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What the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King says about modern spying

7 pointsby ghoshover 9 years ago

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dalkeover 9 years ago
The link on page 2 is to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html?_r=1" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.nytimes.com&#x2F;2014&#x2F;11&#x2F;16&#x2F;magazine&#x2F;what-an-uncensore...</a> which describes that:<p>&gt; F.B.I. officials began to peddle information about King’s hotel-room activities to friendly members of the press, hoping to discredit the civil rights leader.<p>and how<p>&gt; one of Hoover’s deputies, William Sullivan, apparently took it upon himself to write the anonymous letter [the so-called “suicide letter”] and sent an agent to Miami, to mail the package to Atlanta.