and as i dug into the story, we published some of the findings, the story kept getting stranger and stranger. and it sort of veered into brown s own claim that the cia had spied on him. and this starts to look more plausible when you look at what was going on around the late 60s and into the 70s. because it all happened when martin luther king jr. was shot and killed in memphis, april 1968. brown says that, of course, it is well documented the next day the next night he helped to prevent rioting in boston. and he says this is when his career took this odd turn, that he felt himself under surveillance. i dug into this a lot. we know from the church committee investigations, from the 1970s, cia s program chaos, the fbi s program co-intel pro, a lot of this surveillance of black leaders was indeed