FWD: KGB stash in unassuming fishing mecca

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Sep 10 14:08:45 PDT 1999


/ dave / wrote:


>The archives also describe attempts by the KGB to discredit U.S. civil
>rights leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr. For instance, the KGB
>planted stories in the press that King was secretly working with
>President Lyndon Johnson and that he had sold out to the white
>establishment.

What an amazing thing to do. Why? To support more radical black leadership or just to fuck things up? What was the CPUSA saying then?

Doug



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