Martin Luther King Jr., A Current Analysis

The document was declassified and released on November 3, 2017, by order of President of the United States Donald Trump.

[1] The document also stated King was "a whole-hearted Marxist who has studied it (Marxism), believes in it and agrees with it, but because of his being a minister of religion, does not dare to espouse it publicly".

[1] The document also named Stanley Levison, one of King's top advisors as one of the FBI's sources for the information presented.

[3][6][2] Newsweek stated this investigation, by order of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, was "to uncover compromising information on King and use it to publicly discredit him".

[3] An analysis by CNN stated the file "makes clear the FBI’s focus on digging up dirt about a man who had become an icon".