February 27, 2025 • 46 mins
Welcome to the 90th Episode of the War Cry Podcast! On this episode, Yahola deep dives into the world of espionage and secrets. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was a prominent figure in the civil rights movement of the 1960s. As years roll on, more has been revealed about Dr. King and his affairs. Join me on this episode on the roll coaster ride that was Dr. King and his “secret” handlers.
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The very, very dangerous if he'sfighting sense, you know, I was
like, something's off. I'm just like, man, I'm waiting
to hear something, you know? What you picking a witness now
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is the man who came by to get keen to take him to dinner and
30 years later at a press conference, he slipped because
God do baffle your mind sometimes.
Next we walked on the balcony and he was talking to people in
the courtyard. He stood here and I stood there.
Only as I moved away so he couldhave a clear shot, the shot rang
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out. Thank you.
I turned around and then acknowledged him back on the
balcony. Do you think some people think
that guys like Martin Luther King were compromised by the
CIA? Do you ever believe stuff like
that? Well, this kind of goes back to
like there's. A lot of conspiracy theory stuff
about that, you know. Somebody says it's a conspiracy,
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but that doesn't make it the case.
In both of these cases that we've had these conversations,
we are talking about the FBI andthe CIA.
So what do you think they do? So maybe we're unclear about
what we think these agencies do.So now the question becomes,
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hey, do you think they'd be doing their job?
I do. I do think they'd be doing their
job. You mean all through history?
Yes, yes. They keep on doing their job.
You think they get everybody? I think they get everybody.
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So again, not conspiracy theory at all.
I'm saying the only way that there could be a FBI file for us
to be able to get 30 years afterhis death is if there's an FBI
file, correct? Right, right, right, right.
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What's going on guys? And welcome to another Patreon
edition of the War Cry podcast. I'm your host, Jehovah Tiger.
And on this Patreon exclusive episode, we are going to be
talking about Martin Luther KingJunior in his secret FBI files.
The files it's just really like 20 pages, but so this document
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has been floating around I believe for quite a a little
bit. And I have the the link I
actually have the file too, likethe actual file, but it's from
the FBI and and the subject is and I'm reading it verbatim the
subject Martin Luther King Junior a current analysis and
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the date is listed as March 12th, 1968.
And what's weird about this too,about this little stamp that
they had and it says reviewed byFBI slash JFK task force on May
8th, 1994. And at the very bottom it has
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three options. It says release in full, release
in part, and total denial. And guess which one was marked?
As we all know, everyone know, we all know who Martin Luther
King Junior is. But I'm going to give us a small
background because I think it isimportant to kind of know where
he came from and like some of the facts that maybe we aren't
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all aware of. But MLK was born January 15th,
1929 in Atlanta, GA. It's kind of didn't know this,
but his birthday or his birth name was actually Michael Luther
King Junior. But in 1935, his first name was
changed to Martin. He received the AB degree in
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1948 from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.
He didn't enter Crozer Theological Cemetery Seminary.
Jeez, if I can talk Seminary, which was in Chester, PA, where
he was one of six blacks among the 100 students of which I'm
having to kind of change some things too, because this was
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also written in 1968. So the, the terminology and, and
the way that they say black people's name black, you know,
you know, they say a little different back then.
But he won the the placard Awardas the most most outstanding
student and was the president ofhis senior class.
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He received the J Lewis Crozier Fellowship for graduate study at
the university. And King graduated from that
college with a Bachelor in Divinity in 1951 and then did
graduate work at Boston University and where he secured
APHD in 1955. It's a lot.
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It's not really a lot, but sometimes I don't read out loud.
You ever just feel like you're just reading along.
It's kind of be bopping. And all of a sudden you're like,
hey, I haven't read out loud in a while.
But when he graduated he was offered to be a basically a
pastor at 2 churches in the East, teaching and also teaching
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in three colleges. He chose to be a pastor at
Dexter Ave. Baptist Church in Montgomery,
AL. After becoming established in
his church, he founded the Montgomery Improvement
Association and then LED local black people in the Montgomery
Bus Boycott that attracted national attention.
In March of 96 or 19901957, he founded the Southern Christian
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Leadership Conference with himself as president and he
still holds that position today.He is also Co pastor of the
Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA.
And so that's a bit of a background on MLK.
Now we're going to we're going to skip a little bit of a head,
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not really a lot. So since 1956, the FBI has has
been looking into MLK and they thought he occupied a really big
role for equal rights for black people in the United States.
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And during that time, basically,he he gathered up a quantity of
black people and gained a mass following.
And a much of this in this timeswhen racial tensions we're at
its highest in fear was, you know, really big for black
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people. He kind of became a a voice for
for for those people. And he did make a huge impact on
the future race relations relations in the United States.
And that's according to the FBI.Now for that reason that this
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document is here is to prepare and give some insight in the
nature of the man himself as well as the nature of his views,
goals, objectives, tactics and reasons.
Therefore, and so I'm going to be quoting from the direct FBI
file on this and it is linked. It's like I said, it's lengthy
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in words and they, I think they condense it down and they're
going to be words that I will not be able to pronounce because
I got 7th grade reading level guys.
Sorry. So this whole thing started when
he started, when he wanted to dothe Washington Spring Project.
And like I said, I mentioned before, he was the president of
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the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
And he stated that he wanted himand him and 3000 of his
followers to March to DC. And then basically he wanted to
do a mass civil disobedience campaign to disrupt the normal
flow of business in Washington, DC Originally he announced the
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project in August of 67 in, in Alabama.
But then he it was on the occasion of the 10th anniversary
of the SCLC. And Martin Luther King at the
time had predicted that basically he they wanted to be
really, really effective and more effective than the riots
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that, you know, had previously went on.
King, in his own words, said to just to dislocate the function
of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a
riot because it can be longer lasting, possibly to society and
not destructive. And so he also referred to it as
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the Poor People's March as well,in which reportedly staged to
pressure Congress into passing legislation favorable to black
people. It is King's contention that the
government of the United States does not move until it is
confronted dramatically. To add to the dramatic
confrontation, King boasted thathe and his entourage are coming
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to DC to stay and that his followers will conduct sit
insurance camp in sleep insurance at every government
facility available, including the lawn of the White House.
He has bragged that he will fillup the jails of Washington and
surrounding towns. And that was one reason why, you
know, they were coming after himlike they wanted to make sure
they had tabs on on him. And this is right before he was
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assassinated. Another reason why they, the FBI
started putting tabs on him is that they believe that he was a
part of the OR he was associatedwith black nationalist terror
terrorist, according to them. I'm not saying that that's what
I'm saying, but this is according to the FBI file and
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that he was basically in, you know, support.
He had support from Stokely Carmichael, which he, Stokely
Carmichael was at the time the student of Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee and a basically in a black extremist
group. It's kind of what they were, you
know, what is what they have it here.
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Carmichael endorses the objectives of King and advises
he will not oppose or interfere with the Washington Spring
Project plans for non violence. However, he does state that his
role will be governed by what the SNCC decides.
Now King is aware of the possibility of violence because
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one of his aides proclaimed recently to the press jail will
be the safest place in Washington this spring.
However, in spite of this potential explosive situation,
King continues his plans. He uses this possibility as a
lever to attempt to pressure Congress into action by warning
that the spring project may be the last chance in the country
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for a peaceful change with respect to civil rights needs.
And that was this document was taken in 68 April 5th, 1968 and
it has a name on it, but I I can't read it.
It's like a initial base. Now, this is the part that I
didn't really know much about, about King, about Doctor King is
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he had a really big tie, a really big up, I guess a really
a part of his entourage had a lot of communist people and
influence in his, I guess his little entourage or AIDS, which
during that time and Hoover was really, you know, at the height
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of the Cold War and it was really, really, you know, honing
in on a lot of the the Soviet Union type situations.
And the FBI file reads as this. Another complicating factor in
the picture is the degree of communist influence on Doctor
King. One of King's principal advisors
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is Stanley David Levinson. He is a New York attorney and
businessman. Levinson is, in fact, a shrewd,
dedicated communist. Levison was spent, has spent the
majority of his life advancing communist interest.
Now, anything communist, back inthem days, they was coming after
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you and they just want to know everything about you.
But during that time, Levison gravitated towards Martin Luther
King in 1956, which is shortly, you know, really at the time
that the FBI started investigating him.
Basically, he said he was dedicated in his support of King
as he has been advancing communist goals and he is
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actively involving himself in fundraising drives for King and
he served as legal counsel in certain matters.
Suggest a speech material for him.
Discuss with King demonstrationsin which King was involved,
guided in regard to acceptance or rejection of various public
appearances and speaking commitments.
He also helped with matters related to articles and books
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King has prepared. Now this is kind of some foul
stuff here in this document. Levinson edited most of the
chapters in King's book that wasentitled Where do we Go from
Here? Chaos or Community.
Levinson wrote 1 chapter of thisbook and the publishers
representatives complained to King and Levinson that it was
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certainly obvious that multiple people had written this book.
Stanley Levinson has told Clarence Jones, another advisor
to King, that under no circumstances should King be
permitted to say anything without his approval or their
approval on the speech or whatever was given.
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Levinson also informed Jones that King is a slow thinker and
he is usually not prepared to make statements without help
from someone. Levinson is actively
participating in the planning for Doctor King's Washington
Spring Project. So with all of this going on
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with the March, the Poor People's March or this the
Washington Spring Project, therewas a lot of heat and a lot of
eyes on Doctor King. Now, as we learned in our
history books, which you know, as we all know, our history
books growing up have not told us the full history.
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They give us the version that they want us to know.
I never knew anything about Stanley Levinson until I I read
into it. And, you know, I've listened to
people like Dick Gregory and, you know, people that were
involved with Doctor King. And, you know, one thing that
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makes me really, really think, and this is kind of been a topic
that has really kind of taken hold in especially the music
industry now, is that Mister Levison was a a Jewish man.
And for a lot of years, Doctor Griff, a lot of these conspiracy
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guys have come out not conspiracy.
It's really coming out to be true because they know is that
the handlers of of black people have always been Jews or people
of Jewish descent or ethnicity. You know that you can go
research that I get nervous talking about and I always want
to call them the Jays, but with people Jays because you know you
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get hit with anti being anti semite.
But this is according to FBI docdocument that he was his
handler. You know, we at Levinson, you
know, Jewish man was Doctor King's handler, told him what to
say, told him what to do. We look in that and rap music
right now you have Rick Rubin, Lee R Cohen, Lucian Grange.
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We have all these people, Jimmy Ivine, all these different
people of that descent handling a lot of these African American
black rappers. And so that was something that
really kind of shocked me about Doctor King.
I didn't realize that that was that.
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This is, that scenario has been going on for years and decades.
And that's why this conversation's dangerous in a
lot of sense, you know, because you start talking about certain
people and they want to just label you a certain label.
And, and really it's just, it's facts, you know, that's what it
is. You know, a lot of people don't
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talk about that. A Jewish man owns a lot of the
porn companies. Just something to to look up
yourself and it's just a simple Google search.
But or they used to and they sold it and he's trying to get
it back basically. But but yeah, I mean, so it's
it's kind of a weird thing. And, and with the FBI on this
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Doctor King situation, they knewthat they knew that he was a he
was part of the CPUSA, which is the Communist Party of, of
America, United States of America.
And so with all of that kind of situation bubbling in in 67, you
know, with Levinson's involvement, Communist Party's
involvement, and now you have the black quote, UN quote
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extremist group, you know, involved.
The FBI was definitely looking after King like they were really
want to see what was going on with him.
And one some more, I guess really more information when it
comes to Stanley Levinson. He was basically attracted to
King in the in the SCLC. When King gained national
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attention, Levinson soon developed a close relationship
with King and was known as was known in King's group as the
assistant chief. In 1961, he was assistant
treasurer of the SCLC. Now see, that's just kind of
crazy. You know, I, it's just, I don't
know, I really don't know how tosay it without like, I don't
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want to be seeming like I'm hating on a certain set of
people. But you know, that's just what
it comes down to. You know, they, he got in good
with somebody and, and, you know, handling the money.
Prior to joining forces with King, Levinson LED a double life
for the Communist Party. Outwardly, he was a successful
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businessman who was also the clandestine fundraiser for the
CPUSA. He was entrusted with raising
and handling secret funds for the party and used some of these
funds to finance his own activities through Levinson's
influence. Other subversives that were
attracted to the SCLC. One person was Hunter Pitts
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Odell, a former National Committee member for the CPUSA,
which is the Communist Party of the United States, was employed
by the SCLC. And in 1962, when King was
mentioned to Levinson that he was thinking of adding an
administrative assistant to the staff, Levinson recommended
Odell, which was the head of theSCL CS New York office.
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King said he liked the idea, andat the time, King was well aware
of Levinson and Odell's communist affiliations.
The reason King enjoyed this close relationship with
Communist is best explained by the fact that Levinson in
February 1962 passed the word toGus Hall, general secretary of
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the Communist Party of the United States.
And he said King is a wholehearted Marxist who has
studied, who has studied it and believes in it and agrees with
it, but because of his being a minister of religion, does not
dare to espouse it publicly. Further, in 1962 Levinson hold
the CPUSA functionary that King was concerned about a communist
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label being pinned on us, but that at the time he wanted to do
everything possible to to evidence friendship towards the
Soviet Union. In addition, King has been
described within the CPUSA as a true genuine Marxist Leninist
from the top of his head to the tip of his toes.
The feeling within the CPCCPUSA at the time was that still the
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king definitely follows a Marxist Leninist line.
I'd, I didn't know any of this. It's, it's just the, it's like,
I think it's a little bit madding for me when it comes to
history. Like, why did I have a football
coach who was a history teacher who did not care about history?
Let's just watch game film. You know, it's just it's
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agonizing that you're propagandized into to respecting
someone, you know, who goes against a lot of the stuff that,
you know, the people who was following him believed in.
So it's a little bit frustratingwhen I read this and reading it
now, rereading it now, it's kindof bringing up those same type
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of feelings that I had and I'm going to keep reading.
King was forced to get rid of the Hunter Pits Odell in October
62 when several newspaper articles exposed Odell's
connection with the CSLC and hiscommunist affiliations.
King still tried to hide Odell in his organizations until 63,
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when he accepted Odell's resignation in 1963.
As King put it, Odell's release was not because of connections
between Odell and the CPUSA, butbecause of emotional public
response. Man, I don't know.
Here's another thing too. I'm reading an FBI document.
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Is it 100% true Hoover was in charge?
You know, he did cook the books.That was a known thing that
Hoover did with his was a his agents.
Do we know if this is 100% accurate information?
Now I, I went and did some research on Levinson myself and
he was caught basically having communications with a K GB
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operative at that time and had alot of information and even
handled some money for him. So he is that is confirmed with
him now. King, it's hard to you know, you
know what they say, you know, you, you are who you hang out
with and you know, it's looking,it's looking down bad man.
I, I hate this, but you know, it's just kind of crazy.
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You know, your, your childhood thought of what, of who this
person is and who they really were.
It's just, it is kind of saddening, but we're moving on.
Odell continued his efforts to make his presence felt in the
civil rights movement in behalf of the CPUSA.
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In the winter of 1967, the issueof Freedom Ways, a
self-described as a review of the Black Freedom movement, list
Odell, an associate managing editor.
Actually, Freedom Ways is a CPUSA initiated and CPUSA
supported publication exposing the communist point of view of
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the black, black people problemsof that day.
Now right before King's assassination 1968, he was a
guest speaker at a rally more than 1000 people at Carnegie
Hall in New York City sponsored by Freedom Waste, celebrating
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the 100th anniversary of the birth of EB Webb.
EW Dubois, basically a famous black civil rights crusader who
joined the Communist Party at the age of 93.
Odell, the popular name used by Jack Odell, the popular name
used by Hunter Pitts. Odell was listed as one of the
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speakers at this affair. The following day, Levinson
divided in Clarence Jones that King performed very badly at the
Freedom Ways rally. He commented King was never was
King has never read anything as badly and as though he did not
understand what he was reading. Man, that's that's bad.
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And I'm saying for on Levinson saying that about King, it's
just it's just he just had a lotof ties.
There's another guy named Rustinwas a former advisor.
He was also involved. He basically publicly admitted
this guy Ruston, that he had involvement with the Communist
Party. And Ruston basically has been.
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He was arrested in 1946 for offering to commit lewd or
indecent act. Ruston was arrested again in
Pasadena in 53 just I guess, offering perversions of the
homosexual nature and he got 60 days in jail.
So there's a lot of, he had a lot of communist.
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I guess that guy was a weirdo. But let's see here.
We're going to keep it moving because we're not, we're only 6
pages in. I'm going to kind of move over
some of this because a lot of this is just kind of rehashing
and adding more advisors. Another advisor is Lawrence
Riddick, Clarence Jones, and Harry.
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Watch it. And like I said, there was just
a lot of he had a a really deep connection with them.
And you know, it's, you know, I don't know, you know, it depends
on how you feel about communism,But I don't think it's that
great. I mean, look at Russia.
It's just they were down bad fora long time.
I'm in 64 King won the Nobel Peace Prize, which I feel like
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didn't I think Hitler won that too as well.
So it's just kind of wild. And like I said, he had, and I
guess this is all the list of all his communist advisors that
he had during his time is Levinson, Clarence Jones, Harry
Watch it, Cordy, Vivian, Randolph Blackwell, Hunter
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Pitts, Odell Lawrence Riddick and Bayard Reston.
And so it just kind of goes intothe connection between King and
his, his advisors basically. And it's just like I said, it's
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just it's kind of crazy to to know that this is what was going
on at the time. Another thing that kind of
shocked me was that during, I guess the Vietnam War and all
that stuff, King had, you know, he, he tried to come off as a
way to like kind of be a peacemaker for that, this reads,
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King and his aides helped form acoalition of peace and freedom
groups. They saw an opportunity to again
propel King into the national spotlight by proposing to make
peace in Vietnam. In 1965, King announced publicly
that he would appeal personally to the President Ho Chi Minh of
the North Vietnam to join the conference to end the war.
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He said he would also send letters to the leaders of the
South Vietnam, the Soviet Union and the United States in this
regard. Now, this move to do this was
engineered by Bayard Rustin and Harry Watch it.
In early August, they met and discussed how to inject King
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into the Vietnam issue. It was decided to have King
write these world leaders utilizing King's prestigious
King's prestige as a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
This action, they felt was cast images King as a great moral
leader and extended influence beyond the civil rights
movement. Subsequently, a leading paper
newspaper sent King 12 questionsto answer which would clarify
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his position on the Vietnam and upon receipt of these questions,
King referred to the to Stanley Levinson to answer.
Because unfavorable public reaction to King's announcement,
a conference with his top advisors with who he held in 65
in which it was decided that King would avoid the Vietnam
issue. Here's in in 19 and I guess it's
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the the title of this one is an admiration loss.
In 1966, King was lamenting to Harry Watcho about National
National Known Figure, who at the time was a heavy contributor
to and admirer of King, but was displeased because of King's
stance on Vietnam. Watch over reminded King.
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When we went into the Vietnam thing, we decided that he who
controls the purse strings doesn't control our philosophy.
And after the resumption bombingof North Vietnam in 1966, King
conferred with Stanley Stanley Levenson and Bayard Rustin
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concerning a statement for the press.
King informed him that the presshad been bothering him for a
statement, but he dared not takeany action until discussed until
he discussed the matter with him.
It was agreed that King would say he was deeply impressed by
the large number of senators whocalled for the cease cessation
of the bombings. And Levinson reiterated that
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King should point out how the opposition is there to the
bombings. And so then if you guys
remember, you know, during that time, there was a lot of
protests going on. You know, it was like the peace,
love and happiness crowd, the baby boomers, I think, or their
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parents, whoever. I think it was the baby boomers.
But, you know, there was a lot going on in that time trying to
get, you know, the opposition out to the Vietnam War.
And that that time of history isjust to me is so sad.
People always look at it sometimes as like, hey, this is
like it. You know, we, we wish it was
back in the 50s and 60s, but like, yeah, but like it just
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seemed like it was just, it's a lot of rigmarole going on that
obviously it wasn't reported in it until, you know, now, you
know, we're just now receiving these files that were basically
stated to be in total denial. But the anti Vietnam resolution
was in Miami at the SCL leadership conference, the
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executive board in the spring of1966 during a 2 day conference.
The sessions ran into the early morning attempting to draft a
resolution on the Vietnam War while appeared and while there
appeared to be a general agreement, levison and watch it
continue to argue for stronger resolutions than was presented.
They wanted a resolution that would come that would condemn
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participation by the United States troops in Vietnam.
The conference finally adopted aresolution calling on the
government to desist aiding Military Junction in Vietnam and
to seriously consider a prompt withdrawal.
In 1966, King was extended an invitation to appear on the
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Columbia Broadcasting System program Face the Nation.
Prior to this appearance, King sought the advice of Levinson
and Jones. Clarence Jones.
King wanted their thinking on the more important questions he
might be asked. Levinson noted that the
possibility that King might be questions on the might be
questioned on the war, and Jonesadvised King to use Southern use
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the Southern Christian Leadership Conference resolution
on Vietnam as his text. Levinson suggested that King
should also point out how unfairit was that black people were
shouldering the heavier burden in the war and that more black
people in combat that were in combat more than other
Americans. Now, I had, I had read something
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a while back and I was talking to a Co worker of mine.
This is like five years ago now,six years ago.
And we were talking about this, that basically that's how I
guess the clinical conspiracy is, is that that's how they were
getting the the drugs out of Vietnam was through the caskets
of the black soldiers who were killed in combat, which is a
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nasty thing. But I can't remember where I
have to look that up. But I I saw that somewhere.
And I remember him talking aboutit too, because he kind of
brought it up. He was a black guy, older black
guy. He was telling me he loved
history. And we were kind of just talking
and he went into kind of a rant,a rant kind of, you know, during
our shift. And he was like, yeah, this is.
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And he was. And I went and looked at him and
I saw it. And I was like, Dang, that's
crazy. I didn't know that.
It's just crazy how you just people will dump knowledge on
you like that. And you kind of just keep it
moving. But but during that program of
Face the Nation, he King just said stop the bombing and and
negotiate. And then basically that was kind
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of it. And he reckon, I guess he said
in here, he says recognize Red China.
And so King had Senate hearings in December of 66 and he
contacted Levison for counsel concerning his testimony.
During this discussion, it was agreed that King must reiterate
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during his testimony that he that the war in Vietnam is just
is standing in the way of the implicees.
If I can speak today, guys, implicate IMP Geez, yeah, I'm
bad right now. As I told you on 7th grade
reading level, basically the implementation of the civil
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rights projects and isn't it's an open invitation to confusion,
chaos, disruptions and riots. And during that time and that
hearing, he spoke pretty critically about the war in
Vietnam. So we're going to get to kind of
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some things that came up. I guess as you know, it was kind
of rumor and into innuendo for along time.
But a lot of this up until 68, Levinson and Watch It and Ruston
are controlling King, kind of feeding him information, reading
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to him. There was different things in
67, like the worker which expressed pleasure.
When King insist upon the connection between aggressive
foreign policy and regressive domestic policy, he insisted
upon what is true and consequential.
When Doctor King points to the racism common in colonialism,
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colonialism and Jim Crow, he points to what is historically
demonstratable. Man, they are killing me with
these multiple syllable words. But you know, he kind of did
this thing where he is almost like he was trying to save face
with somebody at all junctions of what he was saying.
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And another kind of crazy thing was that they were trying to
push to make King pregnant pregnant president and Levinson
referred to referred to was attempting attempting to
persuade King to run for president on a peace ticket 1967
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Levinson and watch it conferred concerning King's political
possibilities. According to watch it a pacifist
group meeting with was meeting that day an effort to get King
to agree or run for president with Benjamin.
I think I think it's Spock. I think is the name of that S
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shot the the on the document. It's like a little X and so it's
cutting off half the word an anti war aggregate as his vice
president candidate in both Levinson and watch it agreed
that it was too early and that king should not agree to run.
And so let's see here. And so then during July 19th, as
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we I mentioned before Washingtonspring project was was started.
Now this is where it kind of gets interesting.
There were some fund issues and tax issues that the Southern
Leadership Conference was havingin the early part of 67 and that
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basically they contributed 15,000 to the SCLC.
And was just kind of interestingto me was the funds that he was
getting from Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner and Smith.
But then also he was having sometax, kind of a tax situation too
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as well. But they were using that money
obviously for for the CPUSA stuff too.
And so he just kind of they figured out a way to be tax
exempt. But I thought it was kind of
interesting that who funds them,the governor of New York, Nelson
Rockefeller matched 25,000 in which King made to the Gandhi
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Society for Human Rights. That's interesting.
Rockefeller donated You have these banks that donated the
Edward Lamb Foundation, the FordFoundation donated a lot of
money 230 two 130,000 And here'sthe most interesting part when
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it comes to the funding is in early December 1966 it was
determined that King's organization was about to
participate in a $4 million loanfrom the Federal Housing
Administration because the SCL CS involvement in a slum
clearance program in Chicago, ILunder the existing government
regulations, the SCLC would share in a 10% profit allowed or
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a 400,000 share I'm sorry or or 400,000 Levinson made.
Made available 12,500 of his ownmoney so that the Southern
Leader Conference could participate in this program and
share in its profits. It was also determined that in
November 67, the Department of Labor labor negotiate a contract
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with the SCLC to train black people for employment in
Atlanta. Of the 61,000 involved in the
contract, 13,000 went to the SCLC, 48,000 went to grocers in
Atlanta, were on the job training.
Interesting nearing towards the end.
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This is the juiciest part I would say.
So his conduct they for a lot ofyears from 1956 all the way to
1968, they had tabs on dude. You know they was, they was
knowing who he was messing with and who he was messing around
with. Now this is his personal
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conduct, this is the final page and this is, like I said, is the
juiciest part. With the funds that he had
received from the Ford Foundation, King held the first
of two workshops in Miami, FL inFebruary of 68 to train black
ministers in urban leadership. One black pastor in attendance
later expressed his disgust withthe behind the scenes drinking,
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fornication and homosexuality that went on at the conference.
Several black and white prostitutes were brought in from
the Miami area for an all nightsgolly for an all night sex orgy
that was held with these prostitutes and some of the
delegates in attendance. 11 roomhad a large table in which it
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was filled with W1. Black prostitute was paid $50.00
to put on the show for entertainment for the guests and
a lot of sexual depravity was observed.
Observed. This is another thing too.
Did I guess I'm maybe I meant tomiss this, but how are they
known and he's doing is they got, he got to have some people
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in his camp saying stuff. I mean, obviously, you know, he
probably has people in the camp that are actually FBI.
And then obviously there's probably people that are, hey,
you're going to jail for a long time if you don't do this.
And this activity was not new toKing and his associates.
In 64, he engaged in a 2 day drunken sex orgy in DC.
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Many of those present engaged insex acts natural as well as
unnatural bang. That's crazy.
That's a crazy way to describe that.
In the entertainment of onlookers, when one of the
females shield away from engaging in unnatural act, King
and other male males present discuss how she was taught
initiated in this respect. Throughout this ensuing years
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until his this date, King has continued to carry on The Secret
Life while holding himself out to the public as a moral leader
of of moral conviction. Now he had a mistress.
And I guess it was learned in inFebruary 68 that somebody in the
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Los Angeles area, I guess, fathered or was pregnant, became
pregnant with King's child. The the child looked exactly
like King and the the individualreported this obviously to the
FBI and he also had AI guess an affair with Joan Baez, which is
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a nationally known folk center, folk folk singer.
But the base of the FBI goes on to just trash his characters and
he's of low character and he hascaused so much trouble for black
people and the government. And this is according to the
FBI. So your whole tiger did not say
that the FBI, but it's just kindof crazy, you know, that this
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information is was released, youknow, years after his
assassination. And also too like the stuff
that's coming out soon. The King family had come out
and, and asked the government ifthey could review the files
first to basically prepare themselves for what's coming
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because there's a lot of stuff now this is just the basically
people coming to this, the FBI and and reporting this type of
things. The communist connection with
King is is like, to me it was kind of jarring first time I
read it. Now, as I've, you know, read it
multiple times, it's just a lot of information regarding certain
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names, certain dates. But that is a that's a problem
with his legacy. And I think that's why the King
family probably wanted, you know, a lot of this stuff
censored. Maybe it just is not a good.
It's not good. You know, we got a holiday named
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after him. And you know, Malcolm X had
always kind of thrown shots in some ways towards him because
you know, the in another document that I was reading that
basically the FBI said that one man partied all night, drank,
did drugs, and the other man, which is Malcolm X went home to
his his wife or went home to thehotel, prayed and called his
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wife and then went to bed. So I don't know, you know, this
information, like I said, take it with you.
I can leave a link to the actualgovernment PDFI have the actual
file so if you need it real war cry pod@gmail.com TikTok X war
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cry pod. Let me know what you think about
this document from the FBI. Do you believe it?
Do you you know this is some truth?
Is it maybe exaggerating on the communist side?
Or, you know, if King being a Marxist Leninist Leninist, you
let me know. But I appreciate you joining me
on this exclusive Patreon episode, and I'll catch you on
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the next one.
The very, very dangerous if he'sfighting sense, you know, I was
like, something's off. I'm just like, man, I'm waiting
to hear something, you know? What you picking a witness now
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is the man who came by to get keen to take him to dinner and
30 years later at a press conference, he slipped because
God do baffle your mind sometimes.
Next we walked on the balcony and he was talking to people in
the courtyard. He stood here and I stood there.
Only as I moved away so he couldhave a clear shot, the shot rang
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out. Thank you.
I turned around and then acknowledged him back on the
balcony. Do you think some people think
that guys like Martin Luther King were compromised by the
CIA? Do you ever believe stuff like
that? Well, this kind of goes back to
like there's. A lot of conspiracy theory stuff
about that, you know. Somebody says it's a conspiracy,
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but that doesn't make it the case.
In both of these cases that we've had these conversations,
we are talking about the FBI andthe CIA.
So what do you think they do? So maybe we're unclear about
what we think these agencies do.So now the question becomes,
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hey, do you think they'd be doing their job?
I do. I do think they'd be doing their
job. You mean all through history?
Yes, yes. They keep on doing their job.
You think they get everybody? I think they get everybody.
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So again, not conspiracy theory at all.
I'm saying the only way that there could be a FBI file for us
to be able to get 30 years afterhis death is if there's an FBI
file, correct? Right, right, right, right.
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What's going on guys? And welcome to another Patreon
edition of the War Cry podcast. I'm your host, Jehovah Tiger.
And on this Patreon exclusive episode, we are going to be
talking about Martin Luther KingJunior in his secret FBI files.
The files it's just really like 20 pages, but so this document
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has been floating around I believe for quite a a little
bit. And I have the the link I
actually have the file too, likethe actual file, but it's from
the FBI and and the subject is and I'm reading it verbatim the
subject Martin Luther King Junior a current analysis and
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the date is listed as March 12th, 1968.
And what's weird about this too,about this little stamp that
they had and it says reviewed byFBI slash JFK task force on May
8th, 1994. And at the very bottom it has
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three options. It says release in full, release
in part, and total denial. And guess which one was marked?
As we all know, everyone know, we all know who Martin Luther
King Junior is. But I'm going to give us a small
background because I think it isimportant to kind of know where
he came from and like some of the facts that maybe we aren't
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all aware of. But MLK was born January 15th,
1929 in Atlanta, GA. It's kind of didn't know this,
but his birthday or his birth name was actually Michael Luther
King Junior. But in 1935, his first name was
changed to Martin. He received the AB degree in
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1948 from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA.
He didn't enter Crozer Theological Cemetery Seminary.
Jeez, if I can talk Seminary, which was in Chester, PA, where
he was one of six blacks among the 100 students of which I'm
having to kind of change some things too, because this was
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also written in 1968. So the, the terminology and, and
the way that they say black people's name black, you know,
you know, they say a little different back then.
But he won the the placard Awardas the most most outstanding
student and was the president ofhis senior class.
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He received the J Lewis Crozier Fellowship for graduate study at
the university. And King graduated from that
college with a Bachelor in Divinity in 1951 and then did
graduate work at Boston University and where he secured
APHD in 1955. It's a lot.
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It's not really a lot, but sometimes I don't read out loud.
You ever just feel like you're just reading along.
It's kind of be bopping. And all of a sudden you're like,
hey, I haven't read out loud in a while.
But when he graduated he was offered to be a basically a
pastor at 2 churches in the East, teaching and also teaching
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in three colleges. He chose to be a pastor at
Dexter Ave. Baptist Church in Montgomery,
AL. After becoming established in
his church, he founded the Montgomery Improvement
Association and then LED local black people in the Montgomery
Bus Boycott that attracted national attention.
In March of 96 or 19901957, he founded the Southern Christian
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Leadership Conference with himself as president and he
still holds that position today.He is also Co pastor of the
Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA.
And so that's a bit of a background on MLK.
Now we're going to we're going to skip a little bit of a head,
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not really a lot. So since 1956, the FBI has has
been looking into MLK and they thought he occupied a really big
role for equal rights for black people in the United States.
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And during that time, basically,he he gathered up a quantity of
black people and gained a mass following.
And a much of this in this timeswhen racial tensions we're at
its highest in fear was, you know, really big for black
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people. He kind of became a a voice for
for for those people. And he did make a huge impact on
the future race relations relations in the United States.
And that's according to the FBI.Now for that reason that this
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document is here is to prepare and give some insight in the
nature of the man himself as well as the nature of his views,
goals, objectives, tactics and reasons.
Therefore, and so I'm going to be quoting from the direct FBI
file on this and it is linked. It's like I said, it's lengthy
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in words and they, I think they condense it down and they're
going to be words that I will not be able to pronounce because
I got 7th grade reading level guys.
Sorry. So this whole thing started when
he started, when he wanted to dothe Washington Spring Project.
And like I said, I mentioned before, he was the president of
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the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
And he stated that he wanted himand him and 3000 of his
followers to March to DC. And then basically he wanted to
do a mass civil disobedience campaign to disrupt the normal
flow of business in Washington, DC Originally he announced the
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project in August of 67 in, in Alabama.
But then he it was on the occasion of the 10th anniversary
of the SCLC. And Martin Luther King at the
time had predicted that basically he they wanted to be
really, really effective and more effective than the riots
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that, you know, had previously went on.
King, in his own words, said to just to dislocate the function
of a city without destroying it can be more effective than a
riot because it can be longer lasting, possibly to society and
not destructive. And so he also referred to it as
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the Poor People's March as well,in which reportedly staged to
pressure Congress into passing legislation favorable to black
people. It is King's contention that the
government of the United States does not move until it is
confronted dramatically. To add to the dramatic
confrontation, King boasted thathe and his entourage are coming
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to DC to stay and that his followers will conduct sit
insurance camp in sleep insurance at every government
facility available, including the lawn of the White House.
He has bragged that he will fillup the jails of Washington and
surrounding towns. And that was one reason why, you
know, they were coming after himlike they wanted to make sure
they had tabs on on him. And this is right before he was
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assassinated. Another reason why they, the FBI
started putting tabs on him is that they believe that he was a
part of the OR he was associatedwith black nationalist terror
terrorist, according to them. I'm not saying that that's what
I'm saying, but this is according to the FBI file and
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that he was basically in, you know, support.
He had support from Stokely Carmichael, which he, Stokely
Carmichael was at the time the student of Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee and a basically in a black extremist
group. It's kind of what they were, you
know, what is what they have it here.
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Carmichael endorses the objectives of King and advises
he will not oppose or interfere with the Washington Spring
Project plans for non violence. However, he does state that his
role will be governed by what the SNCC decides.
Now King is aware of the possibility of violence because
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one of his aides proclaimed recently to the press jail will
be the safest place in Washington this spring.
However, in spite of this potential explosive situation,
King continues his plans. He uses this possibility as a
lever to attempt to pressure Congress into action by warning
that the spring project may be the last chance in the country
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for a peaceful change with respect to civil rights needs.
And that was this document was taken in 68 April 5th, 1968 and
it has a name on it, but I I can't read it.
It's like a initial base. Now, this is the part that I
didn't really know much about, about King, about Doctor King is
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he had a really big tie, a really big up, I guess a really
a part of his entourage had a lot of communist people and
influence in his, I guess his little entourage or AIDS, which
during that time and Hoover was really, you know, at the height
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of the Cold War and it was really, really, you know, honing
in on a lot of the the Soviet Union type situations.
And the FBI file reads as this. Another complicating factor in
the picture is the degree of communist influence on Doctor
King. One of King's principal advisors
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is Stanley David Levinson. He is a New York attorney and
businessman. Levinson is, in fact, a shrewd,
dedicated communist. Levison was spent, has spent the
majority of his life advancing communist interest.
Now, anything communist, back inthem days, they was coming after
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you and they just want to know everything about you.
But during that time, Levison gravitated towards Martin Luther
King in 1956, which is shortly, you know, really at the time
that the FBI started investigating him.
Basically, he said he was dedicated in his support of King
as he has been advancing communist goals and he is
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actively involving himself in fundraising drives for King and
he served as legal counsel in certain matters.
Suggest a speech material for him.
Discuss with King demonstrationsin which King was involved,
guided in regard to acceptance or rejection of various public
appearances and speaking commitments.
He also helped with matters related to articles and books
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King has prepared. Now this is kind of some foul
stuff here in this document. Levinson edited most of the
chapters in King's book that wasentitled Where do we Go from
Here? Chaos or Community.
Levinson wrote 1 chapter of thisbook and the publishers
representatives complained to King and Levinson that it was
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certainly obvious that multiple people had written this book.
Stanley Levinson has told Clarence Jones, another advisor
to King, that under no circumstances should King be
permitted to say anything without his approval or their
approval on the speech or whatever was given.
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Levinson also informed Jones that King is a slow thinker and
he is usually not prepared to make statements without help
from someone. Levinson is actively
participating in the planning for Doctor King's Washington
Spring Project. So with all of this going on
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with the March, the Poor People's March or this the
Washington Spring Project, therewas a lot of heat and a lot of
eyes on Doctor King. Now, as we learned in our
history books, which you know, as we all know, our history
books growing up have not told us the full history.
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They give us the version that they want us to know.
I never knew anything about Stanley Levinson until I I read
into it. And, you know, I've listened to
people like Dick Gregory and, you know, people that were
involved with Doctor King. And, you know, one thing that
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makes me really, really think, and this is kind of been a topic
that has really kind of taken hold in especially the music
industry now, is that Mister Levison was a a Jewish man.
And for a lot of years, Doctor Griff, a lot of these conspiracy
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guys have come out not conspiracy.
It's really coming out to be true because they know is that
the handlers of of black people have always been Jews or people
of Jewish descent or ethnicity. You know that you can go
research that I get nervous talking about and I always want
to call them the Jays, but with people Jays because you know you
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get hit with anti being anti semite.
But this is according to FBI docdocument that he was his
handler. You know, we at Levinson, you
know, Jewish man was Doctor King's handler, told him what to
say, told him what to do. We look in that and rap music
right now you have Rick Rubin, Lee R Cohen, Lucian Grange.
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We have all these people, Jimmy Ivine, all these different
people of that descent handling a lot of these African American
black rappers. And so that was something that
really kind of shocked me about Doctor King.
I didn't realize that that was that.
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This is, that scenario has been going on for years and decades.
And that's why this conversation's dangerous in a
lot of sense, you know, because you start talking about certain
people and they want to just label you a certain label.
And, and really it's just, it's facts, you know, that's what it
is. You know, a lot of people don't
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talk about that. A Jewish man owns a lot of the
porn companies. Just something to to look up
yourself and it's just a simple Google search.
But or they used to and they sold it and he's trying to get
it back basically. But but yeah, I mean, so it's
it's kind of a weird thing. And, and with the FBI on this
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Doctor King situation, they knewthat they knew that he was a he
was part of the CPUSA, which is the Communist Party of, of
America, United States of America.
And so with all of that kind of situation bubbling in in 67, you
know, with Levinson's involvement, Communist Party's
involvement, and now you have the black quote, UN quote
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extremist group, you know, involved.
The FBI was definitely looking after King like they were really
want to see what was going on with him.
And one some more, I guess really more information when it
comes to Stanley Levinson. He was basically attracted to
King in the in the SCLC. When King gained national
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attention, Levinson soon developed a close relationship
with King and was known as was known in King's group as the
assistant chief. In 1961, he was assistant
treasurer of the SCLC. Now see, that's just kind of
crazy. You know, I, it's just, I don't
know, I really don't know how tosay it without like, I don't
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want to be seeming like I'm hating on a certain set of
people. But you know, that's just what
it comes down to. You know, they, he got in good
with somebody and, and, you know, handling the money.
Prior to joining forces with King, Levinson LED a double life
for the Communist Party. Outwardly, he was a successful
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businessman who was also the clandestine fundraiser for the
CPUSA. He was entrusted with raising
and handling secret funds for the party and used some of these
funds to finance his own activities through Levinson's
influence. Other subversives that were
attracted to the SCLC. One person was Hunter Pitts
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Odell, a former National Committee member for the CPUSA,
which is the Communist Party of the United States, was employed
by the SCLC. And in 1962, when King was
mentioned to Levinson that he was thinking of adding an
administrative assistant to the staff, Levinson recommended
Odell, which was the head of theSCL CS New York office.
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King said he liked the idea, andat the time, King was well aware
of Levinson and Odell's communist affiliations.
The reason King enjoyed this close relationship with
Communist is best explained by the fact that Levinson in
February 1962 passed the word toGus Hall, general secretary of
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the Communist Party of the United States.
And he said King is a wholehearted Marxist who has
studied, who has studied it and believes in it and agrees with
it, but because of his being a minister of religion, does not
dare to espouse it publicly. Further, in 1962 Levinson hold
the CPUSA functionary that King was concerned about a communist
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label being pinned on us, but that at the time he wanted to do
everything possible to to evidence friendship towards the
Soviet Union. In addition, King has been
described within the CPUSA as a true genuine Marxist Leninist
from the top of his head to the tip of his toes.
The feeling within the CPCCPUSA at the time was that still the
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king definitely follows a Marxist Leninist line.
I'd, I didn't know any of this. It's, it's just the, it's like,
I think it's a little bit madding for me when it comes to
history. Like, why did I have a football
coach who was a history teacher who did not care about history?
Let's just watch game film. You know, it's just it's
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agonizing that you're propagandized into to respecting
someone, you know, who goes against a lot of the stuff that,
you know, the people who was following him believed in.
So it's a little bit frustratingwhen I read this and reading it
now, rereading it now, it's kindof bringing up those same type
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of feelings that I had and I'm going to keep reading.
King was forced to get rid of the Hunter Pits Odell in October
62 when several newspaper articles exposed Odell's
connection with the CSLC and hiscommunist affiliations.
King still tried to hide Odell in his organizations until 63,
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when he accepted Odell's resignation in 1963.
As King put it, Odell's release was not because of connections
between Odell and the CPUSA, butbecause of emotional public
response. Man, I don't know.
Here's another thing too. I'm reading an FBI document.
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Is it 100% true Hoover was in charge?
You know, he did cook the books.That was a known thing that
Hoover did with his was a his agents.
Do we know if this is 100% accurate information?
Now I, I went and did some research on Levinson myself and
he was caught basically having communications with a K GB
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operative at that time and had alot of information and even
handled some money for him. So he is that is confirmed with
him now. King, it's hard to you know, you
know what they say, you know, you, you are who you hang out
with and you know, it's looking,it's looking down bad man.
I, I hate this, but you know, it's just kind of crazy.
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You know, your, your childhood thought of what, of who this
person is and who they really were.
It's just, it is kind of saddening, but we're moving on.
Odell continued his efforts to make his presence felt in the
civil rights movement in behalf of the CPUSA.
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In the winter of 1967, the issueof Freedom Ways, a
self-described as a review of the Black Freedom movement, list
Odell, an associate managing editor.
Actually, Freedom Ways is a CPUSA initiated and CPUSA
supported publication exposing the communist point of view of
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the black, black people problemsof that day.
Now right before King's assassination 1968, he was a
guest speaker at a rally more than 1000 people at Carnegie
Hall in New York City sponsored by Freedom Waste, celebrating
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the 100th anniversary of the birth of EB Webb.
EW Dubois, basically a famous black civil rights crusader who
joined the Communist Party at the age of 93.
Odell, the popular name used by Jack Odell, the popular name
used by Hunter Pitts. Odell was listed as one of the
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speakers at this affair. The following day, Levinson
divided in Clarence Jones that King performed very badly at the
Freedom Ways rally. He commented King was never was
King has never read anything as badly and as though he did not
understand what he was reading. Man, that's that's bad.
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And I'm saying for on Levinson saying that about King, it's
just it's just he just had a lotof ties.
There's another guy named Rustinwas a former advisor.
He was also involved. He basically publicly admitted
this guy Ruston, that he had involvement with the Communist
Party. And Ruston basically has been.
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He was arrested in 1946 for offering to commit lewd or
indecent act. Ruston was arrested again in
Pasadena in 53 just I guess, offering perversions of the
homosexual nature and he got 60 days in jail.
So there's a lot of, he had a lot of communist.
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I guess that guy was a weirdo. But let's see here.
We're going to keep it moving because we're not, we're only 6
pages in. I'm going to kind of move over
some of this because a lot of this is just kind of rehashing
and adding more advisors. Another advisor is Lawrence
Riddick, Clarence Jones, and Harry.
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Watch it. And like I said, there was just
a lot of he had a a really deep connection with them.
And you know, it's, you know, I don't know, you know, it depends
on how you feel about communism,But I don't think it's that
great. I mean, look at Russia.
It's just they were down bad fora long time.
I'm in 64 King won the Nobel Peace Prize, which I feel like
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didn't I think Hitler won that too as well.
So it's just kind of wild. And like I said, he had, and I
guess this is all the list of all his communist advisors that
he had during his time is Levinson, Clarence Jones, Harry
Watch it, Cordy, Vivian, Randolph Blackwell, Hunter
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Pitts, Odell Lawrence Riddick and Bayard Reston.
And so it just kind of goes intothe connection between King and
his, his advisors basically. And it's just like I said, it's
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just it's kind of crazy to to know that this is what was going
on at the time. Another thing that kind of
shocked me was that during, I guess the Vietnam War and all
that stuff, King had, you know, he, he tried to come off as a
way to like kind of be a peacemaker for that, this reads,
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King and his aides helped form acoalition of peace and freedom
groups. They saw an opportunity to again
propel King into the national spotlight by proposing to make
peace in Vietnam. In 1965, King announced publicly
that he would appeal personally to the President Ho Chi Minh of
the North Vietnam to join the conference to end the war.
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He said he would also send letters to the leaders of the
South Vietnam, the Soviet Union and the United States in this
regard. Now, this move to do this was
engineered by Bayard Rustin and Harry Watch it.
In early August, they met and discussed how to inject King
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into the Vietnam issue. It was decided to have King
write these world leaders utilizing King's prestigious
King's prestige as a winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.
This action, they felt was cast images King as a great moral
leader and extended influence beyond the civil rights
movement. Subsequently, a leading paper
newspaper sent King 12 questionsto answer which would clarify
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his position on the Vietnam and upon receipt of these questions,
King referred to the to Stanley Levinson to answer.
Because unfavorable public reaction to King's announcement,
a conference with his top advisors with who he held in 65
in which it was decided that King would avoid the Vietnam
issue. Here's in in 19 and I guess it's
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the the title of this one is an admiration loss.
In 1966, King was lamenting to Harry Watcho about National
National Known Figure, who at the time was a heavy contributor
to and admirer of King, but was displeased because of King's
stance on Vietnam. Watch over reminded King.
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When we went into the Vietnam thing, we decided that he who
controls the purse strings doesn't control our philosophy.
And after the resumption bombingof North Vietnam in 1966, King
conferred with Stanley Stanley Levenson and Bayard Rustin
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concerning a statement for the press.
King informed him that the presshad been bothering him for a
statement, but he dared not takeany action until discussed until
he discussed the matter with him.
It was agreed that King would say he was deeply impressed by
the large number of senators whocalled for the cease cessation
of the bombings. And Levinson reiterated that
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King should point out how the opposition is there to the
bombings. And so then if you guys
remember, you know, during that time, there was a lot of
protests going on. You know, it was like the peace,
love and happiness crowd, the baby boomers, I think, or their
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parents, whoever. I think it was the baby boomers.
But, you know, there was a lot going on in that time trying to
get, you know, the opposition out to the Vietnam War.
And that that time of history isjust to me is so sad.
People always look at it sometimes as like, hey, this is
like it. You know, we, we wish it was
back in the 50s and 60s, but like, yeah, but like it just
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seemed like it was just, it's a lot of rigmarole going on that
obviously it wasn't reported in it until, you know, now, you
know, we're just now receiving these files that were basically
stated to be in total denial. But the anti Vietnam resolution
was in Miami at the SCL leadership conference, the
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executive board in the spring of1966 during a 2 day conference.
The sessions ran into the early morning attempting to draft a
resolution on the Vietnam War while appeared and while there
appeared to be a general agreement, levison and watch it
continue to argue for stronger resolutions than was presented.
They wanted a resolution that would come that would condemn
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participation by the United States troops in Vietnam.
The conference finally adopted aresolution calling on the
government to desist aiding Military Junction in Vietnam and
to seriously consider a prompt withdrawal.
In 1966, King was extended an invitation to appear on the
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Columbia Broadcasting System program Face the Nation.
Prior to this appearance, King sought the advice of Levinson
and Jones. Clarence Jones.
King wanted their thinking on the more important questions he
might be asked. Levinson noted that the
possibility that King might be questions on the might be
questioned on the war, and Jonesadvised King to use Southern use
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the Southern Christian Leadership Conference resolution
on Vietnam as his text. Levinson suggested that King
should also point out how unfairit was that black people were
shouldering the heavier burden in the war and that more black
people in combat that were in combat more than other
Americans. Now, I had, I had read something
(33:29):
a while back and I was talking to a Co worker of mine.
This is like five years ago now,six years ago.
And we were talking about this, that basically that's how I
guess the clinical conspiracy is, is that that's how they were
getting the the drugs out of Vietnam was through the caskets
of the black soldiers who were killed in combat, which is a
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nasty thing. But I can't remember where I
have to look that up. But I I saw that somewhere.
And I remember him talking aboutit too, because he kind of
brought it up. He was a black guy, older black
guy. He was telling me he loved
history. And we were kind of just talking
and he went into kind of a rant,a rant kind of, you know, during
our shift. And he was like, yeah, this is.
(34:13):
And he was. And I went and looked at him and
I saw it. And I was like, Dang, that's
crazy. I didn't know that.
It's just crazy how you just people will dump knowledge on
you like that. And you kind of just keep it
moving. But but during that program of
Face the Nation, he King just said stop the bombing and and
negotiate. And then basically that was kind
(34:37):
of it. And he reckon, I guess he said
in here, he says recognize Red China.
And so King had Senate hearings in December of 66 and he
contacted Levison for counsel concerning his testimony.
During this discussion, it was agreed that King must reiterate
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during his testimony that he that the war in Vietnam is just
is standing in the way of the implicees.
If I can speak today, guys, implicate IMP Geez, yeah, I'm
bad right now. As I told you on 7th grade
reading level, basically the implementation of the civil
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rights projects and isn't it's an open invitation to confusion,
chaos, disruptions and riots. And during that time and that
hearing, he spoke pretty critically about the war in
Vietnam. So we're going to get to kind of
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some things that came up. I guess as you know, it was kind
of rumor and into innuendo for along time.
But a lot of this up until 68, Levinson and Watch It and Ruston
are controlling King, kind of feeding him information, reading
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to him. There was different things in
67, like the worker which expressed pleasure.
When King insist upon the connection between aggressive
foreign policy and regressive domestic policy, he insisted
upon what is true and consequential.
When Doctor King points to the racism common in colonialism,
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colonialism and Jim Crow, he points to what is historically
demonstratable. Man, they are killing me with
these multiple syllable words. But you know, he kind of did
this thing where he is almost like he was trying to save face
with somebody at all junctions of what he was saying.
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And another kind of crazy thing was that they were trying to
push to make King pregnant pregnant president and Levinson
referred to referred to was attempting attempting to
persuade King to run for president on a peace ticket 1967
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Levinson and watch it conferred concerning King's political
possibilities. According to watch it a pacifist
group meeting with was meeting that day an effort to get King
to agree or run for president with Benjamin.
I think I think it's Spock. I think is the name of that S
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shot the the on the document. It's like a little X and so it's
cutting off half the word an anti war aggregate as his vice
president candidate in both Levinson and watch it agreed
that it was too early and that king should not agree to run.
And so let's see here. And so then during July 19th, as
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we I mentioned before Washingtonspring project was was started.
Now this is where it kind of gets interesting.
There were some fund issues and tax issues that the Southern
Leadership Conference was havingin the early part of 67 and that
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basically they contributed 15,000 to the SCLC.
And was just kind of interestingto me was the funds that he was
getting from Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner and Smith.
But then also he was having sometax, kind of a tax situation too
(38:45):
as well. But they were using that money
obviously for for the CPUSA stuff too.
And so he just kind of they figured out a way to be tax
exempt. But I thought it was kind of
interesting that who funds them,the governor of New York, Nelson
Rockefeller matched 25,000 in which King made to the Gandhi
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Society for Human Rights. That's interesting.
Rockefeller donated You have these banks that donated the
Edward Lamb Foundation, the FordFoundation donated a lot of
money 230 two 130,000 And here'sthe most interesting part when
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it comes to the funding is in early December 1966 it was
determined that King's organization was about to
participate in a $4 million loanfrom the Federal Housing
Administration because the SCL CS involvement in a slum
clearance program in Chicago, ILunder the existing government
regulations, the SCLC would share in a 10% profit allowed or
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a 400,000 share I'm sorry or or 400,000 Levinson made.
Made available 12,500 of his ownmoney so that the Southern
Leader Conference could participate in this program and
share in its profits. It was also determined that in
November 67, the Department of Labor labor negotiate a contract
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with the SCLC to train black people for employment in
Atlanta. Of the 61,000 involved in the
contract, 13,000 went to the SCLC, 48,000 went to grocers in
Atlanta, were on the job training.
Interesting nearing towards the end.
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This is the juiciest part I would say.
So his conduct they for a lot ofyears from 1956 all the way to
1968, they had tabs on dude. You know they was, they was
knowing who he was messing with and who he was messing around
with. Now this is his personal
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conduct, this is the final page and this is, like I said, is the
juiciest part. With the funds that he had
received from the Ford Foundation, King held the first
of two workshops in Miami, FL inFebruary of 68 to train black
ministers in urban leadership. One black pastor in attendance
later expressed his disgust withthe behind the scenes drinking,
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fornication and homosexuality that went on at the conference.
Several black and white prostitutes were brought in from
the Miami area for an all nightsgolly for an all night sex orgy
that was held with these prostitutes and some of the
delegates in attendance. 11 roomhad a large table in which it
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was filled with W1. Black prostitute was paid $50.00
to put on the show for entertainment for the guests and
a lot of sexual depravity was observed.
Observed. This is another thing too.
Did I guess I'm maybe I meant tomiss this, but how are they
known and he's doing is they got, he got to have some people
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in his camp saying stuff. I mean, obviously, you know, he
probably has people in the camp that are actually FBI.
And then obviously there's probably people that are, hey,
you're going to jail for a long time if you don't do this.
And this activity was not new toKing and his associates.
In 64, he engaged in a 2 day drunken sex orgy in DC.
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Many of those present engaged insex acts natural as well as
unnatural bang. That's crazy.
That's a crazy way to describe that.
In the entertainment of onlookers, when one of the
females shield away from engaging in unnatural act, King
and other male males present discuss how she was taught
initiated in this respect. Throughout this ensuing years
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until his this date, King has continued to carry on The Secret
Life while holding himself out to the public as a moral leader
of of moral conviction. Now he had a mistress.
And I guess it was learned in inFebruary 68 that somebody in the
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Los Angeles area, I guess, fathered or was pregnant, became
pregnant with King's child. The the child looked exactly
like King and the the individualreported this obviously to the
FBI and he also had AI guess an affair with Joan Baez, which is
(43:35):
a nationally known folk center, folk folk singer.
But the base of the FBI goes on to just trash his characters and
he's of low character and he hascaused so much trouble for black
people and the government. And this is according to the
FBI. So your whole tiger did not say
that the FBI, but it's just kindof crazy, you know, that this
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information is was released, youknow, years after his
assassination. And also too like the stuff
that's coming out soon. The King family had come out
and, and asked the government ifthey could review the files
first to basically prepare themselves for what's coming
(44:22):
because there's a lot of stuff now this is just the basically
people coming to this, the FBI and and reporting this type of
things. The communist connection with
King is is like, to me it was kind of jarring first time I
read it. Now, as I've, you know, read it
multiple times, it's just a lot of information regarding certain
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names, certain dates. But that is a that's a problem
with his legacy. And I think that's why the King
family probably wanted, you know, a lot of this stuff
censored. Maybe it just is not a good.
It's not good. You know, we got a holiday named
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after him. And you know, Malcolm X had
always kind of thrown shots in some ways towards him because
you know, the in another document that I was reading that
basically the FBI said that one man partied all night, drank,
did drugs, and the other man, which is Malcolm X went home to
his his wife or went home to thehotel, prayed and called his
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wife and then went to bed. So I don't know, you know, this
information, like I said, take it with you.
I can leave a link to the actualgovernment PDFI have the actual
file so if you need it real war cry pod@gmail.com TikTok X war
(45:51):
cry pod. Let me know what you think about
this document from the FBI. Do you believe it?
Do you you know this is some truth?
Is it maybe exaggerating on the communist side?
Or, you know, if King being a Marxist Leninist Leninist, you
let me know. But I appreciate you joining me
on this exclusive Patreon episode, and I'll catch you on
(46:14):
the next one.
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