Hoover era FBI abuse and White House pressure explored
The report outlines Hoover era FBI abuses including anonymous letters to ruin reputations and repeated arrests to disrupt groups. It details CIA and Army help for DC surveillance, COINTELPRO programs, and Hoover's later bans on bag jobs and cross agency cooperation. It notes Nixon’s attempts to revive aggressive tactics and Dean’s remark on Hoover’s influence.
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Hoover
White House
Kennedy
Johnson
Nixon
FBI
Levi
William B. Saxbe
Saxbe
Washington
UPI
Central Intelligence Agency
U.S. Army
Washington, D.C
Army
CIA
Susan Truitt
Metropolitan Police Department
Baltimore Police Department
Maryland General Assembly
Marvin Mandel
Baltimore News American
Plumbers
Daniel Ellsberg
Bureau
Barry M. Goldwater
Arizona
Moyers
Goldwater
Walter Jenkins
FBI harassment claim teases King tied to tape and surveillance
A former FBI official alleges under Hoover the bureau sent a secret tape to Mrs. King to undermine Martin Luther King Jr. amid long running electronic surveillance. Other sources note SCLC ties to communists and Johnson era gossip, with no prosecutions despite extensive recordings.
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King
Bureau
FBI
New York Times
J. Edgar Hoover
William C. Sullivan
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
SCLC
Willard Hotel
Washington
Communist Party
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Senate
Robert Kennedy
Justice Department
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