Mystery AtlasMartin Luther King Jr.
The civil rights leader who was, per the Church Committee's own findings, the target of an intensive FBI campaign from 1963 until his 1968 assassination to 'neutralize' him, including a wiretap and an anonymous 1964 package widely understood to have been intended to pressure him toward suicide.
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- COINTELPRO1956-1971
Martin Luther King Jr. was a victim of COINTELPRO.
Martin Luther King Jr. was investigated by Federal Bureau of Investigation — Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy gave written approval for a wiretap on King's phone lines in 1963; Hoover extended the surveillance for years afterward.