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Special thanks to Charles Lewton (clewton@eskimo.com) for
transcribing the following lecture by Dave Emory.

THE ASSASSINATIONS OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. & MALCOLM X

Tape One--Side One.

"Fascism is something that might appear to be a long way away for
people, even now. It is worth understanding how fascism came into
being in both Japan and Germany, to a lesser extent Italy, where
the terror was more random. But in Japan and Germany, fascism came
about in considerable measure by the systematic assassination of
the legitimate political leadership of those countries. In
Germany, underground units of the German army that were originally
put together above ground to combat the abortive socialist
revolution in Germany, they remained intact below ground and they
became known as the so-called Black Reichswer (sp). They were
composed of the Freicorps (sp) or Free Corps, the Eine Vonevaren
(sp) and Zeitfreivillegenverbonde (sp). All three organizations
put together of German army world war one veterans, they were put
together by the defense minister of the Weimar Republic, a fellow
named Gustav Nosgae (sp) and they were put together to combat
communism, to put down a socialist revolution in Germany, which
they did. As I said, they then remained intact and proceeded to
systematically assassinate not only socialists and communists but
the legitimate political leadership of Weimar Germany. That was
one of the reasons that Adolph Hitler's rise to power was as
relatively smooth as it was.

Likewise, in Japan, the so-called patriotic or ultranationalist
societies, which were like crosses between organized crime
syndicates, religious groups, and nationalist societies. They
systematically dispatched the legitimate democratic leadership of
Japan and paved the way for the rise of fascism in Japan. The main
organization involved there was the Black Dragon Society, named
after the Ahmoor (sp) river, or Black Dragon River, which at the
time constituted the border between Russia and China, and the main
name behind the Black Dragon Society was a fellow named Mitsouru
Toyama (sp).

The patriotic societies were directed by the Japanese general staff
as were the Freicorp, Eine Vonevaren, and Zeitfreivillegenverbonde
(sp)., even when they remained underground illegally, and in this
country, we are now faced with the results of an analogous program,
just as the German and Japanese military organizations felt it
necessary to begin using deadly force and covert action in their
own countries in order to eliminate individuals and institutions
that they considered to represent enemies at home. So in the 1960s
and '70s, in the United States, our national security establishment
or significant elements of it began to use the same kind of deadly
force and covert action at home that they had been using abroad for
decades in order to maintain the strategic situation of not only
our national security establishment, but more importantly the
preeminent position of American based multinational corporations in
many parts of the world.

In the 1940s and 1950s, deadly force was used in a covert way in
places like Iran and places like Guatemala, and in other parts of
the third world in particular. By the 1960s, what I like to sum up
in the old street expression "what goes around comes around", well
what had been going around in fact came around for the United
States. The most significant element of this assassination program
was the assassination of president Kennedy in which the national
security establishment of this country removed the legitimate
constitutional authority, the legitimately elected constitutional
representative of the people, and they then installed their own
selectee, so to speak, Lyndon Johnson. Kennedy had placed the
weight of the Oval Office against many of the policies which were
permitting the ongoing coups in places like Guatemala when Jacobo
Arbenz (sp) was overthrown, under the auspices incidentally of
fighting communism, Jacobo Arbenz had made it very clear when he
took office in Guatemala that what he sought to do was to bring
Guatemala up as a modern capitalist democracy. He sought simply to
eliminate Guatemala as a feudal society, which was what it was, and
to bring it into the 20th century as an upbeat, upper-middle-class
capitalist country and he was explicitly capitalist but because
that would have threatened the profit margins of United Fruit and
other corporations who benefited from the feudal conditions in
Guatemala, he was deemed a communist and overthrown under that
rationalization. Because John Kennedy refused to follow U.S.
national security policy in a number of areas such as Vietnam,
Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, and Guatemala, all of which
had coups or attempted coups, Kennedy refused to go along with
those coups, it was deemed necessary in the eyes of the powers that
be in this country to eliminate, to use the same kind of deadly
force at home that they had long been using abroad.

If you sit back and take a look at what happened to the progressive
political leadership in the United States over the 1960s and '70s,
thinking about progressive leaders ranging from political liberals
like John and Robert Kennedy, all the way on over to people who
would be classified on the political left, such as members of the
Black Panthers or perhaps Malcolm X. What happened, for example to
Medgar Evers (sp), field secretary of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People--shot to death in 1963. What
happened to president John F. Kennedy--shot to death in 1963. What
happened to Malcolm X--shot to death in 1965. What happened to
Martin Luther King--shot to death in 1968. What happened to Robert
Kennedy--shot to death in 1968. What happened to Fred Hampton, a
very prominent member of the Black Panthers who had been very
successful in organizing a free breakfast and lunch program for
ghetto school children in Chicago--shot to death in 1969. What
happened to Jonathan and George Jackson, the two members of the so-
called Soledad Brothers--shot to death in 1970, I believe, and 1971
respectively. I may be wrong about the dates. What happened to
Faye Stender (sp) who was George Jackson's attorney--shot and
critically wounded and permanently disabled in 1979. What happened
to George Mosconi, the liberal mayor of San Francisco--shot to
death in 1978. What happened to Harvey Milk, the first gay city
councilman in San Francisco--shot to death in 1978.

Well, at a certain point, you would begin to think that people
would catch on to what was going on in this country. Apparently,
though, Americans have chosen to ignore the obvious and because we
have chosen as a people to ignore the obvious, we are now faced
with exactly what the German and Japanese people and ultimately the
whole world were faced with after far too many of them ignored the
assassination programs in Japan and Germany. And those
assassination programs led directly to the rise of fascism in those
countries and the rise of fascism led directly to the second World
War with all its attendant horrors.

We here in this country have ignored a similar process and this
evening, by way of helping to raise support for KFJC, and by way of
helping to document a critical element of American history, we are
going to be observing Black History Month by discussing the
assassinations of Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, arguably the
greatest black leaders in American history. We should remember as
we listen to the accounting of events this evening that these are
not things which took place in the past. The same forces which
destroyed Martin Luther King and Malcolm X are with us today and
they are still operating in the same fashion. Leaving aside for
the moment the bombing in New York City on Friday and during the
question and answer session, I would be more than willing to
entertain whatever questions you have. It should be noted that  in
1991 we had a chilling reminder that a political assassination in
America is not a past activity when journalist Daniel Casalero (sp)
was found, supposedly a suicide, in Martinsburg, West Virginia, in
his hotel room.

Danny Casalero had been investigating many of the same elements
that I talk about on One Step Beyond, that I talk about in my
lectures and he had come very close to unearthing some critical
information about the intersecting activities of a number of
different national security institutions. He had been warned that
his activities could get him killed. He had been getting death
threats for quite some time. After, after Danny Casalero was
clinically determined to have been dead, many hours afterward, his
housekeeper got a phone call in which an unidentified male caller
said "You're dead, you son of a bitch" and hung up. When the truth
eventually came out, it was learned that not only did Danny
Casalero have a number of bruises that had not been reported
initially, but that three of his fingernails had been pulled out
and that yet, most of the institutions in this society, including
a lot of so-called progressive media organizations and individuals
labeled Danny Casalero a suicide. Well, that is one hell of a
suicide. Three fingernails pulled out suggests much more like
Danny Casalero prior to being murdered had been tortured.

So, as I indicated at the beginning of the talk tonight, sooner or
later what goes around comes around and as we observe the closing
of February which is Black History Month, remember that what
eventually came around for Martin Luther King and Malcolm X is
going to be coming around for many of us sooner or later.

Now, to begin, I am going to discuss the assassination of Martin
Luther King and eventually we will move on to Malcolm X. With the
Spike Lee film about Malcolm X still somewhat in the public eye,
Malcolm's assassination has received more attention than it has
received in the past, there's a very good book out called *The
Judas Factor* by a fellow named Carl Evanzz, which in my opinion is
the best work done to date on the assassination of Malcolm X. Much
of the information that I am going to be presenting about the
Malcolm X killing this evening comes from that book. It is
currently available. It is put out by Thunder's Mouth Press and I
strongly recommend it to any and all interested parties.

Now the best hard information about what actually did happen vis-a-
vis the assassination of Martin Luther King and what I am going to
be talking about this evening is also what didn't happen, namely
Martin Luther King was not killed by James Earl Ray, who was a poor
dumb cracker who couldn't knock off a liquor store in Missouri
without getting caught and yet he supposedly assassinated one of
the most famous people in the world and conducted a very
sophisticated and largely successful international flight using
techniques that would be available in all likelihood only to an
experienced intelligence agent with considerably more resources at
his disposal than James Earl Ray had. I am going to be talking
about how history has come to accept what I guess we could call the
32-blows-to-the-head version, the suicide version, of Martin Luther
King's assassination. Namely that some poor dumb cracker, again
another lone nut named James Earl Ray, shot Martin Luther King.
James Earl Ray not only didn't act alone to kill Martin Luther
King, James Earl Ray did not act at all and I am going to be
talking about how he came to be framed for the killing.

The best account, though, of what did happen in the assassination
of Martin Luther King, comes from a fellow named Robert Byron
Watson. Watson was an employee at the Magellan Art Gallery in
Atlanta, Georgia and while at that art gallery, he learned
information about a drug and gold smuggling ring that was being
operated by a faction of U.S. intelligence using the Magellan Art
Gallery as its operational base. This particular ring, again,
operated on behalf of a faction of U.S. intelligence and they were
smuggling drugs out of Southeast Asia in hollowed-out teak logs.
They were also doing a great deal of gold smuggling as well.
Watson overheard these individuals discussing the upcoming
assassination of Martin Luther King. He also heard them discussing
what happened vis-a-vis the King assassination afterward and he
presented his information to law enforcement authorities despite
considerable pressure that was brought to bear both on him and his
mother. Both Watson and his mother were threatened by death, both
before and after the actual assassination of Martin Luther King.
Robert Byron Watson then went ahead and submitted his affidavit.
Law enforcement, to the extent that it was pursued, found it to be
accurate, yet they never were able to act on it past a point. The
main names associated with this particular gold and drug smuggling
ring, and again bear in mind this was operated on behalf of U.S.
intelligence, one of the main names was that of former Georgia
congressman Larry McDonald, a national head of the John Birch
Society, also a head of a private right-wing intelligence
organization called Western Goals. Larry McDonald is perhaps best
known for having gone down on the Korean Airlines flight 007 which
went down under mysterious circumstances over the Soviet Union in
September of 1983. That incident one of the more dramatic
incidents of the cold war in the early 1980s. In addition to that
of Larry McDonald, another important name associated with this drug
and gold smuggling ring was that of Faud Habash (sp). Faud Habash
is the brother of George Habash, one of the best known Palestinian
leaders and the head of the Popular Front for the Liberation of
Palestine. Not, by the way, the Popular Front for the Liberation
of Palestine General Command, elements of which have been
implicated in the bombing of PanAm 103. They are distinct
organizations. Habash, himself, has very strong connections,
George Habash that is, to the fascist Third Position. He also has
very strong operational links to U.S. intelligence and while there
was a Soviet intelligence, he also had operational links to the
Soviets, as well. An interesting fellow. His brother was one of
the main functionaries in this drug and gold smuggling ring that
was involved at the operational level in the assassination of
Martin Luther King.

Now the other name that we want to know vis-a-vis this drug and
gold smuggling ring, and again these were the actual gunsuls, these
were the um-de-nam (sp), these were the hands-on individuals, the
hurt-ya kind of guys who were involved in killing Dr. King
according to Robert Byron Watson and other independent
investigations. Among the people involved with this organization
was a fellow who used the name Herman Jackson. That was the name
he used when working on behalf of this drug smuggling ring. His
actual name, or at least as far as we have able to tell, was a
fellow named Jack Youngblood. Jack Youngblood was a longtime U.S
intelligencer. He had worked with, among others, Frank Fiorini, who
later changed his name to Frank Sturgis and became known as one of
the Watergate burglars. He worked directly with Frank Fiorini in
the 1954 coup that overthrew Otto Benz in Guatemala. He then, like
Frank Fiorini, aka Frank Sturgis, went to work for other U.S.
intelligence operations and apparently one of those operations was
the assassination of Martin Luther King.

Now, James Earl Ray, the patsy for the assassination, who by the
way was never actually convicted in a trial per se, he confessed to
the assassination of Martin Luther King and then later reversed his
confession. But James Earl Ray was offered a lot of money, now
bear in mind this was a poor individual, an individual who had no
money, a lengthy criminal record, and basically stood more to gain
from pleading guilty than he did from remaining innocent, but he
agreed to plead guilty in exchange for a large portion of the
rights to a book offered by a fellow named William Bradford Huie.

Huie wrote a book called *He Slew the Dreamer*. He coughed up a
large section of the proceeds for thatbook and that was basically
James Earl Ray's incentive for pleading guilty. Later when Ray
reversed his guilty plea and began to spill the beans about what
really happened, Ray said that he had been trafficked around by a
mysterious individual that he met called Raoul. And Raoul, he
identified, interestingly enough as being part of a smuggling ring.
He never knew who they were connected with, but one of his main
jobs had been to help smuggle arms across the Canadian/American and
Mexican/American borders in conjunction with Raoul who was his
contact. It would appear in this regard that Ray was being
manipulated and set up to be a patsy by Raoul, who was in all
probability was acting in behalf of some faction of U.S.
intelligence, if not in fact the same gold and drug smuggling ring
that Robert Byron Watson had identified. Raoul was the individual
who told James Earl Ray where to go and what to do and appears to
have basically been his intelligence handler.

Law enforcement authorities have checked out Robert Byron Watson's
claims to a considerable extent. They have found them credible,
yet this has never resulted in any kind of serious investigation
beyond the lick-and-a-promise that the Robert Byron Watson
affidavit was given by law enforcement.

To this day, it remains the end of the trail, so to speak, of the
hard investigative pathway into Martin Luther King's assassination.

Now, Jack Youngblood's name also crops up in addition to the Robert
Byron Watson affidavit, Jack Youngblood's name crops up in
connection with the assassination of Martin Luther King because the
actual shooter, and I am going to talk about the framing of James
Earl Ray, but the actual shooter in the Martin Luther King
assassination, appears to have been an individual who has become
known in the literature as the "Eggs and Sausages" man. Now there
was a cafe near the rooming house that James Earl Ray supposedly
was living, well he was living there--at least he was booked there.
Near the rooming house from which James Earl Ray supposedly fired
the shot that killed Martin Luther King, there was a cafe called
Jowers' Cafe. It was run by a fellow named Lloyd Jowers and for
some time prior to the assassination of Martin Luther King, an
individual who had previously not been a regular at Jowers' Cafe,
and generally the clientele there was composed of regulars, this
was an individual who had not been seen there before and began
showing up shortly before the assassination of Martin Luther King,
and he always ordered eggs and sausages. He became known as a
result as the "eggs and sausages man" and has gone down in history
as such.

One day this strange individual came in and sat down and placed his
usual order, namely eggs and sausages, he finished his order, paid
his tab, and then went outside and shortly after he went outside,
the patrons of Jowers Cafe heard an enormous explosion like the
report of a high-powered rifle. Later, the "eggs and sausages man"
was picked up by police because the members of the clientele of
Jowers' Cafe id'd this individual as the "eggs and sausages" man.
He never, however, was booked on suspicion of having killed Martin
Luther King, as a Memphis journalist named Wayne Chastain (sp), who
wrote for the Memphis Press Scimitar noted when he interviewed the
individuals at the prison. The individual in question, the "eggs
and sausages" man, made one call to a party or parties unknown and
was released by the Memphis police without any questioning
whatsoever. As the individual noted, he must have some powerful
connections to be able to just walk out of jail free like that.
Later, an individual who identified himself as Jack Youngblood, and
who also identified himself as a long-time U.S. intelligence
operative, and incidentally an individual operating out of Denver,
Colorado, he sought out Wayne Chastain, again of the Memphis Press
Scimitar, and expressed the fear that he might be mistaken for the
individual who assassinated Martin Luther King and said that the
actual assassin was his Denver, Colorado roommate.

When shown pictures, and by the way, that is about where the "eggs
and sausages" man's trail leads off, when shown pictures of Jack
Youngblood, James Earl Ray identified him as an individual that he
had seen trailing him for several days prior to the assassination
of Martin Luther King. There are a number of other indications
that James Earl Ray and Martin Luther King were maneuvered into
place and that the assassination was set up in advance by the
authorities. The place where Martin Luther King was staying was
supposed to have been a secret. Eventually it came out courtesy of
the FBI. Now the FBI had at this time been not only monitoring
Martin Luther King very closely, but it had been for some time
engaged in a counterintelligence program against black activist
groups ranging from militant black-power activists, all the way
through mainstream civil rights activists, this intelligence
program became known as the COINTELPRO program, short for
counterintelligence. It was also utilized against elements of the
anti-Vietnam War movement as well.

When FBI people learned that Martin Luther King was going to be
staying at a white-owned business in Memphis, Tennessee where he
had gone to help negotiate a strike between largely-black
sanitation workers and the city of Memphis, the FBI leaked the
information to the press about the fact that Martin Luther King was
going to be staying at a white-owned business. This obviously was
bad PR for Martin Luther King and so his reservations were then
switched to the black-owned Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee,
and that information was published in the Memphis press so it
became a matter of public record to anyone who would or wanted to
read a newspaper as to where Martin Luther King was going to be
staying in Memphis, Tennessee.

Prior to Martin Luther King's arrival, a mysterious individual
showed up at the Lorraine Motel, identified himself a "an advance
man" for Martin Luther King and when noting where Dr. King was
scheduled to book into, he said, "Oh, no this won't do. Dr. King
always likes to have a room on the second floor overlooking the
swimming pool". It was from just such a room to which he was
switched that Martin Luther King was ambushed and I will talk more
about the physical circumstances in a couple of minutes.

Suffice it to say that one of the employees of the motel voiced the
opinion at the time that this individual was not a black man at
all, but rather a white man wearing black-face makeup. It should
be noted that it later came out that among the many stratagems used
by U.S. intelligence at the operational level to disrupt both the
black-power movement and the antiwar movement was the utilization
of white men in black-face, basically to simulate black people to
perform acts either of stealth intelligence or acts of provocation
which would them discredit blacks because they would be taken as
being black people. Whatever the true situation vis-a-vis the
advance man, it certainly was not Dr. King's advance man because
Dr. King very simply did not use advance men at all.

Eye witnesses to Dr. King's assassination, both people who were on
the street and people who were with Dr. King on the balcony of his
second floor motel room, and it was on that balcony that Dr. King
walked out onto to talk to his chauffeur, who was on the ground,
and it was in that position that he was assassinated. Eye
witnesses to the assassination believed that the shot was not fired
from the second floor of the rooming house that James Earl Ray was
staying at, but rather was fired from ground level.

This was described  both by people who were sitting near a clump of
bushes underneath the window on the second floor that James Earl
Ray supposedly used to shoot Martin Luther King, also people
standing both on the ground looking up at Dr. King, such as his
chauffeur, and people on the balcony with Dr. King testified that
he appeared, Dr. King that is, appears to have been lifted
physically off of the ground. The shot caught him in the neck and
traveled upwards back through the back of Dr. King's head. The
bullet was travelling upward rather that across or downward as it
would have been had it been fired from a second floor window which
James Earl Ray supposedly did.

At James Earl Ray's trial, incidentally, a former FBI ballistics
expert named Hubert McConnell (sp) testified that for James Earl
Ray to have fired the shot from the position he supposedly fired
the shot, the butt of his rifle would have to had stuck 6 inches
into the wall. I'll leave it to your discretion as to whether you
think James Earl Ray actually did that or whether perhaps he was
set up. The prosecution then replied to the testimony of Hubert
McConnell by stating that James Earl Ray twisted himself into a
contorted position around the bathtub and that was how he was able
to fire the shot that he supposedly fired to kill Martin Luther
King.

Now the "evidence" implicating James Earl Ray is about as flimsy as
anything could possibly be. A rifle was found wrapped in a blanket
on the ground floor outside the rooming house where James Earl Ray
was staying. It was not actually found where James Earl Ray
supposedly fired the shot. The rifle has never been absolutely
traced to James Earl Ray. Ray claims that he was being followed
around and that this rifle was probably left by Raoul or by Jack
Youngblood, the individual he identified as following him around.
But, the only "evidence" that has ever been cited or ever been
mobilized in order to link James Earl Ray with the crime that he
supposedly committed, was the "testimony" of a fellow named Charles
Q. Stevens (sp). Charles Q. Stevens was a career drunkard and a
doctrinaire racist who was also a tenant at the rooming house that
James Earl Ray was staying in where he supposedly killed Martin
Luther King. A cab driver who had been called to the rooming house
to pick up Charles Q. Stevens testified that Charles Q. Stevens was
too drunk to be taken out in his cab and that he was actually
passed out and had to be awakened from a couch. This was at the
time that he was supposedly id'ing James Earl Ray. For two days
after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Charles Q. Stevens
did not identify James Earl Ray as having been the assassin of
Martin Luther King. On the contrary, he issued a number of
statements to various people which have been cross-verified that
"I'd never testify against the man who killed Martin Luther Koon,
even if it were a nigger who had done it".

Basically, he was saying for 48 hours that a black man had killed
Martin Luther King and that he would not id him in any case because
he hated Martin Luther King too much. However, eventually the FBI
began to baby-sit Charles Q. Stevens. They footed some $30,000 in
bar tabs for Charles Q. Stevens. This was in 1968 and this was an
individual who had a career rap sheet of some 130 some-odd arrests
for public drunkenness. The FBI then paid for $30,000 in bar tabs
for Charles Q. Stevens and whether it was perhaps a refreshment of
memory or perhaps the pliant effects of all that liquor,
miraculously, eventually Charles Q. Stevens changed his testimony
and said yes, by God, he could identify James Earl Ray as the
individual who was running down the hall and had shot Martin Luther
King. That is the only witness ever cited to link Ray with the
place from which he supposedly slew Dr. King. The only one.

And, again, $30,000 in bar tabs in 1968 was a lot of booze. A
dollar was worth a lot more then than it is now and $30,000 in bar
tabs is a considerable amount of booze today and this again for an
individual with a career rap sheet of some 130-odd arrests for
public drunkenness. His, that is to say, Charles Q. Stevens'
common-law wife, a woman named Grace Walden or Grace Stevens, about
whom I'll have more to say in a little bit, has contradicted the
testimony of Charles Q. Stevens. She has stated that she indeed
did see an individual wearing a khaki field jacket running down the
hall of the rooming hall after she heard the shot but that it was
not James Earl Ray that in fact it was a man considerably shorter
than James Earl Ray. She saw the man, her common-law husband was
passed out on a couch drunk when a cab driver was called to pick
him up, went to pick him up, and it was Grace Stevens or Grace
Walden who said that no indeed it was not James Earl Ray who was
running down the hall of that motel room. We are going to talk
about what happened to her in just a minute.

It should be noted that the summer after Martin Luther King was
killed, his brother was drowned under suspicious circumstances in
the swimming pool of his home. A neighbor recalls hearing someone
scream and heard splashing and then silence and that eliminated Dr.
King's brother. A couple of years later, his mother was shot and
killed as well by some lone nut who went walking into a church and
blew away his mother for reasons that have never been
satisfactorily explained. Suffice it to say that two of the people
closest to Martin Luther King were also dead under strange or
downright hostile circumstances within a short time of Dr. King
having been assassinated. And bear in mind that King was
assassinated at a period in time in which it is a matter of public
record that of the U.S. national security establishment or elements
thereof, notably the FBI, were actively engaged in a frustrating of
the civil rights and black power, and anti-Vietnam war movements as
a matter of public record.

We are going to talk about the cover-up and how that was effected
in just a couple of minutes, but one of the main things to
understand too as we examine what is obviously fallacious history,
and history has recorded it that James Earl Ray killed Martin
Luther King. One of the interesting things about James Earl Ray's
situation is the individuals who have represented James Earl Ray
over the years. Now, James Earl Ray's first attorney was a fellow
named Arthur Haynes (sp), specifically Arthur Haynes, Sr., because
there is also an Arthur Haynes, Jr.

Arthur Haynes had been the mayor of Birmingham, Alabama in the
early 1960s. He was a former FBI agent and former CIA contract
agent who not only was not sympathetic to Dr. Martin Luther King,
but who had viewed the American black civil rights movement as a
communist conspiracy, in that regard, his views coincided very
closely with to the views of, among others, J. Edgar Hoover,
America's best-known, though not necessarily best-loved closet
queen at the time. Now, again, note that Arthur Haynes, a "former"
FBI agent believed that the American black civil rights movement
was a communist conspiracy. He also had been involved in the Bay
of Pigs invasion as a CIA contract agent. Now, I should note that
a contract agent is not an agent who does "contracts', i.e.,
assassinations in mob parlance. A contract agent is an individual
who goes to work for the CIA for a particular purpose as opposed to
a career operative. He literally signs a contract to do this,
that, or the other thing and he does it. The concept of him
eventually severing contacts with the agency is a dubious one.
Arthur Haynes, Arthur Haynes, Sr., I should say, was a member of
the Alabama Air National Guard, which in the early 1960s, and
specifically in 1960 and 1961 was one of the only American air unit
still utilizing the B-26 Marauder bomber. That was a World War Two
propeller driven medium bomber which was utilized for the Bay of
Pigs invasion by the CIA. A number of B-26s were outfitted with
large numbers of 50 caliber machine guns so they could by used
against ground targets in support of the Bay of Pigs invasion and
Arthur Haynes was used by the CIA to train pilots, Cuban exiles, to
fly the B-26s which provided the air support for the Bay of Pigs
invasion.

Arthur Haynes pursued his avid, or he activated I should say, his
deep hatred for the civil rights movement in the 1960s. He was
noted for having unleashed John "Bull" Connor, the brutal sheriff
of Birmingham, Alabama on civil rights demonstrators in the early
60s. "Bull" Connor unleashed fire hoses and police dogs on civil
rights demonstrators and much of the footage that you will see from
that time period of civil rights demonstrators being hosed down and
being beaten and attacked by police dogs comes from Birmingham,
Alabama and the individuals who were meting out the punishment are
the deputies of John "Bull" Connor, who was sheriff of Birmingham
and he in turn was acting on behalf of Arthur Haynes, Sr., the
first attorney representing James Earl Ray. Arthur Haynes also,
incidentally, was the defense counsel for four Ku Klux Klansmen who
were eventually convicted of the 16th Street Baptist Church
bombing. The 16th Street Baptist Church bombing was one of the
most notorious incidents of violence in the civil rights struggle
in the South in the early 60s. A very powerful bomb went off in a
church in Birmingham, Alabama on a Sunday morning, killing four
young black girls and injuring a number of other people. The crime
outraged the public as a whole. Eventually, four Ku Klux Klansmen
were convicted of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing, their
defense counsel for quite some time was Arthur Haynes, Sr. Later,
they were represented by Arthur Haynes, Jr., his son, who turned
out to be a chip off the old blockhead, so to speak, and basically
continued to activate the sort of racist viewpoints which Arthur
Haynes, Sr. had held and put into effect.

After Arthur Haynes, Sr. had represented James Earl Ray, James Earl
Ray was represented by a Texas attorney named Percy Foreman, who
had previously represented among others, Jack Ruby, for a short
period of time. One of a number of evidenciary tributaries which
connect the various American political assassinations and attempted
assassinations of the early 60s and 1970s.

Now following Percy Foreman's resignation, the next attorney who
represented James Earl Ray was a fellow named Jesse B. Stoner, or
JB Stoner as he was usually called. JB Stoner was the head of the
National States Rights party, which was a doctrinaire racist and
fascist political party which had most of its strength in the south
and its main plank or the main plank in its political platform was
its diehard opposition to the black civil rights. Incidentally,
there was, now bear in mind that this guy was representing James
Earl Ray, none of these individuals, we can certainly say that
Arthur Haynes and JB Stoner would be two of the last individuals
who would like to see the truth brought out concerning any
possibility of a conspiracy behind the assassination of America's
foremost civil rights leader. By the way, we should note that Dr.
King's assassination came in a time period in which he was turning
much of his attention from the civil rights movement per se to
active opposition to the United States' war and involvement in
Vietnam. This is worth noting because as we compare some of the
strategic circumstances in the assassinations of Martin Luther King
and Malcolm X, it is to be noted that the careers of both men were
taking very sharp turns and they had both undertaken some very
significant and radical departures from their past political
activities. In the case of Dr. King, he was moving to anti-Vietnam
war activism, activism vis-a-vis American foreign and military
policy as opposed to just civil rights and in the case of Malcolm
X as we will get to in a short period of time, Malcolm X had
dramatically changed his viewpoints as well. He had broken very
sharply with the Nation of Islam, the so-called Black Muslims, over
a number of things, and we will talk about that. He had notably,
radically changed his opinions concerning the viability of black
people and white people working together for social justice. One
of the main ideological tenets of the Nation of Islam under Elijah
Muhammed had been that black people should not work with white
people in a political context and indeed the Nation of Islam itself
was largely kept from overt political activities, fund-raising
being a notable exception.

Dr. King, again, was cut down and among the people representing the
guy who supposedly killed him was Arthur Haynes, a man with
documented connections to the intelligence community and a well
documented hatred of black people and an active self-congratulatory
racism, so to speak, Jesse Stoner even more so. Jesse Stoner was
the head of an explicitly racist and fascist political party,
again, the National States Rights Party.

Now interestingly enough, on November 10th, 1963, twelve days
before the assassination of president Kennedy, a Georgia-based
representative of the National States Rights Party, a fellow named
Joseph Adams Miltier (sp) was taped by an undercover Miami police
informant who was basically wearing a "wire". In this
conversation, and again Miltier was a representative of the NSRP
headed up by James Earl Ray defense counsel JB Stoner. Miltier
described a couple of things, actually he described three things of
note for us under the circumstances. First of all, he described a
plan to assassinate John Kennedy by ambushing him from a high-rise
office building using a high-powered rifle. This on November 10th,
1963. He also described plans to do the same thing to Martin
Luther King and he linked both of these incipient assassinations,
both of which later came to be under circumstances remarkably
similar to those described by Joseph Adams Miltier on November
10th. He also linked both crimes with the 16th Street Baptist
Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963. And it was the
people convicted of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing who were
represented by Arthur Haynes, Sr. and it was Arthur Haynes, Sr.
again who was James Earl Ray's first defense counsel. Now
obviously evidenciary tributaries running between the
assassinations of John Kennedy and Martin Luther King such as those
do not automatically prove that both assassinations were the
results of the activities of the same forces. There are such
things as coincidences and some of the evidenciary tributaries
connecting our political assassinations may be just that. They may
be coincidental. Yet, at the same time, I think you would have to
be an idiot to assume that all of them are coincidental.

The last attorney for James Earl Ray, at least as of this time,
is to my way of thinking the most interesting of all and that was
an individual named Mark Lane, who has become very well known for
his supposed investigations into assassinations. Now Mark Lane
has written about the assassinations of John Kennedy and Martin
Luther King and he has correctly linked both with the U.S.
intelligence operate, however, he has also refused to go as far
into either investigation as the public record itself already
reveals. Why Mark Lane chooses to pull punches remains a matter
of conjecture but it should be noted that Mark Lane has stopped
far short in his various books, and *Rush to Judgement*, by the
way, his first book on the John Kennedy assassination, is one of
the better early Warren Commission critiques, but Mark Lane
himself has stopped far short of the public record, what can be
reliably placed on the public record in his writings about the
assassinations of both John Kennedy and Martin Luther King.
Significantly, Mark Lane became, eventually, an attorney for the
Liberty Lobby. The Liberty Lobby is an explicitly anti-semitic
{1} and pro-Nazi right wing organization in this country, best
known for publishing a newspaper which, disturbingly at least to
me, is growing in popularity. That newspaper is called "The
Spotlight", and if you haven't come across it yet, you will
probably will at some point in the not-too-distant future. "The
Spotlight" does publish some good articles, which is disturbing
because some of the good reportage in "The Spotlight" is then
juxtaposed alongside "No Holocaust" theory and other original, if
not terribly substantive, journalistic and historical viewpoints,
and I am afraid it may give some of those viewpoints historical
credibility as a result.

The founder of the Liberty Lobby is a fellow named Willis Carto,
who has been quite explicit about the fact that not only did
the Holocaust not happen, but that the United States was on the
wrong side in World War II. And it was Mark Lane who was among the
defense counsels for the Liberty Lobby. Interestingly enough, at
the same time that Mark Lane was representing James Earl Ray, he
also was the attorney representing "The People's Temple" of the
Reverend Jim Jones.

Now the People's Temple appears to have been a U.S. intelligence
operation. There are a number of indications concerning that, as
ridiculous as that will seem to some people, I refer interested
listeners to Radio Free America programs #6, Radio Free America #7.
RFA #8 also talks about some of the connections that I am going to
be detailing this evening. I also refer listeners to a
miscellaneous archive show dealing with Dan White, Jonestown, and
the Mosconi-Milk killings.

---------------------------<< Notes >>---------------------------
{1} Regarding Emory's claim that *The Spotlight* is anti-semitic:
it seems to me that people often confuse being critical of Israel
with being anti-semitic. As a regular reader of *The Spotlight*,
I do not recall ever reading anti-semitic articles. This also
goes for Emory's claim that *The Spotlight* is pro-Nazi: I
personally find this particular claim to be questionable.


Tape One Side 2

In the first place, one of the major intelligence connections to
Jonestown concerns the Layton family, and if I seem to be getting
a little bit far afield, I am going to be tying Jonestown and the
People's Temple massacre in Guiana with circumstances surrounding
the investigation into the assassination of Martin Luther King, so
bear with me for a short period of time.

Now, one of the main connections we want to know vis-a-vis
Jonestown, is the Layton family. Now the Layton family were
inextricably linked with the People's Temple. In the first place,
Dr. Lawrence Layton, Sr. was one of the main financial contributors
to Jonestown and Dr. Lawrence Layton, Sr. had previously been in
charge of research and development for the United States Army's
Dugway proving ground, one of the top chemical and biological
warfare research centers for the United States Army. He had also
held a key position in the U.S. Navy's rocketry fuel development
program in Maryland and the family itself was very prominent, a
prominent southern family who had had ancestors fighting for the
Confederate Army and the Layton family had a number of interesting
connections to the national security establishment. The most
interesting being Lawrence Layton, Sr.

Now Lawrence Layton, Sr. had a number of children. Lawrence
Layton, Jr. was one of them and it was Larry Layton, Jr. who led
the firing squad which executed Representative Leo Ryan and others.
Congressman Leo Ryan and a number of other people at the Port
Kituma (sp) airstrip in Guiana. His sister was named Debra Layton
Blakey (sp) and she was married to a fellow named George Phillip
Blakey. George Phillip Blakey had been the individual who placed
the down payment on the property in Guiana which was purchased by
Jim Jones and the People's Temple. He had previously been a
contract agent for the Central Intelligence Agency in Angola where
the CIA was conducting a massive covert operation and the evidence
suggests that among the purposes of Jonestown was the training of
black Brazilian mercenaries to fight for the CIA in Angola.

Brazil has a large black population, Portuguese is the native
tongue of Brazil as it is in Angola. Both of them were formerly
Portuguese colonies. A large number of black mercenaries were
trained for the Angolan operation. Jonestown and George Phillip
Blakey appear to have been two of the main connections involved
with that training.

The CIA chief-of-mission, a fellow named Richard Dwyer was present
at the massacre at Jonestown. In fact, Jim Jones can be heard on
a tape shouting "get Dwyer out of here, get Dwyer out of here".
Again the Dwyer that Jim Jones was referring to as the massacre was
occurring was Richard Dwyer, CIA chief-of-station for Guiana. By
the way, it should be noted that the People's Temple members at
Jonestown had been very active on behalf of president Forbes
Burnham (sp) of Guiana, or perhaps it is prime minister, I am not
sure which. Anyway, Forbes Burnham was the head of state of Guiana
and was a CIA protege, quite openly. The People's Temple worked on
behalf of Forbes Burnham in Guiana. It is also believed by many
and I subscribe to this viewpoint, that among the motivations for
the establishment of Jonestown was that Jonestown was being used as
an extension of the CIA's mind-control programs that I discussed in
Radio Free America shows five, six, and seven, as well as several
miscellaneous archive shows. The people at the Jonestown site had
a huge and very sophisticated hospital, at least for such a small
community and the people there were given a medical examination
every day. Large numbers of psychiatric drugs were found at the
Jonestown site and if you look at photographs that came out of the
People's Temple massacre, supposedly it was a mass suicide, but Dr.
Moto (sp), the chief medical examiner who oversaw the
investigation, Dr. Moto has testified that most of the people were
killed either by injection or by gunshot. They were murdered, they
did not commit suicide. If you look at the photographs at the
massacre site, not only will you find that most of the bodies are
face down. Whereas people are dying of cyanide poisoning, they are
going to die under more or less random positions. Some are going
to be face up, some face down, some on their side. The vast
majority of them, not all of them, but the vast majority of them
are face down. Beyond that, you will find that most of the ones
that are visible in the clear photographs have identification tags
either around their wrists or ankle or both, similar to the id tags
that are used to identify patients in hospitals. I would also note
that the military commander of the U.S. troops that were involved
in investigating or getting the bodies out of Jonestown, he has
testified that he was called by Robert Pastor, who was Zbigniew
Bryzinski's (sp) top aide on the National Security Council and was
ordered directly to stop identifying the bodies at Jonestown and
that is a very unusual thing, particularly when taken in light of
the other activities at the People's Temple.

I would note too, that Leo Ryan, who was killed at Jonestown when
he went down to investigate the People's Temple, Leo Ryan had been
coauthor of the Hughes-Ryan amendment which obliged the CIA to give
congress prior notification of covert operations, something the CIA
was not particularly crazy about. One of the most interesting
aspects of Jonestown concerns the bodies themselves and the number
of people that were found there.

Initially, the news reports described the People's Temple
encampment at Jonestown as having 1100 people. There were
references to 1100 American passports that belonged to people who
went down to Jonestown. Then after the massacre, the number 900
began to get kicked around, 200 suddenly dropped off. It is the
opinion of many that those 200 were the elite guard that surrounded
Jim Jones. Although the People's Temple was overwhelmingly black,
all of Jones top lieutenants, between 120 and 200 of them, were
almost all white. Not exclusively, but almost all of them. It is
the opinion of many that have studied the Jonestown situation
critically that the People's Temple leadership, the all-white
leadership of this predominantly black organization were the
passports that immediately dropped from view when news of the
massacre first hit the American media.

I would encourage people that are sceptical about some of the
things I am saying to go back to the newspaper accounts at the
time. The People's Temple massacre happened on November 18th,
1978. That was a Saturday night and for some four or five days the
American newspapers, such as the New York Times, our newspaper of
record, all the major dailies were saying that the authorities in
Guiana could account for 400 bodies and there was widespread
speculation about what had happened to the other 500 bodies. Now,
again, initially there was a description of 1100 passports for
passageto Jonestown. That dropped by 200 and for four or five
days, the media were engaging in speculation about where the other
500 people were. After some four or five days, and the military
commander at Jonestown has testified that he was ordered to stop
identifying the bodies at Jonestown, after four or five days the
media suddenly accepted the official version which was that they
had figured out where the missing 500 bodies were. They were
really under the other 400 the whole time, they just hadn't been
noticed. You know, it sounds funny, but this is the actual
official explanation: After four or five days of turning bodies
over, they said "Oh, here are those other 500 bodies we couldn't
find, they were under the first 400 all along, we just didn't
notice". This is the actual official explanation, of course. The
problem is people don't pay much attention to public news events in
this country. Roughly three percent of the American people read
newspapers, 15% of the American people read books, 97% of the
American now list the television as their primary information
source and interestingly enough, the American people read an
average of one book per person per lifetime. That is an average.
So, the absurd, no it is true, it is kind of depressing, too.
Which means you have got somebody like myself who has read hundreds
of books, that averages out to an awful lot of dumbkopfs who
haven't read any because it is an average of one book per person
per lifetime in the United States and that's not too good. All you
see on television is an image, you get an image. Reading permits
the simultaneous integration of concepts and I think it is a sad
thing that we have turned away from the printed word and one of the
things that I try to do on my broadcasts is to perhaps forge an
effective synthesis between the electronic media and the printed
word. But, suffice it to say that is the version of Jonestown that
has gone down in history, namely that the other 500 bodies, no
mention about the other 200 who just disappeared, they were under
the first 400 all along, but "we just didn't notice". And again,
go back and look at the pictures of the People's Temple massacre
site where you can damn bloody-well see that there aren't some 500
bodies under the other 400. It is quite evident that this was not
the case.

People have speculated, and again we do not have the definitive
answer, people have speculated that what was going on was that a
lot of people had run away from the massacre site and were being
hunted down, killed, and brought back to the site. We will never
know for sure, but it is a cinch that the other 500 bodies were not
just hidden under the first 400 for four or five days.

Now interestingly enough, it was reported that there was a death
squad associated with the People's Temple, that the people who had
been enemies of the People's Temple would be disposed of by a
People's Temple death squad which had been put together and
survived the massacre. It should also be noted that a number of
People's Temple dissidents, disaffected members, died under strange
circumstances, automobile accidents, etc., prior to the move down
to Guiana. It should be noted that although there has always been
an official disclaimer that a People's Temple death squad existed,
there are some interesting pieces of information that perhaps that
analysis was premature. The first person on the People's Temple
death list, the first individual to be disposed of, by the People's
Temple was mayor George Mosconi of San Francisco, who was shot to
death nine days after the People's Temple massacre. George
Mosconi's campaign in San Francisco had been liberally aided by
People's Temple members. Jim Jones had been named by George
Mosconi as head of the San Francisco Housing Authority and it
should be noted that Harvey Milk also had his campaign liberally
assisted by the People's Temple. Harvey Milk was also disposed of,
obviously, by Dan White, who many feel may have been a programmed
assassin. I personally subscribe to that theory and we can talk
about Dan White if you like during the question and answer session,
but again, despite official denials of the existence of a People's
Temple death squad, the first individual on the People's Temple hit
list, was shot dead nine days after the massacre. Number Two on
the People's Temple hit list was a woman named Jeannie Mills, who
along with her husband, Al Mills, wrote a book, she was a former
People's Temple aide who wrote a book called *My Six Years With
God*, which was fiercely critical of the People's Temple. And Jim
Jones had placed her name right behind that of George Mosconi on
the People's Temple hit list.

In the summer of 1979, some nine or ten months after the Jonestown
massacre, Jeannie Mills, her husband Al, and her daughter were
found shot to death in their Berkeley home. The police were seen
carrying a bullet-riddled door out of the home. Their son, who was
watching television in another room, never even heard any shots,
suggesting either that he was drugged and/or perhaps that silenced
weapons were utilized. Whatever the case may be, the murders of
Jean and Al Mills and their daughter, I believe her name was
Daphne, I am not sure, but in any case, the Mills family
assassination remains unsolved to this day. Again, they were shot
to gristle in Berkeley. The killing has never been solved and they
were number two on the People's Temple hit list. Suffice it to say
that although official disclaimers have been issued that no such
hit squad existed, I think you would have a difficult time
convincing George Mosconi and Jean and Al Mills of that under the
circumstances. Unfortunately, you will not have the opportunity to
try.

I mention all of this background concerning the People's Temple,
and bear in mind too, that when the U.S. national security
establishment decides to move in any given significant direction,
they do so when to move in that direction will scratch a number of
different itches at different strategic levels simultaneously. Now
among the people who would have been at the People's Temple
massacre had Liberty Lobby and People's Temple attorney Mark Lane
had his way was Grace Stevens or Grace Walden, the common-law wife
of Charles Q. Stevens, the career drunkard who had been plied with
liquor by the FBI in order to come up with his testimony that yes,
by golly, he did see James Earl Ray running down the rooming house
hall from which he supposedly fired the shot that supposedly killed
Martin Luther King.

Now, Mark Lane, at the time that he was serving as the People's
Temple attorney, was maneuvering with Terry Buford (sp), another
top Jones aide, to have Grace Stevens transferred down to
Jonestown, where had she been transferred, she would have died
during the massacre. At the same time that he was doing this, Mark
Lane was also serving as James Earl Ray's defense counsel while the
House Select Committee on Assassinations was conducting its badly
compromised investigation into the assassinations of John Kennedy
and Martin Luther King. That investigation was, as I have said,
badly compromised. Despite that, not even this badly compromised
investigation could avoid the conclusion that there was a 95%
probability of a conspiracy behind both the assassinations of
Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy and interestingly enough,
one of the people that the House Select Committee on Assassinations
was focussing on, a St. Louis based organized crime figure, was
literally blown to bits by a car bomb shortly after the House
Select Committee concluded its investigation.

Well, had Mark Lane had his way, Grace Stevens or Grace Walden,
would have been present at the People's Temple massacre and would
have been eliminated during the course of that massacre.
Fortunately, she did not go down there, but this is as Mark Lane is
serving as James Earl Ray's defense counsel, and you have got to
think that if what Mark Lane was really interested in was justice
for his client, James Earl Ray, then he would have been undertaking
to get Grace Walden or Grace Stevens down to testify either before
congress or  before a court of law where her testimony could be used
to exonerate his client, rather than going down to Jonestown, where
she would have been exterminated in what was already known to be a
very, shall we say, creative community, in which the possibility of
a massacre was recognized by all parties concerned, including Mark
Lane, to hear his later testimony.

Now, it should be noted too, that Mark Lane at the time that he was
representing James Earl Ray and the People's Temple, was going
around, particularly in the Bay Area, and giving radio interviews,
notably on KGO among other institutions that the People's Temple
was "a paradise on earth". That was his assessment of the People's
Temple. On Friday, November 17th, 1978, as the House Select
Committee on Assassinations public hearings were drawing to a
close, some of the most dramatic testimony was given on the floor
of congress concerning the assassination of Martin Luther King.
This came from a former FBI agent, I believe operating off the top
of my head, that his name was Mertagh (sp), but in any event
whether or not that was his name, and I am pretty sure about that,
this former FBI agent assigned at the time of Martin Luther King's
assassination, to the Atlanta, Georgia FBI office, now bear in mind
according to Robert Byron Watson and his legal affidavit has been
endorsed by those law enforcement officials who have bothered to
investigate it, according to Robert Byron Watson, the people used
at the operational level to kill Martin Luther King were people
from this U.S. intelligence gold and drug smuggling operation based
at the Magellan Art Gallery in Atlanta, Georgia, involving, among
others, Larry McDonald, and again, this fellow Jack Youngblood,
aka Herman Jackson, who appears to have [been] the "eggs and
sausages" man that I spoke about earlier.

Now, Mertagh testified in the public hearings stemming out of the
House Select Committee's investigation that when news came over the
radio that Dr. Martin Luther King had been shot, the FBI's Atlanta
office broke into cheers and a fellow agent said "they got him,
they got Zorro" which was the FBI's code name for Martin Luther
King. "I hope he dies, the son of a bitch". And as Mertagh said
this on the floor of congress, he broke down in tears on the floor
of congress. It was one of the most dramatic moments in the
admittedly tepid House Select Committee on Assassinations
investigation. This took place on Friday, November 17th. On
Saturday, November 18th, late in the evening, the news reports
began to come in about the People's Temple massacre. Whatever
attention people may have been paying to the House Select Committee
on Assassinations investigation on Friday November 17th, when
Arthur Mertagh gave the dramatic testimony concerning the cheers in
the Atlanta FBI field office, oh, by the way in addition to the
cheers that came out when they heard King had been shot, when he
was confirmed as having died, there were more cheers and again
Mertagh broke down in tears again while describing this. This was
very, very dramatic testimony, but by the following Monday when the
work week resumed, and when the hearings resumed, nobody was
thinking about the House Select Committee's hearings. Everybody
was taking a look at the horrible pictures of bodies that were
coming in out of Guiana. The public hearings on the House Select
Committee's investigation were totally eclipsed after the Jonestown
incident happened. Beyond that, Mark Lane had been going around
saying that James Earl Ray was innocent. He had also been going
around saying that the People's Temple was a paradise on earth and,
of course, he looked like God's own ass after that and was
completely discredited, thereby discrediting by association in the
minds of those who were interested, his assertion, a correct one,
that James Earl Ray was demonstrably innocent under the
circumstances. And, again, bear in mind that it was Mark Lane who
was working to get Grace Stevens down to Jonestown at the time that
he should have been getting her to testify before the House Select
Committee on Assassinations.

In my opinion, a number of different itches were scratched with the
Jonestown operation. First of all, mind control experiments may
very well have been conducted. It was used to train mercenaries
for the CIA's Angola operation. It was used to provide political
support for CIA protege Forbes Burnham in Guiana. It was also used
to eliminate CIA opponent Leo Ryan, another one of the people who
was shot to death, another progressive political leader who was
shot to death. It served to completely eclipse the House Select
Committee's hearings. It completely discredited Mark Lane and by
association, anyone who was claiming that James Earl Ray was
innocent, and bear in mind the message too, that must have been
sent to people in congress, saying "hey, folks, you are looking
into some of our domestic operations, here. We don't like that and
we will show you what happens if you continue these
investigations".

Let's take a look at Leo Ryan. Again, Leo Ryan was coauthor of the
Hughes-Ryan amendment which obliged the CIA to give congress prior
notification of impending covert operations and these were some of
the things which, in my opinion, were achieved as a result of the
Jonestown massacre. Now, again bear in mind, that in this time
period, the FBI is noted to have been operating actively against
Martin Luther King. We know this for a fact. We also know this for
a fact that in this same time period, the FBI was operating openly
against the Nation of Islam, and Malcolm X. I see the telltale
sign that it is time for me to give people a break and it is time
for people to get enough rest to allow their cerebral cortices to
get back into function, and to perform necessary biological
functions. I see people beginning to slump in their chairs and
make exits for strategic visits to wherever out back, so I think I
am going to allow people to make those strategic visits and still
not miss any of the lecture at this time.

Break---

Alrighty, well, suffice it to say that at the same time that Martin
Luther King and the more mainstream elements of the black civil
rights movement were as a matter of public record under
investigation and destabilization by the intelligence services, so
the more militant elements of the black civil rights movement and
black power movement were also being destabilized. What happened
to the Black Panthers for example, is largely a matter of public
record. The Nation of Islam, popularly known as the Black Muslims,
were also under infiltrations/destabilization at this same period
of time. It should be noted that one of the main strategic
vehicles used by the FBI in the COINTELPRO program was to
infiltrate organizations and to plant agents to promote active
hostility among various organizations, hopefully mortal activity
and hostility that would have mortal results. There is a fellow
who has become quite well known in connection with the Quanza (sp)
holiday, for example, a guy named Ron Karenga (sp) in southern
California, who according to many sources, was actively involved as
an FBI agent and was involved in stimulating hostility between his
organization called US or United Slaves, and the Black Panthers in
Los Angeles. He has since become something of a guiding light in
the black community, but a number of sources who have never been
impeached, including former FBI informants involved with
COINTELPRO, have identified Ron Karenga as one of the main
operatives in COINTELPRO in southern California.

Now, the Black Muslims were as a matter of public record, under
infiltration at this period of time and there were some of the same
elements involved with infiltrating and destabilizing the Black
Muslims or the Nation of Islam as were involved with other aspects
of COINTELPRO, including the activities directed against Martin
Luther King. The Division Five of the FBI, which is the internal
security division, almost like a separate agency, put pressure on
an organization called BOSSI to infiltrate both the Nation of Islam
and Malcolm X's breakaway organization called the Organization of
Afro-American Unity, we are going to talk about that organization
in a minute. The institution that they utilized to do that was
called BOSSI, which was the New York City organized crime or anti-
organized crime and anti-red squad. They were a lot better against
"reds" than they were against organized crime. What is worth
noting is that the head of BOSSI at this time was a fellow named
Anthony Ulazowitz (sp). Anthony Ulazowitz later emerged into the
public view during the Watergate scandal when it came out that he
and one of his top aides in BOSSI, a fellow named John Caulfield,
had been two of the main operatives of Richard Nixon's dirty tricks
operation against his political opponents. Both John Caulfield and
Anthony Ulazowitz were actively involved with infiltrating both the
Nation of Islam and the Organization of Afro-American Unity, on
behalf of Division Five of the FBI. Incidentally, John Caulfield,
his name surfaces in connection with a Warren Commission document
in which he was recruited by the Warren Commission to look into the
activities of the DRE in the New York area. The DRE was the
Directorio Revolutionario Estudiantil that was the Students
Revolutionary Directorate, as one of the anti-Castro
organizations that was placed under the umbrella group, the CRC,
the umbrella organization overseeing all anti-Castro Cuban
activities on behalf of CIA.

And, it is worth noting that the BOSSI placed a number of agents,
they were very successful at infiltrating both the Nation of Islam
and the Organization of Afro-American Unity. One of the most
famous pictures of Malcolm X's assassination was a picture of the
fallen, in fact this appeared in Life magazine, of the fallen
Malcolm X having artificial resuscitation administered by one of
his bodyguards, a fellow named Gene Roberts, or Brother Gene. In
fact, Brother Gene was an undercover agent for BOSSI. And it is
worth noting that the activity that he was engaged in, at the time,
administering artificial resuscitation, is contraindicated, no pun
intended, for someone suffering a chest wound because what it does
is, it puts air bubbles into the blood stream, which when they
reach the heart can cause a cardiac arrest and death. So, you do
not administer artificial resuscitation or CPR to someone with a
chest wound, and Malcolm X had massive chest wounds. He would have
died anyway, but had there been any possibility of his surviving,
Brother Gene might very well have cut that short with the
activities that he was supposedly was engaging in to save Malcolm
X's life. It is also worth noting, that in a picture that was also
taken right after the assassination, there is a curious bulge in
Brother Gene's pockets and a very obvious bullet hole in his
jacket. It is unclear just how he got the bullet hole in his
jacket. He supposedly was one of Malcolm's bodyguards, but he did
not do a very good job of protecting Malcolm X.

Now, I mentioned that Dr. King was assassinated with a year of the
time in which he had switched or altered, I should say, his
political activities from being "simply" a civil-rights activist to
being an anti-Vietnam war activist as well. Dr. King had correctly
perceived that the growing costs, both economically and
politically, of the Vietnam war was detracting from the effort that
the nation could put into redressing the past grievances against
Afro-Americans, so he saw the Vietnam war as a major impediment,
not only to civil rights for colored people in this country, people
of color, but also as representing an extension of racial
oppression, the kind of racial oppression that had been directed
against blacks and others in this country, as representing an
extension of that same racist ethic to the activities of the United
States vis-a-vis people of color in other countries. This was
similar in some ways to the kinds of activities that Malcolm X had
begun engaging in prior to his assassination.

Malcolm X had been the top spokesperson and the most trusted
lieutenant for Elijah Muhammed, the head of the Nation of Islam,
popularly known as the Black Muslims. However, he had parted very
sharply with Elijah Muhammed and ultimately broke completely with
the Nation of Islam over a number of different things. For one
thing, the Nation of Islam had historically been against political
cooperation between black people and white people, in fact, it was
one of the main tenets of the Nation of Islam that black people
should not engage in political activities in conjunction with white
people.

When Malcolm X took a tour of Africa, he was particularly impressed
with his visit to South Africa in which he noted very close and
successful cooperation between blacks and whites in South Africa
against the apartheid regime, and this among other things lead him
to some sharp revisions in his political outlook. Among the major
things that Malcolm broke with Elijah Muhammed over was his
decision that in fact black/white political cooperation was not
only viable but in fact necessary if ultimately the liberation of
people of color and ultimately of white people too, was to be
achieved in the United States and elsewhere. This ran directly
counter to the teachings of the Nation of Islam, which even
advocated abstinence from political activity of the conventional
sort by black people, having nothing to do with their involvement
with white people. It is also worth noting that Malcolm X had
broken with Elijah Muhammed over Elijah Muhammed's own personal
ethical behavior. Elijah Muhammed advocated strict celibacy or
strict moral behavior, shall we say, for all of the people in his
organization and yet he had impregnated a number of his own
secretaries who then bore children out of wedlock and then were
then fined and otherwise censored by the organization for their
alleged immoral behavior, not mentioning that the father of the
children was actually Elijah Muhammed himself. This appalled
Malcolm X who also took great issue, one of the main sources of the
break between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammed was something which
also reflects on the infiltration of the Nation of Islam, and their
use, by the FBI as a vehicle for agitation and provocation. It
developed that Elijah Muhammed and the Nation of Islam was
receiving large amounts of money from none other than H.L. Hunt,
the right-wing Texas oil billionaire. This was covered in *The
Judas Factor* by Karl Evanzz that I discussed at the beginning of
the lecture this evening. Now, H.L. Hunt was one of the main
financiers of the far right in this country. His family's name
crops up in a number of different contexts in connection with the
assassination of president Kennedy and it is more than a little
interesting to find H.L. Hunt, who is an avowed racist, funding the
Nation of Islam. It would appear, and this is speculative, but it
would appear that the main motivation for H.L. Hunt's funding of
the Nation of Islam, leaving aside the possibility that his funding
may have supported the Division Five of the FBI's infiltration and
subversion of the organization. H.L. Hunt was very vocal with his
viewpoint that all African-Americans should, in fact, cease to be
African-Americans and go back to Africa, a viewpoint that was also
being promulgated by the Nation of Islam. It should be noted that
Aryan Nations elements today have found common cause with Lewis
Farakhan, the obstensible successor to Malcolm X, actually, I
believe, the successor to Elijah Muhammed. We are going to talk
about Farakhan later on, but both Robert Miles, a Michigan Ku Klux
Klansman who was sentenced to prison for firebombing school buses
in order to oppose forced busing in the state of Michigan and Tom
Metzger, the director of White Aryan Resistance and a former Klan
leader himself, have worked actively with Lewis Farakhan in recent
years, in the 1980s.

There is an historical parallel, I think, between the functioning
of the Nation of Islam and a wing of the Zionist movement in the
1930s. That is not as well known or not as well recognized by
history that prior to Hitler's so-called final solution to the
Jewish question, i.e., his extermination of European Jewry, there
was what we might term the not-so-final solution to the "Jewish
Problem" and that before the Nazis began actively liquidating the
Jewish population of Europe, they actively promoted Jewish
emigration to Palestine and in so doing, they found common cause
with significant elements of the Zionist movement who for a time,
at any rate, actively collaborated with Ahmt4B (sp) of the SS
intelligence service which was in charge with all "Jewish matters".
The head of Ahmt4B was Adolph Eichmann and the Zionist movement in
the 1930s was seeking to promote Jewish emigration to Palestine to
build up the Jewish population of Palestine. The Nazis, by the
same token, were looking to make Europe Judenrhein (sp), or Jew
free, and so for a period of time, they actually collaborated
actively. In fact, the head of, at one point, of the Hagana (sp),
the Palestinian self-defense organization and the precursor to the
Mossad, was a fellow named Fivel Polkes, a Polish-born Jew, who was
actually serving as an agent of the SS intelligence service, in
order to promote Jewish emigration to Palestine. There also was a
branch of the Zionist movement which was explicitly fascist. The
Zionist, like other political movements, is by no means monolithic
and in addition to more liberal elements of the Zionist movement,
there was a branch of the Zionist movement which was explicitly and
avowedly fascist. That movement was called the Betar, or the
Betarim, and in the 1930s and '40s, there were actually pitched
battles in the streets of Tel Aviv between the ranks of the Betar
and socialist-Zionists. The best known graduate of the Betarim
movement was Menachem Begin, who later went on to become, of
course, prime minister of Israel. The leader of the Betarim was a
fellow named Vladimir Yabotinski (sp), who once described Menachem
Begin as "screeching like an old door", but Yabotinski had an
article in the Italian Zionist publication Le Deias Unistica (sp),
in which he made it very clear that the collaboration between the
Betarim and Mussolini, a very active collaboration, was not merely
a marriage of convenience for the Betarim, but that they
ideologically supported fascism and agreed with what Mussolini was
doing.

The Betarim also received military training at Mussolini's Naval
Cadet School. I think that elements of the Nation of Islam and
Farukhan's organization today could be compared with the more
reactionary elements of the Zionist movement, who at least for a
period of time, found common cause with those who ultimately
advocated the extermination of world Jewry and they worked for a
time together in order to promote Jewish emigration to Palestine.
By the same token, even though the Aryan Nations portray black
people as cannibals in black skirts with bones through their noses,
cooking up missionaries in a pot and are very explicit about their
viewpoint that blacks are genetically inferior to whites, yet,
there was a pattern of cooperation between Elijah Muhammed's
organization and people like George Lincoln Rockwell, the fuhrer of
the American Nazi Party, who was an enthusiastic supporter of
Elijah Muhammed and the Nation of Islam, as was H.L. Hunt, who also
was an avowed racist who sought the return of all blacks to Africa.
It is worth noting that George Lincoln Rockwell's name, phone
number, and Arlington, Virginia address were in the address book of
self-proclaimed Marxist Lee Harvey Oswald at the time of his arrest
at the Texas theater in Dallas, Texas. Ultimately, of course,
George Lincoln Rockwell himself as well as a fellow named Burrows,
Daniel Burrows, another American Nazi, who name, address, and phone
number were in Oswald's address book, Burrows supposedly committed
suicide, George Lincoln Rockwell was assassinated in 1967,
supposedly by a rival Nazi leader who was eventually convicted of
the crime. It is worth noting that he was assassinated just as Jim
Garrison's investigation was gaining steam in New Orleans.

Daniel Burrows, one of the other American Nazis whose name and
address were in Oswald's address book, supposedly committed suicide
in 1965 at the home of Ku Klux Klansman Roy Frankhauser (sp), who
later went to work as a contract agent for the CIA. It is worth
noting, though, as Frankhauser put it, the alleged suicide of
Daniel Burrows, "bad case of suicide, three bullets", still, that's
what they said though. Again, a three bullet suicide was a very
bad case of suicide, almost a bad as Danny Casalero. But, again,
at this period of time, there are indications that in addition to
being used as a vehicle for infiltration, elements of the racist
and fascist movements in this country found common cause with the
Nation of Islam because they basically sought to make America a
white country and the Nation of Islam proved to be a usual tool, at
least to a certain extent, in their view, in promoting this end.
It is worth noting that it is a matter of public record that the
infiltration of the Nation of Islam reached a very high, very
successful level. The treasurer of the Nation of Islam was a
fellow named John Ali, like Muhammed Ali, and it has now been
established from freedom-of-information act documents and other
information that John Ali was a very highly placed informant for
the FBI and following the discreditation of one of Elijah
Muhammed's sons as a result of a drug conviction, John Ali, for a
period of time, became the most powerful member of the Nation of
Islam. Incidentally, the work of John Ali for the FBI was first
revealed by journalist Louis Lomax, who had done a lot of work on
the assassinations of both Martin Luther King and of Malcolm X and
wrote a book about both of their assassinations called *To Kill a
Black Man*. He had won a contract to make a motion picture about
the assassination of Malcolm X in which he was going to implicate
the intelligence community. While he was on his way to the set,
during one of the early days of shooting, the brakes on his car
failed and he was killed in a one-car automobile accident and that
eliminated Louis Lomax, one of a number of suspicious deaths in
connection with the investigations into the assassinations of King
and Malcolm X.

In addition to breaking with the Nation of Islam, in addition to
breaking with the Nation of Islam over the moral conduct of Elijah
Muhammed, in addition to breaking with the Nation of Islam over
their prohibition of black/white political cooperation, Malcolm X
had perhaps most notably drawn fire from the reactionary forces in
this country and from the intelligence services in particular by
actively forming political alliances with blacks and people of
color in other parts of the world, specifically, Malcolm X took a
tour of Africa in which he was very well received by black African
leaders, and he was working on a petition with leaders of African
nations to have the United States and South Africa condemned for
their racist policies at the United Nations. Now this would, of
course, have been a tremendous blow to the international prestige
of the United States, particularly in the eyes of third world
countries, and it is a matter of public record from declassified
documents, that this was a source of great consternation to the
State Department and to the Central Intelligence Agency. Richard
Helms, director of the CIA at the time, was very concerned over the
activities of Malcolm X and had instructed the CIA to do everything
they could to "monitor" the activities of Malcolm X. One of the
great euphemisms in intelligence parlance is the word "monitor".
It could mean anything from surveillance to termination with
extreme prejudice, i.e., assassination.

It is noted too, that there are indications that the word was out
in the international intelligence community that Malcolm X was
going to be assassinated. Malcolm X, while on a tour of Egypt,
narrowly escaped death. He was poisoned, a number of white
Europeans or Americans in suits, it was never established, were
seen following Malcolm X around. Whenever he would stop at a
restaurant, they were at the next table. He almost died of
poisoning in Egypt.  He somehow got something in his food and he
narrowly escaped death. Later, when he wanted to visit France, he
was turned away by the French authorities at Orli (sp) Airport,
which was also very strange. Not only had Malcolm X had no problem
getting into France previously, but France had a notably liberal
attitude toward political dissidents from other countries and in
fact has long been viewed by political exiles as a safe haven from
oppression. So, their curious behavior in refusing to allow
Malcolm X even to get off the plane. He not only was not allowed
to visit France, he was not even allowed to disembark from his
plane, has suggested to many observers, and I agree with this
analysis, that the French, specifically the SDECE, the Service
Directoire d'Espionage et Contrespionage (sp), the French
intelligence service, already had word that Malcolm X was targeted,
that the CIA and or FBI was going to get him and they did not want
his assassination occurring on French soil, so they refused to even
let him disembark.

Tape Two Side One

---It's worth noting too, that Malcolm was on the receiving end of
a number of hostile activities a few nights before he was
assassinated. He was assassinated on February 21st of 1965. About
a week before, maybe as much as eight or nine days before, his
home, Malcolm X's home in New York was firebombed. Eye witnesses
saw a policeman walking into his house and the police later claimed
that Malcolm X firebombed his own home in an attempt to create the
notion that somebody was actively opposing him and a firebomb was
found, I believe it was on his wife's dresser, and the claim was
them bandied about by the authorities that Malcolm X had firebombed
his own home. It is also worth noting that there appears to have
been a dress rehearsal of Malcolm X's assassination a few days
before he was actually assassinated. In a rehearsal for an address
in New York City, there was a disturbance in the audience and a
fellow said "nigger, get your hand out of my pocket", and there was
then a scuffle and Malcolm X broke up the scuffle. Nothing much
came of that. Later on, however, those exact same words led to a
scuffle which appears to have been the cue to the assassins to open
fire on Malcolm X. It is worth noting that John Ali was present at
this particular address in which what appears to have been a dress
rehearsal for Malcolm's assassination took place.

Now when Malcolm X was assassinated, he was giving a speech at the
Audubon Ballroom in New York City. One of the interesting aspects
of his assassination was that all of the speakers who were
scheduled to appear at this event cancelled at the last minute.
Malcolm X was there, but somehow it appears that the word got out
that this was not going to be a place to be. But for whatever
reason, all of the scheduled speakers but Malcolm X cancelled the
day of his assassination. Again, bear in mind that there was at
least one active BOSSI and FBI agent present on Malcolm's security
staff at the Audubon Ballroom, the aforementioned Gene Roberts or
Brother Gene, and that he was operating at the behest of Anthony
Ulazowitz (sp) and John Caulfield, later key Watergate operatives
on behalf of Richard Nixon, that they at the time were working with
the BOSSI, the New York City Anti-Organized Crime and Red Squad,
tabbed by Division Five of the FBI to work against both the Nation
of Islam and Malcolm X's Organization of Afro-American Unity.

Now in the audience when Malcolm got up to speak, there was this
same disturbance that had taken place a few days earlier. A guy
said "Nigger, get your hand out of my pocket", and there was a
scuffle in the audience. Malcolm said "Cool it brothers, cool it".
At that point, one of the two combatants pulled a German Luger out
of his pocket and began opening fire at Malcolm X. Another man in
the audience pulled out a sawed-off shotgun and fired and struck
Malcolm X at virtually point-blank range. The assassins then
exited out one of the side doors, firing at Malcolm X the whole
time and holding most of the audience at bay. Malcolm's own
security people fired and wounded one of the assassins as they were
escaping.

Now that night there was a fire at Mosque Seven in Harlem, which
had been founded by Malcolm X and eventually the leadership of
Mosque Seven was taken over by Lewis X, as he was calling himself
at the time, now Lewis Farakhan, who incidentally had publically
called for Malcolm X's death following Malcolm's break with and
condemnation of Elijah Muhammed. But the night Malcolm X was
assassinated, Mosque Seven had a very serious fire. The same
evening, interestingly enough, there was a very mysterious fire at
the apartment of Muhammed Ali, the famed prize fighter, also
perhaps the best known member of the Nation of Islam and for a long
time a very close political supporter and personal friend of
Malcolm X.

The fire at Muhammed Ali's apartment was a rather strange one. No
one knew that Muhammed Ali and his wife at the time were going to
be at this restaurant, yet they got a call at the restaurant
telling them that their apartment was on fire. Many people have
raised questions about this. It is also worth noting that within
a few days of Malcolm's assassination, of the mysterious fire at
the Mosque Seven, the mysterious fire at Muhammed Ali's apartment,
the law offices of Percy Sutton, a New York City councilperson,
actually, I believe, later a congressional representative, Percy
Sutton's law offices were vandalized a few days later and also the
New York offices of the Organization of Afro-American Unity,
Malcolm's organization, were vandalized a few days later.

It is worth noting again that Lewis Lomax, who had investigated the
assassinations of both Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, concluded
that the intelligence community was behind it. He had, as I said,
landed a movie contract about the assassination of Malcolm X, which
implicated the intelligence community. While driving to the set
one day, the brakes on his car failed and he was killed in an
accident. He also, Lomax that is, was pursuing leads in Louisiana
which would have connected the assassination of Martin Luther King
with that of John F. Kennedy and specifically, he was looking into
the activities of the people surrounding the 544 Camp Street, 531
Lafayette Place address that was run as the Guy Bannister Detective
Agency. Guy Bannister, former head of the FBI Chicago office, also
a former Office of Naval Intelligence operative, as accurately
portrayed in the movie "JFK". In addition to operating on behalf
of the CIA's anti-Castro Cuban efforts, the Bannister Detective
Agency was also very active against the civil-rights movement and
they put out a racist publication called "Louisiana Intelligence
Digest" which maintained that the black civil-rights movement was
part of the international communist conspiracy. Something that
both J. Edgar Hoover and Arthur Haines, Sr., James Earl Ray's first
attorney, were also advocating at this time and Louis Lomax had
developed some contacts in Louisiana and had been pursuing
evidenciary tributaries leading in the direction of Bannister and
company when he was killed in this one-car automobile accident.

A few days after Malcolm X was killed, one of his top aides in the
Organization of Afro-American Unity, a fellow named Leon 4X Ameer,
(by the way, the Xs in the names of the Nation of Islam, the Black
Muslims, as they are popularly referred to, that reference, and you
will see, you know, John 23X, Louis 14X, and so forth. When an
African-American joined the organization, he traditionally retained
his first name, X was put, basically, in place of his last name to
indicate that this was a slave name and that at some point, he had
a different name, but that this had become lost to history and
depending on when you joined the organization, that determined the
number before your "X". For example, if you were the fifth member
of the Nation of Islam named John, you were John 5X. If you were
the 14th named Louis, you were Louis 14X, etc. That is what those
Xs refer to).

But one of Malcolm's top aides, Leon 4XAmeer, went to the FBI,
about, I think it was ten days after Malcolm was killed, and
indicated that he felt that there were elements not only within the
Nation of Islam proper, but within the US government that were
behind Malcolm's assassination. He then was found dead, himself,
a few days later at the age of 32 in his apartment in Boston.
Initially, they said it was suicide, then they changed that to a
drug overdose, but the final disposition of the case was that he
died of natural causes, despite the fact that he was in good health
at the age of 32. It is worth noting that Ameer took his wife and
child and relocated them from Boston prior to his death, because he
felt that his life was in danger and he did not want his wife and
child to die if and when the assassins came for him. That is still
the official version of the death of Leon Ameer, namely, natural
causes at the age of 32 within ten days of (actually it was about
a week) having visited the FBI and voiced his suspicions about U.S.
governmental involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X.

It is worth noting that the Socialist Workers Party, elements of
which had been very close to the Nation of Islam, were also the
targets of COINTELPRO disruption at this time, and that freedom of
information act documents that have been declassified in the
interim, have revealed that in no uncertain terms, the friction
that grew between the Socialist Workers Party and the Nation of
Islam, and in particular, the Organization of Afro-American Unity,
were as the result of agitation by the FBI.

James Chabaz (sp), who was Malcolm X's successor, in the
Organization of Afro-American Unity, was himself assassinated a few
years after Malcolm X. And it is worth noting that one of Elijah
Muhammed's sons was arrested and convicted on a drug charge. This
officially discredited him and for a period of time, the most
powerful man in the Nation of Islam became John Ali, who was,
again, a documented FBI informant. It is also worth noting that
John Ali was around many of the areas where Malcolm X was prior to
his assassination. Malcolm was going to disembark, for example, at
the Los Angeles airport. Some of his security people noted that
John Ali was present when Malcolm X was going to land at the Los
Angeles airport. Because of his stated hostility to Malcolm X,
this was after Malcolm's break with Elijah Muhammed, the plane of
Malcolm X was rerouted to another terminal and law enforcement was
alerted. Again, John Ali was physically present at this what
appears to have been a dress rehearsal for Malcolm X's
assassination.

Oh, another detail that I forgot, concerning the circumstances of
Malcolm's death, the Audubon Ballroom where he was killed, is
directly across the street from Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in
New York City, one of the finest medical institutions in the city.
The hospital was called and they were asked to rush medical
assistance over to Malcolm X, who was only across the street and no
medical assistance was forthcoming. It took a long time and
finally, Malcolm's aides got a stretcher from the hospital and put
him on it and carried him over to the hospital. But that is again
among the strange circumstances surrounding his assassination, was
that for some reason, the people at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital
were unable to dispatch an emergency unit across the street. It
was so bad that his aides went across the street, got a stretcher,
and wheeled him across the street to the hospital. The hospital
proffered no assistance whatsoever.

Now again, after one of Elijah Muhammed's sons was arrested and
convicted on a drug charge, John Ali, documented FBI informant,
became the most powerful member of the Nation of Islam. Eventually
the organization was taken over by Wallace Muhammed, another of
Elijah Muhammed's sons, who promptly undertook to reform the
organization along the lines that Malcolm X, himself, had
advocated. In the first place, Wallace Muhammed lifted the edict
against black-white political cooperation, one of the main sources
of the break between Malcolm and Elijah Muhammed.

He, that is to say, Wallace Muhammed, also changed the ideology and
the theology of the Nation of Islam. One of the aspects of the
Nation of Islam's philosophy or political viewpoint, which had also
alienated Malcolm X, was the explicit doctrine of the Nation of
Islam that the white race was created by a mad scientist named
Yakob (sp). That was an official element of their doctrine. That
obviously worked to the disadvantage of black people and actually
worked to the advantage of people like the Aryan Nations, part of
whose racist ideology is that black people are genetically and
intellectually inferior to white people. The tenet of the Nation
of Islam that the white race was created by a mad scientist named
Yakob (sp), in my opinion, was very much to the liking of people
like Robert Miles and Tom Metzger and George Lincoln Rockwell and
H.L. Hunt, because it would tend to discredit black people
intellectually. That was one of the things that Wallace Muhammed
dispensed of when he took over the leadership of the Nation of
Islam. And no sooner did Wallace Muhammed put these reforms into
effect than Lewis Farakhan, as he was calling himself then,
formally Lewis X, head of the Boston Mosque of the Nation of Islam,
who had publically called for Malcolm X's death as a result of his
hostility or his opposition to Elijah Muhammed, who eventually
succeeded Malcolm X as the head of Mosque Seven, who was reportedly
in the Newark, New Jersey mosque at the time of Malcolm's
assassination. At least one of the convicted assassins has stated
that the assassination of Malcolm was planned at the Newark mosque
and some of the people convicted were security people from the
Newark mosque.

Lewis Farakhan broke away from Wallace Muhammed and set up his own
organization, the Nation of Islam, which he is the head of to this
day. He then reinstated the prohibition on black-white political
cooperation, which was one of the things Malcolm X broke with
Elijah Muhammed over, he reinstated the preposterous tenet that the
white race was created by in a laboratory by a mad scientist named
Yakob (sp), another of the things that Malcolm X opposed. And
apparently, the opposition on the part of Farakhan and his
organization to black-white political cooperation did not apply to
cooperation between himself and his organization and a doctrinaire
white supremacist like Tom Metzger and Robert Miles. Make of that
what you will.

We will talk about Jesse Jackson in a couple of minutes, but it is
worth noting too that Lewis Farakhan has been very active in
promoting dissension in the progressive political community. He
has achieved a lot of publicity in connection with some of his
statements about Jews and Judaism. Traditionally, blacks and Jews
have been two of the pillars of the progressive political community
in the United States. There is now a great deal of friction
between them, although some of that undoubtedly applies to Israeli
support for, or is justified by and stems from, Israeli support for
South Africa. At the same time, I suspect that a lot of that is
being actively promoted by the forces of reaction in this country,
who would like nothing better than to see blacks and Jews going
after one another, because divide and conquer is an old, tried and
true tactic.

It is worth noting, too, just as there are questions concerning
Lewis Farakhan and his succession of Malcolm X, and it is
interesting that it was not Wallace Muhammed who revised the Nation
of Islam, and reformed it along the lines advocated by Malcolm X,
but it is Lewis Farakhan, who again called for the Malcolm X's
death, and who then broke from Wallace Muhammed when he put into
effect reforms advocated my Malcolm, he is now the individual who
wears Malcolm X's mantle. He also is an individual who has been
actively collaborating with some of the white-supremacist elements
that Malcolm had devoted his life to working against.

There are similar question about Jesse Jackson and the
assassination of Martin Luther King as well. Jesse Jackson  drew a
lot of fire, or a lot of flak, I should say. I should watch my use
of words under the circumstances, but Jesse Jackson drew a lot of
flak from the people surrounding Martin Luther King for his
behavior around the time of Martin Luther King's assassination. It
is a matter of public record that Martin Luther King was at least
considering breaking with Jesse Jackson. Martin made a number of
statements to some of his aides that "he felt it was time for him
to make his mark and Jesse to make his own mark" then when Martin
Luther King was assassinated, Jesse Jackson showed up at a press
conference shortly afterward with a bloodied shirt and claimed that
he had cradled the dying Dr. King's head and this was one of the
things that boosted Jesse into the public eye. Many of Martin's
close associates were outraged over what they viewed as
self-aggrandizement and exploitation of Martin's death by Jesse
Jackson and they claim that, in fact, Jesse Jackson was not
cradling the dying Dr. King's head at all. Later, after years of
hostility between people like Coretta King, who as late as 1984,
was unwilling to endorse Jesse Jackson for president, Jesse
admitted this on the Phil Donahue show, on a national television
audience, that he had been lying for 20 years about his behavior
vis-a-vis the assassination of Martin Luther King.

I had always wondered how Jesse Jackson got that bloodied shirt,
because if he was not cradling King's head, and he later eventually
admitted that he had been lying about that, where did he get the
bloody shirt? It indicates at least the possibility of
foreknowledge. The question is whose blood or the blood of what
was on that shirt and where did Jesse get it? Now, on the Phil
Donahue show, Jesse admitted that he had been lying, that he had
not actually cradled the dying Dr. King's head, but he said there
was so much blood where Dr. King fell that this was how he got the
blood on his shirt. Well, there was certainly a lot of blood on
the ground where Dr. King was lying. There also would have been
some blood on the back wall where the round penetrated Dr. King's
head, but there would not have blood all over the apartment and
again one wonders how Jesse Jackson came up with that bloody shirt.
Beyond that, regardless of how he actually came up with the shirt,
the fact that he would lie for twenty years about his behavior vis-
a-vis the assassination of the man whose mantle he now wears, and
you take a look at anything that comes up in the news concerning
black people in this country or just about anyplace else in the
world, and you see how long it takes for Jesse Jackson to appear in
the camera. Jesse is a real good guy at garnering publicity. He
is almost ubiquitous, but the fact that Jesse would lie for twenty
years, to me, disqualifies him as any kind of political leader.
Beyond that, and even more alarmingly, aside from the fact that he
admitted that he lied about cradling King's head, shortly after
George Bush was elected in 1988, after having run his campaign
along explicitly racist lines with the Willy Horton ploy, Jesse and
George Bush gave a press conference in which they agreed to, George
challenged him, he said we've worked together on a number of policy
issues in the past and he challenged Jesse to deny that and Jesse
did not deny it then both Jesse and George Bush stated that they
felt that James Earl Ray should not be paroled. Well, Jesse has
been quite vocal in other contexts about hardly his opinion that
there was more to the assassination of Martin Luther King than just
some lone racist, and yet he at a press conference with George
Bush, former director of the CIA and president-elect, he stated
that he was opposed to releasing James Earl Ray. That also raises
some very, very serious questions about Jesse Jackson. Jesse also
has made some comments which have tended to promote friction
between the black and Jewish communities in this country. Whatever
Jesse's intention, that certainly works to the benefit of the
forces of reaction. It should be noted that when a coup d'etat is
staged, in the viewpoint of the coup plotters, it is not only
necessary to destroy the target, but to replace the target with a
substitute whose political interests are at one with one's own.
Now in this case, in this context I should say, we can view the
assassinations of both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King as, in
effect, a coup d'etat. In effect, a blow at a nation within a
nation, namely the black community in the United States, and with
such a coup having apparently been executed, it would have been
essential to replace the two target individuals, namely Martin
Luther King and Malcolm X, with individuals whose viewpoints and
activities would be suitable to the people who had staged the coup.
Although we do not have definitive information, and I do not mean
the things that I am saying to be viewed as definitive about either
Jesse Jackson or Lewis Farakhan, at the same time, there are enough
questions about the activities of both men to lead to a serious
investigation as to whether or not Lewis Farakhan was perhaps
designated as the LBJ to Malcolm X's JFK and that Jesse Jackson may
very well have been tabbed as a similar successor to Martin Luther
King as well.

There is an odd postscript to the assassinations of both Martin
Luther King and Malcolm X. A few days, in fact four days, after
Malcolm X was assassinated, that was February 21st, 1965, there was
an abortive attempt to assassinate Martin Luther King as well.
Martin Luther King was attending a movie in Los Angeles and police
received a tip and they discovered a large dynamite bomb at the
theater, which had it gone off, would have certainly killed Dr.
King and virtually anyone else in that theater. Eventually an
American neo-Nazi named Keith Gilbert, was convicted of this
assassination attempt on Martin Luther King. Gilbert maintained
that while in prison, he was receiving support from very powerful
forces. It later came to light that he was receiving money and
that the individual he was receiving money from was a fellow named
Loren Eugene Hall, himself a paramilitary white right-winger and
white-supremacist who had been one of the main informants for then
Reagan legal-counselor Edwin Meese concerning the case of Edgar
Eugene Bradley. Edgar Eugene Bradley was sought by Jim Garrison in
New Orleans in connection with the assassination of John F.
Kennedy. Edgar Eugene Bradley was a resident of the state of
California. Garrison filed an extradition request, then deputy
state attorney general Charles A. O'Brien (sp) reviewed the
Garrison extradition request, recommended that it be granted.
Activity on the Garrison extradition request for Bradley was
delayed by then-governor Reagan until after Richard Nixon was
elected president and then was  turned down without comment. The
Edgar Eugene Bradley extradition request was handled for Reagan by
then Reagan legal advisor, legal counsellor Edwin A. Meese, who
later, of course, became attorney general of the United States and
who also was a highly ranked intelligence officer with the Army
reserve, both then and now.

The guy who Ed Meese dealt with primarily was a former CIA
operative in connection with the anti-Castro Cuban activities and
a white-supremacist named Loren Eugene Hall, who in 1989
incidentally, was indicted for running a methamphetamine ring in
Oklahoma. His son, Loren, Jr., who was also indicted and named in
the indictment, stated at a press conference that the entire
methamphetamine ring was being used to channel funding to the
contras. That, by the way, from the Dallas Morning News of
September 13th of 1989. It was this guy who was providing
financial support to Keith Gilbert while he was in prison for
having placed this huge dynamite bomb in an L.A. theater four days
after Malcolm X was assassinated in New York. Now Keith Gilbert
eventually became one of the top lieutenants for Richard Gernt (sp)
Butler, the head of the Aryan Nations compound at Hayden Lake,
Idaho. Later Keith Gilbert broke with Butler and established his
own compound a few miles down the road.

Interesting enough, Keith Gilbert was linked to a fellow named
Michael Wayne. Michael Wayne's name came up in connection with the
assassination of Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles. A Michael Wayne
was known to have been at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles,
asking what route senator Kennedy was going to take to exit from
his press conference. Michael Wayne was also a very, very close,
not a double, but he resembled very closely Sirhan Sirhan, the
patsy in the Robert Kennedy assassination. The individual
generally cited by most investigators as actually having pulled the
trigger on Robert Kennedy was a white supremacist named Thane
Eugene Caesar who worked for Lockheed's Burbank facility, and
specifically worked in the top secret area associated with the
CIA's U-2 project. Oswald also was affiliated with the U-2.
Caesar was working as a security guard for a security service in
the Ambassador Hotel the night of the shooting. He was a
documented white-supremacist and, again, he worked in the Lockheed
Burbank facility and another engineer in Lockheed Burbank was
Richard Gernt Butler, one of whose top lieutenants was Keith
Gilbert, whose name was linked in L.A.P.D. files to Michael Wayne,
a Sirhan double, who was in the Ambassador Hotel. And again, it
was Keith Gilbert who was convicted of this attempt on the life of
Martin Luther King four days after Malcolm was killed. Not that
that necessarily proves anything, but when you take those
coincidences in combination with the enormous number of evidenciary
tributaries linking various aspects of our assassinations and
political assassinations, it is pretty clear that this is more than
just coincidence, and I personally have always felt that the Keith
Gilbert-Richard Gernt Butler-Thane Eugene Caesar, Malcolm X
assassination-Martin Luther King assassination-Robert Kennedy
assassination link has never been properly investigated.

It is also worth noting that the people who brought the Sirhan
family into the United States were college friends and political
associates of Richard Nixon, who was a prime beneficiary of the
assassination of Robert Kennedy and the director for security for
Richard Nixon's 1968 campaign was a fellow named James Golden, who
was on leave from his position as director of security for the
Lockheed Corporation, at which Thane Eugene Caesar was employed.
And again, that does not prove anything either, but when you
examine this country's political assassinations, be it the
assassinations of the Kennedys or Martin Luther King, or Malcolm X,
Incidentally there is an echo which comes forward right to this
day. One of the main civil rights leaders of the early '60s,
Medgar Evers (sp) the field secretary for the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People, he was assassinated in 1963,
a few months before Kennedy was assassinated. A white-supremacist
named Byron de La Beckwith (sp) has been indicted for his
assassination and is going to stand trial. He has been able to
wiggle out of this so far. When Byron de La Beckwith was seeking
to avoid indictment for the assassination of Medgar Evers, much of
his political support came from former Major General Edwin Walker.
Edwin Walker had been a divisional commander in Germany and was
replaced by John Kennedy because Edwin Walker was violating Army
regulations by obliging his troops to study the "Blue Book" of the
John Birch Society. It is a violation of U.S. military regulations
to force your troops to study political doctrine. Edwin Walker was
fired by John Kennedy. He then came to the Dallas-Ft. Worth area
where he became a protege of H.L. Hunt and in the fifth volume of
the 26 volumes of Warren Commission testimony and exhibits, it is
revealed, or it is documented that, Edwin Walker's John Birch
Society cell was used as a vehicle for bringing military
intelligence agents over from Munich, Germany to operate at the
field level in the assassination of John Kennedy.

It is also worth noting, too, that one of the things cited by the
Warren Commission to prove that Lee Harvey Oswald was not a
politically-motivated assassin, (he wasn't an assassin at all, he
was a patsy) but the Warren Commission stated that Lee Harvey
Oswald had previously tried to assassinate Major General Edwin
Walker, who was an ultra-right winger. Therefore, since he tried
to shoot a right-winger and he wound up shooting a liberal, he was
not politically motivated.

This information first surfaced, according to the Warren Commission
investigation or cover-up, on December 3rd 1963, when Marina Oswald
revealed this to the FBI during an interrogation. The FBI then
notified the Warren Commission. However, this does not explain why
on November 29, 1963, a Nazi newspaper in Munich, Germany, named
the Deutsch----unclear-----, published by a guy named Gerhard Frey
(sp), still active on the German Nazi scene, and having a number of
highly-ranked SS officers and former officials from Goebbels
propaganda ministry on its editorial staff, that newspaper revealed
the information that Oswald had shot at Walker on November 29,
1963, based on an interview with Edwin Walker, that Edwin Walker
gave by telephone to Gerhard Frey on November 23, 1963 which was a
full eleven days before Marina Oswald supposedly revealed that to
the world.

Now, you do not have to be Columbo or Sherlock Holmes to figure out
that that throws serious doubt on the validity of the Warren
Commission's investigation, but that is just one of many
evidenciary tributaries leading between our various assassinations
and attempted assassinations. That does not mean that, yes, Major
General Edwin Walker and the Hunt organization were connected to
Byron de La Beckwith and the assassination of Medgar Evers, yet at
the same time when we see so many of the same elements and the same
names cropping up in connection with our political assassinations,
supposedly unconnected, and supposedly not having any serious
political ramifications, I think we are in a position to stand back
and take a look at these killings and to view them in much the same
light as the assassination program conducted in Germany in the
1920s, long before the world became familiar with the name of
Adolph Hitler, long before National Socialism took over in Germany
and helped plunge the world into war, that there were a series, as
I said, of assassinations conducted in Germany which paved the way
for the rise of fascism in that country. But in addition to the
leaders of the German revolution, such as Karl Liebnick (sp) and
Rosa Luxembourg (sp), doctrinaire communists themselves, democratic
leaders ranging from Kurt Eisner (sp), Karl Guirise (sp), Gustav
Landauer (sp), Walter von Rattenau (sp), these are names that
history has not remembered and they should have. As we look at our
assassinations and our attempted assassinations, I think it is
important that we clear away the obfuscation, that we learn to see
the forest despite the trees that have been placed in our way,
because in my opinion, and I think the evidence argues very
strongly in that regard, we here in the United States went through
a similar historical event to the assassination programs in Germany
and Japan that paved the way for the rise of fascism in those
countries. And, if we do not recognize the facts concerning our
own history and understand what happened and why it happened, we
ourselves are going to ultimately face results as devastating as
what eventually stemmed from the assassination programs in those
countries as well.

That basically concludes the main body of the lecture this evening.


TAPE TWO-SIDE TWO

Question and Answer Period

Q: In January there was a talk by Socialist Action in San
Francisco on the assassination of Malcolm X and two eyewitnesses
spoke and they made some very dramatic points which you did not
mention. One being that every time Malcolm X spoke, usually there
were twenty policemen around, and the day of the murder or
assassination, there weren't any, or maybe there was one or two
token. The other point that they made was in the actual,
immediately after the assassination, the crowd captured the two
guys, the one that was woundedand another one, and the one that
was wounded was documented, etc., but the other one, the police got
him and he never showed up in jail. He was never booked or
anything like that. And they also went into the cover-up and in
the cover-up, the three guys who were on trial said they were part
of the Black Muslims. Even at the trial, they testified that there
were five people. That was one of the things that was completely
covered up by the prosecution, etc., in the official story, and I
was just wondering did that escape your notice?

A: I have heard that. I do not recall seeing that in any printed
sources. I am not casting aspersions on what they were saying. I
recall hearing that in discussions with other researchers. I,
myself, have not read that, that I can recall. It should be noted
I don't present either of these discussions as having all of the
information about the assassinations of King or Malcolm X. There
are other things to go into. With Martin Luther King, for example,
I haven't talked about James Earl Ray's flight, which was one of
the very interesting things, aspects of it. Ray was able to
successfully elude an international manhunt in which he utilized
evasion techniques which appear to be far more sophisticated than
what he had been able to do. As I say, he previously couldn't
knock over a liquor store in Missouri without getting apprehended,
and yet he was able to elude an international manhunt, in which
among other things, he used fake id using the names of real people
who were deceased, all of whom lived within a short distance of
each other in Canadian cities and who bore a physical resemblance
to James Earl Ray. That is a very sophisticated technique usually
used by intelligence agencies alone because they are the only ones
that have the resources, or somebody with considerably resources.
James Earl Ray utilized those techniques. That strongly suggests
that he was being aided in doing that. There are other aspects, to
both assassinations, that I have not covered. I am trying to give
people a basic grasp of what happened with each and also relating
them to the political directions being undertaken by both men and
the political environment in which they existed at the time.
Namely the Civil Rights movement, the anti-Vietnam-War movement,
and in particular to indicate the forces that killed them and how
they relate to what we face today.

Q: Also, I have been in contact with the political prisoners in
the United States. There is still a large number who were put
behind bars by the COINTELPRO efforts and they are still rotting in
prison and, you know, there is dire action needed on the public's
part to try to help them get out and receive justice. So if anyone
wants any information on that, they can contact me.

A: Alrighty. Thanks for your contribution.

Q: Okay. I've got a couple of, I want your opinion on a couple of
things. Recently, on the line of assassinations, the CIA killings
in the morning, the people going to work in the CIA, gunned down by
a supposedly Pakistani with an AK-47. Also, the day before the
trials beginning in Los Angeles, two police officers were shot,
apparently in the head, before they could take their weapons out,
smacks of some type of assassination, and also, in the paper there
has been reported a theft of a large number of handguns from Los
Angeles, attributed probably to gangs, but I think it amounted to
like 5000 handguns turned up missing in Los Angeles.

A: That's a lot of guns. It may be the city of Angels if those
things get, would be used.

Q: It all smacks of some type of indication of some provocation on
whoever's part. If you know anything about that, any comments.

A: No, I am aware of all the things you talk about except not the
handguns missing. That I have not come across. Now I think there
are a lot of things we have to watch out for. You can't say for
sure, yes, this is part of a program of provocation. At the same
time, though, the things you have talked about are symptomatic of
a program of provocation and there are some pretty firm historical
indications, not only that the LAPD, or elements thereof, have
worked with the intelligence community in the past on provocations
and specifically vis-a-vis the Afro-American community in Los
Angeles. But, there are some very serious questions about the
rioting in Los Angeles. In weeks to come, I am going to be talking
about that history and in particular the disclosures or at least
statements made by a guy named Frederick Salani (sp), who was the
defense counsel for Damion Williams, who has been on trial now in
the Denny beating case, and Salani claims, I don't know how
accurate his claims are, he claims that his organization, it was
something like the Center for Constitutional Law, or something, I
have forgotten its name off the top of my head, but that it was
basically an intelligence front that Damion Williams' confession
was obtained by drugging him and getting him to confess and also
Salani claimed that the rioting in Los Angeles was started by
government agents, which some eyewitnesses have stated, in fact.
I warned, in a live talk on KPFK, there's a guy at KPFK, the
Pacifica station in Los Angeles, who airs my program on late night
during the week and I do a live talk down there via phone hookup
the first Wednesday of each month, and when the officers were
indicted, I warned about the possibility of a generated disturbance
because the LAPD does have a history of doing that kind of thing.
With the tensions in the community down there as ripe as they were
for that kind of explosion, I've just felt that the situation was
ripe for exploitation and it would have worked very nicely to the
benefit of George Bush and also could have been used as the pretext
for beginning to establish martial law. And then eventually,
courtesy of Harry Martin, who first revealed the information on
"One Step Beyond", I now have it confirmed from two published
sources. One of them, by the way, an article in the January, 1993
issue of *The Atlantic*, the orders issued to the military and to
the National Guard in the Los Angeles disturbances were marked
"Garden Plot" and it was operation "Garden Plot/Cable Splicer"
which in the 1960s and '70s provided for the coordination of the
military, the civilian and military intelligencies, and state and
local law enforcement to combat both the antiwar movement and the
civil rights and black power movement, and it was while working on
operation "Cable Splicer and Garden Plot" that Lewis Euphreda (sp)
and Frank Salcedo (sp), then working for the California Specialized
Training Institute in San Luis Obispo, developed the contingency
plans which became the seed for the Rex '84 Operation Night Train
Martial Law Contingency Plan. And that was based on a contingency
plan to round up upwards of twenty million black Americans and put
them in "detention centers" in the event of a disturbance by "black
militants", which LAPD intelligence community were perfectly
capable of producing, so I do think we have to be very careful
about another explosion in Los Angeles and it would not surprise me
if the authorities would like to trigger something like that. I
see a lot of very dangerous signs in connection with what is
happening with Bill Clinton. The authorities in this country don't
like him and I think some fairly direct signals are being sent to
Clinton that if he doesn't basically stay the course vis-a-vis
national security matters, then he could be disposed of. I was
very disturbed by the bombing yesterday in New York and there are
a number of other things that I think bode very poorly for the
future so I share your concern and I think it is important that you
noted those things. And certainly, police with two officers having
been killed, there is nothing that sets off a cop like another cop
getting killed, which I can understand. I have some friends in law
enforcement and it is an embattlement almost like being in the
military. It is very much an "us and them" mentality and when
another officer gets killed, there is nothing that sets off police
sentiments, and there is  also a very strong white-supremacist
presence in the LAPD. A lot of Nazi and Klan organizations
penetrated LAPD and there are elements of the LAPD that work with
the intelligence community, so we've got to be careful and I don't
know if we can...inaudible....

Q: Inaudible.....

A: Yeah, there are a number of things that I am going to be
discussing in weeks to come. I would note also that the attorney
general, well let's just say the justice department, which under
George Bush, was headed up by William Barr (sp), a "ex" CIA
operative who had left the CIA in early '77 when Jimmy Carter was
conducting a house cleaning with, among others, George Bush, he
headed up the justice department and the justice department
released a prosecution memo to the officers defense counsel, which
is strange behavior. I would also note that William Barr, after
retiring from Justice went to work for the law firm representing
Earl Bryan (sp), one of the people implicated by many in both
October Surprise and the Inslaw case, so a strange situation.

Q: Yeah, I was wondering if you could comment on the programming
you mentioned Purdy, the programming techniques used for setting up
patsies like Oswald and the way that they coincided with, say, the
setting up of Van de Lubo (sp) with the Reichstag and how that
pertains to the Nazi intelligence agencies being absorbed into the
CIA after World War II.

A: Yeah, as far as actual mind control, that has been developed by
a number of intelligence services and it was under development
during World War II by others. It's never been clear whether Lee
Harvey Oswald was programmed in any way. He didn't kill president
Kennedy. There have been allegations that he was programmed. I
cannot either confirm those or deny them. There is some discussion
of that in Radio Free America #5. Patrick Edward Purdy, on the
other hand, does appear to have been programmed. We can't say for
sure, but the circumstances surrounding his activities before and
immediately prior to, just before the shooting, suggest he may have
been a mind control patsy. He did too much travelling and bought
too many things for the resources available to him and he looks to
me like he probably was. With regard to the incorporation of much
of The Third Reich's intelligence system into this country at the
end of the war, that helps to promote the use by the U.S. of what
I would call the Scorzani (sp) methodology in which a small
incident involving a relatively small number of people can be
manipulated strategically to produce a result that normally would
have been achievable only with a commitment of a large number of
resources. Yesterday's bombing, for example, at the World Trade
Center, whatever it turns out to be, I suspect that it was a
provocation, and I suspect elements associated with the Eustaze
(sp) as having been involved. But if you look at the actual number
of people that were involved, it was relatively small, what, five,
maybe seven people were killed and a couple of hundred injured, and
yet that incident has absolutely transfixed the attention of this
entire country and yet it really only involved a small number of
people. That is in Radio Free America #22, which I recently
replayed by way of providing some background material to RFA #38
that I am doing now. The Scorzani methodology, the influence of SS
Colonel Otto Scorzani on the development of world terrorism, both
in terms of methodology and in terms of operational connections was
discussed and in my opinion, the archetypal incident, the seminal
incident for generating the methodology of modern terrorism was the
capture of Miki Horte (sp) during the closing stages of World War
II. Miki Horte was the playboy son of Hungarian head-of-state
Admiral Nicholas Horte. Hungary was one of Germany's wartime
allies and was the last of Germany's allies to desert it, other
than Japan, and the Horte government was conducting secret
negotiations with the Soviet Union and basically the Hungarian
troops were getting sick and tired of being chewed-up and they
wanted to switch sides and then turn against the Nazis. This
obviously would have collapsed the Nazi front, the Third Reich
front. So what Scorzani did was, he kidnapped Admiral Horte's son
and held him for ransom, and only when Horte broke off negotiations
with the Soviets was Miki Horte released. Only a very small number
of people were involved as combatants. A few Hungarians and a few
Nazis were killed and the kidnapped son was held and ultimately
released and through this one incident, though, Scorzani was able
to keep Hungary in the war on Germany's side to the very end, until
Soviet troops completely overran the country. That in many ways
was the seminal incident, the methodological archetype for modern
terrorism where we see a relatively small number of individuals
being killed or kidnapped or whatever and yet the attentions of an
entire nation or the entire world can be transfixed by such an
incident, yet the actual number of people involved and the
commitment of resources was relatively modest for a relatively
large effect.

Q: Very briefly, yesterday on the Larry King show, Jimmy Breslin
of New York City said that it was foreigners and that it was
terrorism. Now, just for the record because you've said something
about the Eustase, I would like you to kind of clarify, which I
suspect, that you would agree that it's very hard to distinguish
the Eustase from the CIA from a number of other organizations, so,
when you say that, make real clear to all of us that it is not
necessarily foreigners and what it might appear to be, some kind of
terrorism from abroad.

A: Well, that is why I said that in my opinion it was a
provocation. The Eustase have worked in conjunction with U.S.
intelligence. I talked about that in Radio Free America #36 and
touched on it again in #37. I've talked about it in Radio Free
America show #15 and I am going to be coming back to it, not only
in conjunction with discussion about the World Trade Center bombing
which initially Croatian extremists took credit for but also
eventually the assassination of Olaf Palme which may very well have
been connected to a number of things Palme was doing in opposition
to U.S. national security policy, including closing down all of the
Iran-Contra Arms pipelines. So, I think your comment is well taken
in that one should not use that incident like that to become
xenophobic. The Eustase are able to operate in this country and on
behalf of this country only because they do so with official
sanction. One  of the keys, vis-a-vis the media handling of the
World Trade Center bombing has been the statements by "terrorist
experts" about how easy something like this is to do. "Why anybody
can just pack a car up with explosives and drive it in and park
it". Yes, it is real easy to do that but it is not easy to know
how to hook up plastic explosive. The percentage of our population
that knows how to rig up a successful car bomb is relatively small
and access to C4 or any plastic explosive is really difficult. You
might be able to get your hands on a stash of C4, but right after
you have taken possession of it, either ATF or FBI or somebody else
is going to swoop down and pick you up. From what I know from my
own contacts, journalistic and professionals in the intelligence
community, it is really difficult to get hold of plastic
explosives. The government monitors that sort of thing very
carefully. You don't just get hold of a carload of plastic
explosive. It is not like bathroom caulking, it's different.

Q: I want to know if you thing it is possible or likely that the
current U.S. military operation in Somalia was developed or
conceived as possibly a readiness exercise in anticipation of
future riots in the urban ghetto, especially in the wake of the
riots in L.A.

A: Well, one of the things that I've emphasized over the years,
and I will reiterate it again is that when our national security
establishment decides to move in any given direction, they do so
when to make that move will satisfy a number of different strategic
considerations at different levels. Now  with regard to Somalia, I
think there is a distinct possibility that that may be a
preconceived covert operation. Certainly it is in a strategic part
of the world and whatever the political makeup opposed U.S
occupation in Somalia, that occupation is going to have a great
deal to do with determining what happens. You have a country where
starvation is rampant, the people that are going to survive are the
people who have access to the food and we are now in a position to
determine that. It is a matter of public record that we helped to
arm many of the warlords. According to a professional contact in
the intelligence community, we've controlled all of those warlords.
U.S. intelligence has controlled all of those bastards for a long
time. I don't present that as objective fact, that comes from
someone who was very reliable in the past and he said flat out when
I asked him, he said "look, we have controlled all those guys all
along." And it is a matter of public record, in fact I discussed
it in Radio Free America #20 and came back to it in #25, that the
Siadberre (sp) government was armed in part by the U.S.
intelligence community, utilizing in part, the Stebom (sp) arms-for
drugs ring which figures in Iran-Contra and in shooting the pope
and a number of other things. Now, we know that the current U.S.
ambassador to Somalia is Robert Oakley, who was one of the state
department collaborators with Oliver North in the Contra support
effort. I talked about, last week, the infrastructures that grew
out of the vice-president's task force on counter-terrorism.
Oakley is one of the main operatives of that group. We also know
that much of the "missionary" work that is being done in Somalia is
being done by World Vision and that World Vision has served as a
vehicle for U.S. intelligence activities in the past both in
Central America and Southeast Asia. Whether or not it is doing so
in Somalia is anybody's guess, however, certainly a possibility
that I think has to be seriously considered, I would also note that
U.S. oil companies have secured the rights to what are apparently
considerable petroleum reserves in Somalia and that in fact, I
believe that one of Conoco's buildings has actually served as the
operational headquarters for coordinating the U.S. military effort
there. And I would also note, too, that as you pointed out, first
of all it should be stated that the Somalia mission is tremendous
PR for the military which now has to justify its large budgets in
the post-cold war period and to present itself as a world-peace
keeper and civic organization and in fact this is tremendous PR for
the post-cold war military. I would also note that enlistments
soared as a result of the Somalia mission. But, hell, you're a
young dude, what do you want to do, you want to join the military,
see the world, you want to have all kinds of people hail you as
some sort of saviour. It is a 19-year-old male's fantasy to be
seen as a knight in shining armor. It's great. It's also doing
really nicely in helping to forestall post-cold war budget cuts for
the military. I would also note that it is, as you very
perceptively pointed out, whether or not it was intended this way,
to give the military practice in helping to keep in line civilian
population. And also, I would note whether or not there is any
connection, I have noted a similarity in the way the Somalia
situation has been portrayed in the media and the way the situation
in many or our inner cities is being portrayed. In other words,
there was a lot of publicity about this drug called khat which
apparently is a narcotic that is widely used in Somalia and khat is
being blamed for much of the country's problems and apparently the
flow of this drug is being regulated in part by the warlords that
are also in control of things. And I have noted a similarity in
the portrayal of the warlords khat-crazed, khat-dealing, warlords,
armed to the teeth, these gangs of rowdy, radical, uncontrollable
people, basically a sort of anarchy, an armed, drug-crazed anarchy
that prevails in Somalia and of the media handling of much of the
inner-city areas too, where crack cocaine-crazed, you know, armed
to the teeth, gangs are portrayed as being in possession of our
inner cities and I can see very easily how in the minds of the
average "cracker" American, a connection could be made between what
we are doing in Somalia and "by God, what we got to do there in Los
Angeles, get troops in there, kick a little ass and teach them
niggers a lesson they are never going to forget". I am not trying
to offend anybody, but let's face it, a lot of people in this
country think that way and I can very easily see Joe and Jane
SixPack making that sort of an equation by watching what is going
on in Somalia. "By God, we handle the niggers over there, we will
handle the niggers here too". Seriously, that is the way a lot of
people in this country think.

Q: As we sit there and watch all this stuff roll out before our
eyes, if you could look into your picture of it, where do you think
we go from here and what is it going to look like in the next six
years?

A: It is going to get worse, I think, much worse. You know, as
far as where we are going now, I am afraid that the Clinton
administration is simply a hiatus, it's a respite. I think Clinton
is already being handed signs of destabilization and unless people
recognize the lessons of history, he is going to be destabilized.
I seriously wonder about what sorts of signals might be being sent
behind the scenes to Clinton. I mean, here, the area that the
Secret Service used to store its vehicles has just been utilized to
plant a major bomb. Who knows what was behind that. I've noted
too, and I have more questions than answers about a lot of things,
but I noted that in the 1980s, there was a lot of discussion about
a proposal about gene splicing, an experiment in which e-coli, the
bacterium that is implicated in this food poisoning in the Jack-in-
the-Box restaurant, there was a genetic engineering experiment in
which the gene which produced diphtheria toxin was going to be
introduced into e-coli. There was a tremendous uproar over this
because e-coli is the most omnipresent microorganism in the world.
Every human, in fact virtually every mammal has large, copious
quantities of e-coli in their intestines. It is all throughout the
sewer system and if a genetically engineered variation of e-coli,
featuring the diphtheria genes were unleashed into the population,
this could produce havoc. There may be no connection whatsoever,
but I noted that recently in this Jack-in-the-Box poisoning with e-
coli that was implicated. And I noted that whatever this was, it
was different than the usual food poisoning. I have worked in the
restaurant as a manager, a cook, a waiter, and food poisoning isn't
contagious and some of these kids contracted this disease from
other people who had eaten at the restaurants. And just stop and
think for a minute what well-known political figure generates a lot
of publicity in recent weeks over his trips to fast food
restaurants. I wonder whether they may be sending a message to
Bill Clinton. I note that in the summer of 1979, Jimmy Carter was
considering a complete revamp of his administration and a complete
readjustment of his policy and he made some public statements to
the effect that he thought there was a conspiracy behind the
assassination of president Kennedy.

One thing I really noted, it got very little publicity, but he said
"We are going to have to go all the way back to the assassination
of president Kennedy to get this country right." That was an
extraordinary thing for a seated president to say. No sooner was
Jimmy Carter doing that than in May, it actually began before the
summer of 1979, but on a trip to Los Angeles there was an aborted
attempt on Jimmy Carter's life. Two gunmen that had come up from
Mexico, named Ray Lee Harvey and Oswaldo Ortiz, in other words, Ray
as in James Earl Ray and Lee Harvey as in Lee Harvey Oswald and
Oswaldo Ortiz were arrested for stalking Jimmy Carter with a rifle.
They just seem to have disappeared.  There was no follow-up on the
prosecution or anything like that. I suspect that a message was
being sent to Jimmy Carter, and I wonder, and I am not saying this
is the case, but among the questions I have, I never..the e-coli
outbreak at Jack-in-the-Box. I just wonder if Bill Clinton might
be getting told something today. "Listen Bill, you know, lot of
kids eat at fast-food restaurants and if you don't want anything to
happen to Chelsea, you know, or something to happen to Hillary, or
something to happen to you, you better shape up. And it may be
that all he has to do is avoid prosecuting the numerous scandals or
avoid investigation of numerous scandals. But I am concerned about
what I see. I also look at the juxtaposition of articles in the
newspaper talking about Bill Clinton as the next Jimmy Carter. One
Sunday edition of the Mercury, there was a big article talking
about already it looks like Clinton is going to be the next Jimmy
Carter, which is what I said, by the way, the week after Clinton
got elected. Somebody accused me of fatalism, but right next to
that, the Secret Service is really worried about how folksy Bill
Clinton is and how he is really exposing himself to assassination
by another one of our lone nuts. The two were juxtaposed. I
didn't like the juxtaposition of those articles. Again, I am not
saying this is, these are not statements I am making, they are
questions I am asking. There are an awful lot of weird things
happening and I wonder about the shooting at CIA headquarters. I
wonder whether messages are being sent to Bill Clinton. Who the
hell knows what he gets told late at night. A White House phone
rings and someone says "Listen, Billy Baby, you see that shooting
down at CIA headquarters?, well, a lot of shooting is going to
happen at a lot of headquarters. You just stay the course, you
don't look into this Iran-Contra, or Inslaw, or any of this other
things too closely, or by God, you know, you are going to have an
eternal flame at Arlington Cemetery yourself bucko, so watch your
step." I noted, whether there is any connection or not, you know
Bill Clinton visited, had actually met JFK when he was a youngster
and he visited Kennedy's grave, the eternal flame, and knelt in
silent prayer. I don't know if anybody noted what he brought to
the grave site (a white rose). George Bush's intelligence nickname
was "The White Rose" and Clinton delivered a white rose to the
grave of John F. Kennedy. I don't know, it might have been just
coincidence, there are coincidences. It may have been somebody was
making a statement. It may be that Clinton had no idea but one of
his intelligence people said, "Hey Bill, why don't you bring this to
Kennedy's grave" knowing that it had a larger significance. May be
complete BS, but again those are the things I wonder about, because
I am convinced at this point there is a whole stratum of
communication which the general public doesn't see. You know,
these people talk to each other and I strongly suspect that Bill
Clinton has had some cold water splashed in his face and this may
be a component of communication. On the other hand, it may not be,
it may be just coincidence.

Q: I am 36 years old now and I grew up right here in this town, I
served in the Vietnam war in the Marine Corps. My father was a
Navy officer and I look back at all the things that have happened
in the last 25 years and I wonder what the real motivations were
and I actually think it goes before Kennedy. So could you possibly
address what you thing the motivations, the real motivations are
for this. What has happened to us in the last 25 years. There has
to be more to it than just greed and killing and money and power.
I thing there is a bigger picture there.

A: Well, in terms of answering your question, I can't give you a
quick answer in the course of the discussion this evening because
really the answer to that question is the substance of my whole
life's work and in turn I have incorporated the research of an
awful lot of other people over the decades and attempted to display
the spectrum of antifascist research. I am an antifascist
researcher. The best that I could do for you would be to refer you
to Radio Free America #37. Hardly a short answer, but that
particular effort, which to date I consider my best piece of work
and most important piece of work, really goes to explain the flow
of history in the 20th century. That work is already making some
waves in a number of different quarters. But the overall
explanation is not a short one or a brief one. It is something
that I have tried to portray in the other archive shows. In the
next few weeks, I am going to be doing a program which is
specifically going to be intended as an introduction or an epilogue
to Radio Free America #37, in which I am going to explain some of
the premises that I am operating on and I hope that will answer
your question. But what I am going to be doing as the main element
of that is to read the speech that Adolph Hitler gave before the
Industry Club of Dusseldorf in 1931. It was that speech that won
many of Germany's top industrialists over to Hitler's side. There
were a number of reactionary political parties in Weimar Germany.
The Nazi party became, ultimately, the choice of the industrialists
for a variety of reasons. One of the main ones was that Hitler's
speech before the Industry Club of Dusseldorf won them over, and to
make a long story short, that speech basically maintained that
democracy was inherently subversive and equated democracy with
communism because, according to Hitler, if you allowed people
political freedom, political democracy, they would use that to
effect a redistribution of wealth, which Hitler said was counter-
evolutionary, not counterrevolutionary, but counter-evolutionary,
because, as Hitler put it, those who enjoy superior positions in
society, wealthy industrialists and financiers, enjoy those
positions because they are themselves superior and they have used
their superior abilities to gain a superior position in society and
that is a just situation. Sort of social Darwinism. He maintained
it was subversive to allow democracy because if you allow democracy
to people, they will use their political democracy to effect a
redistribution of wealth and that is counter-evolutionary because
it allows inferior people to gain a superior position in society
and, of course, the top industrialists and financiers ate that up.
That was just what they wanted to hear. That is as close as I
could come to giving you an answer to your question. Yeah, it
really is about greed and money and power.

Q: I hope to hear more from you on Majestic 12 in the future.

A: We are going to be moving in that direction. That is a UFO
disinformation group and we are going to be talking about the whole
UFO question as it relates to a lot of these things. Political and
sociological implications of the UFO phenomenon and the ET myth in
weeks to come.

Q: I take it that you think that "they" are fascist elements and
that they have garnered enough power to be able to call the
president of the United States at night and threaten him?

A: This is one of the questions that I have. I suspect, yes. I
am convinced that they do send messages. How explicit this is, I
can only guess. In other words, I wonder. The statements that I
made, I want to make very clear, as I went into the discussion of
the White Rose, etc., those things, yes I wonder what goes on
outside of the public viewpoint, you know, when someone like Bill
Clinton, who really was out of the loop, so to speak, even though
some of the Contra support operation did happen in Arkansas on his
watch, he is clearly not a national security insider ala George
Bush. When you get a guy like that or a guy like Jimmy Carter, and
Clinton had been backed by the same faction of the national
security establishment that Carter was backed by, but it does not
appear to be a controlling faction. Although one which has
sufficient power to frustrate some of the designs of the dominant
elements, which are exclusively fascist. It is a question I have
again, the facts, you know, where Jimmy Carter says we better go
back to the assassination of president Kennedy and then two lone
nuts named Ray Lee Harvey and Oswald Ortiz show up and the thing
that struck me as so unusual about that was that that case
disappeared from the news. I do not know what happened to those
guys, and nobody I know knows what happened to those guys. It was
a big story one or two days and then that was it. I wonder whether
Carter was being told "listen you stupid jerk, you want to go back
to the assassination of president Kennedy, we will take you back,
Cracker, we will take you all the way back".

Q: I am just curious because I am a new listener to your radio
program and this is the first of your public appearances that I
have been at and if there is such a clear connection between the
assassination of Kennedy and Martin and Malcolm (and Robert Kennedy
and the shooting of George Wallace), then there has to be an
equally clear group. If those incidences are interrelated and
interconnected, there must be one source you are tracing this back
to and so you are saying that there is a fascist element.

A: Yes, and a dominant one at this point. That is why I talked
about the parallels between what happened in Germany and Japan with
the assassination programs of the Black Reichfere and the Patriotic
Societies and compared that to the assassinations in the United
States.

Q: Just a reminder to people, it seems like every time a really
top-notch black person stands up and become a national figure, they
get undercut. I would remind people that it is not just Malcolm X
and it isn't, you know, Martin Luther King. We are talking about
Barbara Jordan. Something happened to her and I would sure like to
know what it was. You know, she is not dead, but she is out of the
picture.

A: She was very against Robert Bork when he was being nominated to
be Chief Justice.

Q: Barbara Jordan was absolutely brilliant and she had all the
makings of being a really significant world leader and now she
doesn't because of this incident that happened in the swimming
pool, we don't know what it was. In addition to that, Harold
Washington, something happened to him, something like Phil Burton.
You know, we are talking about, I think, a real plan to make sure
that there are no black leaders and, you know, we need to be aware
that every time they stand up, they get undercut or killed or
something happens.

A: Yes, and not just black leaders, but progressive leaders of all
types. In the beginning of the discussion this evening, I talked
about the ones that had been shot to death. There are many other
very curious deaths. Vernon Jordan, a member of Clinton's
transition team, left from his position as head of the Urban League
after being shot and critically wounded by a white supremacist.
His predecessor, Whitney Young drowned while on a trip to Africa.
There are a lot of very questionable deaths, ones we cannot say
"yes, ipso facto, this is an assassination", but about which that
question should be asked. I have a lot of questions about the
death of Mickey Leland, the congressman from Texas, who had been
very active on behalf of famine relief in Africa, which did not sit
too well with some elements of our national security establishment.
Even more importantly, Mickey Leland was chairman of the House
Postal Oversight committee and had been very vocal in protest over
the awarding of the contract to fly the Express Mail to Evergreen
Airlines, which is a CIA-connected airline which bought out
Intermountain Aviation, a CIA-Air proprietary. They were awarded
the contract to fly the Express Mail despite the fact that they
were not low bidder on the contract. Mickey Leland was outraged by
this and was calling for a congressional investigation of how this
happened. Unfortunately, that investigation never took place
because Mickey Leland himself was express mailed over Ethiopia and
died in the crash of a private plane there. Incidentally, Mickey
Leland's death and disappearance were used to conduct the largest
out-of-country search operation that the U.S. military air wings
have ever been engaged in. At the time, whether or not there is a
connection, at the time, Ethiopia was a Marxist country and
obviously as such a target of U.S. covert operations. Again, bear
in mind that when our national security establishment decides to
move in any given direction, they do so when to move in that
direction will scratch a number of different itches at different
levels, simultaneously.


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