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>The CIA spied on MLK Jr., discovered he was having affairs, and used that to try to blackmail him into committing suicide. Have you got any more on this? Woul

by ripb 12y ago

>The CIA spied on MLK Jr., discovered he was having affairs, and used that to try to blackmail him into committing suicide. Have you got any more on this? Would be interested to read.

jellicle 12y ago
This story covers it. FBI, not CIA. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensored-letter-to-mlk-reveals.html http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensore...
- lkbm 12y ago
  Oops, yeah: FBI. Sorry about that. To which one might be tempted to say "Well, sure, but J. Edger Hoover was totally out of control", but that's the thing: we let a totally out-of-control guy abuse a extremely powerful agency and do these things.
- ripb 12y ago
  Wow, great read. Very frightening, especially when one considers what they could be at today.
  - WickyNilliams 12y ago
    Even more so when you consider the kind of dossier they had on him, they now have on everyone, by default
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amagumori 12y ago
and then they went ahead and assassinated him for real.