Lawsuit Claims Mafia Helped FBI in Probe In 1964 Civil Rights Slayings
By Allan Lengel For AOL News Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen, serving 60 years for the 1964 slaying of three civil rights workers, has filed a multimillion-dollar lawsuit alleging that J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI paid an organized crime figure to beat and intimidate people to extract information in his case. In all,…