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CIA document talks of need
to "remove" Martin Luther King from leadership of "Negro
movement"
Wayne
Madsen Report
Wednesday January 23, 2008
On the occasion of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birthday and
amid attempts by the Hillary Clinton campaign to "revise"
the history of the civil rights leader in a blatant attempt to
tarnish the candidacy of her rival, Senator Barack Obama, it is
noteworthy to point out that Dr. King was assassinated as part
of a U.S. government plan, documented in a CIA memo, to replace
the Nobel Peace Prize winner as the leader of the "Negro
movement."
The May 11, 1965, memo for the record, given to this editor by
a member of the King family, recounts a conversation between an
individual whose name was redacted and the CIA's Morse Allen,
the CIA's research director who was responsible for Project Artichoke
and MK-ULTRA, two of the CIA's behavior modification programs
that, in part, sought to create willing assassins.
The memo bemoaned the anti-Vietnam war activities of civil rights
leaders like A. Philip Randolph and King. It also warns of the
attempt by the "Communist left" to infiltrate the "Negro
movement." The mindset of the CIA is interesting. They saw
the civil rights movement not as a broad based attempt by a number
of Americans to secure equal rights for African Americans, but
as a "Negro movement" that was seen as a potential Fifth
Column for the Communists.
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Allen was concerned that Communists would take advantage of a
break by the civil rights movement with President Lyndon Johnson
over the Vietnam War and a resulting "violent disruption
of the Negro [emphasis added] Civil Rights Movement. Allen was
also concerned that King might be assassinated "before his
exposure" and that would make him a martyr. During the time
the memo was written, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover was trying
to "expose" King. Hoover ordered the FBI to bug King's
hotel rooms and tape record his alleged trysts. Hoover mailed
one of the recordings to King's wife, Coretta Scott King, with
a note urging Dr. King to commit suicide.
The most revealing part of the CIA memo is the following: "It
is [redacted]'s belief that somehow or other Martin Luther KING
must be removed from the leadership of the Negro movement, and
is removal must come from within and not from without. [Redacted]
feels that somewhere in the Negro movement, at the top, there
must be a Negro leader who is 'clean' who could step into the
vacuum and chaos if Martin Luther KING were either exposed or
assassinated."
On April 4, 1968, King was assassinated in Memphis. The King
family never accepted the full guilt of the accused assassin,
James Earl Ray.
King was succeeded as the head of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference (SCLC). In 1980, Abernathy endorsed the Republican
ticket of Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush over President Jimmy
Carter. Abernathy founded the American Freedom Coalition along
with Christian Right leader, Dr. Robert Grant. The organization
received funding from Sun Myung Moon's quasi-fascist Unification
Church.
The CIA memo stating that King should be replaced by someone
"clean." Abernathy fit the bill.
Hillary Clinton, who is close to the right-wing Christian Fellowship
Foundation cult leader David Coe and was a "Goldwater Girl"
during the time the right-wing plot was being hatched against
King in the mid-1960s, has played the "race card" in
her campaign against Obama.
Hillary Clinton's father, Hugh Ellsworth Rodham, was a Goldwater
supporter in 1964 and a Republican until his death in 1993. Hillary
later worked for the Nelson Rockefeller campaign in 1968 and attended
the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami. Bill Clinton
reportedly cringed at Hugh E. Rodham's use of the "N word,"
which lasted up until the time Clinton was sworn in as president.
Clinton's father-in-law died at the age of 82 in April 1993, a
few months after Clinton was inaugurated.
This anniversary of the birth of Dr. King should, above all,
remind us of the racist and covert operations by the United States
government to assassinate King and destroy the civil rights movement.
It is no time for a one-time Republican and Barry Goldwater supporter
-- Goldwater only won his own state of Arizona and the segregationist
states of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana
in 1964 --to raise the race issue. And it is no time for someone
who grew up in suburban Chicago and who must have heard her father
constantly ranting about the "niggers" to be using the
race card against an opponent who is fulfilling Dr. King's dream
of a color blind nation.
Hillary Rodham in 1964 was joined in her support for Goldwater
by someone else who was irritated by the civil rights movement
-- a young Houston businessman and CIA agent who was running for
the US Senate against progressive Democrat Ralph Yarborough. George
H. W. Bush lost that Senate race and was unable to join his father
and Goldwater supporter, Prescott Bush, in the U.S. Senate as
a father and son team. However, George H. W. Bush would later
become the head of the CIA and receive the endorsement in 1980
of Dr. King's government-sanctioned "replacement."
Considering the racist nature of the Republican Party from 1964
to the present day, a transformation that was engineered by Hillary
Clinton's one-time hero Barry Goldwater, Dr. King's name should
not be used by either the leading Democratic candidate -- Clinton
-- or her possible Republican opponent, John McCain, the Arizona
senator who describes himself as the political heir of Goldwater.
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