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Johnsons close aide Walter Jenkins asked Cartha D. Deke DeLoach, assistant to the director of the FBI, to set up covert surveillance of the MFDP and Martin Luther King, Jr. For several days the FBI used wiretaps and bugs to record and relay reports of the MFDPs strategy sessions to the Presidents advisers. At the same time, agents posing as NBC reporters (and working with the networks explicit approval) tricked MFDP strategists into revealing off-the-record information that ultimately proved useful to Johnsons surrogates.Has NBC ever 'apologized'? ;~))