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_ Mine on this is that Mr. olson wrote (Ceri) Rowan about his slanderous coiasin | last Sundey and he, Rowan, wrote back in which he asked a series of eight or nine questions, such as, did we tap the telephone of a half dozen lecders lice Wilkir.a of the NA ACP, Farmer. eight or nine others — a ee ee => eee WEhewe Fy Abemathes; = af we bad tupped the phones ofa Congressman; and various other things, Mr. Noyes said he was not asiiing all that. I told him he could certainly print what I esy ‘ beczase we are writing back to Rowzn today that since he did not seek any facts bifore printing his column, he was not entitled to any information from us et this time, but as to the question he has asked, the dates that these wiretaps were Cn, "tS have the original copy of it on my desk, It was signed by Kennedy in his own handwriting on October 10, 1963. Mr. Noyes said if I had one minute, “could he repeat back to me what he unjerstood I had said to him so there would be no misunderstanding and also couid he tell me that be was adding into it some details that he thought they elreacy understood about this from other sources they have talked to. Be said it was his understanding that in June, 1963, Mr. Kennedy cid svegest through a Maison man thet he had with me, that I should keep an cye oa Martin Luther Eing because of his association with people that he, Eovert menncdy, wes concerned about and he, Noyes, was particularly talking about Stanicy Lavinson and a fellow named Jones, both of whom were supposed to be of Marxist leanings and that the Attorney General w2s concerned about iticz's relations wits these people and he thought it might be a good idea to put aa clecironic surveillance cevice of some type into the picture to ace what be mS doing; that the FBI suggested at that time that this would be a difficult tips 3 to do because of the fact that King traveled around so much and there were | 2 let of political repercussions that might result; but then subsequently on the Via ci Noversber (and I corrected him and told him October 7, 1963) -= Oxtover 7, 1953, Ireported, and this is a memorandum from me to the A Gonersl, a four- paragraph document, that I had determined the feasibility of | exta)).caing taps on the telephones of the SCLC headquarters at Atlanta and New York and if be authorized it, I was prepared to go ahead and do it and that came back to me, the memorandum, with his initials, I told him with his full | name, Rooert F. Kennedy. Mr. Noyes contimed - O> Kad by him. dating that — meer ase ety, pel ah De REL Maaco a AB Baga H70 Lee : ¥ wee u “ \ Pe eats eet