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• Attached for your -approval for dissemination are copies of a communication containing information concerning the progress of Martin Luther King, Jr. President, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), to organize a massive . civil disobedience campaign in Washington, D. C., in the Spring

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orr7VaN:v- • King in the past has publicly announced be will

conduct a massive civil disobedience campaign be calls the .."Washington Spring Project" in.early April, 1968, to pressdre Congress into passing legislation favorable to the Negro.-

.. ,.. ... re King is currently holding the first of two workshops

from 2/19-23/68 at Miami, Florida. He has invited approximately( 150 Negro ministers throughout the nation to attend this meeting. The Ford Foundation recently' gave King's organization a $230,000 grant to hold these workshops in an effort to develop responsible leadership in the 'Negro ghetto areas of the nation's major cities It has been determined that King plans to discuss the Washington Spring Project at this workshop.

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• iting:appears to be concentrating bis attention on the South where he has chartered a'small twin-engine aircraft to help speid him about urging.people to support his campaign.

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forth in reairtel is excellent and shows that your officia-4-,, is alert to the necessity to suggest effective counter- .1 intelligence measures whenever the occasion arises. Your- . ..- engzested articIe.has been given to cooperative news sources and you should be alert for publication of this

in your ores. Promptly furnish the Bureau with copies of any news articles which relate to this natter, along with any tangible results.

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11073: New York furnished a suggested article concerning.:1_,:. ••

the appearance of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., at a' • fund=raising affair sponsored by CP-controlled Preedosways• • Associates. The article raised the question as to whether King was courting the communists to bolster his civil disobedience campaign. It was also pointed out that ,Jack O'Dell, former close associate of King's and a leading CP figure, is one of the officers of Preedomrs-AsFE8 ll ms associates. Crime Records Division has furnished the article to cooperative news sourcas and New 7ork is baking:. requested to be alert for the publication of any articles 11 relating to this natter.

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1.1 : ,; • 4: Re Hear York airtel to Bureau 2/9/68 captioned as

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:: Be New York airtel suggests a communication which 3 1.. ' the Bureau might release through its mass media contacts.

---i • Re Atlanta communications reflect as of 2/7/68 and 2/12/68 % 4 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., evidenced considerable skepticism ..f , 3 AS to the probable success of SCLC's WSP.

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i I c.-designed, or course, to cause the reader thereof to ask , The communication submitted by New York is

himself the questiod whether KING is inviting CP assistance for the Washington Spring Project. It is felt possible additional impact might be given this question if New York's communication is introduced by pointing out that recently (7or example, during the 2/6 and 7/68 Executive Board meeting in Washington, D. C.) it is understood KING evidenced :sons. ' discouragement as to the probably success of the Washington

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This is to recommend' release of the attached article to sourcds in the mass news media field regarding Martin Luther King, eader of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference,

Jr.,4ho is scheduled to give the keynote

address at a fund-raising activity sponsored by Communist - Party-controlled Freedomwaye Associates, publishers of the magazine, "Freedomways," which is self-described as a quarterly review of the Negro Freedom Movement. The /

objective is to shovf that King appears to be courting the'. • communists to bolster his forthcoming civil disobedience

campaign in Washington, D. C., in the Spring of 1968.

., The communist. publication, "National Guardian," recently publicized the fact that King is to give the . keynote address at the 100th anniversary celebration of the birth of th4 late W. E. B. DuBois, well-known Negro educator who joined the Communist Party, USA, at the age of 93. This affair is scheduled to be held on 2/23/68 in Carnegie Hall, New York City, and is sponsored by Freedomways Associates. The main purpose of this affair is to raise money to help finance "Freedomways" magazine, and informa-tion has been received indicating that with King as the keynote speaker the affair will undoubtedly be a financial success. r

• Although no information has been received as to 1 the contents of Kingts.speech, it is reasonable to assume that ho will comment on the matter with which he is primarily concerned at thil' present time, namely, his campaign of civil disobedience planned for the Spri::;%70,1.4;61341.1.3g;oil:21. C.

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It is believed that the publicity given to King's appearan -at Carnegie Hall on 2/23/68 in behalf of the communist -10.-iic" * .- publication, "Freedomways," could serve to show King's ''',Jr"..'" '

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the heart of this matter. It is proposed that this article be released'to appropriate sources in the mass news media field through the Crime Records Division. The proposed .

article raises the questionms to whether Kings coutIlsig ' - the communists, to bolster his civil disobedience campaign. In this connection, it is pointed out that Hunter Pitts (Jack) O'Dell, former close associate of King's in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, is one Of the

editors of "Freedomways."' an 1963, King reluctantly released O'Dell from his post in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. when 1i- became publicly known that O'Dell was a leading figure in the Communist Party. It is further pointed out in the proposed article that the Communist Party, with its years of experience in agitation and fomenting conflicts, would be a powerful ally for King in his efforts to promote civil disobedience in Washington, D. C.

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