The FBI's effort to remove King as the Leader of the
Civil Rights Movement
"Hoover dreamed of destroying Dr. King and replacing
him with "a manageable black leader," another former Crime Records
agent, Harold Leinbaugh, said. And a few of the more confident FBI
officials, William Sullivan included, tried to find one. In January
1964, when Sullivan proposed to remove King from his pedestal, he suggested
that the Bureau replace King with the "right kind" of black
leader."(pp. 141-2)