King (born July 4, 1941)[1] is an American businessman and political activist who served as the United States Ambassador to the Czech Republic from 2017 to 2021.

[2] A member of the Republican Party, he is the founder of King Capital LLC,[3] an equity investment and real estate company.

[4] He previously worked at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as an agent[5] and campaigned unsuccessfully in 1988 for his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate in Wisconsin.

[6] During the Nixon administration, while working for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President, King was involved in the kidnapping of Martha Mitchell, the wife of the then-Attorney General.

He investigated civil rights violations in Jackson, Mississippi, followed by racially motivated crimes, homicide, arson, bombing and bank robbery.

[1] In June 1972, at the time of the Watergate complex break-in, King was the security agent for the Committee for the Re-Election of the President assigned to abduct and hold Martha Mitchell, the wife of then United States Attorney General John N. Mitchell, in a hotel room in California, to prevent her from learning about the break-in.

[7][9][10] Mitchell contended that she had been held in her room against her will by King, during which time he used physical force to prevent her from speaking to the press and restrained her while she was injected with a sedative.