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© g (continued) CON Paenriar REFERENCE SEARCH SLIP PAGE NUMBER 157 -6-9-2892 p.1,2 (25¥ 157-6-34-1659 p.l;encl.p.1-3 (26F -1673 p.l (26 Martin Luther King, Jr., President of the SCLC, conferred (date and place not stated) with his principal advisor, Stanley Levison, as to how he would handle press releases concerning Stokely Carmichael and other members of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (100-439190), who were arrested by the Atlanta, Police Department on 9/8/66, in connection with racial strife. Levison and King agreed that if Carmichael was convicted of the "inciting to riot" charge, "they" would have to blame those forces which compelled him to riot, (Confidential Source, not identified) In a subsequent press release, it was reported that King, at a news conference on 9/11/66 at Montclair, N.J., issued a state- ment concerning Carmichael's arrest which was substantially the same as previously agreed to by King and Levinson. 100-439190-725 p.l;encl.p.1,2 (14¥ The following references in the file captioned "Martin Luther King" (100-106676) contain information concerning the activities of Stanley D. Levison, with King and his associates, during the period 1965 to approximately January 1967, Levison was an advisor to King in connection with SCLC problems and activities | in various areas including Illinois, Georgia and New York. He also (continued) ve covert