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Subject: Sammy Davis Jr.
Summary: The FBI was interested in Davis' involvement in the civil rights movement and his interracial marriage.
Summary 2: Davis' interracial marriage to Swedish actress May Britt and alleged Mafia ties apparently piqued FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. A memo written by Hoover describes how a planned appearance by Davis on a CBS documentary failed.
Summary 3: The FBI opens a file on "extortion-racial matters" after Davis receives threatening letters about his marriage to Britt.
Summary 4: A deranged person calling himself "The General" and "Der Furher" writes Davis to tell him "he is on a death list." Davis calls in the FBI.
Click on the links below to download the actual FBI files in .pdf format.
• davis1.pdf
• davis3.pdf
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