FBI Counterintelligence Dirty Tricks of Hoover's Career

This is one of the most famous kind of FBI counterintelligence dirty tricks of Hoover's career it wasn't known during his lifetime but was exposed in the 1970s after he died. The FBI made a fake letter for Martin Luther King purporting to be from a disillusioned black admirer and they sent that to him along with some tapes that they had garnered from bugs in his hotel rooms showing capturing some of his extramarital sexual activity. It ends with this this famous claim that King you know what you ought to do you have 30 days to do it or thereabouts which King interpreted as the FBI really trying to pressure him into committing suicide unbelievable now I want to get back to that the