Martin Luther King Jr ‘Watched and Laughed’ as Woman Was Raped, Secret FBI Recordings Allege

Publisher claims tapes expose activist as the ‘Harvey Weinstein of civil rights movement’ who had ‘40 affairs’

By Peter Stubley and Chris Baynes | 27 May 2019

INDEPENDENT — The FBI’s attempt to discredit Martin Luther King Jr – new details of which are only just emerging some 55 years later – was a mammoth operation involving undercover informants, wiretapped phones and bugged hotel rooms.

J Edgar Hoover, the bureau’s notorious director, believed the material gathered by his agents in the Sixties exposed the civil rights leader as a “notorious liar” and “one of the lowest characters in the country”.

It included a tape which, according to an FBI summary, recorded King laughing and offering “advice” as a fellow Baptist minister “forcibly raped” a woman just a few minutes walk from The White House in Washington DC. […]