The FBI blackmail and incited the suicide of Martin Luther King in a letter

"Daemon". "Beast abnormal". "Unnatural Animal". These are some of the descalificativos that the FBI, the Federal Bureau of Investigation U.S. - kicked in 1964 the leader of the civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, in a letter published Tuesday without caesura in The New York Times (NYT).

But in addition to racist insults toward the historic african-american leader, number two of the FBI he wanted to do see in the letter that the only solution to make your personal scandals do not come to light was that suicidase, thesis also defended by the advisers he attended the activist immediately after receiving the letter intimidating. "There is something you have to do, you know what it is. You cannot believe in God and act as you do". Four years later, was asesinadoen Memphis at the age of 39.

In 1976 the US Senate, in a hearing that analyzed the "dirty game" of the Office of Research, he concluded that the writing "clearly implied that suicide would be an appropriate course of action for Dr. King".

The note, which has gone down in history of the US as the "charter of suicide" of Martin Luther King had already been published although censoring expressions more harsh. Now, the NYT has published the full contents of the written thanks to Beverly Gage, a historian at Yale University that discovered an unedited copy in the National Archives while researching to write a book on the historic FBI director Hoover.