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...subsequently mentioned the fact. King then switched to the black-owned Lorraine Motel. It was there he was shot on April 4, though the committee in no way suggests that the FBI was setting him up. That memo about the Holiday Inn contained the notation "O.K. ... H.", which was Hoover's usual note of approval...
...Hoover's obsession with King? James Adams, the agency's assistant deputy director, testified that the initial reason was "to determine if there was Communist influence on him." Adams conceded that there were "probably 25 incidents" directed at King, and said, "I see no statutory basis and no justification for the activities." Chairman Frank Church asked if the FBI ever found that King was a Communist. Replied Adams...
Justice Department sources have told TIME that the King case was opened on "solid evidence" linking Communists with King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. According to these sources, two high-level Communist Party officials told the FBI in 1963 that the party had penetrated the SCLC. Hoover sent a memo about this to the White House and the departments of Defense, Justice and State. On the basis of the memo, Attorney General Robert Kennedy authorized wiretaps on King...
King also had enraged Hoover by criticizing the FBI for not doing more to protect Southern civil rights workers and not hiring more blacks; in 1963, of the FBI's 5,500 agents, only five were blacks.* Says one FBI source: "If you criticized the FBI, Hoover took after you. He'd do anything to destroy the credibility of a critic...
False Credentials. A Hoover memo of October 1968, titled "The Disruption of the New Left," urged that the FBI send anonymous letters to parents, informing them when their youngsters were arrested in antiwar demonstrations. At the 1964 Democratic Convention, the FBI got false press credentials through NBC and inserted agents, working as reporters, within left-wing and civil rights groups. Sometimes the FBI tried to disrupt the marriages of dissidents by sending anonymous letters to a husband or wife. Said one letter to the husband of a white woman active in the black movement: "Look man I guess your...