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The FBI's campaign to discredit Martin Luther King Jr. through surveillance and harassment.
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...
A long-standing judicial order sealed a body of FBI audio tapes and related materials about Martin Luther King Jr. for 50 years and placed them in the National Archives, but recent executive actions a...
Allegations of Martin Luther King Jr.’s infidelity were used by the FBI as part of a deliberate campaign to discredit him, and those files later fueled public controversy—but during the height of the ...
The declassified FBI files and later reporting contain salacious allegations that Martin Luther King Jr. participated in orgies and solicited prostitutes, but those claims originate in FBI dossiers, t...
Coretta Scott King publicly and privately resisted the FBI’s campaign to define her husband by lurid surveillance reports, consistently defending Martin Luther King Jr.’s public work while acknowledgi...
Coretta Scott King publicly defended Martin Luther King Jr. against allegations of infidelity, repeatedly emphasizing her faith in their marriage and prioritizing the civil-rights work they shared, wh...
Reporting and declassified records show that surveillance in the 1960s collected material about ’s extramarital sexual activity, including allegations of group sex and other sexual misconduct recorded...