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Reference is
.Director has
received when
made to.the
written: "This
Castro took
his cohorts
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were not
"clone proved
enclosed material'on
memo reminds me vividly
over Cuba:
You contended
Communists and
you'wronz.Ifor
not influenced
nl es.having
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Castro and
by Communists.
one can't
ignore the
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which the
of those
then that
Time
memos re
King,
only an
infinitesimal
fffect onthe efforts
to
exploit the American
Negro the
by Communis
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The
Director
is
correct.
We were
completely
wrong
about
elieving the
evidence
was
not
sufficient
to
determine
some years
ngo
that
Fidel
Castro
was not ncohmuhist
or under
communist influence.
On
knvestigating and
writing_nbout communism
and theAmerican Negro,
we
dad
hetter
remember thisand profit by the lesson it should tesch us. "
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do
think that much
of the difficulty relating to
the memora
.dum rightly
questioned by
word "influence,"
;6?Ei iiition has,
the Director
is
to
be
We do not have,
and no
any yardstick
which can
found centered
Government agency
accurately measure
in the
or private
"influence"
izb this
particular context,
evenuuhen
know
wedoes
it exist
such as in
' he
case of
the obvious
influence of
over Martin Luther King
and
King E'Ihfluence 6ver'3thé?rFEET6
}ie:ders.' Personally, Ibelieve
in the light
of
King's powerful
demqgogic speech
Negro lenders
yesterday he
put together
;Hegroes. We
must mark
him
stands head
when it
and shoulders
comes
to
now, if
we have
over all
influencing great
not done
so
other
masses of
before, as
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On determining
membership
Negroes
of the
in Communist
Fnrty,
i eare-not
confronted with
yardsticks for
the some problem.' He
do have here accurate
establishing membership.
Of course,
our standards
are
wary exacting.
This means there are
many hegroes who are fe1lewtravellers, sympathizers
or who aid the
Party, knowingly
or unknowingly,
but do
not qualify
pommunist prin
as members.
lple
still
holds:
icommunist hangs " Therefore,
These we
must not
ignore. The
old
"Communism must be,built with
it may
be unrealistic-to
limit
ourso v=S
non-
we have
been
poing
legnlisticeproof
to
or
definitely conclusive
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