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“REQUEST PRO} FROM CONGRESSMAN ROMAN C, PUCINSEI UNITED STATES GOK Janne Memorandum CATE Vay : Mr. DeLoach FROM : M. _K poobs SUBJECT: MARED LUTHE LUTHER KING, JR. GH {DEMOCRAT - ILLINOIS) BACKGROUND: { \ “ALL INFORMATION son ne Casper —_— + HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED — - Cond gp DATE: 7-27-64 oh Rosen —— SIATE porwr | Trotter APPROPT. panne oy ROUTING . < $LIP(S) c 5 PATE__ 4 “4 Congressman Pucinski forwarded a copy of a flyer made from 2 news clipping from the "Augusta Courier," Augusta, Georgia, on 7-8-63. The flyer identifi Martin Luther King in a photograph ‘taken of certain individuals attending the Highlande Pot} School during the Labor Day weekend of 1957. The Congressman would like to kn li if the Highlander Folk School was a communist training school and whether or not the ‘person identified in the photograph is Martin Luther King, Jr. INFORMATION IN BUFILES: The photograph of Martin Luther King attending the Highlander Folk Schvol has come to our attention several times in the past. A United Press - Inter Service release of_1-12-63 reported Goyernor Ross Barnett displayed a poster-si photograph tv the Senate Commerce Committee which he claimed showed King " communist training school, * Governor Barnett said the picture was taken at the High- lnndanw Belle Gekael af Mantesacla Tannascas Tha Rursayu ohtainad annther ran f the AIMEE rulAn eee tated wl NiOTiLca ze Ah WLAE Es BF BRA AP CE WR OEAEE SS PRR ey pe photograph from our Savannah Office in March, 1963, and it was revealed that the pho! graph was takén surreptitiously by an "undercover agent" of the Georgia Commission « Education at the Highlander Folk School 1 oy at AE Eten Abner wens id has been a writer f &-The photograph also identified i iF au "The Daily Worker" and has been a member of the Communist Party, although he | reportedly left it in September, 1958.” Atbre ' has been associated with communist cauges and has held Williams, Bs FEO jdentified in the photogr such positions as chairman o | the National Committee to Abolish the Hguse Un-American se ete Committee and v | president and member of the board of ' Fund, Inc., a communist front. Myl ! Congressman Pucinski as director ta the Communist Party in | the ps ee ‘member of the Communist Par REC § ~ TF mhsta [2H SEP rat He ba ~ ENT 7 DIREC OR Ne + ugh “although i Te 11 SEP. 20 1964, my tors ofthe SoutherwConference Educational orton, idéat on the flyer forwarded by der Folk School, has been very close ormants doubt that he has ever been : 6 |= 78// = 249,, ya merecay: 5 wl . ob .\ (Continued, page 2) “