Secret Martin Luther King Jr documents show Martin Luther King Jr in bad light

US President Donald Trumps administration has released a new batch of documents about President John F Kennedys assassination that included a secret FBI analysis which portrayed civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr in a negative lightThe 20page document released on Friday attempts to tie the civil rights leader to various communist influences and alleges financial improprieties at the Southern Christian Leadership Conference the AfricanAmerican civil rights organisation founded by King reports CNNThe document also contains insinuations and assertions about Kings personal life including extramarital affairs and other sexual improprietiesHowever it was not clear whether the authors of the document verified any of the informationThe document has been hidden for nearly 50 years in intelligence agencies files about Kennedys assassination even though it makes no mention of the former President who was shot dead in Dallas Texas on November 22 1963Trump had earlier said that he would release all of the documents associated with Kennedys assassination It was not immediately clear why the release came Friday CNN reportedThe King document was reviewed by the National Archives and Records Administrations JFK Task Force in 1994 and marked with an x for total denial of its releaseThe options release in full and release in part were left blank on the cover pageTrump ordered the the National Archives to release all the documents The government released 676 additional documents from the Kennedy assassination files on FridayThe March 12 1968 analysis of King portrays him in a negative light and does not attempt to offer a holistic view of the civil rights leader He was assassinated three weeks later on April 4 1968The FBI analysis questions whether King should have been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964It concludes These facts about the Nobel Peace Prize winner make his remarks seem incongruous when he replied after winning this cherished award History has thrust me into this position It would be both immoral and a sign of ingratitude if I did not face my moral responsibility to do what I can in the civil rights struggleIn another section the FBI document labels the Southern Christian Leadership Conference a tax dodge It also alleges that many of Kings associates had communist ties CNN reportedThe document was authored while the FBI was led by Director J Edgar Hoover who had investigators trail King and spy on himHoover had authorised an extensive surveillance programme on King in the 1960sIn 1964 a package containing tapes and a letter to King was delivered to his house and opened by his wife Coretta Scott KingThe letter appeared to urge King to commit suicide It included the line There is only one thing left for you to do You know what it is You have just 34 daysA Senate committee later confirmed the anonymous package had been sent by the FBI