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Article: EARWORTHY.(Sammy Davis Jr)(Brief Article)
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- American Visions
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- August 1, 2000
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A declassified Federal Bureau of Investigation report written by J. Edgar Hoover reads: "September 9, 1968--London--Enclosed for, Legat, London, are three copies of a letterhead memorandum classified `confidential,' which contain all the information in Bureau files concerning black nationalist activity on the part of the subject." A deleted sentence is followed, ominously, by: "You should continue to keep the Bureau advised of subject's activities relating to black nationalist matters while he is in England." Guess who J. Edgar was spying on? The multi-talented Sammy Davis Jr.!
Hoover's concern made perfect sense, because Sammy D was a terrorist in the art of ...
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