-Caveat Lector- .............................................................. >From the New Paradigms Project [Not Necessarily Endorsed]: Note: We archive similar "assassination posts" at: http://www.msen.com/~lloyd/oldprojects/recentmail.html From: "Howard Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: MARTIN LUTHER KING - NEW INFORMATION SURFACES Date: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 4:06 PM [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mantra.com/jyotish (Dr. Jai Maharaj) wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Forwarded messages > > Martin Luther King - New Information Surfaces > > By Pat Shannan > American Patriot Friends Network > > Posted on 7/31/2001 by Michael Rivero > > "M.L. King Murder A Government Plot," > Says Former CIA Participant. "I was part of it." > "Raoul" Identified as FBI Agent > > By Pat Shannan - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > New evidence has surfaced in the 1968 Martin Luther King > murder case. It is supplied by an "insider" who claims to > have been part of a "hit team" that had come out of the > "Missouri Mafia" headquartered in the town of > Caruthersville, a small town in the bootheel section of > that state. In a yet-to-be-published book, former County > Deputy Jim Green reveals his assigned role in the > conspiracy, the name of the actual trigger man, and the > long-suspected involvement of J. Edgar Hoover and the > FBI. Green also believes that he possesses the actual > murder weapon, which he personally secreted away only > hours after the murder. > > "Jim Green is telling the truth," says Lyndon Barsten, an > astute researcher of the case over the past decade. "I > have no doubt whatsoever. The pieces he has supplied fit > perfectly and could not have come from someone who was > not there." Indeed they do fit, and it is all backed up > by FBI documentation derived by Barsten through numerous > FOIA requests. > > On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King was gunned down > on the second floor balcony of the Lorraine Motel in > Memphis, Tennessee by a single shot from a high powered > rifle. Several witnesses said the shot came from the > bushes on a slope from across the street. The FBI > concluded that it came from the rear bathroom window of a > cheap hotel, also across the street and higher up the > hill. > > Two weeks later the name of James Earl Ray, a fugitive > escapee from the Missouri State Penitentiary, was > announced to the world as the man who had killed King, > escaped to Canada, and was currently in hiding somewhere > across the border. After Ray was identified as the killer > and long before he was captured, the FBI spent little or > no time pursuing any other leads. Two months later the > fugitive was caught changing planes at Heathrow Airport > in London, after having left Canada and spending ten days > with persons unknown in Portugal. He was attempting to > board a plane to Brussels. > > On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray, with his attorney > Percy Foreman, pled guilty to the murder before the court > of Judge Preston Battle. He was sentenced to 99 years in > prison. He recanted almost immediately and filed a motion > for a trial only three days later. But before the month > was out, Judge Battle was found dead in his chambers, > slumped over his desk. Beneath his head were the papers > of the handwritten motion from James Earl Ray. The case > was closed, and Ray began his sentence in the Tennessee > State Penitentiary. > > The "Official" Story > > The scenario released by Memphis police and the FBI and > later used by the House Select Committee on > Assassinations (HSCA) was that in late March of 1968, > James Earl Ray had purchased a Remington 30.06 rifle from > the Aeromarine Supply Store in Birmingham and had > traveled with it to Memphis in a white Mustang. Here he > checked into Bessie Brewer's boarding house in the 400 > block of South Main Street on the afternoon of April 4th. > Directly behind it was the Lorraine Motel on Mulberry > Street. > > At 6:00 p.m. Martin L. King stepped out of room 306 and > was joined by a group of followers with whom he had been > in a meeting all afternoon. He was gunned down only a > minute later by a single shot from the rear bathroom > window across the street. > > Not one witness saw the actual firing of the shot or > claimed it had come from the window. Most believed it had > come from the bushes on the slope, fifty feet closer. > > Still according to the official story, Ray allegedly ran > out of the bathroom and down the hall to his room. Here > he stuffed the rifle back into its box and included it > with a bundle containing his clothes, binoculars, > ammunition, a beer can with his fingerprints; and perhaps > the most incriminating of all, a portable radio with his > inmate number from the Missouri State Penitentiary > engraved in the back side. > > He ran down the stairs and out onto the street where he > then dumped the bundle in the doorway of Canipe's > Amusement Company next door to the rooming house. He then > zoomed away in the soon-to-be-infamous white Mustang. He > stayed a few days in Atlanta before moving on to Canada. > > James Earl's Version > > In 1987, after being imprisoned for 19 years, Ray told > his side of the story in Tennessee Waltz, a book that > went out of print and was later published under the title > of Who Killed Martin Luther King? (The biggest loss here > was original publisher Tupper Saussy's brilliant > epilogue, "The Politics of Witchcraft," which exposed > certain secrets that the establishment publishers > preferred not to discuss. Under the new title the > epilogue was eliminated.) However, he appeared be > avoiding "the whole truth and nothing but the truth" in > certain areas, apparently out of fear of self- > incrimination - not necessarily for the murder but for > some lesser crimes. It also appears that James became > aware too late that he had indeed been unwittingly > involved in the conspiracy to assassinate Martin Luther > King. > > Ray tells of his prison escape via a bread truck in April > of 1967. After laying low in East St. Louis for a couple > of months, he made it to Chicago where he looked up some > old contacts that enabled him to purchase an old Chrysler > for $100. From there he went to Detroit and crossed the > border into Canada. In July, he met a man he knew only as > "Raoul," who quickly began to give James money in > exchange for his help with importing some kind of > contraband. James said he never knew if this was guns, > drugs, or what, as he never actually participated in > anything more than trial runs. Raoul always seemed to > remain in the "planning" stages of a smuggling operation. > > Ray had a contact phone number in the Area Code of "504," > where he had phoned his contact, "Raoul," many times over > the months prior to the murder. However, when he tried to > dial this New Orleans number on the day after the > assassination, it was already disconnected. > > Through Raoul, James was kept supplied with money to go > to Mexico to wait for instructions and to Los Angeles to > see a plastic surgeon for a "nose job," effectuating a > change in his appearance. He never worked at a job in any > of this time frame prior to the assassination and was > obviously under the financial control of Raoul. James was > traveling in a 1966 pale yellow Mustang (not white as > were the others), purchased with $2,000 supplied by > Raoul. > > James always claimed he had acquired the names of his > aliases at random from a Toronto phone book. He bought > the gun in Birmingham under the name of "Harvey > Lowmeyer," checked into the Memphis flophouse as "John > Willard," acquired an Alabama driver's license as "Eric > S. Galt," and traveled to Europe on a passport as Ramon > George Sneyd. However, all four, for which he [or > someone] had created I.D., looked very much like Ray. The > odds of these being a random choice were just short of > impossible. It also is likely that the Los Angeles > plastic surgery rounding out his previously pointed nose > was designed to make him look more like these men, none > of whom knew they were being impersonated. > > In February of 1968, Raoul sent travel funds to James in > Los Angeles and ordered him back to New Orleans. >From > there the two drove together to Atlanta. In late March, > James says that Raoul was making plans for them to drive > to Miami but these plans abruptly changed around March > 29th. They were now going to Memphis. > > It was on or about this date that MLK had cancelled a > planned speaking engagement in Miami in order to fly to > Memphis and tend to the problems with the garbage strike. > It now seems that Raoul had this information before > anyone else. > > En route they spent the first night in Birmingham. After > checking into a motel, Raoul gave James a wad of money > and sent him to the Aeromarine Supply Store to purchase a > "deer rifle for your brother-in-law." Having little > knowledge of weaponry, James bought what he thought was > appropriate and returned with a .243 caliber Winchester. > Raoul immediately decided he didn't like it and sent > James back to the store the next morning to exchange it > for another with a "larger bore." > > The salesman told James, "Tell your brother-in-law that > this gun will bring down any deer in Alabama!" But he did > agree to exchange it for the higher priced Remington > 30.06. After his incarceration, James was always certain > that real purpose of this instructed return to the gun > store was simply another part of the "set-up" to make > sure that the salesman would not forget him. > > In Memphis on April 4th, the afternoon of the murder, > Raoul had suggested that James go to a movie, but James > declined. After several tries at getting rid of James for > awhile, Raoul finally sent him on an errand only minutes > before King was shot. James said that he was going to get > the worn tires changed on the Mustang but that the man at > the tire store was too busy and could not get to it that > day. When James returned to the flophouse/Lorraine Motel > location, it was surrounded by police cars with flashing > lights, and he decided it would be prudent to leave the > area, as it certainly was not a place for an escaped con > to hanging around. > > Ray was very vague about this time frame, and it may be > assumed, again, that he did not want to admit to having > backed out of a planned armed robbery, which appears > below. To do so might have led to too many questions > about his foreknowledge of the murder about to take place > and exposed his (assumed) role - that of getaway driver. > We must remember that while in prison, Ray was extremely > vulnerable. > > It was while he was driving south on U.S. Highway 61 into > Mississippi that James heard the news on the radio that > Martin Luther King had been shot. He then turned east and > headed back to Atlanta. James was always vague about the > details of his return trip to Canada and the contacts he > made there prior to his flight to Europe - often > appearing to be protecting others. > > In Tennessee Waltz, Ray told a chilling story of > harassment and torture, describing his treatment in the > Shelby County Jail, which sounded as if he were relating > experiences from the Soviet Union rather than America. He > was kept under floodlights 24 hours a day for eight solid > months prior to his guilty plea, never knowing if it was > day or night outside. His cell was "bugged," and two > deputies were monitoring and recording every conversation > - even those purported sacrosanct exchanges between > client and attorney. Tired and weakened by the strain, > Ray was finally coerced into a guilty plea by his > attorney, to whom he referred for the rest of his life as > "Percy Foreflusher." > > New Pieces To The Puzzle > > Over the years Jim Green's Federal Intelligence > connections have become legendary in his hometown of > Caruthersville, Missouri. "He's untouchable," or "He > can't be arrested, the feds just walk him out of jail, > everybody knows that." But now one must assume that the > Untouchable is fast becoming anathema to his former > handlers. Jim has had an attack of conscience and is > talking! > > "I hope to change a lie in history to the truth about > that day in Memphis," says Green, 54, a reformed "bad > boy" who spent the first half of his life as a teenage > runaway, moonshine runner, and car thief. The last half > was spent in law enforcement, raising children, teaching > school, and coaching football - along with occasional > undercover work. His only source of income today is a > social security disability check. Since coming forward > with his story, he has refused all offers of any work > involving government covert action, for fear of being > "set up" and/or killed. > > On December 3, 1998, he spent six hours with MLK's son > Dexter King, Rev. James Lawson, and William Pepper (Ray's > attorney and author of Orders to Kill, a semi-accurate > compilation of facts and conjecture describing the > government's involvement in the King assassination). > > "At this meeting, I cleared my soul telling Dexter of my > involvement on the day of his father's death," says > Green. "I knew there would be many more questions to > come, and that's when I decided to put my story in > writing." > > He calls his book, Blood and Dishonor on a Badge of > Honor, and when he put it up on the internet two years > ago, it caught the attention of Lyndon Barsten on > Minneapolis. Barsten decided to check Green's story > against the known facts as well as the suppressed > information uncovered by him and others over the years. > He was astounded. Everything fit. Green knew details that > could only have been known by someone who was there, and > the FBI documentation acquired by Barsten substantiated > his story. Some of these papers show that the FBI had > been constantly tracking James Earl Ray and had knowledge > of his whereabouts during most of the year he was an > escaped convict. Both Green and Barston believe that the > FBI was instrumental in Ray's "escape" from the Missouri > State Penitentiary in April of 1967 for the sole purpose > of setting him up as a "patsy" when the time came. > > "Why else would these reports be in the record?" says > Green, "And why would they have any files on an escaped > con from a state prison?" Indeed. And something even more > suspicious, why did the FBI not contact the Missouri > authorities and have Ray picked up? He was under their > thumb for some ten months. Later investigation showed > that the fingerprints sent out by JeffCity for "escaped > prisoner James Earl Ray" were not really his, ensuring > his release if he happened to be captured as an escaped > felon. > > CIA/Peace Corps > > Jim Green was student at Caruthersville High when he > decided that the Peace Corps would be an exciting way to > see the world. At the tender age of 16, he had no way of > knowing that this was a major feeding ground of the > Central Intelligence Agency (he assumes that his school > counselor who helped him fill out the forms did not > either), but this was where the initial contact was made. > > > He was contacted by FBI personnel and given a thorough > background check. Then a series of interesting and > mysterious events began after he was accepted and was > under the government's control. In a short time this led > to the Missouri State Pen where he knew James Earl Ray in > 1966. > > "I have a good memory, but there are two weeks from this > time at Jeff City that I can only remember a few hours > of," Jim reflects. > > Lyndon Barsten says, "The contacts and methods utilized > in the murder of Dr. King bear the signature of the CIA, > including the probable use of MK-Ultra mind control > techniques. Parallel psychiatric irregularities at the > Missouri prison system are described by James Earl Ray > and Jim Green, including the shocking drugging of inmates > which could render the indication of hypnosis easier or > otherwise enhance its usefulness. It seems highly likely > that Jim was subjected to psychological assessment and > manipulation, the results of which directed back to > Federal Intelligence Agencies." > > A further series of events led to Jim's early release > (effectuated by "Paul," the FBI Agent who became his > handler) and a reunion back in Caruthersville with Butch > Collier, his former partner from the moonshine running > days. For the next year and a half, Jim and Butch and > others ran moonshine and delivered hot cars from St. > Louis to New Orleans. Both operations were under the > direction of Paul, who would later show his credentials > to Jim and identify himself as a FBI Agent. At first > Green was concerned about this ("I had never known the > feds to be crooked!"), but he was assured by others whom > he trusted that Paul had the power to isolate them from > any investigation. "Paul's boss is at the top," he was > told. Jim took this implication to mean none other than > J. Edgar Hoover. > > This complicated, sometimes hard-to-follow sequence of > activities in Green's life is made plainer (especially to > those unfamiliar with the facts of the MLK murder case) > by the frequent interjection of Lyndon Barsten's > clarification of facts. But at this point, Green and his > older (by six years) friend, Butch Collier, resumed their > lives of crime. Not only would they hot wire and snatch > individual autos from parking lots and drive them to > Memphis, but they were also paid $5,000 on occasion to > drive an 18-wheeler load of several cars from St. Louis > to New Orleans for delivery to the Carlos Marcello mob. > Green says that this was done with full knowledge and > protection of the FBI. > > ("At this time of my life, the only thing that made me > nervous was Paul. His being an agent of the FBI didn't > fit into my little world at the time. Also, I didn't like > it because it seemed like Paul was running the show and > he was an outsider! I guess, at that young age, I just > did what I was told. This must be why eighteen-year-olds > are chosen to fight wars. Most men with experience will > ask `Why are we here,' and most teenagers will just > follow orders.") > > April 4, 1968 > > Jim Green's story fills in more blanks with logical > answers to the previously unanswered questions. His > assignment, for which he was to be paid $10,000, was to > kill James Earl Ray. "On the night of April 3rd," Green > says, "Paul met us in our room. He had a small package > which he laid on the bed, he told us "there's $5,000 in > that package for you and five more when the job is done, > once James Earl Ray is killed on the fourth." > > Indicative of the compartmentalization of each > participant in this textbook CIA assassination, Green > says that he was not even aware of the total operation of > which he had been a part until he was back home in > Caruthersville watching the Ten O'clock News with his > father. He would only be following orders and believes > that he was chosen for this segment because he had spent > time at JeffCity with Ray and knew what he looked like. > > Jim and his partner, Butch Collier, stalked Ray in the > early afternoon after they found him at Jim's Cafe - > exactly where they had been told they would find him. > Later Jim climbed to his assigned rooftop position of a > dilapidated three story office building in the next block > south of Bessie Brewer's rooming house on Main Street at > around 3:30 p.m., armed with a .357 caliber rifle. His > instructions were to shoot James Earl Ray "after five > o'clock" and only in the event that John Talley, a > Memphis Police Detective, failed. > > The planners did not want to face another Oswald/Tippet- > type snafu as in Dallas. > > James Earl Ray was in the rooming house, and Green > observed him come and go three or four times during the > next two hours. On one of these occasions, Ray came > outside and stood by the Mustang for several minutes > before going back upstairs. > > This coincides with Ray's story that Raoul kept > attempting to get James away from the area. It also > telegraphs again that Ray was purposefully not telling > the whole story, apparently being careful not to > jeopardize his position of "innocent and framed" by > admitting planned criminal activity. Green's next segment > shows us the real plan already in motion to set up Ray. > The man that Green knew as Paul, the FBI Special Agent, > was the same person Ray knew as Raoul, who had kept him > on a leash for eight months - from Montreal to Memphis. > > When Ray left the flophouse the final time, at a few > minutes before six (King would be shot at 6:01), Green > knew the instructions from Paul/Raoul had been for Ray to > first rob Jim's Grill at gunpoint and hurry south on Main > Street to the Arcade Restaurant. The phony ploy was that > they were getting ready to travel and would need some > quick cash. However, James must have become suspicious. > When he came out on the street, he did not commit the > armed robbery nor continue walking down the sidewalk as > instructed but climbed into the Mustang (James' car was > not white, as reported by police and the news media, but > a pale yellow) and calmly drove north away from the > scene. He never returned. By this time Butch Collier was > stationed in the bushes in back of the boarding house and > directly across the street from the Lorraine Motel. > > It was a fortuitous intuition on the part of Ray. > Lingering in the next block was Memphis Police Detective > John Talley, whose assignment was to kill Ray. He was > carrying the standard police issue .357 Magnum revolver. > Jim Green was on the roof of the building across the > street and armed with the.357 rifle in the event Talley > missed or was killed by Ray. Green was the backup in case > anything went wrong. The caliber would match. > > Remember Dallas in 1963 Re.Oswald and Officer Tippett. > Again this is straight from the textbook of > "Assassinations 101." After the patsy is dead, anything > can be leaked to the press to demonize him, as it was in > both these cases, even while each was still alive. > > But when Ray was "spooked" and drove away in the pale > yellow Mustang, it threw a monkey wrench into the > conspirator's plans. > > However, there was a second Mustang that still remained > parked on Main Street. This one was white and belonged to > Joe R. Tipton but was brought to Memphis by Jim Green and > Butch Collier. They had also brought several rifles, > which were still in the trunk. Green's instructions were > to stay on the rooftop until Collier arrived in the > parking area at the rear to pick him up. At 6:01 p.m., he > heard the shot, and only moments later saw Paul and Butch > emerge one behind the other from the stairway of the > flophouse onto the street. He saw Paul dump the bundle of > evidence into the doorway of Canipe's Amusement Company, > while Butch was jumping into the driver's seat of the > white Mustang, and watched as they sped north on Main > Street. Paul/Raoul and the Memphis Police utilized a > third Mustang, also white, as a diversion. > > Suddenly the FBI's folly of the utter stupidity of the > alleged assassin (Ray) dumping his own incriminating > evidence on the street begins to take shape. Paul > intended to drop it in the back seat of the pale yellow > Mustang - Ray's - thinking that James Earl had followed > instructions and was down the street getting killed. Then > the FBI would have had its open and shut case. (Ray is > dead and here is the "murder" weapon found in his car.) > But when Paul/Raoul is suddenly confronted with the > current situation of no Ray car available, he > frustratingly drops the bundle in the first handy place, > and he and Butch hightail it up the street in the white > Mustang. Jim Green watched all this unfold from his > secluded rooftop position. > > Butch Collier had just killed Martin Luther King with one > shot from the bushes on the slope across the street from > the Lorraine Motel. He then ran up the rear stairs to the > second floor and back down the front stairs to Main > Street. By this time, Paul had run down the hall from the > upstairs bathroom (where he had watched the shooting) > carrying the "plant" rifle purchased in Birmingham by Ray > in hand. (Paul was seen by other tenants who later said > this person was not Ray.) He then stuffed it in the bag > with the other "evidence" and was down the front > stairwell only seconds behind Collier. Jim Green watched > as Butch drove two blocks up the street before pausing to > drop off Paul at a parked Memphis Police Department squad > car. A couple of minutes later, Butch was tooting the > horn of the Mustang in the parking lot behind Jim's > three-story perch. Jim came down to join his confederate, > stashed his rifle in the trunk with the others, and the > two men headed for the Mississippi River Bridge toward > Arkansas. Jim tells of hauling several guns to Memphis in > the trunk of the Mustang on April 2nd, following the > instructions of Paul. Butch had removed the one of his > choice for the King murder earlier the next day, but the > other weapons were still in the trunk. In Collier's haste > to escape the murder scene, he had not bothered to open > the trunk but had quickly thrown the murder weapon onto > the floor behind the front seat as he and Paul jumped > into the Mustang. When Collier and Green crossed the > river into Arkansas, they took an immediate turn onto the > frontage road and headed back down to the riverside. They > hurriedly opened the trunk and dumped the cache of > weapons into the water. Headed up U. S. 61 and halfway > home an hour later, Jim peered into the back seat and > noticed the rifle on the floor. When he called his > partner's attention to it, Butch realized that they had > failed to dump the most important evidence of all. "Well > !@#$," said Collier, we can't drop it here on the side of > the highway. What do we do with it?' Jim pondered a > moment and said, "Never mind. I know a friend who will > take care of it with no questions asked." Green delivered > the rifle the next morning to his trusted but unnamed > friend in Caruthersville, who kept it for 29 years. When > he decided to write his book, Green retrieved it and has > had it stashed in a safe place in another state ever > since. The rifle has now been tested for ballistics and > the results are pending. While James Earl Ray was running > from the FBI in April, May, and June, he had no way of > knowing that he was also being pursued by Jim Green and > Butch Collier as well - although he may have suspected > it. On April 6th, the shooters were called together for a > meeting at the Climax Bar in Caruthersville with Paul > some others. Jim Green describes the situation: We were > told we had "some serious problems" to deal with. "First > you have to find Ray and kill him, in order that nothing > can lead back to the government or us," Paul said. "We're > all in this together, and if one of us goes down, we all > go down." He told us that his orders came from the top. > "Roachie will kill us before he or his boss will get > involved." Paul seemed more serious than ever. Later, I > figured out who Roachie was: Cartha Deloach, the number > three man [in the FBI] behind Hoover and Tolson. . . > Butch and I told them what we did with the rifles but > forgot to mention the 30.06 that I have to this day. . . > Everybody in that room that day is dead except for Paul > and me. (In those days Green and Collier always used as > their "life insurance policy" the bluff that they had the > rifle and various tapes and records that would go public > if anything happened to them. It wasn't true, but it > worked. Collier died about ten years ago of cancer.) For > the next few weeks Green and Collier went to several > places, toting unregistered Rossi .38 pistols made in > Brazil, in their quest to kill Ray. Paul always seemed to > have a line on Ray's whereabouts, and the two hunters > came closest to their prey in Toronto. Paul had sent them > to a hotel where they learned that James Earl had checked > out only two hours earlier. They searched several other > places for two other aliases under which Paul knew Ray to > be traveling and hiding, but they could not locate him. > Green says that it was obvious to Butch and him at the > time that Paul had ongoing intelligence being fed to him > by either the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the > Toronto City Police. "Ramon George Sneyd" soon acquired > his passport and made his way to Europe, never knowing > how close he came to being murdered on the run - > ironically by the same faction that had murdered Martin > Luther King and pinned the crime on Ray. Green > subsequently served a short time in jail for some > previous infractions but had his very early release aided > by Paul. Two years later, Green met with Missouri > Attorney General John Danforth and about a half dozen > others, including Paul, at a Sikeston, Missouri motel. It > was a secret investigation in an attempt to oust the > county sheriff and expose his corruption - which > eventually succeeded. But Green's performance, with the > correct double-talk, exposed nothing, and for this he was > later rewarded with a deputy's job in the new > administration. He later moved on to federal undercover > work in Memphis. During one seven-month period in the > mid-70s, the Memphis group got 265 convictions and failed > only once when a mistrial was declared. Green says, "I > know first-hand that the police will testify in whatever > way they have to in order to get a conviction or further > their careers." For now exposing the corruption of the > courts and the FBI, Jim Green is certain that he will be > called a liar. "But the same people," he is quick to > point out, "who will attempt to discredit me today will > have to be the same ones who in the 1970s said that I was > the most honest, reliable, and trustworthy witness. If I > am a liar, then all the cases I testified at should be > appealed and thrown out and the records set straight." > Conclusion As mentioned, Jim Green's revelations fit too > many pieces (confirmed with the FBI's own documents) to > have been contrived from his imagination. He had told it > to one official long before James Earl Ray told his story > in Tennessee Waltz, which Green did not read until 1998, > after he had begun his own book. Jim Green had attempted > to "clear his soul" as far back as 1973, when he told > journalist Kay Black of the Memphis Press Scimiter the > same story printed here with only slightly fewer details. > It was never published but frightened Ms. Black enough > for her to report it to law enforcement authorities. This > led to Green's appearance in front of the HSCA in 1976. > There his testimony was obliterated from the record and > never made public. So much for government inquiries. One > of James Earl Ray's brothers has now come forward with > information corroborating the FBI's cooperation in James' > escape as well as the Chicago mob's participation in the > assassination, under the direction of Sam Giancano. John > Ray admits that it was he who picked up his brother after > his 1967 "escape" in the bread truck and drove him to a > safe house in East St. Louis. Lyndon Barston's detailed > research shows powerful evidence implicating the FBI with > complicity in a CIA plot. 1] In late 1964, the FBI had > tried to get Dr. King to commit suicide prior to his > departing to Europe to claim his Nobel Peace Prize. This > was accomplished by sending an alleged surveillance tape > of Dr. King in an extra-marital sexual relation to the > SCLC with a letter warning that all would become public > if Dr. King didn't kill himself prior to his collecting > his Nobel Prize. 2] Lab work relating to the murder of > Dr. King at FBI Headquarters was dreadfully inadequate. > The Remington 30.06 rifle purchased by Ray in Birmingham > and deposited at the scene of the crime was not even > swabbed to see if it had been fired! Today it still > remains as the "official" murder weapon of the MURKIN > case. Yet, for some reason, this test was run on even the > rifle James Earl Ray had returned to Aeromarine Supply in > Birmingham in exchange for the Remington prior to the > murder! 3] Atlanta FBI informant, J. C. Hardin, is > documented in the MURKIN file as contacting James Earl > Ray in Los Angeles just prior to Ray's packing up and > heading east to Atlanta and Memphis. 4] On the 29th of > March, the FBI, through its "friendly" press contacts, > placed Dr. King in the open and insecure Lorraine Motel > by criticizing him in the press for patronizing "white > owned Hotels." 5] Journalist Louis Lomax who later died > in a mysterious car crash, was investigating Dr. King's > death when visited by two FBI men who instructed him to > abruptly end the series of fruitful articles he was > producing for the N. A. N. A. Louis Lomax, described as > being "no good" in an FBI memo (HQ 44-38861-3196); was a > highly respected journalist. It was Lomax who uncovered > the deception of the false fingerprints sent out by > JeffCity for escaped prisoner James Earl Ray. This > strongly suggests the duplicity of both state and federal > agencies in the ploy. The Intelligence Community's > relationship with the mob and union racketeers, as > described by Jim Green, is highly documented in the post- > World War II era. Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana often > described the CIA and his organization as "two sides of > the same coin." Blood and Dishonor on a Badge of Honor > will be published later this year. > > "King, look into your heart. You know you are a complete > fraud and a great liability to all of us Negroes. White > people in thks country have enough frauds of their own > but I am sure that they don't have one at this time that > is any where near your equal. You are no clergyman and > you know it. I repeat you are a colossal fraud and an > evil, vicious one at that. ... > > King, there is only one thing left for you to do. You > know what it is. You have just 34 days in which to do > (this exact number has been selected for a specific > reason, it has definite practical significant. [sic] You > are done. There is but one way out for you. You better > take it before your filthy, abnormal fraudulent self is > bared to the nation." > > - anonymous harassing letter from FBI to Martin Luther > King obtained from FBI files using the Freedom Of > Information Act > > Posted on 7/31/2001 by Michael Rivero > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -To: Michael Rivero > > You expect me to read that? > > Personally, I hate the formating part the most. > > Posted on 7/31/2001 by farmfriend > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > > -To: Michael Rivero > > The official story has always been that James Earl Ray > shot Martin Luther King from a bathroom of the rooming > house where he was staying. Even as I type this, the > roming house is being converted into a museum, and the > wall and cast iron bathtub which would have made such a > shot impossible have now been removed. > > No matter. > > Shortly after James Earl Ray died in prison, waiting for > a judge to rule on a second ballistics tests on his rifle > (the first one showed that it could not have fired the > bullet that killed King), photographic evidence surfaced > proving that the shot that killed Dr. King had not even > come from the rooming house, but from the roof of the > building next door to it. > > Visit here for that evidence: > > http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/ARTICLE1/overlooked.html > > Posted on 7/31/2001 by Michael Rivero > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > End of forwarded message > > Jai Maharaj > http://www.mantra.com/jai > Om Shanti > > Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used for the educational > purposes of research and open discussion. The contents of this post > may not have been authored by, and do not necessarily represent the > opinion of the poster. The contents are protected by copyright law > and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works. > > Panchaang for 11 Shravan 5102, Tuesday, July 31, 2001: > > Vrisha Nama Samvatsare Dakshinaya Nartana Ritau > Kataka Mase Shukla Pakshe Mangala Vasara Yuktayam > Mool Nakshatra Vaidhriti Yoga > Balava-Kaulava Karana Dvadashee-Trayodashee Yam Tithau > > Hindu Holocaust Museum > http://www.mantra.com/holocaust > > Hindu life, principles, spirituality and philosophy > http://www.hindu.org > http://www.hindunet.org > > Islam and Muslims > http://www.flex.com/~jai/satyamevajayate This has to be spread ALL over the net. They can't be allowed to get away with the murder of Dr. King...... 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