FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent a telegram to the New York field office reading 'do something about Malcolm X.' The wording is evidence of federal attention and surveillance, but the telegram alone does not establish a plan to harm him or a link to his later assassination. A decolonial biography must show the state's monitoring of Black organizing while distinguishing documented surveillance from allegations about responsibility for violence.
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The Hoover telegram by itself proves that the FBI ordered Malcolm X's assassination.
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It documents federal attention, but does not establish a murder plan or causal link.