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While the Trump administration faces demands to release filings on financier Jeffrey Epstein, the Justice Department and U.S. intelligence officials on Monday unveiled records detailing the FBI’s surveillance of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. years ahead of their originally scheduled release.
The release includes more than 240,000 pages of the FBI’s surveillance of the civil rights leader, … More
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The records release, announced Monday by Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, contains more than 240,00 pages of documents, though it’s not immediately clear whether the filings included new information on King’s life or his assassination.
Martin Luther King III and Bernice King, King’s living children, said in a statement on X the files should be “viewed within their full historical context” and engaged with “empathy, restraint, and respect for our family’s continuing grief.”
Martin III, 67, and Bernice, 62, wrote their father was “relentlessly targeted by an invasive, predatory and deeply disturbing disinformation surveillance” campaign by the FBI.
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