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rp EE ET ott nr tal * jak t “ a ee 1 ee ee th ee y unit STATES DEPARTMENT OF Qitce = tet ate ate ist aN * beet ; 3 cael FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer te New York, New Yorx File Neo. March 4, 1964 BU 200-3-116 5 ET F, — Communist Party, United COM AA ENTTAL States of Anerica : Negro Question : amend Communist Influence in Racial Matters Internal Security-¢ On February 28, 1964, a confidential source who has furnished reliable information in the past, ke furnished information that Stanley Levison contacted ya tee Adele Cantor (an employee of the Southern Christian leadership.conference (SCLC) Office) on that date. Levison instructed Cantor _to type a note to Martin Luther King In erder to advise him that “we” had planned.a schedule. of-. railing ‘to have the mail reach the recipienta while the ._.. _filibuster (in the Senate in connection with civil rights legislation). is in progress. He indicated in connection with this mailing that—it-ts necessary to take into considerztion the time which will be needed to handle the second class mail and the time the people will need in order to make a response. Levison also indicated that if they could get King's _aporoval on this, they @ould “move ahead on it.—"In their cisceussion, Cantor ‘and Levison— ~mrareated they would be interested in mailing 60,000 of. these letters. Levison suggested that in the future, it might be better to use the services of "an envelope house” He pointed out that an "envelope house" would probably require payment in advance, and that since "we" have not set up a system with Atlanta (office of the SCLC), there would be a delay in getting < check. This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is the property of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agengy. se vl SE ar Nerofr 1 | EO sm Exdl ad from automatic t »* dor, ing and cot ci et declassiication ee soe eae La)