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>The CIA spied on MLK Jr., discovered he was having affairs, and used that to try to blackmail him into committing suicide.

Have you got any more on this? Would be interested to read.



This story covers it. FBI, not CIA.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/16/magazine/what-an-uncensore...


Oops, yeah: FBI. Sorry about that.

To which one might be tempted to say "Well, sure, but J. Edger Hoover was totally out of control", but that's the thing: we let a totally out-of-control guy abuse a extremely powerful agency and do these things.


Wow, great read. Very frightening, especially when one considers what they could be at today.


Even more so when you consider the kind of dossier they had on him, they now have on everyone, by default


and then they went ahead and assassinated him for real.




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