The Trump administration released more than 230,000 pages of documents concerning the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., with an emphasis on transparency. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard highlighted this unprecedented action following Trump’s executive order to declassify documents related to the assassinations of King and others. King’s records, under seal since 1977, were reviewed by his children before public release. While acknowledging the historical significance, they requested that the files be understood within their historical context due to the disinformation campaigns led against their father during his life by the FBI.
The release of King’s records had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered them and turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration.
In a lengthy statement released on Monday, the King children called their father's assassination a captivating public curiosity for decades, emphasising the personal nature of the matter.
During his lifetime, the civil rights leader had been the target of an invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign orchestrated by then-FBI director J Edgar Hoover.
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