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; beets ves Ciara ae cas . eee ve eget OT teh peg ha de ee eptamyte ; MER A eee Ne ee ee a ee ee Da te a de an ie BO * mae : 2 . ¢ ae . baa KING also mentioned that RUSSELL wanted to organize a new company which would be half owned by the SCLC. It would be the type company which would sell products that the purchaser could buy knowing that the profits would go to the SCLC. Tht nea tn - Dissemina files in airtel and "COMINFIL SCLC", + , re oe wna = t I ed to the Bureau, Atlanta, WFO and New LHM dated 11/1/66, and captioned 11/8/66 Source furnished information that a conference between MARTIN LUTHER KING, STANLEY LEVISON, CLARENCE JONES and ANDREW YOUNG took place that date. Conference concerned an article appearing in the "New York Daily News", 11/8/66, captioned "King Woos Hoffa Dollars For His Rights Campaign" « KING became disturbed over this article and the possible reflection of an association with JAMES HOFFA on the civil rights movement and on KING himself. LEVISON and JONES attempted to persuade KING that the article in its context resolved the problem in that the primary reason for the meeting was that the Teamsters have a Negro membership ‘of four hundred and fifty thousand and is the largest organized group of Negroes in the nation. KING maintained that to represent the meeting as anything other than an appeal for funds would be dishonest and the fact that he would be associating with a crook and a criminal would be in complete oppostion to his role as a "man of God", . shed gre teletype captioned "COMINFIL SCLC", 11/8/66. This teletype was in lieu of a LHM; copies were sent to Atlanta and WFO. 11/12/66 : . . in greater datail in Source advised that LEVISON and DICK RUSSELL were in conference to determine when it would be suitable for them to meet, to discuss the formation of the new company which will eventually benefit the SCLC. It was agreed that LEVISON would go to RUSSELL's house on Wednesday, 11/16/66. RUSSELL furnished his telephone number, a check of which disclosed that he resides in Hartford, Connecticut. ] The a eae ie a ae sn TTTes = ee i a a ad ne = Dissemination in airtel and LHM dated 11/16/66, and : captioned "COMINFIL SCLC". Copies were furnished to the Atlanta and New Haven Offices and to NYO files. — - oF - une Mociat, SPGET e ¥