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The FBI tried to convince MLK to take his own life. In 1964, the FBI sent King an anonymous "suicide letter" along with recordings of his private life, threatening to expose him unless he "did the one thing left to do." Named COINTELPRO, the secret program to "neutralize" civil rights leaders
On November 21, 1964, a package that contained the letter and a tape recording allegedly of King's sexual indiscretions was delivered to King's address. Although the letter was anonymously written, King correctly suspected the FBI sent the package.[1][2] King's wife Coretta Scott said the tapes comprised only "mumbo jumbo".[3] The letter does not specify exactly what action it is urging King to undertake; King understood the letter to advocate that he commit suicide,[1] although some have suggested that it was urging him to decline the Nobel Peace Prize which he was awarded in 1964,[4] or step out of leadership.[1]
On March 8, 1971, an activist group called the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI burglarized a local office of the FBI in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole classified documents. Parts of them exposed a secret FBI operation called COINTELPRO. Those documents were later sent to newspapers and members of the United States Congress. During the Church Committee hearings and investigations in 1975, a copy of the "suicide letter" was discovered in the work files of William C. Sullivan, deputy FBI director.[5] He has been suggested as its author.[6][1] Once the existence of surveillance tapes of King was publicly revealed, Bernard Lee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) filed a lawsuit to have tapes from wiretaps destroyed.[7] Their request was denied by United States District Court for the District of Columbia judge John Lewis Smith Jr.[7] He ordered all tapes sealed for 50 years and placed into the National Archives and Records Administration.[7
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On November 21, 1964, a package that contained the letter and a tape recording allegedly of King's sexual indiscretions was delivered to King's address. Although the letter was anonymously written, King correctly suspected the FBI sent the package.[1][2] King's wife Coretta Scott said the tapes comprised only "mumbo jumbo".[3] The letter does not specify exactly what action it is urging King to undertake; King understood the letter to advocate that he commit suicide,[1] although some have suggested that it was urging him to decline the Nobel Peace Prize which he was awarded in 1964,[4] or step out of leadership.[1]
On March 8, 1971, an activist group called the Citizens' Commission to Investigate the FBI burglarized a local office of the FBI in Media, Pennsylvania, and stole classified documents. Parts of them exposed a secret FBI operation called COINTELPRO. Those documents were later sent to newspapers and members of the United States Congress. During the Church Committee hearings and investigations in 1975, a copy of the "suicide letter" was discovered in the work files of William C. Sullivan, deputy FBI director.[5] He has been suggested as its author.[6][1] Once the existence of surveillance tapes of King was publicly revealed, Bernard Lee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) filed a lawsuit to have tapes from wiretaps destroyed.[7] Their request was denied by United States District Court for the District of Columbia judge John Lewis Smith Jr.[7] He ordered all tapes sealed for 50 years and placed into the National Archives and Records Administration.[7
FBI–King letter - Wikipedia
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