{"id":188957,"date":"2019-05-27T10:56:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T10:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188957"},"modified":"2019-05-31T07:09:55","modified_gmt":"2019-05-31T07:09:55","slug":"fbi-memos-expose-dark-side-of-a-modern-icon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=188957","title":{"rendered":"FBI Memos Expose Dark Side of a Modern Icon"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Secret FBI recordings accuse Martin Luther King Jr of watching and laughing as a pastor raped a woman, having 40 extramarital affairs &#8211; and they are under lock in a U.S. archive, claims author<\/em><\/h4>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Jack Newman \u2013 Daily Mail May 26, 2019<\/h1>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vP4iY1TtS3s\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Secret FBI tapes that accuse\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/martin_luther_king\/index.html\"><strong>Martin Luther King<\/strong><\/a><\/span> Jr of having extramarital affairs with &#8217;40 to 45 women&#8217; and even claim he &#8216;looked on and laughed&#8217; as a pastor friend raped a parishioner exist, an author has claimed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The civil rights hero was also heard allegedly joking he was the founder of the &#8216;International Association for the Advancement of P***y-Eaters&#8217; on an agency recording that was obtained by bugging his room, according to the sensational claims made by biographer David Garrow &#8211; a Pulitzer prize-winning author and biographer of MLK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Writing in British magazine Standpoint, Garrow says that the shocking files could lead to a &#8216;painful historical reckoning&#8217; for the man who is celebrated across the world for his campaign against racial injustice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Along with many US civil rights figures, King was subject to an FBI campaign of surveillance ordered by Director J Edgar Hoover in an effort to undermine his power amid fears he could have links to the Communist Party<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The FBI surveillance tapes detailing his indiscretions are being held in a vault at the U.S. National Archives and are not due for release until 2027.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But David Garrow, a biographer of King who won a Pulitzer Prize for his 1987 book Bearing the Cross about the Baptist minister, has unearthed the FBI summaries of the various incidents.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In an article to be published in Standpoint, Garrow tells how the FBI planted transmitters in two lamps in hotel rooms booked by King in January 1964, according to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/fbi-tapes-reveal-martin-luther-kings-affairs-with-40-women-058h7k9wd\"><strong>The Sunday Times<\/strong><\/a><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">FBI director J Edgar Hoover ordered the surveillance of King in an effort to undermine his power amid fears he could have links to the Communist Party.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_182480\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mlk1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182480\" class=\"wp-image-182480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mlk1-1024x801.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mlk1-1024x801.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/mlk1-300x235.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-182480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. stands with other civil rights leaders on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., on April 3, 1968, a day before he was assassinated at approximately the same place. From left are Hosea Williams, Jesse Jackson, King and Ralph Abernathy. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The intelligence service carried out surveillance on a number of civil rights figures and suspected communists and they had an interest in smearing their reputation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The recording from the Willard Hotel near the White House shows how King was accompanied his friend Logan Kearse, the pastor of Baltimore&#8217;s Cornerstone Baptist church who died in 1991, along with several female parishioners of his church.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In King&#8217;s hotel room, the files claim they then &#8216;discussed which women among the parishioners would be suitable for natural and unnatural sex acts&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The FBI document says: &#8216;When one of the women protested that she did not approve, the Baptist minister immediately and forcefully raped her&#8217; as King watched.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He is alleged to have &#8216;looked on, laugh and offered advice&#8217; during the encounter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">FBI agents were in the room next door but did not intervene.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The following day, King and a dozen others allegedly participated in a &#8216;sex orgy&#8217; engaging in &#8216;acts of degeneracy and depravity&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">When one woman showed reluctance, King was allegedly heard saying that performing the act &#8216;would help your soul&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Senior FBI officials later sent King a copy of the incriminating tape and called him an &#8216;evil abnormal beast&#8217; and his sexual exploits would be &#8216;on record for all time&#8217;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The letter also suggested he should commit suicide before his wrongs were revealed to the world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">King&#8217;s philandering has long been suspected, however Garrow, who\u00a0spent several months digging through the archive material,\u00a0said he had no idea of the scale or the ugliness of it and his apparent indifference to rape until he saw the files.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">He said: &#8216;It poses so fundamental a challenge to his historical stature as to require the most complete and extensive historical review possible.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Among the revelations is a claim by a prostitute who said she was involved in a threesome with King, which she described as the worst orgy she had ever experienced.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">His wife Coretta often complained he was hardly with her and even said he would spend less than 10 hours a month at home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">According to one FBI report, King even said: &#8216;She should go out and have some sexual affairs of her own.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">There is even a suggestion in the files that King fathered a daughter with a secret girlfriend in Los Angeles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Both the mother and child are alive but refused to talk to Garrow.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Dr King was assassinated in 1968 by James Earl Ray but many conspiracy theories suggest that the government was involved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Small-time criminal Ray was caught trying to board a plane at London Heathrow on a fake Canadian passport. He pleaded guilty to the killing and quickly recanted, claiming he was set up.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The conviction stood and Ray died in prison at the age of 70 in 1998. He had been serving a 99-year jail term.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Marking the anniversary of Dr King&#8217;s assassination last year, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation in honour of Dr King, saying: &#8216;In remembrance of his profound and inspirational virtues, we look to do as Dr King did while this world was privileged enough to still have him.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The president was heavily criticised by some speakers at MLK commemorations around the time of the anniversary as they complained of fraught race relations and other divisions since he was elected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Thousands marched and sang civil rights songs to honour the fallen leader in April 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Among the largest gatherings was a march through the Mississippi River city where the civil rights leader was shot dead on a motel balcony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In the immediate aftermath of Dr King&#8217;s assassination there were race riots across the country, from Washington DC to Chicago and Baltimore.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A national day of mourning was later declared by then-President Lyndon B. Johnson following Dr King&#8217;s death.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">From 1971 onwards Martin Luther King JR Day has been observed to remember him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">But it wasn&#8217;t until 2000 that all 50 states took part in the national holiday, the last three being Arizona, Utah and New Hampshire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In 2016 the US Treasury Secretary announced that images from the iconic I Have A Dream speech would be among several to feature on the back of American bank notes from 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-7071713\/FBI-tapes-Martin-Luther-King-Jr-40-affairs-laughed-friend-raped-parishioner.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secret FBI recordings accuse Martin Luther King Jr of watching and laughing as a pastor raped a woman and having 40 extramarital affairs <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Hidden_and_Revisionist_History"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":188960,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188957\/revisions\/188960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}