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Memorandum for Messrs. Tolson, DeLoach, Sullivan, Bishop June 19, 1969 continued that it was his understanding that I had no. objection to his using this -- is it o.k. for them to identify the FBI as the source or flatly say it on their own. I told him I would rather he fatly said it on his own, but I anticipate similar requests from other sources that I would not be as frank with as I have been with him.. said o.k.; that he thought this is a wise thing for me to do.. He said if I had one more minute, he would like to tell me one reason why he happened to be interested in this thing. Hesaid he had some young people with whom he was friendly who were involved in a wedding this weekend and the boys and girls all ended up at his house after the thing and he did not <know whether they had read Rowan's column, but they' were talking about the fact how dreadful it was that the FBI would have presumed to tap the phone or keep an eye on Martin Luther King, a great hero. He said after listening to this for about an hour and a half, he told them to hold on a minute, that it was his understanding that the Bureau had been checking on King because there had been allegations that he had been in touch with recognized or potential communist agents and the reason nothing was ever released or done about it was that after checking into it, they became satisfied there was nothing dangerous and he asked them what they would think of a Government that did not check into information that seemed to show that communist agents were trying to work on a man in Martin Luther King's position. He said these kids listened and were astounded that there might be another side to it, and he was telling me that this was taken by Bobby Kennedy from the point of view of the generation gap.. said he thought this. is an important story. I said he became a kind of Messiah for the generation gap and individuals who were pro-King and still are.. I told that as to the matter of electronic installations, I have never authorized an electronic installation of any kind at any time except with written approval of the then Attorney General and that goes right down to today. I said I do not have authority to do it myself and I do not want it as I feel the Attorney General should be the one to approve or not approve electronic surveillances and we use it only in internal security cases and now in organized crime. I said in organized crime, the authority has to be obtained communist activities -- that is approved by the Attorney General, which is