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o March 18,1989 THE cnet CENTER" | 4 x Sa » Honorable William S$. Sessions - = SER =x Director, Federal Bureau of Investigation Corporate OY « Room 7176 (Personal) JESSE HILL, JR. J. Edgar Hoover Building ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED Chun, Botrd of Diseceon Ninth Screet & Pennsylvania Avenue, N-W. HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED tangy poss -- ~~ —- Washington, D.C. 20538 _ 7 DATE 01-11-2007 BY 60324 AUC | BAU/CPB/CLS MARVIN GOLDSTEIN Dear Director Sessions: ; Vice Chaieman . : . CORETTA SCOTT KING y thanks and sincere appreciation for your kind and most generous letter of March 6, Chief Executive Officer 1989. Your support of Martin's Federal National Holiday and the efforts of the CHRISTINE KING FARRIS © ederal Commission to comply with the mandate of the Congress to make the holiday St Vice President, Treasures “time for Americans to reflect on the principles of racial equality and nonviolent cial change espoused by Martin Luther King, Jr.“ is to be commended. I am pecially delighted and encouraged by your belief that using FBI personnel to work ith the MLK Jr. Federal Holiday Commission could be a beneficial relationship for ur employecs. HON. WALTER FAUNTROY Vice President, Govemmental Atfain HON. ANDREW J. YO Viee Pecsident, f 4 St International Affairs Vice President orl! have every reason to believe that with the support of the President and the Congress JOHN COX ale that the Federal Commission will be extended beyond April 20, 1989 and that we will Secectary iJ be in a position to take advantage of your interest in furthering the work of the iy mmission. In the meantime, I would like to use this opportunity to express my concer about a | good friend and supporter of Martin, The King Center and the Federal Commission, | * ongressman Walter Fauntroy. As you know, the FBI has been investigating : ‘a: Congressman Fauntroy for several months after very public and politically damaging aa | PEN ballegations which originated with an Associate Press reporter. re ‘) I understand that the FBI compicted its investigation and that the evidence assembled for the record, reflected no violation of law. I now understand that the FBI has been requested to extend its investigation of Congressman Fauntroy for another two months_ which leads me and Civil Rights leaders to fear that an apparatus which was operated in the decade of the 60's against Martin is being reactivated as a results of the reguiation issued by former Attorney. General Messe on the last day of his tenure at the Department of Justice.- I sincerely hope this is not so. I know that your sense of fairness and justice would refrain the FBI from any involvement in efforts designed solely to discredit the reputation of a member of the Congress for political and partisan purposes. I hope we can close the chapter on the allegations and investigation of Congressman Fauntroy, so that he can get on with providing the essential leadership to which so many of us have come to expect and to depend upon. eit '- a-/ 6 FOS O- 18 Coretta (rhc . 30 ) = 1989 ~ . THE MarRTIN LUTHER Kino, JR. CENTER FOR NONVIOLENT SOCIAL CHANGE, INC. 449 AUBURN AVE., NE/ATLANTA, GA 30312-1590 / (404) 524-1956 / TLX 201988 MLK CTR) Prm>. -