Thurmond encouraged FBI to build case against King, memo reveals

By Lauren Markoe and John Monk, Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond and his staff tried to get the FBI (news - web sites) to build a case against civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. in 1965 on the grounds that King was "controlled by communists," according to a recently released FBI memo on the late senator from South Carolina.

The memo shows Thurmond's attempt to marry two causes dear to him - fighting communism and defeating civil rights.

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Thurmond wasn't the only conservative politician who tried to paint the civil rights movement's leaders as "red." But the FBI memo plumbs the depths of Thurmond's aversion to desegregation. And with other pages in the now-public file, it shows how much of Thurmond's politics was dedicated to fighting the "Red Menace."

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One Thurmond aide, according to the FBI memo, said the senator wanted King to be exposed as a communist. DeLoach's memo recounts the aide "stated that it was widely understood that King was controlled by communists in this country."

Gosh, I must be losing it. When I read "Thurmond," somehow I translated that into "Thrugood Marshall" and was thinking -- "what????"

Thurmond, however, makes perfect sense.

before he did all this irreparable damage

I hope eventually we'll get to see the complete picture of the evil Bush and his gang are up to now. That's a day I long for.

If this is the kind of person they re-elected forever,a racist,bigot,rapist.How ignorant does one have to be to re-elect someone like that.

Just what I needed: another reason to hate Strom Thurmond! :eyes:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2270&e=2&u=/krwashbureau/_bc_thurmond_fbifiles_king_wa

Lots of skeletons in that creep's closet.

Lots of SHEETS and HOODS TOO !!!!

He saw MLK as disrupting the country's peace. Say the man was out of touch? He use to say proudly at fund raters that his grand father owned slaves and some of them and their kids worked for his father so it must not have been that bad if they stayed.

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Just what I needed: another reason to hate Strom Thurmond! :eyes:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=2270&e=2&u=/krwashbureau/_bc_thurmond_fbifiles_king_wa

NOT :hurts:

...I wonder if Strom consulted his black daughter before he wanted to ruin King....

What a fucking waste of DNA that motherfucker was! :grr::nuke::mad:

"Yuh peckuh...it knows no bigotreh!"

Bill's probably ridiculing Strom on The Other Side as we speak..