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Interview Of The FBI Agent Who Ran The MLK Wiretaps In Atlanta

posted 9 years ago by wendt-dave
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He was my great uncle and he sat down with his niece (the mums!) and he discussed his FBI career. The link below is a YouTube playlist and will grow in the next few weeks. Topics include: why he became an agent, conducting wiretapes on MLK and SNCC, investigating local police brutality against African-Americans in Atlanta, confronting the KKK, and investigating anti-war bombings.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxV-wf7LL1nXkPVm7d8nbtCtiwcJYqPki

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[–] littlegeorgie 9 years ago

Did he ever happen to mention Cointelpro?

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

[–] wendt-dave 9 years ago

I am adding files to the YouTube channel 'talkradioarchivist' on a daily basis. I suggest watching them to find out.

[–] eolloe 9 years ago

Why does the title have "MLF"?

[–] wendt-dave 9 years ago

MLF is a typo and since it was also in the movie title, I will have to redo it. I probably be a poor FBI agent making such errors on my reports.

[–] eolloe 9 years ago

OK, that led me to read the passages in Arthur Schlesinger's Jacqueline Kennedy: History Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy.

Jackie Kennedy told historian Arthur Schlesinger that Bobby Kennedy had told her that MLK had been caught on wiretap the night of the March on Washington calling up girls to arrange an orgy, and that there were tapes of other orgies. She also said that Bobby had said that in another tape MLK had been making fun of JFK's funeral.

[–] eolloe 9 years ago

Did your great uncle say he had heard any of these sexual encounters? What did he say about them?

[–] wendt-dave 9 years ago

You should listen to the interviews. He was the one in charge of listening and recording them. He hates infidelity but the purpose of the wiretapping was mainly to find out if there was any Communist infiltration into MLk's organization. The revelation was just an incidental bonus for Hoover so he had something on King. My uncle was not against Civil Rights and he in fact monitored elections following the enactment of The Voting Rights Act in 1965. He also personally investigated a police killing of a Black teenager and reported it as an unjustified shooting during a curfew. Type talkradioarchivist in YouTube and you will see a playlist. More material will be added.

[–] Bruce7 8 years ago

The former Agent described King as a "sicko." 'All kinds of degeneracy."
Also had Communist contacts.

This-
"She(Jacqueline Kennedy) also said that the president himself told her about surveillance suggesting that King sought to organize a sex party while in town for the March on Washington in August 1963.

"He told me of a tape that the FBI had of Martin Luther King when he was here for the freedom march. And he said this with no bitterness or anything, how he was calling up all these girls and arranging for a party of men and women, I mean, sort of an orgy in the hotel, and everything," she said."

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Jacqueline_Kennedy/jacqueline-kennedys-feelings-martin-luther-king-jr-revealed/story?id=14478321

Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley

[–] littlegeorgie 8 years ago

Exhibiting some of that strong Christian faith here are you?

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

[–] Bruce7 8 years ago

?

Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley

[–] littlegeorgie 8 years ago

What particular Christian duty are you performing (or particular Christian attribute are you exhibiting) by posting that? Because if I had to attach a name to it, I'd describe it as something along the lines of "spirit of Jezebel".

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

[–] Bruce7 8 years ago

? Did you just land from a UFO? Do you just randomly pull comments down from the sky??

Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley

[–] littlegeorgie 8 years ago

Obviously, in a majority of your past posts you're EXTREMELY proud of your Christian faith. So how does repeating lurid stories about a man dead almost 50 years help people to see what a "GOOD" Christian is like?

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

[–] Bruce7 8 years ago

Hmm. Like looking at certain posters huh?
Sounds like your EXTREMELY proud of your Atheism.
Since what I posted was in context to what the OP posted, I don't see any issue there.

Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley

[–] littlegeorgie 8 years ago

Oh, someone else did it first so that makes it ok for Christians to do it too?

And, only an atheist would accuse you of being a self-righteous hypocrite?

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

[–] Bruce7 8 years ago

I have no idea the faith of the OP. Have you asked him? Snooped on his comments s well? Your petty comments are just like the fading sunlight.
Bye

Can you fly this plane?
Surely u cant be serious
I am serious,and dont call me Shirley

[–] littlegeorgie 8 years ago

You're gossiping about a dead man and I'm petty?

Have you ever actually read any of that Bible thingy?

No man lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.