MLK FILES (Part II) The Sex Tapes

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In 1976, The US Senate published a report called the “FINAL REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY GOVERNMENT OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES”. The first paragraph of the report said:
From December 1963 until his death in 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was the target of an intensive campaign by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to "neutralize" him as an effective civil rights leader. In the words of the man in charge of the FBI's "war" against Dr. King: No holds were barred. We have used [similar] techniques against Soviet agents. [The same methods were] brought home against any organization against which we were targeted. We did not differentiate. This is a rough, tough business.
I came across this passage last year. It was dark and menacing that it grabbed me with such force. The words swirled in my head for hours, lodged itself in my consciousness and never withdrew from it. I can’t imagine what the Kings must have expereinced going through all that. The implications were so disturbing and spoke of the FBI targeting a civil rights leader as if he were an enemy of the state despite no clear evidence of violating any federal statutes. In an inquiry into the FBI’s handling of the “King Investigation”, Associate Deputy Director James B. Adams testified before the Senate:

MR. ADAMS: There were approximately twenty-five incidents of actions taken [to discredit Dr. King] ... I see no statutory basis or no basis of justification for the activity.
THE CHAIRMAN. Was Dr. King, in his advocacy of equal rights for black citizens, advocating a course of action that in the opinion of the FBI constituted a crime?
MR. ADAMS. No, sir.
THE CHAIRMAN. He was preaching non-violence was he not, as a method of achieving equal rights for black citizens?
MR. ADAMS. That's right ... Now as far as the activities which you are asking about, the discrediting, I know of no basis for that and I will not attempt to justify it.

From what information is available, it is reasonable to believe that Dr. King first got on the FBI’s radar around 1957. In 1960 a full-time executive tasked to direct efforts was assigned and finally in 1962 a full-fledged federal investigation was ordered.

The decision to discredit King was the result of the bureau’s analysis that led leaders there to believe that he may be under the influence of communists. Conversations intercepted as a result of wiretaps and listening devices did not bear this out, however. In fact, the only interest shared by the suspected communists and King were their mutual desire to advance civil rights for the blacks. The FBI’s failure to understand Fidel Castro’s revolution a few years back, believing at first that he was not a communist, was a cause of embarrassment to the bureau. On this occasion, they would not take any chances and the investigation of King continued. It was appended by the denouncement that “King was the most dangerous Negro of the future.”

On the 23rd of December 1963, FBI executives convened at the FBI Headquarters to consider proposals drawn up on ways to discredit King including the possible scenarios that would turn Mrs. King against him. Present were two agents from Atlanta, headquarters officials including Willliam C. Sullivan, Head of Domestic Counter-Intelligence. By that time the amount of information in the possession of the bureau from intercepts and other means of intelligence gathering about Dr. King were considerable. The bureau executives emerged from the meeting resolved to wait for the opportune time, intending to minimize any potential backlash on the bureau for publicly attacking a high profile civil rights leader.

The plan to wait for the right moment was soon scuttled after an explosive outburst by J. Edgar Hoover who wrote a scathing memo on November 24, 1964 berating his underlings, particularly Deputy Associate Director Alan Belmont. He wrote:

I can’t understand why we are unable to get the true facts before the public. We can’t even get our accomplishments published. We are never taking the aggressive, but above lies (i.e. Kings charges against the Bureau and Hoover) remain unanswered.
Responding to the memorandum and keyeing on the word “aggressive” used by Hoover, Sullivan ordered the FBI lab to produce a compilation of some of the most lustful audio recordings of Dr. King engaged in extra-marital activities. In all there are 16 known audio recordings from which the lab could develop the intended effect - to turn Mrs. King against Dr. King.

To complete the parcel, Sullivan composed a letter on untraceable and unwatermarked paper on an old untraceable typewriter. The letter was anonymously signed but appeared to have been written by a “Negro”. Together with the tape it was mailed to Dr. King’s office in Atlanta the very same day of Hoover’s outburst.

(ROBERT’S NOTE: I am appalled that such an important office - Domestic Counter-Intelligence - could be placed in the hands of an individual who is easily manipulated by insult.)

As calculated from operations plans prepared for just the occasion, the package was opened by Mrs. King who was in the habit of cataloging audio recordings of Dr. Kings speeches. After briefly listening to the recording and reading the note, Mrs. King came to realize that it was something more threatening requiring the counsel of her friends and a thoughtful explanation from Dr. King. The FBI proxy war pitting Mrs. King against Dr. King had begun. The note read:

King, look into your heart. You know, you are a complete fraud and a greater liability to all of us Negroes. White people in this country have enough frauds of their own but I am sure they don’t have one at this time that is anywhere near your equal. You are no clergyman and
you know it. I repeat that you are a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one at that….
King, like all frauds your end is approaching. You could have been our greatest leader…. But you are done. Your honorary degrees, your Nobel Prize (what a grim farce) and other awards will not save you. King, I repeat you are done….
The American public, the church organizations that have been helping—Protestants, Catholics and Jews will know you for what you are—an evil beast. So will others
who have backed you. You are done.
King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do (this exact number has been selected for a specific reason, it has definite practical significance). You are done.
There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy fraudulent self is bared to the nation.


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There was more than enough opportunity to place all these alleged women of the night and home-wreckers within opportunity to seduce Dr. King. The fact finders at a Senate hearing determined that the FBI used a “No holds were barred” policy in dealing with Dr. King. Using prostitutes would certainly not be out of their bags of tricks. Given those facts, we offer the following questions to ponder:

  • Were the women on the MLK sex tapes FBI assets?
  • What types of assets were they?
  • Were they FBI agents?
  • Were they prostitutes paid or facilitated by the FBI?
  • Were they inmates that were given a way out of incarceration?
  • Where are all these women now?
If they were bureau assets and the FBI continues to engage in such deplorable tactics against Americans, the taxpayers have a right to be made aware.

TOMORROW - PART III - Why I think the women on the sex tapes were FBI assets.