In a secret operation code-named "Project MINARET," the National Security Agency (NSA) monitored the communications of leading Americans, including Wicker and other prominent U.S. journalists, Senators Frank Church and Howard Baker, such civil rights leaders as Martin Luther King Jr., and prominent U.S. athletes who criticized the U.S. war in Vietnam.
The NSA conducted a secret operation called "Project MINARET," monitoring communications of prominent Americans including Wicker, other influential journalists, Senators Church and Baker, civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr., and prominent athletes who opposed the U.S. war in Vietnam.