...and two days later the (WC Sullivan) followed his leader of FBI Director (J Edgar Hoover) writing:
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"... we must mark him now ... as the most dangerous Negro
of the future in the nation from the standpoint of communism,
the Negro and national security"
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...972_story.html
Washington Post
8/17/13
William Sullivan, head of the FBI’s domestic intelligence division
during the King surveillance program, told the committee in 1975,
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“No holds were barred. We have used [similar] techniques against Soviet agents.
[The same methods were] brought home against any organization against which we were targeted.
We did not differentiate. This is a rough, tough business.”
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Sullivan, in his 1975 testimony before the Church panel, backtracked from his post-speech memo,
noting “we had to engage in a lot of nonsense which we ourselves really did not believe in.”
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It's hard to see that since 1975 anything done in the name of "government security" has really changed.