By Male Marvin
USA – The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has released close to 500 pages of previously secret files on Billy Graham that feature copies of letters threatening the evangelist and other USA leaders.
The files reveal that Billy Graham, who died of ‘natural causes’ at his home in North Carolina on Wednesday, February 21, 2018, was threatened with death more than once during his decades in ministry, and called a “phony preacher”.
The caseload was kept secret until Monday, revealing FBI’s investigation into each threatening missive, including fingerprinting letters and envelopes.
“We are sending a copy of this letter to that phony preacher man Billy Graham — he is as wicked as the CIA,” one letter addressed to Graham and U.S. leaders, from March 4, 1975, reads, as first reported by WSOC.
“We are fed up with such wickedness in high places and it time to kill all the CIA men. Old phony Graham don’t preach on CIA from the Bible because he don’t know his Bible that well,” the letter continues, as reported by WXII.
A copy of the letter was sent to Graham’s organization.
The letter was written in cursive on lined paper and was addressed “to who it concerns.”
An FBI investigation showed the letter was written by an Iowa woman who a judge said was mentally ill, according to the files. The woman’s name was redacted in the file.
When questioned by the FBI, the woman “at times would break down into tears and cry long passages from the Bible and within the next minute she would be laughing and carrying on a jovial conversation.”
Another letter Graham’s office received threatened to “to kill all the FBI,” and to “kill Billy Graham.”
Religious and political leaders around the world hailed Graham’s impacton spreading the Gospel when he passed away in February.
The preacher was known as “pastor to the presidents,” having met every U.S. president since World War II through Barack Obama.
Evangelist Billy Graham tackled the topic of death very often.
When he preached, he said that death was, of course, inevitable.
As no one knew when Christ would return, he said, everyone should think instead about the sure thing they did know: the certainty of their own death.
To Graham, death was simply a change of address.
USA journalist David Frost asked Graham what he would want the first line of his obituary to say. “That he was faithful and that he had integrity,” he replied. “And that I was faithful to my calling, and that I loved God with all mind, heart and soul.”
