Earl (05-26-2019)
The Daily Mail Article is all about the lies and deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover and what he personally was alleging in what turned out to be a Corrupt Investigation of Martin Luther King Jr.
It is not clear whether the FBI was able to ever confirm any of the salacious claims it included in the analysis, and they could not be independently verified in any way shape of form. J. Edgar Hoover's report is about allegations and none of them are fact based.
The FBI was obsessed with Martin Luther King Jr. from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968.
King was only 39 when he was killed on April 4, 1968, having spent 12 years—almost a third of his life—under the FBI's watch.
In all that time, the bureau—and Director J. Edgar Hoover specifically—never uncovered Communist Party ties or any nefarious behavior that warranted the years of wiretaps and eavesdropping. Instead, they discovered a man devoted to serving others, unafraid of self-examination and unconcerned with fame or notoriety, said David Garrow, a historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, in a 2008 CNN interview.
The FBI recordings have "given us the most powerful and persuasive source of all for seeing how utterly selfless Martin Luther King was," said Garrow, who has written several books about King.
The FBI’s Mobile, Alabama, branch first put King under surveillance in December 1955, after the civil rights icon had helped organize the 385-day Montgomery bus boycott. The investigator charged with surveilling King had been explicitly directed to “find out all he could about Reverend Martin L. King, colored minister in Montgomery and leader in the bus boycott,” and “to uncover all the derogatory information he could about King,” according to an FBI memorandum.
It wasn’t until 1963, when Attorney General Robert Kennedy approved wiretapping King’s phones, that the government ramped up its campaign against the civil rights activist. (After King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech in August of that year, an FBI memo described him as “the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country.”)
Kennedy’s decision has lived in infamy ever since. In 2015, then-FBI Director James Comey told The Guardian he kept Kennedy’s approval of the wiretap order on his desk, a constant reminder of the bureau’s past misdeeds.
The FBI recorded tens of thousands of memos on King throughout the 1960s. Agents bugged his home, his office and his hotels. For Hoover, discrediting King, especially by finding links to Communists, was little short of a fever dream, Garrow explained in a 2002 Atlantic article.
King, however, was not a Communist—and Hoover knew so. In 1965, an FBI wiretap recorded him expressing frustration when the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, a civil rights group he helped found. He was arguing with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee about issuing a statement.
Speaking with his adviser Bayard Rustin, another of the group's founders, King confided: “There are things I wanted to say renouncing Communism in theory, but they would not go along with it. We wanted to say that it was an alien philosophy contrary to us, but they wouldn't go along with it."
The FBI omitted this conversation in its 20-page report dated March 12, 1968—just weeks before King was assassinated at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee. The dossier, titled “Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Current Analysis,” instead included misleading statements characterizing King as a “whole-hearted Marxist who has studied it [Marxism], believes it and agrees with it, but because of his being a minister of religion, does not dare to espouse it publicly.”
The report alleges that this information came from one of King’s top advisers, Stanley David Levison. Levison, a white New York lawyer, had been a top financier for the Communist Party USA before meeting King.
Read the whole article here...
https://www.newsweek.com/fbi-martin-...-hoover-780630
Earl (05-26-2019)
Jade Dragon (05-26-2019)
Who knows what else the FBI has tapes of?
President Trump may want to have AG Barr look into this.
Earl (05-26-2019)
There is even a suggestion in the files that King fathered a daughter with a secret girlfriend in Los Angeles.
Both the mother and child are alive but refused to talk to Garrow.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7071713/FBI-tapes-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-40-affairs-laughed-friend-raped-parishioner.html
Hey, it's all coming to light! If anyone did anything out of the ordinary anywhere, we are all about to see for ourselves.
If you are saying that the FBI investigating a president is something out of the ordinary, you haven't kept up with History. Every president we have ever had, has been investigated by the FBI.
What is out of the ordinary is when a president is under investigation, he accuses the FBI of treason, accuses the press of being unfair to him, calling the investigation Fake News, Lies about what is in the investigation report, takes the word of criminal leaders of foreign adversaries over his own intelligence departments, refuses to testify himself on his own behalf, refuses to allow Congress to see the full report, fires those who are investigating him, tampers with witnesses by offering pardons as bribes to lie in his defense, and the list goes on and on!
GUILTY! How else do you explain it?
People who are investigated who have nothing to hide- DON'T hide evidence, lie, and coverup!
Last edited by Adolf_Twitler; 05-26-2019 at 11:36 AM.
Hmmmm
If MLK was alive and said the press was being unfair to him, calling the investigation a witch hunt because he was black. Refused to testify himself and stated he was only being targeted because he is black
U would be the first to support him! The left would scream the FBI etc were RACIST!
Earl (05-26-2019)
"The FBI surveillance tapes detailing his indiscretions are being held in a vault at the U.S. National Archives and are not due for release until 2027."
Either they are or they aren't there. In the interests of transparency, Congress should investigate this. Perhaps even a Special Counsel is merited.
NO coverups.
Your racial bs is always a crock of shit. Hence the nickname Volscrock. Go back to egging cars from the overpass.
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