The final report of the 1975 US Senate Church Committee, describing the decade-long effort by J Edgar Hoover and the FBI to discredit and "neutralize" the Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. Hoover considered the civil rights movement to be "Communist", and did everything in his power to destroy it.

The FBI, COINTELPRO, And Martin Luther King, Jr.: Final Report Of The Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence Activitie

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Throughout the Cold War, the United States felt impelled to respond to threats which were, or seemed to be, skirmishes in a global war against Communism. Castro's Cuba raised the spectre of a Soviet outpost at America's doorstep. Events in the Dominican Republic appeared to offer an additional opportunity for the Russians and their allies. The Congo, freed from Belgian rule, occupied the strategic center of the African continent, and the prospect of Communist penetration there was viewed as a threat to American interests in emerging African nations. There was great concern that a Communist takeover in Indochina would have a "domino effect" throughout Asia. Even the election in 1970 of a Marxist president in Chile was seen by some as a threat similar to that of Castro's takeover in Cuba. This book exposes the full range of covert activities taken by the U.S. Government and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in response to the operations of Communist clandestine services, which included U.S. involvement in assassination plots against foreign political leaders. Sources include a massive record of over 8,000 pages of sworn testimony taken from over 75 witnesses during 60 hearing days and numerous staff interviews. In addition, documents obtained to complete the narrative include raw files from agencies and departments, the White House, and the Presidential libraries of the Administrations of former Presidents Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The U.S. operations exposed include the use of poisons, the hiring of Mafia figures, the support of dissidents, the provision of machine guns and financial aid, and kidnapping to assassinate foreign leaders. In disturbing detail, the book reveals evidence of a permanent assassination capability established within the CIA and that the plots all involved Third World countries, most of which were relatively small and none of which possessed great political or military strength. Officials at the highest levels objected to the Castro and Trujillo regimes, believed the accession of Allende to power in Chile would be harmful to American interests, and thought of Lumumba as a dangerous force in the heart of Africa. In particular, the plots against Fidel Castro are placed in the context of fully authorized, comprehensive assaults upon his regime, such as the Bay of Pigs invasion. An important look at the history of covert action across the world and how the U.S. adopted the tactics of its enemies.

Investigating Assassination: A History of CIA Murder Plots Involving Foreign Leaders

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COINTELPRO is an abbreviation (Counter Intelligence Program) for a series of covert action programs by the Federal Bureau of Investigation directed against domestic groups. In these programs, the Bureau went beyond the collection of intelligence to secret action designed to "disrupt" and "neutralize" target groups and individuals, which included the civil rights movement (such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Black Panther Party), anti-war protestors, feminists, environmentalists, animal rights organizers, the American Indian Movement, and a variety of left-wing organizations. The techniques were adopted wholesale from wartime counterintelligence, and ranged from the trivial to the degrading (sending anonymous poison-pen letters intended to break up marriages) and the dangerous (encouraging gang warfare and falsely labeling members of a violent group as police informers). This book includes witness testimony from a committee led by Senator Frank Church that includes many of the Bureau agents involved in the programs and informants involved in COINTELPRO operations.

COINTELPRO: An Oral History of the FBI's Most Notorious Program

As the U.S. Senate's Church Committee probed alleged assassination attempts against foreign leaders, it raised questions regarding possible connections between these plots and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Questions were later raised about whether agencies adequately investigated these possible connections and whether information about these plots was provided to the Warren Commission. As a result, the Select Committee reviewed the performance of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with respect to their investigations of the assassination of the President. This book exposes through documentary evidence and interviews that both the CIA and the FBI failed in, or avoided carrying out, certain of their responsibilities, both before and after the JFK assassination. It reveals the leads never followed up on by the CIA in terms of foreign connections to Cuba, other potential shooters at Dealey Plaza, and the minimal attention paid to the activities of Lee Harvey Oswald before the assassination, which led an Assistant Director of the FBI to worry that the general public would believe "we are responsible for negligence which might have resulted in the assassination of the President."

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The FBI, COINTELPRO, And Martin Luther King, Jr.: Final Report Of The Select Committee To Study Governmental Operations With Respect To Intelligence Activitie

Investigating Assassination: A History of CIA Murder Plots Involving Foreign Leaders

COINTELPRO: An Oral History of the FBI's Most Notorious Program

Overlooking Oswald: The JFK Assassination, the FBI and the CIA: Book V