Trusted Martin Luther King civil rights photographer was FBI informant

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8002629/Trusted-Martin-Luther-King-civil-rights-photographer-was-FBI-informant.html

One of the most celebrated photographers of the US civil rights era, who was part of Martin Luther King Jr's trusted inner circle, has been posthumously unmasked as an FBI informant.

Nick Allen in Los Angeles
Published: 9:00PM BST 14 Sep 2010

Ernest Withers, who died in 2007 at the age of 85, took some of the most famous pictures of Dr King, including him riding one of the first desegregated buses in Montgomery, Alabama. snip

On April 4 that year Dr King was assassinated on the balcony of room 306 at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, and Withers was in the room shortly afterwards. snip

But, unknown to Dr King and other civil rights leaders, Withers was also passing photographs of them, their biographical details, summaries of their political beliefs, and even their car licence plate numbers to the government.

He informed on pastors and political candidates, and alerted the FBI to planned demonstrations. Some of his information helped to disrupt a Memphis militant group called The Invaders in the late 1960s.

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1. I'm speechless.

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2. the obvious unanswered question now is what role he may have played in the shootings

????

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3. Don't trust anybody

is the message here.