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‘ gh ee ee ee Oy aha 2. . eo Rts cb ee Tae SE eT owt et Alleged sttsieSet of Rev. King Is Identified|: KING, Prem Al mented on Navasky A nt? oe In the wiretap requests of, Oct. 7 and 18, 1865, which bore " othe signed doproval of Robert! «F. Kennedy, then Attorney “General, FB! Director J. Edgar Hoover said the sur- Weiilance Was necessary “in vjew Of the possible Com-? Munist influence in the racial: ' -situation.”” Copies of the; ‘authorization released by the’ Senate committee last week dcleted the identity of the ” person named in Hoover's _-Fequest. Hoover memoranda bearing the initialed ‘approval of Kennedy's successor, Nicholas Katzenback, also” said Ue installation of a bug | Was pecets:ary ine New York, City hotel rom: because of tine} i a infivence on King of “i dividuals with subversive backgrourds ” In the @ testimony lost week en the wiretzp and bugging case the susprcted assaciatc of King was described as a “secret Communist” although there was never any evidence cited publicly thut King or his movement, the Southern Christian Leadership Con- ference, was ever under any” form of Comniunist influence. Katzenbach lestified last week that as’s deputy to Kennedy he recalled secing in 1962 ‘one or more memoranda Glating. in substance, thet an important secret member of the Communist Party, known'- to be such to the FEI. was in close contact with Dr. ‘hing and might be influencing the actions of Dr. King's movement in ways amicable “to the interests of the Soviet Union and contrary ty those of the United Siates.”” Katrenbach said that Robert Kennedy had a member of the Justice Department's civil rights division call upon King and Sucgest thal “it was not in his interest nor in the interest of his nroverneni to have further contact with this person.’ Katzembach did not name the m King followed the SHE EMiOn for a ubile, Kat- leenbach testified, but then resumed his <eontiacts. Afterward Huwer prepared “gp detailed memorandum aboul Dr. King. referring ig the fsct of Commemist in hhtiration 3 ar: Une may cue nl and Gis ass; ies atiuiis wf sietT; ‘al eteractey,” said Katrenhach When Hoover pave the memorandum sede cir- cululign ie the government, Katzenbach nefited, Kennedy aed Later, Beeever, Kemedy " sutioe ved the wiretaps King, under prodding from the Allorney General and President, agreed to stop his association with Levison but then reconsidered ~ and resumed the personal and working relationship. “If anybody wants to make something of it let them try,” King is reported by Navasky to have told Levison. “According to the Ken- nedviles, when the FBI saw that King hadn't really broken “with Levison, this confirmed Mr. Hoover's | worst suspicions—that King was either ‘under Communist control or a conscious fellow traveler,” Navasky wrote.” In all the controversy over _ the responsibility for the King ‘wiretaps and buggings there has never been any sub- 4p Si ntiat antiation of the Hoover (80 Uf. | ey Fann Negations egainst Levison tat furnished the FBI tionale for the surveillance Levison, who was away fom bis New York home yesterday rec ting from surgery en therefore unavailable for comment. is still active in civil rights legal In her memoir, “My Life “with Martin Luther King Jr..” Coretta King recounted that is the various crises of his hife—from his indictment in Bontsvonery Als Fee TAs, ore wees wees mped-up tax fatsieatn charges in 1955 te Bssassination 12 9 ens . later—Levijson was always on amd ‘ho offer arsistance... slways werking in the t “ckground, his contribstion & been indispensabie.”” ie ate ‘gevwutt, Che duster t Uepar- 2haM fas sumes want i Tit Laie te por wit: Ket le t with the eviderce he rapested te atelinuate the aatleycsalaaan—ttpeert4s! Levin gawd gustils Ure meytiest thiel Re cut edits a edt tly ae: of taper, ie farina ara wdered him lovithdrus sll copies : According, ta Navasks"s | SS Se oe =