Author: United States. Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr., Security and Assassination Investigations
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Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Report of the Department of Justice Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr., Security and Assassination Investigations
Author: United States. Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr., Security and Assassination Investigations
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Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Report of the Department of Justice Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr., Security and Assassination Investigations
Author: United States. Department of Justice
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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Report of the Department of Justice Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr., Security and Assassination Investigations
Author: United States. Task Force to Review the FBI Martin Luther King, Jr., Security and Assassination Investigations
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Author: David J. Garrow
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504011538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The author of Bearing the Cross, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., exposes the government’s massive surveillance campaign against the civil rights leader When US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy authorized a wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.’s phones by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he set in motion one of the most invasive surveillance operations in American history. Sparked by informant reports of King’s alleged involvement with communists, the FBI amassed a trove of information on the civil rights leader. Their findings failed to turn up any evidence of communist influence, but they did expose sensitive aspects of King’s personal life that the FBI went on to use in its attempts to mar his public image. Based on meticulous research into the agency’s surveillance records, historian David Garrow illustrates how the FBI followed King’s movements throughout the country, bugging his hotel rooms and tapping his phones wherever he went, in an obsessive quest to destroy his growing influence. Garrow uncovers the voyeurism and racism within J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI while unmasking Hoover’s personal desire to destroy King. The spying only intensified once King publicly denounced the Vietnam War, and the FBI continued to surveil him until his death. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. clearly demonstrates an unprecedented abuse of power by the FBI and the government as a whole.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504011538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The author of Bearing the Cross, the Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Martin Luther King Jr., exposes the government’s massive surveillance campaign against the civil rights leader When US attorney general Robert F. Kennedy authorized a wiretap of Martin Luther King Jr.’s phones by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, he set in motion one of the most invasive surveillance operations in American history. Sparked by informant reports of King’s alleged involvement with communists, the FBI amassed a trove of information on the civil rights leader. Their findings failed to turn up any evidence of communist influence, but they did expose sensitive aspects of King’s personal life that the FBI went on to use in its attempts to mar his public image. Based on meticulous research into the agency’s surveillance records, historian David Garrow illustrates how the FBI followed King’s movements throughout the country, bugging his hotel rooms and tapping his phones wherever he went, in an obsessive quest to destroy his growing influence. Garrow uncovers the voyeurism and racism within J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI while unmasking Hoover’s personal desire to destroy King. The spying only intensified once King publicly denounced the Vietnam War, and the FBI continued to surveil him until his death. The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr. clearly demonstrates an unprecedented abuse of power by the FBI and the government as a whole.
Investigation of the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Assassinations
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1724
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1724
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Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1746
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1746
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Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations, U.S. House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session
Author: United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Assassinations
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Category : Assassination
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Category : Assassination
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Democracy in the Dark
Author: Frederick A. O. Schwarz
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 162097052X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
“A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in” (The Washington Post). From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government’s modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief counsel to the US Church Committee on Intelligence—which uncovered the FBI’s effort to push Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide; the CIA’s enlistment of the Mafia to try to kill Fidel Castro; and the NSA’s thirty-year program to get copies of all telegrams leaving the United States—uses examples ranging from the dropping of the first atomic bomb and the Cuban Missile Crisis to Iran–Contra and 9/11 to illuminate this central question: How much secrecy does good governance require? Schwarz argues that while some control of information is necessary, governments tend to fall prey to a culture of secrecy that is ultimately not just hazardous to democracy but antithetical to it. This history provides the essential context to recent cases from Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden. Democracy in the Dark is a natural companion to Schwarz’s Unchecked and Unbalanced, cowritten with Aziz Huq, which plumbed the power of the executive branch—a power that often depends on and derives from the use of secrecy. “[An] important new book . . . Carefully researched, engagingly written stories of government secrecy gone amiss.” —The American Prospect
Publisher: New Press, The
ISBN: 162097052X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
“A timely and provocative book exploring the origins of the national security state and the urgent challenge of reining it in” (The Washington Post). From Dick Cheney’s man-sized safe to the National Security Agency’s massive intelligence gathering, secrecy has too often captured the American government’s modus operandi better than the ideals of the Constitution. In this important book, Frederick A.O. Schwarz Jr., who was chief counsel to the US Church Committee on Intelligence—which uncovered the FBI’s effort to push Martin Luther King Jr. to commit suicide; the CIA’s enlistment of the Mafia to try to kill Fidel Castro; and the NSA’s thirty-year program to get copies of all telegrams leaving the United States—uses examples ranging from the dropping of the first atomic bomb and the Cuban Missile Crisis to Iran–Contra and 9/11 to illuminate this central question: How much secrecy does good governance require? Schwarz argues that while some control of information is necessary, governments tend to fall prey to a culture of secrecy that is ultimately not just hazardous to democracy but antithetical to it. This history provides the essential context to recent cases from Chelsea Manning to Edward Snowden. Democracy in the Dark is a natural companion to Schwarz’s Unchecked and Unbalanced, cowritten with Aziz Huq, which plumbed the power of the executive branch—a power that often depends on and derives from the use of secrecy. “[An] important new book . . . Carefully researched, engagingly written stories of government secrecy gone amiss.” —The American Prospect
J Edgar Hoover
Author: Curt Gentry
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393321289
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
A study of J. Edgar Hoover and how he influenced American politics, presidents, civil rights movements, etc. during his fifty years as director of FBI.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393321289
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 852
Book Description
A study of J. Edgar Hoover and how he influenced American politics, presidents, civil rights movements, etc. during his fifty years as director of FBI.