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_ une STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION New York, New York April 14, 1967 4 ALL INFORMATION CONTATRED 42529 HEREIN IS UNCLASSIF LED Bureau 100 2 a EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN OTHERWISE .-—— er Communist Influence in Racial Matters Internal Security - C A confidential source, who has furnished reliable . : : : nformation in the past, advised on April 13, 1967, that Stanley Levison and Martin Luther King, the President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), were in contact on that date, during which time they discussed King's Vietnam policy. It was in this reecard that Levison apprised Kinz as to what progress he had made in writing part of the speech he (King) will deliver on Saturday, April 15, 1967, when he addresses a gatherinz at the United Nations, which is being sponsored by the Spring Mobilization Committee to End the “Jar in Vietnam. Levison's part of the speech, which they discussed and which King enthusiastically accepted, was as follows: Wh nee sim meee naanla arose a. ee a es ee | hanly SLE Pe VV PLT aye, Lilakt We SOUL withdraw unilaterally, and I (Kine) understand the lorie of their position. I understand that when France withdrew from Algeria, she benefited not only the Algerians but herself. France earned far more prestige from withdrawal than she might have gained from total victory; but France was fighting in Algeria for years before her people learned that this way out was honorable. The majority of Americans have not yet learned this lesson. Realism compels the fighting. I think there is such a program -- I believe almost a majority of Americans want the bombings to cease. let us demand insistently that our Government honor Hanoi's promise to negotiate if the bombings cease." Kine thought Levison'’s part of the speech was . written in a very beautiful style, and disclosed that he will use it without any chanre whatsoever, 1 b _f 425)" r 4) W 3FAY SA~ Excluas (from automatic and 3 +n This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions ot of the FBI. It is the pronerty of the FBI and is loaned to - your azency; it and its contents are not to be distributed Poo outside your arency. ee ee are OR UME Me We TE Re OE EG AE PS URS TEE LT, RP AT OA Ta BS QT ET ee erie a yn