Post by TonyBombassolo on Sept 8, 2023 21:22:41 GMT
1964-11-21 - A package that contains the below letter and a tape recording (allegedly of Dr. King's sexual indiscretions) is delivered to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s address by the FBI.
The story behind this letter did not come out until the mid 1970s due to the Media, PA FBI office break-in.
1971-03-08 - 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. Part of those documents revealed the existence of 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. Sullivan has been suggested as its author.
Once the surveillance tapes of King were publicly revealed, Bernard Lee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) sought to have tapes gained by wiretaps destroyed in a lawsuit. Their request was denied in 1977 by United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. Smith ordered all tapes sealed until the year 2027 and placed into the National Archives and Records Administration. Smith had been nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson 1966-10-06 to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia vacated by Judge Luther Youngdahl and Smith was confirmed by the United States Senate on 1966-10-20. Smith received his commission on 1966-11-03.
The story behind this letter did not come out until the mid 1970s due to the Media, PA FBI office break-in.
1971-03-08 - 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. Part of those documents revealed the existence of 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. Sullivan has been suggested as its author.
Once the surveillance tapes of King were publicly revealed, Bernard Lee and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) sought to have tapes gained by wiretaps destroyed in a lawsuit. Their request was denied in 1977 by United States District Court for the District of Columbia Judge John Lewis Smith Jr. Smith ordered all tapes sealed until the year 2027 and placed into the National Archives and Records Administration. Smith had been nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson 1966-10-06 to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of Columbia vacated by Judge Luther Youngdahl and Smith was confirmed by the United States Senate on 1966-10-20. Smith received his commission on 1966-11-03.