Newly released secret Martin Luther King Jr. document alleges communist ties and affairs

The Trump administration released new documents on former President John F. Kennedy's assassination.

And among the documents, a secret FBI analysis of Martin Luther King was found with allegations against the civil rights leader having communist affiliations and multiple affairs.

It said quote, “The course King chooses to follow at this critical time could have a momentous impact on the future of race relations in the United States.”

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The document was from March 12, 1968, just three weeks before his assassination.

One part of the document alleges financial improprieties by King’s civil rights organization, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

Another section attempts to tie King to communist organizations.

The analysis includes several pages about his sexual life, saying quote, “King has continued to carry on his sexual aberrations secretly while holding himself out to public view as a moral leader of religious conviction.”

The document repeatedly referred to some the alleged sex acts King engaged in as “unnatural” and “abnormal.”

It's unclear whether the FBI verified any of the allegations contained in the document.

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