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Scoop: CIA releases docs on Latino civil rights-era surveillance

The CIA monitored Mexican American and Puerto Rican civil rights activists fighting for equal education and to honor the late Martin Luther King, Jr., — and against police brutality and the Vietnam War, newly released CIA documents show.

Why it matters: The documents confirm Latino civil rights pioneers’ long-held suspicions that the federal government was monitoring — even disrupting — their activities.

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