**WASHINGTON D.C. – In an explosive turn of events that has sent shockwaves through the music industry, newly declassified court documents from 1977 reveal that the legendary soul singer Al Green, who famously “turned to God” after a scalding incident, may have been the target of a sophisticated intelligence operation. The documents, obtained by a whistleblower group called “Project Soul Truth,” suggest that Green’s abrupt departure from secular music was not a spontaneous act of divine intervention, but a planned extraction by federal agents worried about his influence over Black audiences.**
According to the files, the FBI’s COINTELPRO division, which officially ended in 1971, allegedly maintained a secret “Soul Control” unit well into the late 70s. The unit’s goal? To neutralize “culturally subversive” figures whose music was promoting radical financial independence and Black unity. Green’s 1974 album *Al Green Explores Your Mind*—featuring the hit “Sha-La-La (Make Me Happy)”—was reportedly flagged for embedding subliminal messaging encouraging listeners to “question debt” and “boycott downtown banks.”
The incident that supposedly triggered the operation? A 1975 private concert in Memphis where Green allegedly improvised a song titled “The System is a Sinking Ship.” Days later, a mysterious woman named Mary Woodson—who had no prior connection to Green—was found dead at his home, and Green suffered severe burns from a pot of boiling grits. The official story branded her a “jilted lover,” but the leaked documents describe her as a “level-6 asset” assigned to “persuade the subject to reassess his public persona.”
Fast forward to today: Green has refused all comment, and his estate has called the leaked documents “meticulously crafted fiction.” However, a former audio engineer who worked at Green’s label, Hi Records, has come forward with a 1976 recording