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NY 100-211180 sic heard of any change". Later in the conversation, the city of L Birmingham was mentioned, but informant was unable to determine [ 2 af above remarks were in reference to Birmingham, b7b SE 2ertner advised on 3/10/63, that LEVISON conversed TIN LUTHER KING on that date. KING stated that he would be in New York sometime next week and wanted to get a group together at HARRY's (BELLAFONTE 7) to discuss "this Birmingham thing". KING added, "We decided to postpone that thing until the day after the election because BULL O'CONNOR is in the run-off and we feel that if we make e before that time, he could use that to his advantage.....'( $ KING then told LEVISON "that going into~Birmingham is going to be a difficult matter; that they are going to do everything they can to destroy the image of the SCLC, (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), particularly the Birmingham newspaper. Now, since they played this thing up so much we — were wondering if it would be better to continue sending the Salaries through the usual channels", LEVISON agreed and concluded by sta ,» "There 1s no sense giving them a timely red herring”, For the information of the Bureau, KING's remark regarding salaries would indicate that O'D still being payd by the SCLC in a surreptitious manner b{ b A letterhead memorandum is not being submitted with this airtel because of the ambiguous. nature of the information set forth. Birmingham advise Bureau and NYO if it has knowledge of KING's purpose in going to Birmingham as referred to above. | 7 nn Por Sot Vag CeL ge Rn ec Tetrnernnn aun wr me Se ner sane rani aerate ae nt