article_snippet.sent: Stuart Wexler - of said that it could have been one of the greatest scandals in the history of FBI - but now we may never know what happened.
article_snippet.sent: The FBI plot began when the House Committee on Assassinations was set up in 1976 - The FBI plot would finish The FBI plot inquiries into the killing of King and Kennedy in 1978.
article_snippet.sent: They wanted Tommy Tarrants to give evidence to the House Assassinations Committee, They didn't want Tommy Tarrants to be a suspect.
article_snippet.sent: In charge: J Edgar Hoover, the FBI chief, had condemned Dr King and had a mantra that protecting the bureau's reputation was all that mattered.
article_snippet.sent: FBI arranged for James Earl Ray to get out of prison, which was unheard of.'
article_snippet.sent: We can imagine a situation where FBI FBI does not want the Congressional investigation to lead back to Laude Matthews. '
article_snippet.sent: FBI did not want to expose James Earl Ray to suspicion.
article_snippet.sent: Imagine what it would have looked like if an FBI informant had a connection to the King assassination? '
article_snippet.sent: This is speculation of course, but This would have been was on the worst scandals in the history of FBI'.
article_snippet.sent: If FBI had covered FBI tracks over King's assassination, FBI would fit into the pattern of duplicity and double dealing that marked the bureau's handling of King's.
article_snippet.sent: FBI had put James Earl Ray under intense surveillance and bugged James Earl Ray hotel rooms and attempted to destroy James Earl Ray marriage by sending James Earl Ray wife recordings of James Earl Ray with other women.
article_snippet.sent: At a press conference in 1964 then FBI director Herbert Hoover went so far as to call King's the 'most notorious liar in the country'.
article_snippet.sent: The head of FBI between 1973 and 1978 was Kelly.
article_snippet.sent: Wexler described Kelly as a man who followed Hoover's mantra that the reputation of the bureau was the most important thing, 'no matter what'.
article_snippet.sent: Wexler said that FBI could still go some way to salvaging FBI reputation; one way of doing so would be to give King's's case to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Cold Case team, which has looked as more than one hundred civil rights crimes, mostly from the 1960s.
highlights_snippet.sent: Stuart Wexler - of believes it is because they could have exposed Laude Matthews, head of Mississippi KKK, as an FBI asset under deep cover .