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sone Spann tangs ARBITER EE Eg greg EEO OCR me Oy tte en a III. THE SECURITY LWESTIGATION A. FBI Surveillance And Harassment Of Dr. King - - ee ee | 1. Initiation of Technical Surveillance and COINTELPRO Type Activities #8 In order te reconstruct th tions taken menbers of the FBI toward Dr. King, the task force scrutinized the basis for the initiation by the Bureau of any action with respect to Dr. King. During the review it was revealed that on May 22, 1961, Mr. Alex Rosen, then Assistant Director of the General Investigative Division (Division 6), advised Director Hoover in an information memorandum, per his request on Dr. King and four other individuals in cormection with the "Freedom Riders," that “King has not been investigated by the FBI" (Meno from Scatterday to Rosen, May 22, 1961, App. A, Ex. 7). The memorandum contained few references on Dr. King. The Director commented, with regard to the omission of a subject matter investigation on Dr. King: "Why not?" The substance of the report was forwarded to Attorney General Kennedy, and the FBI did not pursue the King matter at this time. Thus, FBI persormel did not have nardid they assume a personal interest in the activities of Dr. King through May, 1961. Furthermore, in 1961, information in the Bureau files on -113-