In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI’s...

The FBI–King suicide letter or blackmail package was an anonymous 1964 letter and package by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) which was allegedly meant to blackmail Dr. Martin …

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) began monitoring Martin Luther King, Jr., in December 1955, during his involvement with the Montgomery bus boycott, and engaged in …

Jan 18, 2021 · From the March on Washington in 1963 up until his assassination in 1968, the FBI engaged in an intense campaign to discredit Martin Luther King Jr. and his work. Film director …

May 2, 2016 · The FBI's entire main (Headquarters) file on Martin Luther King, Jr. (16,600+ pages) -- posted online for the first time by the original Memory Hole. More...

Jan 16, 2020 · In 1964, the FBI tried to blackmail Martin Luther King Jr. into ending his civil rights campaign with a letter that threatened to expose proof of his extramarital affairs — and …

Jan 23, 2025 · DECLASSIFICATION OF RECORDS CONCERNING THE ASSASSINATIONS OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY, SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY, AND THE …

Jan 18, 2021 · The new documentary MLK/FBI explores J. Edgar Hoover’s relentless surveillance and harassment of Martin Luther King, Jr., which would become a complicated boon to historians.

Jan 23, 2025 · He also concludes that releasing the Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. assassination records is in the public interest.

Jun 24, 2021 · As King biographer David Garrow wrote in his 1981 book, The FBI and Martin Luther King Jr., valued informants provided the FBI with credible reports about Levison’s role …