With the funds that he had received from the Ford Foundation, King held the first of two workshops in Miami, Florida, in February, 1968, to train Negro ministers in urban leadership. One Negro minister in attendance later expressed his disgust with the behind-the-scene drinking, fornication, and homosexuality that went on at the conference. Several Negro and
white prostitutes were brought in from the Miami area. An all-night sex orgy was held with these prostitutes and some of the delegates in attendance.
One room had a large table in it which was filled with whiskey. The two Negro prostitutes were paid $50.00 to put on a sex show for the entertainment of guests. A variety of sex acts deviating from the normal were observed.
This activity is not new to King and his associates. As early as January, 1964, King engaged in another two-day drunken sex orgy in Washington, D.C. Many of those present engaged in sexual acts, natural as well as unnatural, for the entertainment of onlookers. When one of the females shied away from engaging in an unnatural act, King and other of the males present discussed how she was to be taught and initiated in this respect. King told her that to perform such an act would "help your soul, it will help you." King announced that he preferred to perform unnatural acts on women and that he had started the International Association for the Advancement of Pussy Eaters. The following day when he was late in arising, and was asked by one of the women why he was so late, King replied, "I've been reading the Bible and praying." Everyone laughed.
Confidential sources who have furnished reliable information in the past have advised that Martin Luther King, Jr., has the reputation among many of the country's Negro leaders of being a heavy consumer of alcoholic beverages and is known to certain Negro leaders to be extremely loose in his moral behavior. As an example· these sources cited an incident which occurred several years ago in Memphis, Tennessee, when King attended a Negro Baptist Convention With King's knowledge, some of the ministers arranged to rent,from some families,apartments· at a housing project. The permanent tenants were advised that the apartments were needed for "meditation." Actually, they were used for sex and drinking parties. These sources heard from other individuals, whom they believed to be reliable, that during the Convention King became so intoxicated that he caused a scene in the housing project, being unable to find the apartment he desired. Some of his colleagues had to physically restrain King lest he be recognized by some of the tenants and thus jeopardize the image of the ministers as well as that of the desegregation movement.
Bayard Rustin, in discussing King's recent trip to Oslo, Norway, to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, advised two acquaintances on December 167 1964, that he was called by the police at 4:30 a.m., one morning because the police had caught a prostitute coming out of the room of A. D. King, Martin's brother. A. D. King attempted to evade the police by running into Martin's room. The police accused the prostitute of stealing money; however, she claimed she had been paid by the occupant of A. D. King's room. Rustin claimed that he talked the police out of arresting the prostitute in order to avoid besmirching the reputation of Martin Luther King, Jr..
Rustin also stated that members of King's entourage had naked girls running up and down the corridors of the hotel where they stayed and that they were bringing
white prostitutes into their- rooms.
Rustin, one of King's key advisors, is· a former member of the Young Communist League, which has been designated as subversive pursuant to Executive Order 10450.
[A]t least 12 individuals—nearly equally divided between men and women and including King, officers of the [Southern Christian Leadership Conference], and others bearing the title of "Reverend"—participated in a sex orgy…. Excessive consumption of alcohol and the use of the vilest language imaginable served only as a backdrop to acts of degeneracy and depravity, many of which were committed in a communal atmosphere with the onlookers as "entertained" as the participants. Many of those present engaged in sexual acts, natural as well as unnatural. King more than once boasted of his drunken condition as he took a leading role in the debauchery.