorney pss AL oat furnished the FBI ‘4, eave the suspected associate President. agreed to stop his rationale for the surveillance *° ef King was described as a = association with Levison Gut = Levison, whe was avey - tCommunist” although then reconsidered and from his New York home there was never any evidence resumed the personal and yesterday recuperating from ented publiciy that King of his = working relationship. “If surgery and therefore movement, ihe Southern snybody sants fe make unavailable for comment, it Christian Leadership Con- sormechung of it tet them ury."’ still active in civil rights begal ference. was ever under any = King ts reported by Navasky werk uu New York. ‘ form of Communist influence. to have told Levinon. - + Katzenbach testified lart ~ “according to the Ken- ey Me nner Mad Tate week that as & deputy to nedyites. when the FEL RaW Getty King aa epanted that in . Kennedy he revalied seemein that King hadn't really ®roken the various crises of bis 1962 “ane or hore memoranda = with Levison, this confirmed jire_trom bis indictment in Baling. in substance. that an = Mr. Hoover's Worst onipomery Ala on important secret member of suspicions—thal King was trumped-u tax falsification ’ ghe Communist Parsy.knuwn =o evher under Communist eparpes r 1936 to his to be such to the FRI. was in contre! of 3 conscious fellow pscarsination 12 years elias 278 a Ur reneeUn, we etee a te Re De wy ror} C7 ~ Oo ’ 4, { a ! ‘ La ED a ed tao - d | ee close contact with Dr. King traveler.” Savasky wrote. ve Levi . + and migh\ be influencing the In ali the controversy over rae —Levison was pn “ a “actions of Dr. King’s — the responsibility for theKing siwavs working in the — j movement in ways amicable wiretaps and bugegings tere b ickcround. his contribution MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. ! to the interests of the Soviet has never been any sub- bess heen inds rable.” : ,. prodded by Kennedys ‘ Union and contrary to those of, Stantiation_of the Hoover Ss Deen nSisperma re oe i the Linited States.” : ~ ° ——<——— } Hl Katrenbach said that TET ee ee nee me ne oe . *] Robert Kennedy had a . . member of the Justice , Department's civil rights . - z f' division eal! upon King and e ‘suggest that “it was not i fos : interest nor in the interes! a . " , bis movement to have further ° ‘ jeontact with this person.” . + Katzenbach did not name the . i marean \ Serer , | ! ' King = followed = — the . | , ipugeestion for a while. Kat- . 5 zenbach testified, bul then ’ . resumed his contacts. , Afterward Hoover prepared : Lp tates, PI wore, a ee one hoe maemnra ner =: the fact of Communist in- | filtration in the movement and dixcussing questions of moral | a deisiied TAC TUT wriawere fF E Dr. King. referring to | Character.” said Katzenbach. | | When fionver gave the : (memorandum ide = cir- ; . oy ‘culation im the government, - : oo . ” ' Katrenhach related, Kennedy 7 : ‘became funous and ordered [him towithdraw all copes. ‘ | Later, however, Kennedy { ' guthurized the wiretaps. - According to Navasky's ‘aecoun. the Justice Depor- . “tment failed to provide King’ ‘with the evidence = be . ; reyested to sutlantiate the . - { ; a allegahiors against Levison . . . { ry and jeslity Une request that he mL eo - ; , . Culad! the aerwirwetrer, . tw ea le wll |