Martin Luther King Jr. Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===CIA surveillance=== CIA files declassified in 2017 revealed that the agency was investigating possible links between King and Communism after a ''Washington Post'' article dated November 4, 1964, claimed he was invited to the [[Soviet Union]] and that Ralph Abernathy, as spokesman for King, refused to comment on the source of the invitation.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/docid-32397512.pdf |title=Martin Luther King |author=CIA |date=November 5, 1967 |access-date=February 13, 2018 }}</ref> Mail belonging to King and other civil rights activists was intercepted by the CIA program [[HTLINGUAL]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bush-and-the-nsa-spying-s_b_12552 | title=Bush and the NSA spying scandal | first=Timothy | last=Naftali | work=[[HuffPost]] | date=December 19, 2005 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page