The FBI, at the time led by J. Edgar Hoover, spied on King and "engaged in covert operations against him," according to Stanford's Martin Luther King Jr. Research and Education Institute.

The US attorney in Washington, DC, arguing the public needs to know the “truth” about the assassination of Martin Luther King ...

(CNN)-- FBI wiretaps have "given us the most powerful and persuasive source of all for seeing how utterly selfless Martin Luther King was," as a civil rights leader, according to a leading civil ...

Documents describing secret FBI recordings allege Martin Luther King Jr. had affairs with 40 women and watched on as a pastor raped a women in the 1960s, a new report claims. According to the ...

The FBI’s attempt to honor the 95th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth on Monday backfired on social media because of the bureau’s historical efforts to undermine the civil rights leader’s ...

The request, which comes on the heels of an executive order by President Trump, represents a sharp reversal for the F.B.I.

Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. This comes after the FBI uncovered thousands of previously sealed documents connected to President Kennedy’s assassination ...

Why do the FBI’s MLK files exist? WOLF: Why does the FBI have files on Martin Luther King Jr? EIG: Surveillance of King began in the early ‘60s, when the Kennedy administration became ...