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Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself
Vox ^ | January 15, 2018 | By Andrew Prokop

Posted on 08/09/2022 8:20:16 PM PDT by conservative98

When the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his "I Have a Dream" speech before huge crowds on the National Mall in August 1963, the FBI took notice.

"We must mark him now, if we have not done so before, as the most dangerous Negro of the future in this Nation from the standpoint of communism, the Negro and national security," FBI Domestic Intelligence Chief William Sullivan wrote in a memo two days later.

A massive surveillance operation on King was quickly approved, and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover became increasingly fixated on proving that King had communist ties and discrediting him generally.

The surveillance failed to show that King was a communist, but it did result in many tapes of extramarital sexual liaisons by King. So the next year, Sullivan sent the following unsigned letter to King's home. An unredacted version of it was only recently unearthed by Yale historian Beverly Gage, and published in the New York Times in November 2014:

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KEYWORDS: fbi; mlk

1 posted on 08/09/2022 8:20:16 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

On Gutfeld tonight a guest mentioned how the FBI tried to destroy MLK ...


2 posted on 08/09/2022 8:23:41 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: conservative98

The FBI needs to be utterly destroyed. There’s no redemption.

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3 posted on 08/09/2022 8:24:31 PM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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I met an agent at a wedding in VA. Was the bride’s brother. One of the biggest pr**** I’ve ever met in my life.


4 posted on 08/09/2022 8:27:04 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: conservative98
The FBI has been pure evil for a very long time. Only they are even more evil today. FBI needs to be destroyed, but who is going to do it?
5 posted on 08/09/2022 8:28:20 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: Tennessee Nana

He just mentioned this letter. I had to look it up. Horrifying.


6 posted on 08/09/2022 8:28:27 PM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

Leftists: “It’s OUR FBI now!”


7 posted on 08/09/2022 8:29:22 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: conservative98

“the most dangerous Negro of the future...”
FBI was created out of thin air by Hoover and his buddies. Then they made a big deal out of Bonnie and Clyde to get support. FBI should go away and trust in self defense and the Supreme Judge should remain.


8 posted on 08/09/2022 8:35:23 PM PDT by Falconspeed ("Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others." Robert Louis Stevenson.)
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To: conservative98

It was Bobby Kennedy in the DNC targeted MLK


9 posted on 08/09/2022 8:46:48 PM PDT by NoLibZone (Ruling class noticed our total lack of pushback for how the election & Covid was handled.)
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To: conservative98

Either Trump survives or the FBI does.


10 posted on 08/09/2022 8:56:09 PM PDT by nwrep
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

I told my daughter to never, ever talk to the Feds. Never. I don’t care what the school tells her. Don’t be friends with them; ostrasize them.

Don’t be polite. Don’t ever help them, even if you would normally help someone. Don’t give them any quarter. They are you enemies. She is learning that.

I don’t care what anybody tells her. Never, ever, talk to police. Never, ever talk to the Feds. Never, never, never. Say “I want an attorney.” BTW, she’s only six years old.

FBI I know you are reading this. You earned it.

What are you going to do, shoot 70% of the population?


11 posted on 08/09/2022 8:57:05 PM PDT by packagingguy
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To: conservative98

I don’t buy into conspiracy theories, but there are far more questions than answers about James Earl Ray.

Assume that Ray killed MLK. Where did the cash come from to pay for his travels thru Canada and Europe?

I would not be shocked to find that Hoover was behind whoever was behind the gun.


12 posted on 08/09/2022 9:04:14 PM PDT by AlbertWang
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To: conservative98
My parents met working for the FBI, so if the FBI didn't exist, then I probably wouldn't.

But I'm sure there are Freepers who would say "then the FBI not existing would be a twofer!"

13 posted on 08/09/2022 9:18:37 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: conservative98

MLK Jr had lots of contacts with Soviet agents. Pres. LBJ put forth the Great Society which paid unwed females to get pregnant. So, which one was a Commie? Or just doing what the commies told them to do?! Or just a new version of FDR?


14 posted on 08/09/2022 9:40:06 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: packagingguy

“What are you going to do, shoot 70% of the population?”

Don’t give them any ideas. I know there are hard-greens who want to kill (I think the number was ) 25 million Americans. Upping it to 70% would be a big jump. But our feds like a challenge and it would rid the ruling class of all those pesky deplorables who bitterly cling to their guns and bibles.


15 posted on 08/09/2022 10:32:55 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: conservative98

The fbi must bow down and beg forgiveness, and then be dismantled - after all its agents are fired and prevented from ever working in law enforcement ever again.


16 posted on 08/10/2022 5:11:21 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Damn it! We need Trump! America First! Bring America back! We're being governed by fascists.)
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To: Trumpet 1

MLK JR was a woman beating, Blaspheming, Commie Coddler False Prophet. It is slickening that there is a day to this evil man.


17 posted on 08/10/2022 8:26:51 AM PDT by cowboyusa (America Cowboy up!)
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To: conservative98

So the implication is that the the fibbers have always been corrupt.
Got it. 👍🏻


18 posted on 08/10/2022 10:21:08 PM PDT by just Grace
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