The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) under the direction of J. Edgar Hoover launched a massive propaganda attack on the Nation of Islam on July 28, 1963. Under the guise of the Top Secret Counter Intelligence Program, Hoover fed erroneous and damaging reports to local news papers aimed at slandering the Nation of Islam to the general public. The FBI alleged that the Nation of Islam's Founder, Wallace Fard Muhammad, was not of Arabian descent - but instead was a Caucasian ex-con named W. Dodd Ford, with ties to New Zealand, Oregon and Hawaii. According to newspaper reports, W. Dodd Ford...