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he Se el en ee ae ee OE Cee gid ep a en ee mae ce a cadet denies Net ba alae wal Lik bs Leet teak oe HAM mate es li, NP Bee a NY 100-111180 con Ke The above was disseminated to the Bureau, Atlanta and New York files in airtel and LHM dated 10/7/66. The —~-_ se * - - .- 2. ~ 2 aw * Bert oes communication was captioned "CIRM". 10/11/66 Source advised that STANLEY LEVISON and CLARENCE JONES were in discussion, during which time JONES teld LEVISON that DOUGLAS PUGH had informed him that MC GEORGE BUNDY and the Ford Foundation were quite interested in MARTIN LUTHER KING and the SCLC. According to JONES, PUGH said one of the “p policy discussions’ of the foundation was concerned with the programs they might finance in the civil rights movement and that PUGH was directed to see if he could sit in on the discussions that KING and his advisers would be having. LEVISON mentioned that he had spoken with an individual from the Ford Foundation for several hours and was told the same thing, that they were very interested. He said he talked with KING about what kind of proposals to : make and that he, LEVISON, raised the matter of voter registrations in the South on the basis that there is much work to be done and foundations used to support this. He said KING felt this was top priority for them. The above, along with other information from another source, was disseminated to the Bureau, Atlanta and New York files by airtel and LHM dated 10/13/66, and captioned "COMINFIL SCLC", 10/15/66 Source advised that STANLEY LEVISON and BAYARD RUSTIN (organizer of the March on Washington, D. C.) were in contact on that date regarding “black power“and a statement which appeared in “The New York Times" on 10/14/66, concerning the issue. LEVISON commented that the article was placed in the paper intentionally so as to get KING to take a stand on " the controversial subject. The article was captioned Doctor King Endorses Racial Statement, Backs Negro Repudiation of Black Power Concept". LEVISON "said KING had told him that he (KING) was under the impression he should support those who put the statement in the press. } RUSTIN made the observation that KING would be in a jam when hundreds of Negroes in the country would be endorsing and signing a statement of this nature, if his name was not on it. RUSTIN said he thought-it-was a very serious