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I. INTRODUCTION A. The Mission Of The Task Force 1. The Problem mn Novenber 1, 1975, William C. Sulliven, former Assistant Director, Domestic Intelligence Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, testified before the Senate Select Committee to Study Govermmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities. He related that from late 1963 and conrinuing until the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., King was the target of an intensive campaign by the F.B.I. to neutralize him as an effective civil rights leader. Sullivan stated that in the war against King "No holds were barred." (Senate Report No. 94-755, Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to “Intelligence Activities, Book II, p. 11). This and other testimmy describing this F.B.1I. conterintelligence campaign against King reached the public through the news media. As a consequence there was a regeneration of the widespread speculation m the possibility that the Bureau may have had same responsibility in Dr. King's. death and may not have done an impartial and thorough investigation of the assassinatim.