The Trump administration has released more than 240,000 pages of FBI surveillance records on Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from King’s family and civil rights organizations. The records, which had been sealed since 1977, were made public despite the King family’s requests for privacy and their concerns about the historical context of the documents.
According to CNN, the release comes as part of Trump’s broader initiative to declassify historical records, including those related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Robert F. Kennedy. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence called the disclosure “unprecedented” and noted that many records were digitized for the first time.
