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Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy personally authorized some of the programs, [25] giving written approval for limited wiretapping of Martin Luther King's phones "on a trial basis, for a month or so". [26] Hoover extended the clearance so his men were "unshackled" to look for evidence in any areas of King's life they deemed worthy. [27]
The FBI program COINTELPRO, the CIA project Operation CHAOS, and the Army Intelligence operation Lantern Spike all worked together to prevent the rise of a 'black messiah' and replace Martin Luther King Jr. with a 'clean Negro.'" [9] Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts), in a letter to David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, wrote: "I ...
A copy of a page of the "suicide letter" sent to Martin Luther King Jr., as published in The New York Times in 2014. [a]The FBI–King suicide letter or blackmail package was an anonymous 1964 letter and package by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which was allegedly meant to blackmail Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. into committing suicide.
Gary Thomas Rowe Jr. (August 13, 1933 – May 25, 1998), known in Witness Protection as Thomas Neil Moore, was a paid informant and agent provocateur for the FBI.As an informant, he infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, as part of the FBI's COINTELPRO project, to monitor and disrupt the Klan's activities.
COINTELPRO's activities were investigated in 1975 by the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, called the "Church Committee" after its chairman, Senator Frank Church (D-Idaho); the committee declared COINTELPRO's activities were illegal and contrary to the Constitution. [72]
Later revelations about documented FBI activity in this period, like the targeted harassment of Martin Luther King Jr, the covert and illegal activities of COINTELPRO, the providing of information ...
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NORTH CANTON − About 500 Walsh University students fanned out this week across Stark County for "A Day of Service" in celebration of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and Human Dignity Week.