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FBI's campaign to discredit Martin Luther King Jr. through surveillance and fabricated materials
Official, multi-decade inquiries concluded there is no convincing evidence that any U.S. government agency participated in a plot to kill , and was identified as the shooter and convicted; nevertheles...
David J. Garrow published a controversial essay drawing on newly released FBI files that alleges extensive sexual misconduct by Martin Luther King Jr. — including numerous extramarital affairs, solici...
The FBI files contain extensive surveillance material — wiretap transcripts, memos and an anonymous “blackmail” package — that the bureau compiled and circulated in efforts to document and exploit Mar...
A large cache of and documents about was posted by the on July 21, 2025 after a January 23, 2025 executive order, but the specific surveillance tapes and transcripts created by FBI electronic monitori...
The available reporting shows multiple sources alleging that Martin Luther King Jr. engaged in extramarital sexual relationships, with much of the documentary “evidence” coming from FBI wiretaps and r...
The primary evidence cited for alleged extramarital affairs comes from surveillance — wiretaps, hotel-room bugs and informant reports — that the Bureau compiled during and later released in redacted f...
1989 autobiography alleges that engaged in extramarital sexual activity on the night of April 3–4, 1968, the night before his assassination—specifically that King spent parts of that night alone with ...
Historians treat the FBI’s wiretap tapes and surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. as authentic primary materials that illuminate both King’s strategic thinking and the Bureau’s campaign against him,...
The FBI files on Martin Luther King Jr. provide historians with some of the most meticulously recorded primary material about King’s movements, communications and the Bureau’s own counterintelligence ...