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Apr 4, 2018 • 4 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
In the 1960s, the FBI subjected Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to a massive surveillance/harassment campaign. The FBI labeled him a “National Security Threat”, attempted to prove his “communist ties”, tapped his phone & sent him a letter urging him to kill himself. #MLK50
The FBI’s COINTELPRO attempted to neutralize so-called “black nationalist hate groups,” which they believed included King’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
In 1963, FBI assistant director William Sullivan called King “the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country.” FBI director J. Edgar Hoover reacted to King’s Nobel Peace Prize by claiming he was “the most notorious liar in the country.”
Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow, Coretta Scott King, went to her death believing that the US government played a role in her husband’s murder.
See here: history.com/news/who-kille…
And here: counterpunch.org/2017/01/16/who…

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