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id NOSVAY +. HL INI yas A® G3a0GN31LX3 i ONY zIISSV79 N olmens Gandy dd _——: = ’ ee eA Pao : ; ral A wd SEPT? 1965 Mer oa TA ai wr “MAI ROOM TELETYPE UNIT a ‘ CONFIDE NTIAL: Te ' September 10, 1965 rant Cyt KUL THFOW car see7T 2p EXCEPT { FERED TS BY LIAISON WHERE SHOWN 1 - Mr. Belmont ‘ Eonorable Marvin Watson ; . DeLoach Special Assistant to the President * gullivan The White House } = Hr. Bland Washington, D. C. 1 «| Mr, Baumgardner : imme” boc Dear Mr. Watson: The following information which was furnished by & source who has supplied reliable information in the past may be of interest to the President as indicative of the continuing relationship between Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the“Southern Christian Leadership Conference, "~\ and Stanley David Levison, Levison, a frequent advisor of King’s is © lougotine eoumunist whose secret membership in the Communist Party, USA, has been established as recently as July, 1963, ca On September 6, 1965, King conferred with evison regarding an article which is scheduled to appear id: "The New York Times Magazine" som ime in the future; The article which will be attributed to King will deg}, withthe civil rights movement in general and the recent riot’ in— Los Angeles, California, in particular, = Gs — Levison requested King‘s comments regarding tite draft of this article which he had prepared at King”s request. King stated that he thought the article was good but he » indicated that he desired to change a few points. Specifically, King mentioned the statement at the end of the article which inferred that the only way to solve the Negro problep vas te have a march of 100,000 people and the statement that none} of the major cities "have good mayors. King felt that‘the “3 latter statement should read “Only a few major cities hgve- good mayors, Mayor Allen of Atlanta, Georgia, being on &of-§ - them." King further referred the statement that the & icts d 2 nd vo- + ORIGINAL FILED IN — ae — ” oF om, “nip SEP 13 196