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ere . &19 (Rev, $575) we ae | iF JE xy 4 af 5 otic BY Hepp nELd ES UNCLA o ATE. > 7? ~» ALLINFORMATION CONTAINED - 7 is A ee tl under Communisi infivence, | says he was merely an FBI: Levison ‘poke up in a telephone interview last week after being iWentified in rte as the “mysterios political influence’ whose same the FBI had used In warnings to the highest of- ficials of the Kennedy ad- ‘ ministration More than af decade aga. Now in poor bealth ant , Fetired from most businesh " and civic activity. Levison said the late FB] Director J. Edgat Hoover's “primary objective wt to ‘get’ Dr. ther King dr. My conclusion is that I was a scapegoat Hoover was using for this this purpose ormation about the rai ving ani bugging ef pping an ” KKing—eurfaced in the current _ Benate intelligence committee bearings. The details ‘ST The FBI's allegations sgainst Levison have never been made public. Various reports have the FBI as claiming that a mysterious “secret Com- snunist”” close to King was @, danger tg nations! security. “] was pever a member of the Communist Party," said “I did know some ae who were... Par- i ne ee ee Tat ae + re eee on iain, aeetieeheatee hh teedied . , faisely named other persons as “secret Communists” in himself “a political kind of ron.” He was a prominent member of a New York businessmen’s committee for | the reelection of President . Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1344 and at various times a vice ident of the Metropali ew York Council of: the American Jewish treasurer of an Episcopal Courch magazine called The Churchman, an adviser in the organizing efforts of the New York Hos) ital Workers U and a guiding force behind New York Citizen's ubry on on Parole and Criminal He has also been an sulocoey, . g reali estate man, a Ford Motor Co. Sealer and in the port-export business among others, His most pottwtrmny’ ac- tivity, as a friend, fina backer and adviser of the late r. King, began during the rae of the Montgomery bus boycott 30 years ago. Levison was introduced to King by Bayard Fi Rustin, a black leader m New York. Levison Gid firwe Jegal work for King, and devised fund-raising app appeals King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Sd Dep. AD Adm. — hat - i» Dep. AD lav. maa ay eee 520) cyeh =: art oon a al é. Asot. Dis.: ee Comp. Syst. —— ; [King ‘Ade visery Saye coer Se 4 — Files & Com. rat o-* ° Gea. lav. rar ; rer = Se | peveerenven unly Cee en Sar ey ar as bvtol!. Dp here! Coun. Plea. & Evel. - ; Spec. lav. — - oe we - - - ——— “war Tralain By Don Oberdorfer_ ticularly fm the 19906 add 7 os Re Pest Bie writer 1940s you scarcely could have elephane Ra. been an intellectual in New Directer Sec’y the New = York withost knowing some.” York civil rights activist Levison said the-chwrges secretly cited by the FBI in against him were a case of allegations that the Rev. Dr. f “guilt by association” com- - Martin Luther King Jr. wa% pounded by allegations from e former business associate who ) te. iN YQ MS The Washington Post Washington RiarNee 2 WW. wee see Dally News (New York) —__f ‘The New York Times ——+} The Wal! Street Jounal ——$ * The Los Angeles Times eee i ate ee 1 eee OE Oe Ce Adee oir OT SFFORDED 98. DEC 23 1975: _ Le EEre ree Bowe - * rewyires . = + in ae Me noha ellthled, tn yee te