November 14, 2014—According to historian and professor Beverly Gage, an uncensored version of the FBI’s “Suicide Letter” to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. offers “a potent warning” concerning the dangers of mass surveillance. The document illustrates the lengths that intelligence agencies are willing to go, using surveillance as a weapon for harassment and intimidation.
From the New York Times article:
Since then, the so called 'suicide letter' has occupied a unique place in the history of American Intelligence - the most notorious and embarrassing example of Hoover's FBI run amok.
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