Exhibit 301

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Case Study (Church Committee, Book III)

Exhibit 301 · Congressional report

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Case Study (Church Committee, Book III)

You are done. There is but one way out for you. You better take it before your filthy fraudulent self is bared to the nation.

Case study of the FBI campaign against King from December 1963 to 1968, including the November 1964 tape mailing and the draft note found in William Sullivan's office files.

Source: United States Senate, Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations
Date: 23 April 1976
Quoted from: Book III, MLK Case Study, Part VI.B (PDF p. 174), quoting the FBI-supplied draft letter found in Sullivan's files; the Committee says Young stated the last paragraph matched the letter sent to SCLC
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/sites-default-files-94755-iii.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding DEF-6.1: Primary record The Church Committee found that the FBI ran five COINTELPRO programs from 1956 to 1971 and approved 2,370 actions to "disrupt" and "neutralize" domestic groups and individuals, among them the November 1964 anonymous note to Martin Luther King Jr.