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Series of covert, and often illegal, projects conducted by the U.S. FBI
The “gang stalking” movement emerged in online communities in the early 2000s as a label for a diffuse, distributed form of perceived harassment where victims—often calling themselves “targeted indivi...
The claims that the U.S. government directly orchestrated or knowingly permitted the 9/11 attacks rest on a mix of circumstantial anomalies, contested technical interpretations, and long-standing dist...
The available materials supplied to this review do not identify a clear trail of documented, credible rape allegations against Martin Luther King Jr.; instead they show two distinct threads that have ...
Martin Luther King Jr.’s alleged extramarital affairs are treated by most historians as but contested in scale and detail because the principal documentary evidence comes from an FBI campaign explicit...
Courts have frequently rejected or dismissed claims that invoke the phrase “gang stalking,” often treating them as legally insubstantial or failing for procedural reasons; one review found 87.5% of fe...
Reporting beginning with Gary Webb’s 1996 San Jose Mercury News series alleges that CIA-linked Contra networks helped funnel cheap cocaine into South Central Los Angeles and Compton, accelerating the ...
David Garrow’s excavation of declassified FBI surveillance files on Martin Luther King Jr. reignited a split among historians: some praise his detailed documentary mining of Bureau records and previou...
Federal and state courts have seen many suits invoking “gangstalking,” but systematic reviews find most federal complaints from 2018–2023 dismissed for procedural or meritless claims and many plaintif...
New reporting and declassified files document that Martin Luther King Jr. engaged in extramarital sexual relationships and that the FBI collected and publicized material about those relationships as p...
The available analyses converge on a clear finding: there is that a single, pervasive “secret government control” runs democratic states, but a documented history of covert programs, classification sy...
The FBI files portray Martin Luther King Jr. as a serial adulterer and catalogue a range of sexual allegations — from numerous affairs to salacious episodes recorded in hotel rooms — based on the Bure...
The Department of Justice Task Force that reexamined the FBI’s handling of Martin Luther King Jr.’s surveillance and the investigations of his 1968 assassination concluded that there was no evidence t...
The FBI’s COINTELPRO targeted Martin Luther King Jr. with an explicit mission to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit, or otherwise neutralize” him and other civil‑rights leaders, and Bureau records...
David Garrow’s recent excavations of FBI files foreground explicit allegations of dozens of extramarital encounters and an especially explosive charge about King’s presence at a 1964 sexual assault, p...
Historians generally portray Malcolm X in the mid-1960s as a figure in transition: while earlier identified with racial separatism and blunt critique of white America and white allies, by 1964–65 his ...
Civil liberties groups have mounted lawsuits and public campaigns challenging recent orders directing the FBI to compile lists of groups labeled “extremist” or “domestic terrorists,” arguing those lis...
J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI carried out years of intensive surveillance, wiretaps and covert operations aimed at monitoring and discrediting Martin Luther King Jr., including phone taps, electronic surveill...