1964 - FBI Wrote A Letter To Martin Luther King Telling Him To Commit Suicide

[kpete]

Letters of Note published an interesting piece of correspondence this time last year. It is a letter from the FBI, written in 1964, trying to convince Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide.

J. Edgar Hoover had decided to destroy the civil rights movement as it was considered a threat to the status quo. As a result the FBI conducted surveillance on King looking for dirt to destroy his credibility. The FBI had a divide and conquer campaign within the civil rights movement and tried to sow division by false flag operations and anonymous communications to bring terror and paranoia to the activists.

From the letter:

King, like all frauds your end is approaching. You could have been our greatest leader. You, even at an early age have turned out to be not a leader but a dissolute, abnormal moral imbecile…

Your “honorary” degrees, your Nobel Prize (what a grim farce) and other awards will not save you. King, I repeat you are done.

No person can overcome facts, not even a fraud like yourself… I repeat — no person can argue successfully against facts… Satan could not do more. What incredible evilness… King you are done.

The letter was accompanied by FBI recordings of King having extramarital sexual encounters. The FBI’s logic seems to have been that King would rather commit suicide than face the shame of being exposed as an adulterer.

As the letter concludes:

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 it (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, abnormal fraudulent self is bared to the nation.

MORE HERE:
http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/01/king-like-all-frauds-your-end-is.html
and here:
http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/01/21/the-fbi-wrote-a-letter-to-martin-luther-king-telling-him-to-commit-suicide/

[abelenkpe]

1. Wow

That's horrible

[elleng]

5. Really. And consider the source:

[treestar]

2. If true that adds fat to the fire of any CT

That the assassination was a lone killer thing. They made the threat and likely carried it out. It's saying we're going to do it if you don't.

Evil bastards. Glad they lost the battle in the long run.

[Ilsa]

3. I didn't realize the movie quoted

Hoover's letters to King, although the movie applied it as a threat if he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Fuck the FBI, then and now.

[Dawson Leery]

6. Hoover was a most dishonorable figure.