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5010-106 AY1962EDITION IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE 12/19/07 BY 60324 UC UNITED STATES GC RNMENT BAW/STP/KJ Memorandum Callahan TO Mr. DeLoach DATE: Tavel Trotter Tele. Room - FROM Holmes b7C SUBJECT: JAMES FARMER. CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALIT LININIOON LNIIOIA-NON LNNNNLS SNAIITIM VESOH COMMITTEE b6 b7C b7C Reference is made to my memorandum to you dated 3-26$65 captioned as above, wherein it was recommended and approved that we contact the Office of Congressman George W. Andrews (D-Alabama) to confidentially furnish him public source data included in referenced memorandum about captioned individuals. : SA on 3-31-65 furnished the information to Assistant to Congressman Andrews, in the Congressman's absence... In the conversation with .only interested in information indicating communist connections on the/part of civil rights leaders. After some discussion, he stated their interest in this information was precipitated by an urgent request from Governor Gegrge Wallaceof Alabama. b6 b7C indicated the information furnished him would not 'satisfy the Governor. He then asked what information we might have concerning. the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. It was pointed out to him that he had not. he would like to secure any information available indicating King's association. I with the communist movement. was told that it has been publicly active in,the communist movement. said that he was aware of this but' wanted additional information. He was told that we are unable to make any. further comment. Ithen stated that while he was not at liberty to identify this record before a Congressional Committee to the effect that King's speeches are. I written by a New-York attorney who,is a communist He stated this information REC39 1 - Mr. DeLoach X DWB:smg 6. 5 APR 12 1965 766 APR21