article_snippet.sent: FBI FBI repeatedly deceived Congress by destroying vital files relating to the assassination of Martin Luther King, a new book claims.
article_snippet.sent: By destroying the files FBI FBI disobeyed a direct order not to do so from a Congressional Committee which had been set up to investigate the killing of King and former President John F Kennedy.
article_snippet.sent: The destruction of the files broke a key rule of the FBI's record keeping; that the FBI doesn't get rid of information on people who are still alive.
article_snippet.sent: They are not destroying everybody's files, They are selectively destroying files. '
article_snippet.sent: Was it because of Tommy Tarrants links to another more senior figure that files were destroyed?
highlights_snippet.sent: FBI accused in new book - by leading King historian Stuart Wexler - of misleading Congress by destroying files on civil rights leader's murder .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Files from two field offices which had information on Tarrants were destroyed in 1977 after Congress launched Assassinations Committee .
  