article_snippet.sent: Stuart Wexler - of said that the bureau chose to cover up the potential role of a high level informant in the killing rather than tell the truth.
article_snippet.sent: Stuart Wexler - of told Daily Mail Online that the bureau's actions were 'disturbing' and that Stuart Wexler - of research had left Stuart Wexler - of suspecting that agents had mounted a deliberate operation to bury the truth forever.
article_snippet.sent: Joseph Milteer (right) was a racist  known for a covertly recorded interview in 1963 in which Joseph Milteer spoke of the President John F Kennedy and King assassinations before the Kennedy and King assassinations happened .
article_snippet.sent: Wexler said that the FBI appears to have been spooked after an investigative reporter called Dan Christensen published a number of articles about the Miami connection to both assassinations, articles which the House Committee on Assassinations were interested in.
article_snippet.sent: Wexler said that, according to Wexler research, in 1977 the MURKIN (murder of King and Kennedy) files were destroyed from the FBI field offices in Miami and Mobile, Alabama.
article_snippet.sent: Wexler said that something in that file made the FBI upgrade Tarrants from a little-known racist activist to major player in the King assassination to the point where they showed Wexler picture to witnesses at major crime scenes.
article_snippet.sent: Also destroyed from the Miami field office was the the file on Joseph Milteer, a well-known racist who is known for a covertly recorded interview Wexler gave in 1963 in which Wexler talks about the Kennedy assassination and the King assassination before they happened.
article_snippet.sent: According to Wexler, every other field office investigation of the King murder was preserved, just as Congress ordered, and eventually transferred to the national Archives and Records Administration.
article_snippet.sent: Wexler also implored FBI to run the fingerprints FBI has from the various crime scenes such as rooming house and car used by James Earl Ray.
highlights_snippet.sent: Stuart Wexler - of tells Daily Mail Online agency disobeyed direct order to preserve all materials and believes it was to protect informer from being identified .
  