Martin Luther King Jr., A Current Analysis, officially released asFile 104-10125-10133, is a previouslyclassified 20-page analysis by theFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) onMartin Luther King Jr., created on March 12, 1968, only three weeks beforeKing's assassination, which sparkedseveral conspiracy theories. When the FBI created the document, it wasclassified as secret and on May 8, 1994, the document was reviewed by the FBI/JFK Task Force, where it was marked for "total denial". The document was declassified and released on November 3, 2017, by order ofPresident of the United StatesDonald Trump.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
The analysis by the FBI stated King's political ideologies, thecivil rights movement, and theSouthern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was heavily influenced by theCommunist Party of the United States of America.[1][6] HistorianDavid Garrow stated the document's allegations were untrue.[1] The document also stated King was "a whole-hearted Marxist who has studied it (Marxism), believes in it and agrees with it, but because of his being a minister of religion, does not dare to espouse it publicly".[1] The document also namedStanley Levison, one of King's top advisors as one of the FBI's sources for the information presented.[3] The analysis also included investigation, which discovered King's "drinking, fornication, and homosexuality that went on at the conference", "prostitution", and "an all-night sex orgy was held with these prostitutes".[3][6][2]Newsweek stated this investigation, by order of FBI directorJ. Edgar Hoover, was "to uncover compromising information on King and use it to publicly discredit him".[3] An analysis byCNN stated the file "makes clear the FBI’s focus on digging up dirt about a man who had become an icon".[7]