U.S. tapping Martin Luther King and Muhammad Ali
National security agencies in the United States ( NSA ) spying ever civilian movement leader Martin Luther King and boxer Muhammad Ali during the Vietnam war protests in 1967 .This was revealed in a secret document that was released to the public .related news
The documents also reveal the NSA , in those days , spying on journalists at the New York Times and Washington Post , as well as the two senators Frank Church of Democrats and Republicans Howard Baker from .Some officials at the NSA in that document then calls the spy program as actions " despicable " .Operation was originally named Minaret unfold in the 1970s . However , the names of people whose phone was tapped kept secret until now .About the Vietnam WarThe names are being targeted because of his criticism of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War .In 1967 , the strong anti- war protests against the Vietnam led President Lyndon Johnson ordered the NSA to figure out whether the protest is intentionally made by other countries .NSA then work with specific agencies spy to compile a list of names that will be monitored , and their phones tapped .muhammad ali
Boxer Muhammad Ali is also on the list of people whose phone was tapped .The
program continued in the leadership of Richard Nixon in 1969 , but
discontinued in 1973 , when the Nixon administration officials tangled
in the Watergate scandal .This confidential document published after the government granted the request of researchers from George Washington University .Institute
for National Security Archive , which is owned by the university , is a
research institute that seeks to uncover and examine government secrecy
.Researchers describe the fact tapping in the Vietnam War era as events ' shocking ' .Meanwhile
, in a different document , the Washington Post said the NSA , privacy
has been violated Click thousands of times a year , by intercepting
emails and phone calls
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