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What An FBI Office Break-In & WikiLeaks Reveal About Gov’t Surveillance Of Muhammad Ali
Although widely regarded as an inspirational American sports legend, the U.S. government monitored Ali as it did so many other critics of foreign and domestic policy, treating him much like it has treated suspected enemies of the state.
In 1971, a group of activists called the Citizens Commission to Investigate the FBI broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, taking advantage of the excitement over Ali’s fight with Joe Frazier to provide cover for their operation.
The files they stole revealed that the FBI was keeping tabs on Ali, among many other famous personalities, in what Betty Medsger, writing for The Intercept on Monday, called “poetic justice”.
Formerly top secret documents revealed in 2013 by a lawsuit also showed that Ali was monitored on an NSA watchlist which included journalists and other racial justice activists like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr …. http://www.mintpressnews.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2016/06/what-fbi-office-break-in-wikileaks.html
