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    The following article was prepared as a documentary, to be
presented on radio station KTRG in Honolulu, Hawaii. On May
16, 1968, it was placed in the Congressional Record by U. S.
Representative John R. Rarick of the 6th congressional
district of Louisiana. The opening remarks are those of Mr.
Rarick.

    Mr. Speaker, Mr. John S. Perilloux of Ewa Beach, Hawaii,
offers a documented story of Martin Luther King, Jr., with
which he feels the American people should reacquaint
themselves before the past is forgotten - and history written
from halftruths.
    I include Mr. Perilloux's "Untold Story" in the Record:


         THE UNTOLD STORY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
                    (by John S. Perilloux)

     Few men have had so many words spoken and written about
them as has had the late Martin Luther King, Jr. King was the
center of a storm of controversy and violence from the time
he achieved prominence in 1955, when he led a successful
boycott against the bus system of Montgomery, Alabama, until
the day of his death in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.
Indeed, the controversy continues even after his death.

     Because of his success in the bus boycott, King gained
the respect and admiration of many Americans. Overlooked by
some, and unknown to most, were the character and backgrounds
of the men and women chosen by King to assist him in his
assault upon such formidable obstacles as segregation and
racial prejudice. Had he enlisted the support of worthier
people as his immediate aides, King could have been a potent
force in strengthening America and uplifting his people.
However, such was not the case, and from the pinnacle of
success in 1955 he descended to an all-time low in April of
1967 when he called the United States "the greatest purveyor
of violence in the world today."
     Who was this man who has been commended as a man of
peace and damned as an apostle of violence? To those liberal
and bleeding hearts who have not intelligently discerned what
King had been saying and doing during his twelve years of
prominence this may come as a shock and a tragedy. To those
of us who have followed his activities closely and have been
aware of his questionable activity, it comes as no surprise
at all. In 1967 the real Martin Luther King stood up, and
yet, where is the criticism he deserved and should have
gotten?

     On January 15, 1929, Michael Luther King, Jr., was born
in a 13-room house in Atlanta, Georgia. When he was 6, his
father changed both their names to Martin. He entered
Morehouse College in Atlanta at the age of 15 and from
Morehouse went to Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester,
Pennsylvania.
     In 1955, King became pastor of the Dexter Avenue Baptist
Church in Montgomery, Alabama. On December 1st of that year a
Montgomery bus driver ordered Negroes to stand so Whites
could sit. One woman, Mrs. Rosa Parks, refused and was
arrested. Within hours Negroes began a boycott against the
bus system which was to last for more than a year. King's
gift of articulateness, his willingness to defy city
officials and his apparent lack of personal motives made him
the natural leader of the boycott. When the boycott ended
Martin Luther King had become world-famous.
     But who had assisted King in toppling segregation on
Montgomery buses? Surely, no one man, no matter how
articulate or how brave, could succeed in such an undertaking
alone. And who is Mrs. Rosa Parks?
     King led the boycott as head of the Montgomery
Improvement Association, which had been formed by the Rev.
Fred Shuttlesworth, former convict who has also been
president of the Southern Conference Educational Fund., Inc.
The SCEF had been formed from the Southern Conference for
Human Welfare. Identified communist James A. Dombrowski was
administrator of the SCHW. Paul Crouch, one of its founders,
and an admitted communist from 1925 to 1942, testified that
the SCHW "was intended to lead to class hatred and race
hatred, dividing class against class and race against race."
The Senate Internal Security Subcommittee exposed the SCHW,
stating that it was "conceived, financed and set up by the
Communist Party in 1938 to promote communism in the southern
states." After the SCHW was exposed, the party replaced this
organization with the Southern Conference Education Fund.
     This new communist front continued to use the same
address as the SCHW, the same publication, the same telephone
number and almost identical officers. Dombrowski continued to
serve as administrator, identified communist Aubrey Williams
remained on the board, and identified communists Carl and
Anne Braden were made field secretaries. After conducting an
investigation, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
described the SCEF as a communist transmission belt for the
south.
     It is extremely interesting that the president of the
SCEF was at one time the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, founder of
the Montgomery Improvement Association and vice-president of
Martin Luther King's Southern Christian Leadership
Conference.
     Also in the Montgomery Improvement Association with King
and Shuttlesworth was Bayard Rustin. FBI reports state that
Rustin joined the Young Communist League in 1936 while at the
College of the City of New York and was active in this
organization on the campus and elsewhere. During World War
Two, he was arrested several times for advocating resistance
to the war and served 26 months in federal prisons for draft
dodging.
     Rustin has worked closely with the War Resisters League,
the World Peace Brigade, Liberation, the Medical Aid to Cuba
Committee, the Committee for Non-Violent Action, the
Greenwich Village Peace Center and similar organizations,
often as an officeholder. He has also been active in the
American Forum for Socialist Education, a communist-dominated
organization.
     In 1953, in Pasadena, California, Rustin was arrested on
a charge of sex perversion and went to jail after pleading
guilty.
     There are those who might argue that Rustin had mended
his ways by 1955 when Martin Luther King hired him as his
secretary and adviser. Let's follow Rustin's activities since
1955.
     In 1955, the Communist Party invited him to its 16th
national convention as an "observer." He has been socially
entertained at the Soviet embassy and in 1958 went to Russia
under the sponsorship of the Nonviolent Action Committee
Against Nuclear Weapons.
     The January, 1963, issue of Fellowship reveals Rustin to
be a "friend" of Kwame Nkrumah, former communist dictator of
Ghana. The same issue of Fellowship credits Rustin with
having worked to establish a "center for nonviolence" at Dar
es Salaam, Tanganyika, which has proved to be a training
center for communist guerillas. Terrorists trained at this
center have conducted raids on Rhodesia and South West
Africa.
     In September, 1963, at Richmond, Virginia, Rustin said
that "more bloody Negro suffering should be encouraged so
that squeamish northern Negroes would be horrified into
line." It is possible that some would be horrified. However,
it is CERTAIN that this is part of the strategy of the
communists for propagating racial warfare in the United
States.
     On August 28, 1963, Rustin led a "march on Washington."
On August 29, 1963, he urged that the only hope for Negroes
was to "go left."
     On February 3, 1964, Rustin was a leader of the New York
City school boycott. On February 4, he was photographed
leaving a cocktail party at the Soviet mission to the United
Nations.
     This, then, was the leadership of the Montgomery
Improvement Association; Martin Luther King and two ex-
convicts who were also communist-fronters.
     And what of Mrs. Rosa Parks, the woman who precipitated
the bus boycott?
     Shortly before the incident on the bus, Mrs. Parks had
attended the Highlander Folk School in Monteagle, Tennessee.
To fully understand the nature and purpose of this school, we
must go back to the early 1930s, a time when the Communist
Party had great dreams and expectations of using the Negro in
the party's plans for overthrowing the government of the
United States.
     It was in the 1930s that the party organized the
People's Institute of Applied Religion. As part of its
program, this organization set up the Commonwealth College at
Mena, Arkansas. It was organized around 1932 by identified
communist James A. Dombrowski and fellow-traveler Myles
Horton. It was cited by the U.S. Attorney General as a
communist front and fined $2500 for violating the sedition
statute of the state of Arkansas. The faculty then moved to
Monteagle, Tennessee, and organized the Highlander Folk
School. In addition to Dombrowski and Horton, those assisting
in the school's operation included Don West, district
director of the Communist Party in North Carolina, and
identified communist Aubrey Williams.
     In 1945, the U.S. Senate rejected the appointment of
Aubrey Williams as administrator of the Rural Electrification
Administration because of his communist affiliations.
     Aubrey Williams was president of the Southern Conference
Education Fund until 1963, at which time he became national
chairman of the Committee to Abolish the House Committee on
Un-American Activities. This organization has been cited as a
communist front.
     Can there be any doubt as to what was taught at the
Commonwealth College where the hammer and sickle was
prominently displayed? Or at the Highlander Folk School,
where Rosa Parks was trained?
     In March, 1967, the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference was organized in Atlanta. Martin Luther King was
installed as president, Fred Shuttlesworth as vice-president
and the Rev. Andrew Young as program director.
     The Atlanta Constitution of July 24, 1963, had this to
say about Andrew Young:
     The Rev. Young has been headquartered rent-free in
Savannah in the offices of the International Union of Mine,
Mill and Smelter Workers. The Subversive Activities Control
Board, an agency of the federal government, has found the
union to be communist infiltrated. Another coincidence.
     In 1957, King was photographed at the Highlander Folk
School during the Labor Day weekend. Also in attendance and
photographed were Rosa Parks, Aubrey Williams, Myles Horton
and Abner W. Berry of the Central Committee of the Communist
Party.
     Now it would seem that King would have gotten some
inkling of the backgrounds of his associates at this school
and the nature and purpose of the school itself.
Nevertheless, on a form letter from school director Horton,
dated May 15, 1963, King is listed as a sponsor of
Highlander.
     In December, 1959, King called upon southern Negroes to
practice "civil disobedience" and to break openly any state
or local law "not in harmony with federal law."
     In 1960, Hunter Pitts O'Dell replaced Bayard Rustin as
secretary and adviser to King. Let's delve a little into
O'Dell's background.
     In 1956, he refused to testify before the Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee, taking the 5th amendment when
questioned about his communist activities. He repeated this
performance in 1958. In 1962, the House Committee on Un-
American Activities published a report entitled "Structure
and Organization of the Communist Party in the United
States." On page 576 there is a list of those elected to the
National Committee of the Communist Party, USA, as known to
the House Committee in November of 1961. Among the names is
that of Hunter Pitts O'Dell.
     The facts are that O'Dell was district organizer for the
Communist Party in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1956, was a
member of the Communist Party when King hired him and was
elected to the National Committee of the Communist Party while
on King's payroll.
     On October 26, 1962, the St. Louis Globe Democrat
printed an article stating that King had a communist on his
payroll, so King claims to have fired O'Dell at this time.
However, O'Dell then went to work as administrator in the New
York office of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
The SCLC, you will recall, is an organization of which King
was president. Pressure from the press again caused King to
"fire" O'Dell, this time on June 26, 1963. In July, 1963, a
reporter for United Press International phoned the New York
office of the SCLC and was told that O'Dell was still
administrator of that office.
     In 1960, there was the restaurant "sit in" in Atlanta,
led by King.
     In 1961, demonstrations in Albany, Georgia, led to his
arrest. He declared dramatically when arrested that he would
remain in jail until the city desegregated public facilities.
Two days later he was out on bail.
     In St.Augustine, Florida, after getting Negroes fired up
for demonstrations King went to jail amid great fanfare. But
two days later he was bailed out again so he could receive an
honorary law degree at Yale University. In the meantime, the
aged mother of Massachusetts' Governor Peabody remained in
the St.Augustine jail after having been arrested in the
demonstrations. White segregationists "Hoss" Menuci and
Connie Lynch were in St.Augustine whipping up mobs into a
murderous fury. King was safely at Yale.
     King's American Committee for Africa sponsored and
financed the American tour of communist terrorist Holden
Roberto, leader of the "war of national liberation" which
began in Angola on the morning of March 15, 1961. A thousand
whites were murdered and dismembered and also about 8,000
Africans.
     In October, 1962, King met with communist Ahmed Ben
Bella of Algeria in a hotel in Harlem. From the United States
Ben Bella traveled to Cuba for conferences with Fidel Castro.
     In 1963 there were the demonstrations in Birmingham,
Alabama. A bomb in a church, which resulted in the deaths of
four Negro girls, was described as the work of white
segregationists and the Ku Klux Klan. Possible. Equally
possible is that it could have been the handiwork of agents
provocateurs. Remember Carl Braden? He was indicted, tried
and convicted of conspiring with Negroes to bomb the house of
a Negro and then place the blame on white segregationists.
     On October 5, 1963, state and local police raided the
office of the Southern Conference Educational Fund at 822
Perdido Street in New Orleans. Quantities of communist
literature were seized. Also seized was a check from James A.
Dombrowski made out to, and endorsed by, Martin Luther King.
There were letters from King to Dombrowski and the Bradens
and a photograph of King, Dombrowski and the Bradens. The
photograph had been taken at the 5th annual meeting of King's
Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
     In 1964 there was the march from Selma to Montgomery.
Who were the participants? An entry by U.S. Representative
William L. Dickinson in the Congressional Record for March
30, 1965 will help to enlighten us.
     Mister Dickinson says there were four distinct groups
participating in the march. "One group was the Alabama Negro
who participated to secure rights and privileges which he
felt had been withdrawn from him illegally." A second group
were the do-gooders from out-of-state, motivated by
compassion for their fellow human beings. He describes the
third group as "human flotsam: adventurers, beatniks,
prostitutes and similar rabble."
     And what of the fourth group, the ones who welded the
others together and gave them cohesiveness? Who were they? In
the words of Congressman Dickinson, "the Communist Party."
     Look at the speakers on the platform in front of the
State Capitol in Montgomery or participating prominently in
the march or demonstrations:
     Carl Braden, a well-known communist who was convicted of
conspiring to bomb a Negro's house.
     Abner Berry, one of the directors of the Communist
Party. He was in and out of the Selma-Montgomery area.
     James Peck who has a federal criminal record and who
once tried to prevent the launching of our first nuclear
submarine.
     Bayard Rustin, who by his own admission in the Saturday
Evening Post was a Communist Party organizer for 12 years.
     Martin Luther King, who has amassed the staggering total
of over 60 communist front affiliations since 1955.
     In the Congressional Record, volume 111, part 5, page
6334, there is an affidavit, sworn to under oath, by Karl
Prussion, a former counterspy for the FBI. Part of the
wording of that affidavit is as follows:
     "I hereby also state that Martin Luther King has either
been a member of, or wittingly has received support from,
over 60 communist fronts, individuals, and/or organizations
which give aid to or espouse communist causes."
     In the New York World-Telegram for July 23, 1964, there
is an article on page 2 in which King says he is sick and
tired of people saying the civil rights movement has been
infiltrated by communists and communist sympathizers. He said
there were as many communists in the movement as there are
Eskimos in Florida.
     In November, 1964, J.Edgar Hoover, Director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, said King was the most
notorious liar in the United States.
     In 1965 King began to make critical speeches about U.S.
foreign policy. The communist press gave extensive coverage
to his speeches, often featuring them in the Communist
Party's official newspaper, The Worker. In September of 1965
he called upon Arthur Goldberg at the United Nations and
urged the United States to press for a UN seat for Communist
China. He also asked for a halt in U.S. air strikes against
North Vietnam and recommended negotiations with the VietCong.
Has anyone ever heard of King calling on North Vietnam to
halt its subversion, murder and terrorism in South Vietnam?
     In 1965, an organization known as the Citizens Crusade
Against Poverty was founded. Respected author and writer
George Schuyler has this to say about that organization:
     Its officers include the Soviet-trained Reuther, Martin
Luther King, black power promoter James Farmer, radical
socialist Michael Harrington, ADL sneak Dore Schary, the
Vietnik Doctor Benjamin Spock and a team of other such
revolutionaries crimson enough to dye the Pacific Ocean a
brilliant red.
     Gus Hall, General Secretary of the Communist Party, USA,
commented, "We are at a new stage in the struggle, because
this is the crossroads where the civil rights struggle meets
the class struggle."
     In an interview on Meet the Press on March 28, 1965,
King said, "I do think that there are two types of laws. One
is a just law, and one is an unjust law. I think we all have
moral obligations to disobey unjust laws." And who is to
decide which laws are just and which are unjust? King was
advocating chaos and anarchy.
     The connections between the civil rights movement and
the Communist Party became stronger in April of 1966 when all
three south-wide civil rights organizations lined up in
opposition to U.S. policy in Vietnam. These organizations
were the Southern Conference Educational Fund, the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and King's Southern
Christian Leadership Conference. They termed their merger a
"meshing of the civil rights and peace struggles."
     The riots which began in Chicago on July 12, 1966, broke
out just two days after King held a mass civil rights rally
in Soldiers Field. The Chicago Tribune reported that prior to
the riots King had shown films detailing the violence of
Watts. Asked by the Tribune about this, King replied that the
films showing the Watts riots were to demonstrate the
negative effect of riots. (Negative effects such as rioters
carrying off color TV sets?) During the Chicago rioting, King
reportedly sped from one trouble spot to another, but
reporters noted that he seldom got out of his car.
     The Allen-Scott report of July, 1966, states that King
and company were contacting and enlisting Chicago street
gangs and "bringing them into the civil rights movement to
fight the 'power structure'."
     In a speech in Los Angeles on February 25, 1967, King
called for a "merger" of the peace and civil rights
movements. He called the Vietnam war the result of "paranoid
anti-communism."
     In a speech at the Coliseum in Chicago, King again
called for the merging of the peace and civil rights
movements, saying, "We must combine the fervor of the civil
rights movement with the peace movement. We must demonstrate,
teach and preach, and organize until the very foundations of
our nation are shaken."
     In a statement delivered April 4, 1967, King called upon
Negroes and Whites to register their opposition to the
Vietnam war by becoming conscientious objectors to military
service.
     On April 4, 1967, the Rev. Martin Luther King rose to
the speaker's platform in New York City's Riverside Church
and delivered what was later described by a presidential aide
as "a speech on Vietnam that goes right down the commie
line." In his speech, King called the United States "the
greatest purveyor of violence in the world today." He charged
the nation with "cruel manipulation of the poor" and said
that U.S. troops "may have killed a million South Vietnamese
civilians - mostly children." He added, "We test our latest
weapons on them, just as the Germans tested out new medicines
and new tortures in the concentration camps of Europe."
     On April 13, 1967, Michael Laski, Chairman of the
Communist Party, USA, (Marxist-Leninist), told a press
conference in New York: King knows what's going on. He is
allowing himself to be used by the Communist Party....King
willingly enters into an alliance with the Communist
Party....Mr. King receives financial support from
organizations and individuals that are tied to the Communist
Party. He knows what is happening, and so does James Bevel.
     James Bevel just happens to be one of the top men in
King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Bevel helped
to organize the Spring Mobilization Committee and in July,
1967, met with North Vietnamese and Vietcong officials in
Stockholm, Sweden. Bevel's wife, Diane, visited Hanoi in
December, 1966, and conferred with women in Ho Chi Minh's
government.
     One of the strongest statements from a fellow-clergyman
came in April, 1967, from the Reverend Henry Mitchell. As
reported by the Chicago Tribune: The leader of a group of
West Side Negro ministers declared yesterday that the Rev.
Martin Luther King should "get the hell out of here." His
civil rights marching last summer "brought hate."
     The Chicago chapter of the NAACP, long critical of the
civil rights tactics of King, formally split with King's
group.
     From August 29, 1967, to September 4th, the National
Conference for New Politics held its convention in Chicago.
Every subversive organization in the United States was
represented.  A partial list of organizations which
participated include:
     Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam
     Draft Resistance Union
     Southern Christian Leadership Conference
     Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
     W.E.B. DuBois Clubs
     Revolutionary Action Movement
     Socialist Workers Party
     Progressive Labor Party
     Communist Party, USA
The keynote speaker for the convention was Martin Luther
King. Part of his speech follows:
     These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men
are revolting against old systems of exploitation and
oppression. Out of the wombs of a frail world new systems of
justice and equality are being born. We in the west must
support these revolutions....A morbid fear of communism has
made Americans the arch anti-revolutionaries. This has driven
many to feel that only Marxism has the revolutionary spirit.
Communism is a judgment of our failure.
     We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that
capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of
hard work and sacrifices. The fact is that capitalism was
built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to
thrive on the exploitation of the poor - both black and
white.
     The way to end poverty is to end the exploitation of the
poor and ensure them a fair share of the government's
services and the nation's natural resources. We must
recognize that the problems of neither racial nor economic
injustice can be solved without a radical redistribution of
political and economic power.
     Lenin couldn't improve on that speech.
     On September 21, 1967, King was made an honorary
lifetime member of ILWU Local 10 in San Francisco. The ILWU,
you will remember, is the labor union which was expelled from
the CIO when it was found that the ILWU was communist-
dominated. The leader of the ILWU, Harry Bridges, is a
communist and was ordered deported from the United States.
The deportation order was over-ruled by Roosevelt's Supreme
Court at the urging of Eleanor Roosevelt.
     In November, 1967, King was guest speaker at the
National Labor Leadership Assembly for Peace in Chicago. In
his speech, King denounced the Johnson administration. If
communist press reports were accurate, the "left wing" of
labor dominated the convention. The Worker of November 19,
1967, says, "This was the most significant anti-war gathering
of labor leaders ever held in this country. The conference
radiated awareness that here was the force capable of
mobilizing the decisive factor of the people, the working
class, against the Vietnam war." Communist Harry Bridges got
a standing ovation when he addressed the closing session.
     On March 5, 1968, the Honolulu Star Bulletin carried an
article in which King stated that flamethrowers in Vietnam
are fanning the flames in the cities of the United States.
     In 1967, King began planning for massive demonstrations
in Washington, D.C. The demonstrations were scheduled to take
place beginning on April 22, 1968. In addition to recruiting
thousands of the poor, he planned to organize and train black
militants involved in last summer's riots for major roles in
his campaign of massive civil disobedience.
     King revealed this in private conferences with Stokely
Carmichael, the pro/Vietcong, pro/Castro revolutionary, and
other black militants.
     At one point in their meeting, Carmichael said that the
time had come to begin disrupting American cities "TO HELP
OUR VIETCONG COMRADES IN ARMS." King, while stressing that he
was vigorously opposed to the Vietnam war, argued that if
such an objective were announced for his campaign it would
backfire. King's plans included:
     (a) Selection of five cities in which to train 100
neighborhood leaders. The suggested cities were Chicago,
Cleveland, St.Louis, Houston and Atlanta.
     (b) Contacts would be made with the residents of the
poor community. Young men who were actively involved in last
summer's riots were to be sought out and trained as leaders.
     King also told Carmichael, "To dislocate the functioning
of a city without destroying it can be longer lasting, more
costly to the society. It is more difficult for the
government to quell it by force. The disruption of the cities
you want will come much easier."
     King also reported that ousted Congressman Adam Clayton
Powell would play a major role in the Washington
demonstrations. Powell himself has said, "My return to
Washington in April will help rock the entire country."
     Take a close look at this again, ladies and gentlemen.
Stokely Carmichael recently returned to the United States
after conferring with Fidel Castro, North Vietnamese
officials and communist revolutionaries in many countries in
Africa, Asia and Europe.
     James Bevel, who is on the staff of the SCLC, which is
drawing up the battle plans for the disruptions, conferred
with North Vietnamese and Vietcong officials in Stockholm
last July.
     Adam Clayton Powell was in California recently where he
tried to organize students, white as well as black.
     This is the groundwork for a revolution, and the only
people who can possibly benefit from such a coalition are the
enemies of the United States.
     In late March of 1968, King's attention was drawn to
Memphis, Tennessee, where a garbage collectors strike was in
progress. He went to Memphis and organized a demonstration
which culminated in a riot. During the burning and looting
that followed, a 16-year-old was killed. A judge issued an
injunction prohibiting any more demonstrations because of the
explosiveness of the situation in Memphis, but King promptly
announced he had no intention of obeying. He had again
decided to disobey an "unjust law."
     On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was killed by a
sniper's bullet fired by someone who has not as yet been
apprehended, despite a massive investigation instigated by
Ramsey Clark. The odd circumstances surrounding the murder
are again suggestive of an agent provocateur.
     On April 11, 1968, U.S. Representative John. R. Rarick
of Louisiana inserted in the Congressional Record a news item
concerning King. On page 9816 there is the following:

[From the Yakima (Wash.) Eagle, Nov. 30, 1967]
     The first disclosure that an FBI report existed which
tied Martin Luther King in communism was published in
Washington Observer Newsletter No.13 in the February 15, 1966
issue.
     At that time, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach
refused to turn over this file to the House Committee on Un-
American Activities. In fact, Katzenbach, in the presence of
Lyndon Johnson, lied and denied to Congressman John Bell
Williams that the file even existed.
     WO is now happy to report that the FBI report is not
only in the hands of the HCUA, but copies are also in the
hands of Congressman John J. Rooney of New York.
     The lawmakers were so shocked at what they read in the
FBI report that they plan to summon King before their
committees and delve deeply into his involvement with
communist conspirators. When the FBI agents had King under
surveillance, they observed him meet a well-identified Soviet
espionage agent at Kennedy Airport in New York. They also
secured evidence that King was receiving large sums of money
from a well-known American communist agent who gives King
instructions which he implicitly obeys. The federal agents
also adduced evidence of his unsavory personal conduct in
Washington hotels and elsewhere and the fact that he had
violated the Mann Act (white slavery). This is a violation of
the U.S. criminal code, but neither Attorney General
Katzenbach nor his successor, Ramsey Clark, would allow the
FBI to present the evidence to a federal grand jury.
     The record of Martin Luther King strongly indicates he
had been grossly irresponsible in learning the backgrounds of
his associates and associations or that he chose to use them
for his own ends. The only other conclusion that a reasonable
person can come to is that Martin Luther King covertly and
consciously attempted to promote the cause of the Communist
Party.

                        END