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Today we report that newly declassified files show the National Security Agency spied on prominent critics of the Vietnam War, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Muhammad Ali, and Democratic senator, Frank Church. The three were among more than 1,600 people on a "watch list" whose overseas phone calls, telexes and cables were targeted. President Lyndon Johnson launched the list in 1967 in a bid to see if growing antiwar sentiment was being aided from abroad.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 16:05:09 +0000

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