The FBI intelligence chief. Bill Sullivan, had run his own COINTELPRO against Martin Luther King. He had a package of the King sex tapes prepared by the FBI's lab technicians, wrote an accompanying poison-pen letter, and sent both to King's home. His wife opened the package. [...] ...
James Comey tells us he felt sick to his stomach reading the letter the FBI sent to King and his wife, suggesting King commit suicide, calling it the FBI’s darkest chapter. Pollard’s examination of Case file 100-106670 is a reminder of the days when the FBI kept files on anyone who...
The FBI added the order "also requires designated agencies to submit a plan to the White House for 'the full and complete release of these records.' The FBI is identifying records responsive to the EO and will work with the Department of Justice and ODNI (Office of the Director of Nation...
While FBI wiretaps failed to produce evidence of Communist sympathies, they captured the civil rights leader’s engagement in extramarital affairs. This led to the infamous “suicide letter” of 1964, later confirmed to be from the FBI and authorized by then-Director J. Edgar Hoover, which ...
rights leader on MLK day.CNNjournalistJake Tapperissued a thread about the FBI’s position on King while he was still alive noting “And then of course there’s the anonymous letter FBI officials wrote King in which they suggested they had dirt on him and encouraged him to commit suicide....
He was not a morally perfect man. Declassified files show how the FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover tried to target King over his extramarital affairs. Hooverused a wiretap to tape King having sex with other womenand sent those to his wife, Coretta Scott King, with a letter indicating King shou...
The report, an FBI 302 form, was used to charge Flynn with lying to the FBI, but the original draft of the 302 stated that Flynn was honest with the FBI, according to a witness who saw the draft, Powell said. Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency and former national ...
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reporting to the police and the FBI; they also knew that not all the workers were supporting the marches. (Leach, Alvin Turner and others I spoke to assert that not all the old-timers singled out for recognition recently had actually joined the strike.) But Leach said he never regretted ...
But Hoover didn’t give up: He sent a now infamousletterto King, describing King’s private sexual activity and encouraging the reverend to kill himself in order to avoid the public embarrassment of the publication of the FBI’s surveillance records. The FBI’s surveillance of black Americans ...