CORETTA SCOTT KING LAUDS FBI DIRECTOR

                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, February 17, 1993                   TAG: 9302170207
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A3   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: WASHINGTON                                LENGTH: Short
CORETTA SCOTT KING LAUDS FBI DIRECTOR
Coretta Scott King visited FBI headquarters Tuesday and was warmly applauded by agents and office workers, in sharp contrast to the surveillance and suspicion the agency aimed at her husband.
The widow of Martin Luther King used the occasion to boost embattled Director William Sessions for his affirmative action policies even as he fights to keep his job in the face of a critical Justice Department report.
She said her husband "was harassed by this agency from 1962 through 1968." Even after her husband's death, she said, "the surveillance of the FBI did not stop. I discovered there was a file on me until way into the '70s." But she added that times have changed. "The FBI of the 1990s has turned its back on the abuses of the Hoover era," she said.
"Certainly I never would have accepted the invitation had it not been for your present director," King said. - Associated Press

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