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with technology of the '60s the fbi has three ways to use surveiled dr. king microphones and human resource and wiretaps. doing a microphone surveillance to be very hesitant in conservative wiretaps were time-consuming and expensive to the fbi is operating those wiretaps. but i want to concentrate that i will tell to the? stories. the first involves dr. king in the second the african-american and who was the most surveiled person of the '60s. but the lives of mohammad head of the nation of islam. in 1979 fakes to the church committee and the attorney-general we do pretty much all through chapter and verse of electronic surveillance of dr. king in the anonymous threatening suicide letter that was written by the assistant fbi director and sent without j. edgar hoover personal knowledge it is critical looking at that era to not personalize hoover as a weird or dangerous or unique monster and organizational culture of surveillance and political control that was much more inclusive and all encompassing than just j. edgar hoover. >> when i was interested in the stor
with technology of the '60s the fbi has three ways to use surveiled dr. king microphones and human resource and wiretaps. doing a microphone surveillance to be very hesitant in conservative wiretaps were time-consuming and expensive to the fbi is operating those wiretaps. but i want to concentrate that i will tell to the? stories. the first involves dr. king in the second the african-american and who was the most surveiled person of the '60s. but the lives of mohammad head of the nation of...
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dr. king and the second involves the african-american who was the most surveilled person of the 1960s. not dr. king business the head of the notorious and politically conservative nation of islam. i got interested in this in 1979. and in 1979, thanks to the church committee, thanks to attorney general ed levy, thanks to the house assassinations committee, we knew pretty much all of the chapter and verse about the elect tronnic surveillance of dr. king and the anonymous threatening suicide letter that alvaro put up earlier this morning that was written by assistant fbi director and head of the intelligence division, division 5, bill sul vi land. and sent to king without j. edgar hoover's personal knowledge. it's critical in looking at the hoover era fbi to not personalize hoover as some individually weird, dangerous, unique monster. the fbi had a culture, an organizational culture of surveillance and of political control. a culture that was much more inclusive and all encompassing than just zwrchlt edgar hoover. in 1979, when i first got interested in the story of the fbi and dr. king, m
dr. king and the second involves the african-american who was the most surveilled person of the 1960s. not dr. king business the head of the notorious and politically conservative nation of islam. i got interested in this in 1979. and in 1979, thanks to the church committee, thanks to attorney general ed levy, thanks to the house assassinations committee, we knew pretty much all of the chapter and verse about the elect tronnic surveillance of dr. king and the anonymous threatening suicide...
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dr. king's life been like in the absence of that surveillance? >> great. two points. dr. ing was able to survive as a landmark civil rights figure because the journalism standards of the 1960s were set by ben bradlee, not by nick denton. in today's america, dr. king's private life would have destroyed him before 1963. and the degree of sexual voyeurism that j. edgar hoover, bill sullivan, seymour phillips, headquarter supervisor in the rodney king case, the degree of sexual voyeurism inside hoover's fbi was not limited to dr. king by any means. the bureau tried to do that in many instances here but american journalists back then, nobody touched it. nowadays you can see what has become of this culture. second point which alvaro touched on, scores and scores of people, probably several hundred people here in washington knew what was going on, knew that all of his sexual information was being passed around to catholic bishops, heads of foundations, religious, journalistic, political figures all over the government. not a single whistleblower stepped forward. and i mentioned t
dr. king's life been like in the absence of that surveillance? >> great. two points. dr. ing was able to survive as a landmark civil rights figure because the journalism standards of the 1960s were set by ben bradlee, not by nick denton. in today's america, dr. king's private life would have destroyed him before 1963. and the degree of sexual voyeurism that j. edgar hoover, bill sullivan, seymour phillips, headquarter supervisor in the rodney king case, the degree of sexual voyeurism...
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dr. king's life have been like in the absence of that surveillance? >> two points. dr. ng was able to survive as a landmark civil rights figure because the journalism standards of the 1960s were set by ben bradlee, not by nick denton. in today's america, dr. king's private life would have destroyed him before 1963. and the degree of sexual voyeurism that j. edgar hoover, bill sullivan, seymour phillips, the degree of the sexual voyeurism inside hoover's fbi was not limited to dr. king by any means. the bureau tried to do that in many instances, but american journalists back then, nobody touched it. nowadays, you can see what has become of this culture. second point, which was touched on, scores and scores of people, probably several hundred people here in washington knew what was going on, knew that all of the sexual information was being passed around, catholic bishops, heads the foundations, religious journalistic political figures all over the government, not a single whistleblower stepped forward. and i mentioned the organizational culture of the hoover fbi. the orga
dr. king's life have been like in the absence of that surveillance? >> two points. dr. ng was able to survive as a landmark civil rights figure because the journalism standards of the 1960s were set by ben bradlee, not by nick denton. in today's america, dr. king's private life would have destroyed him before 1963. and the degree of sexual voyeurism that j. edgar hoover, bill sullivan, seymour phillips, the degree of the sexual voyeurism inside hoover's fbi was not limited to dr. king by...
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dr. king to racism, and specifically the racism of one man, j. edgar hoover. the truth is more uncomfortable. because what happened to dr. king was part of a pattern of surveillancet is older and newer than j. edgar hoover. our government didn't just surveil martin luther king, the black panthers, malcolm x, whitney young, muhammad ali. before j. edgar hoover, a special division of the united states military intelligence division, devoted to monitoring, quote, negro subversion, conducted surveillance on w.b. deboyce and other. this isn't a thing of the past. last year the intercept reported activities of the black lives matter movement were being monitored by the department of homeland security. if you can name a prominent african-american self-rights leader of the 20th or 21st centuries are, chances are signature that he or she has been surveilled and usually in the name of national security. you think that when congress debated nas reform all of this would be in the front of their minds, particularly because just a few months after the snowden leaks, the nsa revealed that, in addition to the fbi and their own wire tape of martin luther king jr., the nsa wiretap
dr. king to racism, and specifically the racism of one man, j. edgar hoover. the truth is more uncomfortable. because what happened to dr. king was part of a pattern of surveillancet is older and newer than j. edgar hoover. our government didn't just surveil martin luther king, the black panthers, malcolm x, whitney young, muhammad ali. before j. edgar hoover, a special division of the united states military intelligence division, devoted to monitoring, quote, negro subversion, conducted...
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dr. king to racism and specifically to racism of one man, j. edgar hoover. the truth is more uncomfortable. because what happened to dr. king was part of a pattern of surveillance that is older and newer than j. edgar hoover your our government didn't just surveilled martin is again. they surveilled fannie lou hamer, the black panthers, whitney young, even muhammad ali. a special division of the united states military intelligence division devoted to marketing quote nigro subversion conducted surveillance on w.e.b. dubois and others. this pattern isn't a thing of the past. just last year "the intercept" reported the activities of the black lives matter movement were being monitored by the department of homeland security. if you can name a prominent african-american civil rights leader of the 20th or 21st centuries, chances are significant that he or she has been surveilled and usually in the name of national security. you would think when congress debated in sa reform, all of this would be at the front of their minds. particularly because just a few months after the snowden leaks the nsa revealed that in addition to the fbi, and their own wiretap of martin luth
dr. king to racism and specifically to racism of one man, j. edgar hoover. the truth is more uncomfortable. because what happened to dr. king was part of a pattern of surveillance that is older and newer than j. edgar hoover your our government didn't just surveilled martin is again. they surveilled fannie lou hamer, the black panthers, whitney young, even muhammad ali. a special division of the united states military intelligence division devoted to marketing quote nigro subversion conducted...