U.S. intel Ever Intensive Eye-Matai Muhammad Ali

NEW YORK - A document the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) released to the public revealed that the intelligence agency was in intensive spying on civilian movement leader, Martin Luther King and boxer Muhammad Ali. Efforts NSA spying on King and Ali was done during the Vietnam war protests in 1967.

Not only that, the NSA is also stalking the reporter activity in the New York Times and Washington Post, as well as two senators, the Frank Church of Democratic and Republican Howard Baker. Operation was originally named Minaret unfold in the 1970s. However, the names of people whose phone was tapped kept secret until now.

According to the BBC page, Thursday (26/9), the names were being targeted because of their criticism of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Strong protest against the Vietnam War led President Lyndon Johnson ordered the NSA to figure out the possibility of any other country behind it.

To that end, the NSA then work with specific agencies spy to compile a list of names that will be monitored as well as intercepting their phone. Boxer Muhammad Ali is also on the list of people whose phone was tapped.

The program then continued in the leadership of Richard Nixon in 1969. But the program was halted in 1973, when the Nixon administration entangled in the Watergate scandal.

NSA document was revealed after researchers from George Washington University is calling for the public to reveal the secret data. Institutions owned by the National Security Archive of the university is a research institute that seeks examine and uncover the secret of the government.

Meanwhile, in a different document, the Washington Post said the NSA, has violated the privacy of thousands of times a year by intercepting emails and phone calls of U.S. citizens