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that commmist infiltration “has not reached the point of control or danination." ‘The Director curtly commented that "Certainly this is not true with respect to the King connection" (idem). One could now foresee that Dr. King would be closely watched by FBI persomel. In October, 1963, the Director forwarded a request to the Attorney General for technical surveillance of nn on a 2. ns Mae, APE.) af afL2 nn Io eee TF el x Dr. King's residence and the SCLC office in New York City. This time the FBI received authorization for technical surveillance and it was instituted almost immediately. In addition, the FBI had prepared a new analysis on communist involvement in the Negro movement (Camumisan and the Negro Movement, October 16, 1963, App. A, Ex. 12). A cover memorandim of this analysis written by Assistant to the Director A.H. Belmont to Associate Director Clyde A. Tolson reads: —_F -A = — iL “The attached analysis and the Negro Movement is highly explosive. It can be regarded as a personal attack on Martin Luther King. There is no doubt it will have a heavy impact on the Attorney General and anyoe else to whom ve disseminate it ... This memrandm may startle the Attorney. General, particularly in view of his past association with King, and the fact that we are disseminating this out- side the Department" (Mem fran Belmont to Tolson, October 17, 1963 App. A, Ex. 13). -119-