MLK sex claims
File: Love child in L.A., bedded Baez, orgy fan
A NEWLY declassified FBI dossier on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. alleges the civil rights leader had a possible love child and once bedded folk singer Joan Baez.
The scandalous 20-page report — included in the latest document dump of files related to the JFK assassination — says that “a responsible Los Angeles individual” informed an agent that King had an affair with the wife of a prominent black dentist and may have fathered a baby girl.
The individual, who was a relative of King’s paramour and had known the reverend since 1960, also accused him of having affairs with three other women, including Baez.
The paperwork also alleges that King had a proclivity for orgies — and that the frisky revelries even took place at workshops where he was training ministers in urban leadership.
At a Miami conference in February 1968, a minister who attended “expressed his disgust with the behind-the-scene drinking, fornication, and homosexuality that went on.”
“Throughout the ensuing years and until this date King has continued to carry on his sexual aberrations secretly while holding himself out to the public view as a moral leader of religious conviction,” the report says.
The FBI document was written in March 1968, a month before King was assassinated. The introduction explains that the file was created because of the reverend’s stature in the civil rights movement and the rising racial tension in the country.
“The course King chooses to follow at this critical time could have momentous impact on the future of race relations in the United States,” the report says.
The King Center, an organization set up by King’s widow to celebrate his life, did not respond to a request for comment.
The secret report was among 676 new JFK files released Friday by the National Archives in its third document dump of the year.
One declassified memo quoted a Soviet diplomat who was skeptical Lee Harvey Oswald killed President Kennedy.
Less than a year after the assassination, Soviet Consul Pavel Yatskov said in Mexico City he believed a “person as nervous as” Oswald wasn’t capable of the attack.
“I met Oswald here. He stormed into my office and wanted me to introduce and recommend him to the Cubans,” Yatskov said, according to the July 1964 memo from then-CIA Deputy Director Richard Helms.
“He told me that he had lived in the USSR. I told him that I would have had to check before I could recommend him.
“He was nervous and his hands trembled, and he stormed out of my office. I don’t believe that a person as nervous as Oswald, whose hands trembled, could have accurately fired a rifle.”
The declassified documents are being made available in accordance with a 1992 law mandating the release of the JFK files in 25 years. A MAN WAS found dead sitting in a wheelchair at the Herald Square subway station early Friday, police said.
The disturbing discovery was made near the transit booth at the busy station on 34th St. near Sixth Ave. just after 8 a.m., cops said.
Police sources said that the man did not have any obvious injuries and may have died of natural causes. His name was not released. The city medical examiner will determine his cause of death.