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2 ae eg eres lee FY 7 newer eH, Memorandum for Messra, Tolson, DeLoach, Sullivan, Bishop dune 19, 1969 Maken a7) C. Aa ee nye Ny o an oa a . o s we [ q ot aE . F ah * 3 Te aN Mr. Noyes contimed that it was his understanding that I had no objection to his using this -- is it o.k. for them to identify the FBI as the source or flatly say it on their own. I told him I would rather he fitly - s2id it on his own, but I anticipate similar requests from other sources that ZI would not be as frank with as Ihave been withhim. Mr. , Moyen ado. ke; that he thouzht this is a wise thing for me to do. :. He said if I had one more minute, he woold like to tell me one reason why he happened to be interested in this thing. Hesald he had some young; people with whom he was friendly who were involved in a wedding this weckend and the boys and girls all ended up at his house after the thing ana he did not know whether they had read Rowan's column, but they! were taliins about the fact how dreadful it was that the FBI would have presumed to tap th: phone or keep an eye on Martin Luther King, a great hero. Ee said — after listening to this for about an hour and a half, he told them to hold on a minute, that it was his understanding that the Bureau had been checking on ‘ King because there had boen allegations thet he had been intouch with recognized or potcntial communist agents and the reason nothing was ever released or done about it was that after checking into it, they became satisfied there was nothing dangerous and he asked them what they would — think of a Governmicnt that did not check into information that seemed to show that communist agents were trying to work on a man in Martin Luther King‘a position, He said these kids listened and were astounded that there might be enciber side to it, and he was telling me that this was taken by Bobby Kennedy from the point of view of the generation gap. Mr. Noyes said he thought this is an important story. I said he became a kind of Messiah for the generation - gap and individuals who were pro-King and still are. | I tald Mr. Noyes that as to the matter of electronic installations, Ihave never authorized an electronic installation of any kind at any time — excent with written approval of the then Attorney Gcneral and that § goes right = down to today, I said I do not have authority to do it myself and I do not wank it cs I feel the Attorney General should be the one to approve or not approve * electronic survelliances and we use it only in internal security cases and now in organized crime, I said in organized crime, the authority has to be obtained from the courts under the McClellan bill and in security cases -- espionage, - aa comnuunist activities -~ that is approved by the Attorney General, which is Be = TET oripeereterd ea ARH MN a AP Re Gt u apg * hye wet en hn , : . . €