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Mr. Tolson. FICOF TE DIE Mr. DeLnac Mohr Bsn UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Mr.Casper Mr. Caliahan FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Mr. Conrad Mr. Felt Mr. Gaie WASHINGTON.D.C. 20535 Mr.Su 11:06 AM Mr. Tave June 19, 1969 Mr.otter Tele.Room MEMORANDUM FOR MR. TOLSON! Miss Holmes Miss Gandy MR. DE LOACH MR. SULLIVAN MR. BISHOP called.He said he thanked me very much for talking to him because he knew this was an unusual kind of thing to have happen. He said he wanted to ask me very.seriously, but he was sure I was familiar with this and given thought to it already, but he wanted to report on the basis of about the authorization that the FBI had from Mr. Robert Kennedy, to release the King material; that they are getting a great deal of static from people who are telling them -- (they say they have this authorization, but they don't release it and don't show. what the documents are and many of these documents that have been released in the past are fuzzy and don't really show there was clear authorization to do this and in general there is a nondispasition on the part of the readers to accept the idea that Bob Kennedy actually did authorize the tapping of King's phone. He said, 'Now I just want to ask you as seriously as I can to release those documents. You have them. They do show, Ipresume, exactly what you say." I told that he authorized it in his own handwriting on October 10, 1963; it was installed November 8, 1963, and discontinued April 30, 1965. I told that, as a matter of fact, when Kennedy was Attorney General he requested that the telephones of Dr. King be covered Ithe possible repercussions, then later he changed his mind and delayed bringing the matter up again until in October the authority was signed by him. it on April 30, 1965, under the administration of Attorney General Katzenbach.. said he understood and asked if they could report this. I told him he could report what I have said to him. I told him the reason I was drawing a. ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED DATE g/y/8LBYSP1 GSy/RsK