By Cliff Kincaid
Michael Goodwin of the New York Post is either the dumbest “conservative” writer on the scene or a bald-faced liar. He writes that J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI “…hated Martin Luther King Jr. and aimed to destroy him by linking him to the Communist Party.” He circulated this lie in the context of criticizing the FBI under Democrats for conducting illegal surveillance on Republican Senators.
Hoover was ordered to conduct surveillance on King on the orders of then-Attorney General Robert F. “Bobby” Kennedy, the father of Trump’s current HHS secretary. King’s operation was infested with identified communists.
RFK was Attorney General under his brother JFK, who shared the concern about King’s communism. The Kennedy brothers were anti-communist Democrats.
This concern was also expressed by Republican Senator Jesse Helms, who said King “associated with identified members of the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA), with persons who were former members of or close to the CPUSA, and with CPUSA front organizations.” He added, “In some important respects King’s civil rights activities and later his opposition to the Vietnam war were strongly influenced by and dependent on these associations.”
A total of 58,000 Americans sacrificed and died to save South Vietnam from communism. The communists won because of “anti-war” demonstrations in the U.S., endorsed by King and organized by communists, which prompted an anti-war Democratic Party caucus in Congress to cut off U.S. financial assistance to anti-communist South Vietnam.
The evidence shows that both JFK and his brother Bobby had themselves obtained and passed on information about King’s communist ties, extramarital affairs, and womanizing. It was information that had been obtained from wiretaps on King authorized by Bobby himself. You can read the FBI file on King which was requested by the Kennedy Brothers.
There is no reason to lie about Hoover to smear the FBI under James Comey and Christopher Wray.
No wonder people do not trust the media anymore. Honest conservatives cannot trust the “conservative” media, either.
This is important because New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani claims to be following in King’s footsteps, and cites King’s alleged commitment to democratic socialism.
If we had an anti-communist FBI under Kash Patel, agents would be documenting Mamdani’s links to communists and Islamists, as Trevor Loudon, Daniel Greenfield and I have already done, and then release the information to the public. Read my report here.
We need another J. Edgar Hoover.
It is true that King drifted much deeper into far-left territory later in his career, when the communists were allowed to infiltrate his campaign and exert influence over him.
As honest conservatives, we cannot ignore that fact.
My position all along has been that while King was a fighter for civil rights and showed courage in opposing racism, he had his own serious flaws, one of which was failing to understand the dangers of Marxism. Another was adultery.
JFK’s wife Jackie Kennedy recognized the truth.
Her book, Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy, makes it abundantly clear that Jack and Bobby Kennedy, as well as Jackie, saw through the public façade of the Reverend King and knew him to be a proven liar about his communist connections and a scoundrel in terms of his personal life. Jackie called King a “phony” in the taped conversations that form the basis of the book.
I am tired of the lies on the Left and the lies on the Right. Won’t you join me in cleaning up the lies on both sides?
David J. Garrow, a left-wing figure, explained some of the controversy in his 1981 book The FBI and Martin Luther King, Jr.,as well as a 2002 Atlantic magazine article based on it.
He notes that Bobby Kennedy authorized the FBI to begin wiretapping the telephones of King because he “believed that one of King’s closest advisers was a top-level member of the American Communist Party, and that King had repeatedly misled Administration officials about his ongoing close ties with the man.”
The associate was Stanley Levison, who had been involved in Communist Party USA financial affairs and was helping to arrange funding of the party by Moscow.
But Levison was not the only concern.
Garrow writes, “Levison, the FBI told Kennedy and Marshall [Burke Marshall, the assistant attorney general for civil rights], had recently installed as head of the SCLC’s small New York office a young African-American man named Jack O’Dell, whose publicly documented record of affiliation with the CPUSA had drawn the attention of hostile congressional committees just a few years earlier. Kennedy’s inner circle resolved that every Administration aide acquainted with King would warn him fervently but vaguely about the political danger of continuing his association with Levison and O’Dell. King politely accepted and then privately dismissed warning after warning.” (O’Dell would later go to work for King associate Jesse Jackson).
Hence, King was deceiving the Kennedys, his allies in the civil rights struggle.
Michael Goodwin of the New York Post, who is also a Fox News contributor, should correct his lies but probably will not. That is why I rarely trust anything in this “conservative” news outlet, except for Miranda Devine’s columns on the Hunter laptop.
The communists were manipulating the civil rights movement in directions that benefited them, such as by influencing King to be critical of the war against communism in Vietnam and the system of free enterprise capitalism in the U.S.
The latter turn in King’s career is what has captured the attention of Zohran Mamdani, who now claims to be a “democratic socialist” in the mold of King.
To correct this claim, we must tell the truth about King AND Mamdani.
In a column more than four years ago on this topic, How Woke Conservatives Cancel Their Own Culture, I noted that Glenn Beck had included King on the list of innocent victims of an anti-communist witch hunt and insisted that the FBI decided to “spy” on King Jr. for no legitimate reason.
Beck also lied and never corrected the record.
I wrote at the time that to further divide and demoralize America, Marxism took civil rights and applied it to homosexuals and transgenders. Harry Hay, the modern-day founder of the gay rights movement, was a member of the Communist Party who wore a dress and believed in the occult. All of this has been planned out in advance.
With liars like Goodwin and Beck in the forefront of the “conservative” media, the truth about communist infiltration of America will never come out.
Incidentally, I defended Beck when he was canned by Fox for attacking George Soros. That is when Fox News founder Roger Ailes was in charge and was found to have sexually harassed attractive women in his employ.Beck’s “crime” was accurately identifying Soros as a Nazi collaborator in his youth.
The Zev Chafets book, Roger Ailes Off Camera, confirms the role of Media Matters and the ADL, as well as Beck’s criticism of Soros, in his forced departure from Fox News.
The conservative audience must beware of what passes for “conservative” media these days. We as news consumers must punish those who lie to us by tuning them out.
- Cliff Kincaid is president of America’s Survival, Inc. www.usasurvival.org
