FBI Report Alleging MLK’s Communist Ties and Assessing National Risk
- Identifier
- FBI_00093
- Title
- FBI Report Alleging MLK’s Communist Ties and Assessing National Risk
- Creator
- Brennan, C. D. (FBI)
- Description
- This report scrutinizes Martin Luther King Jr.’s supposed connections to communism, primarily because of his opposition to the Vietnam War. The FBI expresses concerns that these alleged ties endanger both the status quo of the civil rights movement and the nation. The document details King's relationships with known communist figures such as Hunter O'Dell, Bayard Rustin, and Stanley David Levison, and examines his personal conduct, including extramarital affairs, as part of their campaign. Informant-sourced data is included, and the FBI concludes that King’s motivations are politically influenced, not religiously or morally driven, characterizing him as a national risk.
- Source
- 100-HQ-442529-Serial2225, 10 April 1967, Federal Bureau of Investigation Records, "Racial Violence Potential in the United States This Summer (1967)", Detroit FBI Files - Black Freedom.
- Theme
- Criminalization and Resistance, Community and Resistance
- Type
- Government Records
- Level 1 Tag
- Race
- Racism
- Racialization
- Social Movements
- Surveillance
- Government Correspondence
- Activism
- COINTELPRO
- Level 2 Tag
- Civil Rights Movement
- Anti-War Movement
- Racial Unrest
- Profiling
- Informants
- Infiltration
- Abuse by Government
- Race & Ethnic Identity
- COINTELPRO - 1967 Monographs
- Communism
- Marxism
- Socialism
- Level 3 Tag
- MLK
- Deke DeLoach
- Mildred Stegall
- Stanley David Levison
- CPUSA
- A. Philip Randolph
- SCLC
- Hunter Pitts O'Dell
- Gus Hall
- Bayard Rustin
- Benjamin J. Davis
- John O' Brennan
- W. C. Sullivan
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Date
- 1967-04-10
- Location
- Washington, D.C.
- Rights
- Public Domain acquired through Freedom of Information Act
- Item sets
- Detroit FBI Files-Black Freedom
