BLACK MAN IN THE CIA, Leutrell Osborne, Sr. - http://www.amazon.com/kindle/dp/B006XGJLGE
SYNOPSIS: “Governmental agencies caused Martin Luther King to be assassinated... They caused this whole thing to happen. And they then proceeded with the powerful means at their disposal to cover this case up. This is a conspiracy... and that's a nasty word. Let justice and truth prevail, else the heavens fall . . . send a message to all of those in power, all of those who manipulate justice in this country that you cannot get away with this. Or if you can get away with it, you can only get away with it for so long." ~Dr. William F. Pepper, closing argument, King Family v. Loyd Jowers and Other Unknown Co-conspirators, December 8, 1999.
The national wounds inflicted on the body politic by assassinations refuse to heal because we have been given band aid remedies instead of digging down to root out the infection that contaminates the American government. The MLK files remain sealed, not scheduled for declassification until 2028. Even the family of King exonerates James Earl Ray as the “lone gunman” of the King assassination, the “official” story. Now, two key players step forward to add their voices to the controversy blunting declaring, along with lawyer Pepper that governmental agencies knowingly participated in the killing of King in an unconstitutional, thinly disguised domestic covert action COINTEL PRO-type joint intelligence operation with organized crime and international hitmen. A 26-year retired CIA Case Officer, Leutrell “Mike” Osborne, Jr. concurs with Gary Revel, the only private investigator of the King case appointed by Congress. They agree that the government is implicated in this murder, one of the most socially relevant events of recent history. In the interim, there have been multiple mysterious deaths among those with key information. The King is dead, but this case will not die until the truth is revealed to the public, at large.
The national wounds inflicted on the body politic by assassinations refuse to heal because we have been given band aid remedies instead of digging down to root out the infection that contaminates the American government. The MLK files remain sealed, not scheduled for declassification until 2028. Even the family of King exonerates James Earl Ray as the “lone gunman” of the King assassination, the “official” story. Now, two key players step forward to add their voices to the controversy blunting declaring, along with lawyer Pepper that governmental agencies knowingly participated in the killing of King in an unconstitutional, thinly disguised domestic covert action COINTEL PRO-type joint intelligence operation with organized crime and international hitmen. A 26-year retired CIA Case Officer, Leutrell “Mike” Osborne, Jr. concurs with Gary Revel, the only private investigator of the King case appointed by Congress. They agree that the government is implicated in this murder, one of the most socially relevant events of recent history. In the interim, there have been multiple mysterious deaths among those with key information. The King is dead, but this case will not die until the truth is revealed to the public, at large.
TRIPLE K ASSASSINATIONS
Ritual Psychodrama; Ritual Murder
by Iona Miller
“My thesis, then, is as follows: In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.” - Carl Jung, “The Concept of the Collective Unconscious”
Carl Jung had a concept of the Collective Unconscious: “In addition to our immediate personal consciousness, (which we believe to be the only empirical psyche), there exists a second “inherited” psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.” He delivered lectures at the Tavistock Clinic on “The Concept of the Collective Unconscious” in 1935. In 1937, he lectured at Yale on “Psychology and Religion.” Jung called the psyche the soul source of human experience.
PsyOp, manipulating body, emotions, thinking and beliefs, has been used against humanity ever since by exploiting archetypes and memes to provoke specific reactions for population control and marketing of ideas and products. Images are planted in the collective psyche through icons, symbolic acts, and predictive programming manipulated with disinformation. Suggestive influences react on our psychological systems hierarchically as mind-body holographic control.
Americans were turned into uniform consumers also expected to consume the “official” version of history. In society, the psyche creates divinities that escape the containment in their psychogenetic origins to make history. If the formula is quasi-religious, so much the better. Televised psychodrama is iconic and ritualistic. This quasi-religious quality serves a “religious" function of mediating cultural order projecting a shared worldview. But it is only a projection – a perception not a reality.
Assassination is the Dark Hammer of history. Politics is endless ritual psychodrama combined with forced choice. Every four years or less, we have the catharsis of election, rooted in an ongoing process of mutual character assassination. The pre-staged conflict unfolds on the World Stage. Political assassinations force toxic collective catharsis with little to no hope for recovery from lost dreams and forced change. The victim, including each of us as trauma survivors, is a symbol of anger (and guilt) at the social order. Repetition of such shocks creates a hypervigilant PTSD culture. A sick society “acts out” much like a sick individual. It has a dark shadow.
The collective unconscious plays out through the existence of similar symbols and mythological figures in different civilizations – cross-cultural analogies. Archetypal symbols are embedded in our collective subconscious, and, when exposed to them, we demonstrate awe, natural attraction and fascination. Occult symbols can therefore exert a great impact on people, even if many individuals were never personally introduced to the symbol’s esoteric meaning. Staged psychodrama by the hidden hand of powers that be exploits this natural tendency for collective psychological struggle played out as a trance-enhanced multimedia techno opera of supercharged imagery.
In some sense, we become the hitman every time we hit the "rewind" button of involuntary role reversal. As in PTSD, it keeps "happenING." The Director's Cut is the "official explanation." We are fully involved in the riveting action. Ceremonial psychodrama involves after-the-fact revelations in the great American Mystery play. Over time the mythical story plays as big a role as the murder itself. Cover ups function like the unconscious curtain that pushes pressing issues into the dark. The probing is more psychodrama in which the plot is obsessively elaborated. "No Conspiracy" injunctions are designed for their numbing effect. The mundane runs head on into the esoteric. In a climate of violence, we all become the target.
Execution of Policy
Public assassination is psychological warfare. In the mythic dimension, it is ritualistic drama. It echoes the ancient practice of the "Killing of the Divine King". From the seed of the event -- televised slaughter -- come the alchemical effects which transform society but not for the better. The Group Mind or "dreaming mind" enters our awareness. The subtext is that forces that could get away with such ghastly public demonstrations of power could get away with anything. High-stakes psychodrama of political, military, or civil events is used by politicians and cultural engineers to push their agendas by grasping power once we are divided through conflict.
Has the public been hoodwinked from the true meaning of these events engineered by the shadow government or the governmental "Shadow" for which we all share responsibility? Is sorcery the root of history? Was it his destiny or misfortune that Martin embodied the archetype of the "Divine King," a "Black Messiah," that psychically forced his martyrdom? He sensed his fate before it claimed him. His was one of three “Triple K Assassinations” of iconic men "who would be kings." No matter who the perpetrators, does the collective psyche mandate the cyclic replay of such primordial themes of human culture or is it all just part of an imposed "shock doctrine"? Who, in fact, functions as judge, jury and executioner? Does Rule by survivorship mimic survival of the fittest or actually derail humanity's evolutionary arc?
Mythic Politics
The divine life, incarnate in a material and mortal body, is liable to be tainted and corrupted by the weakness of the frail medium in which it is for a time enshrined. If it is to be saved from the increasing enfeeblement which it must necessarily share with its human incarnation as he advances in years, it must be detached from him before, or at least as soon as, he exhibits signs of decay, in order to be transferred to a vigorous successor. This is done by killing the old representative of the god and conveying the divine spirit from him to a new incarnation.
But in ancient times the killing was always associated implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, with a revival or resurrection of him in a more youthful and vigorous form. The killing of the god, that is, of his human incarnation, is therefore merely a necessary step to his revival or resurrection in a better form. Far from being an extinction of the divine spirit, it is only the beginning of a purer and stronger manifestation of it. Perhaps presidential elections mimic this process.
One explanation of the custom of killing divine persons assumes, or at least is readily combined with, is the idea that the soul of the slain divinity is transmitted to his successor. But the real purpose was to kill something within each of us, some part of the collective dream of freedom. This King encouraged the audacity to dream of a positive future. But, something within each and every one of us died, diminished by this tragic loss and the American Dream soured. As in days of old, they were put to death when their political usefulness was over -- upon serious failure of their power.
However, the successor who insures the "resurrection" of the Triple K figures has never appeared. In this way it echoes the Jesus story of the Second Coming in which everyone who wishes to be resurrected must undergo the ritual death of baptism. But in any overt or covert political action we have to look to its generalized EFFECT on the populace. In the Triple K Assassinations it was shock, confusion and demoralization. It made people suspect and realize their government perpetrated a power grab. There were ritual killings of Irish kings and masonic "Killing of the King" rituals.
A mimetic execution ritual in Bohemia illuminates the archetypal dynamics.. In some places of the Pilsen district (Bohemia) on Whit-Monday the King is dressed in bark, ornamented with flowers and ribbons; he wears a crown of gilt paper and rides a horse, which is also decked with flowers. Attended by a judge, an executioner, and other characters, and followed by a train of soldiers, all mounted, he rides to the village square, where a hut or arbor of green boughs has been erected under the May-trees, which are firs, freshly cut, peeled to the top, and dressed with flowers and ribbons. After the dames and maidens of the village have been criticized and a frog beheaded, the cavalcade rides to a place previously determined upon, in a straight, broad street. Here they draw up in two lines and the King takes to flight. He is given a short start and rides off at full speed, pursued by the whole troop. If they fail to catch him he remains King for another year, and his companions must pay his score at the ale-house in the evening. But if they overtake and catch him he is scourged with hazel rods or beaten with the wooden swords and compelled to dismount. Then the executioner asks, “Shall I behead this King?” The answer is given, “Behead him”. The executioner brandishes his axe, and with the words, “One, two, three, let the King headless be!” he strikes off the King’s crown. Amid the loud cries of the bystanders the King sinks to the ground; then he is laid on a bier
by Iona Miller
“My thesis, then, is as follows: In addition to our immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.” - Carl Jung, “The Concept of the Collective Unconscious”
Carl Jung had a concept of the Collective Unconscious: “In addition to our immediate personal consciousness, (which we believe to be the only empirical psyche), there exists a second “inherited” psychic system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is identical in all individuals. It consists of pre-existent forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and which give definite form to certain psychic contents.” He delivered lectures at the Tavistock Clinic on “The Concept of the Collective Unconscious” in 1935. In 1937, he lectured at Yale on “Psychology and Religion.” Jung called the psyche the soul source of human experience.
PsyOp, manipulating body, emotions, thinking and beliefs, has been used against humanity ever since by exploiting archetypes and memes to provoke specific reactions for population control and marketing of ideas and products. Images are planted in the collective psyche through icons, symbolic acts, and predictive programming manipulated with disinformation. Suggestive influences react on our psychological systems hierarchically as mind-body holographic control.
Americans were turned into uniform consumers also expected to consume the “official” version of history. In society, the psyche creates divinities that escape the containment in their psychogenetic origins to make history. If the formula is quasi-religious, so much the better. Televised psychodrama is iconic and ritualistic. This quasi-religious quality serves a “religious" function of mediating cultural order projecting a shared worldview. But it is only a projection – a perception not a reality.
Assassination is the Dark Hammer of history. Politics is endless ritual psychodrama combined with forced choice. Every four years or less, we have the catharsis of election, rooted in an ongoing process of mutual character assassination. The pre-staged conflict unfolds on the World Stage. Political assassinations force toxic collective catharsis with little to no hope for recovery from lost dreams and forced change. The victim, including each of us as trauma survivors, is a symbol of anger (and guilt) at the social order. Repetition of such shocks creates a hypervigilant PTSD culture. A sick society “acts out” much like a sick individual. It has a dark shadow.
The collective unconscious plays out through the existence of similar symbols and mythological figures in different civilizations – cross-cultural analogies. Archetypal symbols are embedded in our collective subconscious, and, when exposed to them, we demonstrate awe, natural attraction and fascination. Occult symbols can therefore exert a great impact on people, even if many individuals were never personally introduced to the symbol’s esoteric meaning. Staged psychodrama by the hidden hand of powers that be exploits this natural tendency for collective psychological struggle played out as a trance-enhanced multimedia techno opera of supercharged imagery.
In some sense, we become the hitman every time we hit the "rewind" button of involuntary role reversal. As in PTSD, it keeps "happenING." The Director's Cut is the "official explanation." We are fully involved in the riveting action. Ceremonial psychodrama involves after-the-fact revelations in the great American Mystery play. Over time the mythical story plays as big a role as the murder itself. Cover ups function like the unconscious curtain that pushes pressing issues into the dark. The probing is more psychodrama in which the plot is obsessively elaborated. "No Conspiracy" injunctions are designed for their numbing effect. The mundane runs head on into the esoteric. In a climate of violence, we all become the target.
Execution of Policy
Public assassination is psychological warfare. In the mythic dimension, it is ritualistic drama. It echoes the ancient practice of the "Killing of the Divine King". From the seed of the event -- televised slaughter -- come the alchemical effects which transform society but not for the better. The Group Mind or "dreaming mind" enters our awareness. The subtext is that forces that could get away with such ghastly public demonstrations of power could get away with anything. High-stakes psychodrama of political, military, or civil events is used by politicians and cultural engineers to push their agendas by grasping power once we are divided through conflict.
Has the public been hoodwinked from the true meaning of these events engineered by the shadow government or the governmental "Shadow" for which we all share responsibility? Is sorcery the root of history? Was it his destiny or misfortune that Martin embodied the archetype of the "Divine King," a "Black Messiah," that psychically forced his martyrdom? He sensed his fate before it claimed him. His was one of three “Triple K Assassinations” of iconic men "who would be kings." No matter who the perpetrators, does the collective psyche mandate the cyclic replay of such primordial themes of human culture or is it all just part of an imposed "shock doctrine"? Who, in fact, functions as judge, jury and executioner? Does Rule by survivorship mimic survival of the fittest or actually derail humanity's evolutionary arc?
Mythic Politics
The divine life, incarnate in a material and mortal body, is liable to be tainted and corrupted by the weakness of the frail medium in which it is for a time enshrined. If it is to be saved from the increasing enfeeblement which it must necessarily share with its human incarnation as he advances in years, it must be detached from him before, or at least as soon as, he exhibits signs of decay, in order to be transferred to a vigorous successor. This is done by killing the old representative of the god and conveying the divine spirit from him to a new incarnation.
But in ancient times the killing was always associated implicitly, and sometimes explicitly, with a revival or resurrection of him in a more youthful and vigorous form. The killing of the god, that is, of his human incarnation, is therefore merely a necessary step to his revival or resurrection in a better form. Far from being an extinction of the divine spirit, it is only the beginning of a purer and stronger manifestation of it. Perhaps presidential elections mimic this process.
One explanation of the custom of killing divine persons assumes, or at least is readily combined with, is the idea that the soul of the slain divinity is transmitted to his successor. But the real purpose was to kill something within each of us, some part of the collective dream of freedom. This King encouraged the audacity to dream of a positive future. But, something within each and every one of us died, diminished by this tragic loss and the American Dream soured. As in days of old, they were put to death when their political usefulness was over -- upon serious failure of their power.
However, the successor who insures the "resurrection" of the Triple K figures has never appeared. In this way it echoes the Jesus story of the Second Coming in which everyone who wishes to be resurrected must undergo the ritual death of baptism. But in any overt or covert political action we have to look to its generalized EFFECT on the populace. In the Triple K Assassinations it was shock, confusion and demoralization. It made people suspect and realize their government perpetrated a power grab. There were ritual killings of Irish kings and masonic "Killing of the King" rituals.
A mimetic execution ritual in Bohemia illuminates the archetypal dynamics.. In some places of the Pilsen district (Bohemia) on Whit-Monday the King is dressed in bark, ornamented with flowers and ribbons; he wears a crown of gilt paper and rides a horse, which is also decked with flowers. Attended by a judge, an executioner, and other characters, and followed by a train of soldiers, all mounted, he rides to the village square, where a hut or arbor of green boughs has been erected under the May-trees, which are firs, freshly cut, peeled to the top, and dressed with flowers and ribbons. After the dames and maidens of the village have been criticized and a frog beheaded, the cavalcade rides to a place previously determined upon, in a straight, broad street. Here they draw up in two lines and the King takes to flight. He is given a short start and rides off at full speed, pursued by the whole troop. If they fail to catch him he remains King for another year, and his companions must pay his score at the ale-house in the evening. But if they overtake and catch him he is scourged with hazel rods or beaten with the wooden swords and compelled to dismount. Then the executioner asks, “Shall I behead this King?” The answer is given, “Behead him”. The executioner brandishes his axe, and with the words, “One, two, three, let the King headless be!” he strikes off the King’s crown. Amid the loud cries of the bystanders the King sinks to the ground; then he is laid on a bier
Report of the Select Committee on Assassinations of the U.S. House of Representatives
1979-07-00, United States National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/summary.html
Findings of the Select Committee on Assassinations in the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Tex., November 22, 1963. Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy. Other scientific evidence does not preclude the possibility of two gunmen firing at the President. The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The committee is unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy. The [original] investigation into the possibility of conspiracy in the assassination was inadequate. The conclusions of the investigations were arrived at in good faith, but presented in a fashion that was too definitive. The Department of Justice failed to exercise initiative in supervising and directing the investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the assassination. The Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President. The Central Intelligence Agency was deficient in its collection and sharing of information both prior to and subsequent to the assassination. The Warren Commission failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President.
Note: This same US Congressional report, on the subject of the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, states that "The committee believes, on the basis of the circumstantial evidence available to it, that there is a likelihood that James Earl Ray assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King as a result of a conspiracy." Why hasn't this information been widely reported and become public knowledge? For a possible answer, click here.
1979-07-00, United States National Archives
http://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/select-committee-report/summary.html
Findings of the Select Committee on Assassinations in the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Tex., November 22, 1963. Scientific acoustical evidence establishes a high probability that two gunmen fired at President John F. Kennedy. Other scientific evidence does not preclude the possibility of two gunmen firing at the President. The committee believes, on the basis of the evidence available to it, that President John F. Kennedy was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy. The committee is unable to identify the other gunman or the extent of the conspiracy. The [original] investigation into the possibility of conspiracy in the assassination was inadequate. The conclusions of the investigations were arrived at in good faith, but presented in a fashion that was too definitive. The Department of Justice failed to exercise initiative in supervising and directing the investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the assassination. The Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President. The Central Intelligence Agency was deficient in its collection and sharing of information both prior to and subsequent to the assassination. The Warren Commission failed to investigate adequately the possibility of a conspiracy to assassinate the President.
Note: This same US Congressional report, on the subject of the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination, states that "The committee believes, on the basis of the circumstantial evidence available to it, that there is a likelihood that James Earl Ray assassinated Dr. Martin Luther King as a result of a conspiracy." Why hasn't this information been widely reported and become public knowledge? For a possible answer, click here.
TRIPLE K ASSASSINATIONS
Governmental agencies caused Martin Luther King to be assassinated... They caused this whole thing to happen. And they then proceeded with the powerful means at their disposal to cover this case up. This is a conspiracy... and that's a nasty word. Let justice and truth prevail, else the heavens fall . . . send a message to all of those in power, all of those who manipulate justice in this country that you cannot get away with this. Or if you can get away with it, you can only get away with it for so long." ~Dr. William F. Pepper, closing argument, King Family v. Loyd Jowers and Other Unknown Co-conspirators, December 8, 1999. [photo: Gary Revel]
"As all insightful students of government committees know now, the HSCA was not interested in investigating the assassinations of JFK and MLK for the purpose of finding the real killers but only for the purpose of continuing the cover-up of the actual crimes." Gary Revel
"Over the years, our approach to investigative problems in the intelligence field has given rise to a number of new programs, some of which have been most revolutionary, and it can be assumed that with a continued aggressive approach to these problems, new and productive ideas will be forthcoming. These ideas will not be increased in number or improved upon from the standpoint of accomplishments merely through the institution of a program such as COINTELPRO which is given another name, and which in fact, only encompasses everything that has been done or will be done in the future." J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director, Memorandum, July 15, 1964
Did COINTEL PRO & CIA "Back Pocket Agents" Kill Rev. King, Jr.?
by Iona Miller, Paranoia Magazine, July, 2012
“A lie cannot live.” ~ Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Whitewashed Black Leader
Big questions remain that haunt our nation. Issues from the 1960’s will not die, despite the fact that the icons of the “Triple K Assassinations” have been gone for decades. The deaths of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were tragic milestones. We still grieve, are confused, depressed and angry. The national wounds inflicted on the body politic by assassinations refuse to heal because we have been given band aid remedies instead of digging down to root out the infection that contaminates the American government. The MLK files remain sealed, not scheduled for declassification until 2028.
James Earl Ray, a drifter and ex-convict, shot and killed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a single bullet at the Lorraine Motel on an April evening in 1968. That is the official story and the reason Ray spent his last three decades in prison. Everybody knows it. But not everyone accepts the “lone gunman” theory. Almost as soon as Dr. King was cut down — and more after Ray recanted his guilty plea — conspiracy theories proliferated. Some said the assassin was an Army sniper. Among other avenues, DoD dirty tricks and massive spying on civilians under General Yarborough require further investigation.
The “Handler”
Mr. Ray insisted he had been framed by a man named Raul, hired by the CIA. Intelligence sources say, “Raul LNU is a real person born in Portugal. General William Yarborough knew and secured Raul’s assistance. Raul served in Angola. Raul is still alive and protected.” The HSCA suspected that Ray's mysterious co-conspirator Raoul was, in fact, Jerry Ray. Although the HSCA could never prove it, there were many signs that Jerry Ray had assisted his brother prior to and following the assassination. That doesn’t make him “Raoul.” The HSCA did not believe there was sufficient evidence to charge either of Ray's brothers, both of whom insist their brother was not a racist killer. But, James Earl Ray never provided any concrete proof that Raoul actually existed. How could he when undercover types remain in the shadows?
The King family still believes that Ray, who died of liver disease in 1998, was not the killer. Dexter King, Dr. King’s son, visited Mr. Ray on his deathbed. “The government killed my father,” Dexter King told him, “not you.” Mr. Ray’s family said they were finally getting the vindication they deserved. In one of the biggest media cover-ups ever, the government was found guilty of conspiring to murder King in a 1999 civil trial in Memphis. Strangely, the media boycotted this historic trial. Its government-damning verdict remains largely unknown to the public.
Many Americans want answers now that go beyond tired official stories that accuse hypno-patsies. The CIA document, "Hypnosis and Covert Operations" (written May 5, 1955), released through the FOIA as MORI 428311, describes brainwashing/programming techniques. According to his brother John Ray, in the Army, James was a military policeman "for a year and a half in the 382nd MP Battalion.”
Later, he joined a new organization formed out of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) known as the CIA after 1947. "When James joined the CIA, he was given a new U.S. Army serial number." His involvement in the Army with the OSS/CIA and his civilian criminal contacts haunted James Earl Ray, who later said: "When you join the OSS, it's like joining the Mafia, you never leave." He was assigned a "handler" who manipulated and directed him the rest of his life. Was that handler Raoul? Those who know the ropes at CIA say “the Raouls” didn’t behave like a CIA staffer or Case Officer. However, Raul was a trained handler of agents, so he could be traced to military, police, or another of the intelligence agencies that run agents and do domestic intelligence.
Criminal Conspiracies
Ray’s lawyer, Mark Lane and Dick Gregory drafted proposed legislation to establish a Select Committee of the House of Representatives to investigate the assassinations of Dr. King and President Kennedy. Once Code Name "Zorro" was published in 1977 various members of Congress and others supported such an inquiry. The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established in 1976 to investigate the JFK, MLK and Governor George Wallace shootings. The HSCA followed the Hart-Schweiker and Church Committee hearings that revealed CIA ties to other assassinations and assassination attempts. Their conclusions remain questionable to many.
Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored the 2005 version of the MLK Records Act, HR 2554. It had 67 co-sponsors at the time McKinney left office at the end of 2006. A Senate version of the bill (S 2499) was introduced by Senator John Kerry and was co-signed by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. The bill received numerous other endorsements from former Members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA).
McKinney also conducted a Congressional Panel entitled “Murder of MLK.” attended by former CIA Case Officer, Leutrell Osborne, Sr. She had TV's popular Judge Joe Brown appear. Brown was removed from the reopened investigation of King's murder due to alleged bias. He announced unequivocally that the rifle known to all Americans as the murder weapon is, indeed, not the murder weapon.
Further, Dr. William Pepper, longtime King Family friend, was a lawyer at the 1999 Memphis trial in which the jury found that the government was part of a conspiracy to assassinate Dr. King. Testimony revealed that a very sophisticated operation to kill Dr. King was hatched in the bowels of the Pentagon, employing the Mob, local Memphis police, and US military intelligence to accomplish the objective. In fact, Dr. King's family had been under surveillance by our Government since the 1920s.
What McKinney couldn’t say was that the coordination of government activities performed to neutralize Dr. King, Jr. were part and parcel of COINTEL PRO, an FBI “dirty tricks” program to neutralize civilian political adversaries. The FBI set out to eliminate "radical" political opposition inside the US. When traditional modes of repression (exposure, blatant harassment, and prosecution for political crimes) failed to counter the growing insurgency, and even helped to fuel it, the Bureau took the law into its own hands and secretly used fraud and force to sabotage constitutionally protected political activity. Its methods ranged far beyond surveillance, and amounted to a domestic version of the covert action the CIA is infamous for globally. CA includes propaganda, lies, assassinations, drugs and agents of influence.
COINTELPRO was discovered in March, 1971, when secret files were removed from an FBI office and released to news media. It was as or more criminal than those it investigated, using extralegal force and violence. Freedom of Information requests, lawsuits, and former agents' public confessions deepened the exposure until a major scandal loomed. To control the damage and re-establish government legitimacy in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, Congress and the courts compelled the FBI to reveal part of what it had done and to promise it would not do it again. (Glick) But, ignoring political designations, domestic covert action and psychological warfare did not end and continues under Patriot Act II.
In 2010-2011, many of these principals reunited for the "Truth Crushed to Earth," Assassination Trial Panel Discussions. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Truth crushed to earth will rise again.” Participants included Walter Fauntroy - Chairman Sub-Committee on Assassinations, Attorney Mark Lane - Author " Murder in Memphis", Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney - Introduced H.R. 2554 to disclose records on MLK assassination, Cyril Wecht - Pathologist, Attorney Arthur Hanes- Represented James Earl Ray at one point and Attorney James Lesar - testified about the window from which the fatal shot was allegedly fired. They discuss their investigations, research and Congressional efforts around the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Special Investigator Gary Revel provides entertainment, singing his song, “They Slew the Dreamer.”
Why Ask Why?
Among other reasons, Dr. King was targeted for “executive action” because the “powers that be” (PTB) could not tolerate a “Black Messiah” on the political scene. This makes it paradoxical that they would then ‘martyr’ him. But his political rhetoric and tone were increasingly anti-Vietnam War. So, besides his Civil Rights issues, King became lumped in with the Peace Movement and radical dissidents, each of which had its own “separate but equal” targeting from the intentionally disruptive forces of FBI’s COINTEL PRO. The mob didn’t want the war to end and disrupt its heroin pipeline.
The FBI's interest in King intensified after the “March on Washington” in August 1963, when King delivered his "I Have a Dream” speech, which many historians call the most important speech of the 20th century. After the landmark speech, an FBI memo called King "the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country." J. Edgar Hoover declared a vendetta against him, tracking his every movement on the pretext of Communist associations. FBI’s codename for Dr. King was ‘Zorro.’
Telling questions Lane and Gregory got the U.S. House Assassinations Committee to investigate in the murder of Dr. King included:
Why was Dr. King’s police protection removed on the day of the assassination? –and by whom?
Why was the same FBI squad which was originally assigned to “destroy” King (whom they code-named “Zorro”) also directed to investigate his murder?
What did the ballistics tests reveal – or fail to reveal – about the alleged murder weapon?
In what strange way has the most reliable witness been prevented, perhaps forever, from testifying in court?
To what documented lengths did certain FBI men go to threaten King and suggest that he commit suicide rather than accept the Nobel Peace Prize?
What of the mysterious “Raoul” who Ray claims masterminded and financed his movements before the murder?
Partners in the overall criminal conspiracy included the FBI, US Government Officials, the CIA, the Mafia and a network of drug money laundering businesses around the globe to keep it all running smoothly. Burglaries, extortion, violence, psychological operations and even murder were in their bag of dirty tricks. They used these tools to achieve desired results regardless of the laws they swore to uphold. They used innocent law abiding citizens, government officials, shadowy covert operatives and criminals; from the small time petty crooks like James Earl Ray to the Mafia Dons like Carlos Marcello. (Revel)
Martin Luther King Truth Committee
In 2008, Leutrell Osborne & Associates (LOA) formed an activist committee to further investigate the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and report its findings to the global community by the 40th anniversary of his death, April 4, 2008. This project is a continuance of work in this arena by Leutrell Osborne, Sr., a former CIA Case Officer, who is a recognized authority on the subject. The purpose is to identify the perpetrators that assassinated Dr. King, Jr. His revelation that COINTEL was both FBI and CIA is new to most audiences, though many suspected as much.Osborne can back up his claim that, as a CI officer, “I understood and performed duties to identify, analyze and neutralize adversary intelligence persons and activities as well as drug dealers when I was in the CIA prior to l984.”
“Those of us in the intelligence industry know that the term ‘neutralize’ has specific meanings that even include assassination. Osborne suggests we “know without doubt that the US Government agencies led by the FBI performed intelligence activities to neutralize Dr. King, Jr. The only reason I am not able to state that more emphatically is because we need the individuals who know about the actual details to come forward and become sincere whistle blowers if that is possible at this late date, over 40 years after the fact.”
“As a dedicated veteran CIA Case Officer who made his reputation on CI investigations, my knowledge of COINTEL PRO and information from at least one credible source leaves no doubt that the Government and organized crime collaborated in 1968 in the assassination of Dr. King, Jr. Both James Earl Ray and Lloyd Jowers were patsies who did not assassinate Dr. King, Jr. However, they were used by these forces to confuse and muddy the waters around the assassination.”
“I can still hear the words of one source who told me that he was under cover meeting with organized crime leaders like Carlos Marcello, when the source learned that Frank Camille Liberto (the reigning Memphis, Tennessee mob boss) received orders to ‘kill him,’ meaning Dr. King, Jr. The King family accused Liberto in court of advancing money to further the conspiracy.”
“I consider this topic of COINTEL PRO one of the most devastating historical facts in my life and I am ready to talk about Cointel Pro. It is fascinating that my story begins in l964 when I met Dr. King, Jr. the day after he received the Nobel Peace Prize. The CIA allowed me to note the details in the first book of “The Dark Operative Series,” The Black Man in the CIA (BMCIA). In l968, when I was a clerical level CIA employee I wanted to make a name for myself so I discussed the cable slug Cointel Pro with my supervisor who told me that Cointel Pro was a counter intelligence program of the FBI. I even raise the question in the story whether my supervisor was lying or did not know that Cointel Pro was a Covert Action Intelligence operation against US citizens especially Native Americans and Black people.”
The MLK committee, more a loose affiliation with mutual interests, is the outgrowth of LOA's past support of the re-opened investigation on the assassination of Dr. King, Jr. Osborne, the Black Man in the CIA asks one question "Is the identification of the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as or more important than resolving many of the racial issues that top the news today?" The answer of the Committee is, "Definitely. The nation and world still await an answer that satisfies." Doubts linger about the guilt of alleged assassin James Earl Ray, even among his own family.
Mr. Osborne has friends and colleagues among those with close associations to the MLK assassination case, including the only government-appointed undercover Special Agent Gary Revel, activist Dick Gregory, King-family attorney William F. Pepper, and Civil Rights leader, Rev. Ed King. He has interviewed Ray Kohlman, Mike Ruppert, former Congresswoman Cynthia Mc Kinney, Catherine Austin Fitts, and more to clarify the MLK assassination.
Attorney Kohlman worked as a legal investigator for William Pepper in the Ray trials and the King family civil trial. He suggests, “The King assassination is all mixed up. Every new book does not address much beyond; King was shot in Memphis, Ray did it. They even suggest that King regularly stayed at the Lorraine, when he usually stayed at the River Front overlooking the Mississippi. Our information was that Hoover's boys had wired everything including the patio.”
Leutrell "Mike" Osborne is a 26 year veteran CIA Case Officer and Counter Intelligence expert. Like many African-Americans he is somewhat familiar with the now deceased Director of Domestic Intelligence for the FBI, William Sullivan. He was killed a week before he was to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1977.
What can be learned of Sullivan’s career comes from his autobiography (that was completed and published after his untimely death), FBI files, news articles, and press accounts. One thing that rises out of the fog is that Mr. Sullivan directed the 'Destroy King Squad'. This was a Covert Action Intelligence Operation whose mission was to destroy the effectiveness of Martin Luther King, Jr. If assassination was an authorized tool in their tool-belt then they surely completed their assignment. This squad was part of the larger operation with the acronym COINTEL PRO for Counter Intelligence Program.
Mr. Osborne's knowledge of Bill Sullivan's operations goes far beyond what most know because of his special opportunities to learn of such things as a CIA Case Officer. Even with this special insight, Osborne continues asking others for more information and leads. One of those he asked was Gary Revel, the special undercover investigator on the King case.
Revel’s Wake Up Call
In 1977 Revel was 27. He “took a simple part-time job and found himself at the center of one of our history's major political and social events.” Danger and intrigue chased Gary through his quest for the truth. They tried to kill the truth, they tried to destroy all the evidence, but Gary is living proof the dream lives on. Investigating the cover-up was no easy task. No one believed him; witnesses and family members began dropping dead; he questioned his own sanity; the Mafia told him to back off and he didn’t. The musician wrote a song about it called “They Slew the Dreamer” to appeal directly to the public. He is currently trying to bring his spell-binding but controversial story to film. He is finding Hollywood resistant.
Revel had met William Sullivan in 1977 during his investigation of MLK's murder and saw a different side of the man than most. He learned a little known fact that William Sullivan became sickened with the FBI's abuse of the basic human rights of others and challenged J. Edgar Hoover the day before he was locked out of his office in 1972. Shortly after that he resigned. Revel remembers that Sullivan had challenged J. Edgar and said 'either you go or I go' and subsequently Sullivan left.
Another important detail of William Sullivan's life is that a few months before he was to testify before the HSCA he met at least one person, and most likely others, providing information and files that would be the basis of a real investigation designed to find the real killers of King. This also happened in 1977 and because of the government's tampering and interfering with the evidence in the case it is likely that the evidence is lost and will never surface again. Special Investigator Gary Revel's home was ransacked once and then during an eviction all his files on the King case disappeared. ‘Evictions’ are a COINTEL signature.
William Sullivan's goal was to testify before the public HSCA hearings, laying his cards on the table. He was going to give the committee and the American people the truth about J. Edgar Hoover's hatred of Martin Luther King Jr. as well as his hatred for President John Kennedy and Presidential Candidate Robert Kennedy. Sullivan had unique knowledge of how the FBI worked with the CIA when it came to J. Edgar driven plans to neutralize the human rights activities of African-American leaders and their supporters.
This knowledge and the evidence he was prepared to present would have given the HSCA the direction it needed to truly uncover and prosecute the perpetrators of the JFK and MLK assassinations. It is no wonder that those who had the most to lose if the truth came out were not unhappy to hear of his 'accidental murder'. The official record says that Robert Daniels mistook William Sullivan for a deer while deer hunting and shot and killed him before Bill could make his revelations public.
Revel says he is still trying to unravel the bizarre happenings of that year. His brother, his cousin's husband, William Sullivan and 5 other FBI or former FBI officials who could have been valuable to his investigation died mysteriously or were simply killed during that year. Sullivan and the other 5 were scheduled to testify before the committee.
Donald Kaylor was a fingerprint expert who had worked on the JFK assassination evidence. Alan Belmont and Louis Nicholas were both special assistants to J. Edgar Hoover. JFK assassination document examiner and expert James Cadigan was another. J.M. English, an expert on the rifle that supposedly killed President John F. Kennedy and head of the FBI Forensic Sciences Laboratory was also dispatched.
Those who travel to a place beyond reason and continue to try to defend the official stories of lone assassins and thorough investigations simply haven't gotten it yet. Though they differ on the particulars, all those of the loosely-knit unofficial Truth Committee agree that the truth about the “slaying of the dreamer” has not been publically acknowledged. They are committed to making that truth known. All operate at tremendous personal risk. All deplore and fight injustice and corruption.
[Sidebar] REVELations: Summary of Gary Revel’s findings in the MLK assassination:
"I have found that James Earl Ray was not in that bathroom from where it is claimed the shot was fired and further Ray did not have the character of a cold bloodied killer who calmly with one shot destroyed the hopes and dreams of millions by killing such a great man.E. Howard Hunt was the Team Leader of a group of assassins that included former CIA operatives (employed or contracted) and Mafia Assets. James Earl Ray was a patsy, like Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan, set up to take the fall for the killing. Oversight of the crime scene and homicide investigation was supervised and directed by Frank Holloman - the appointed Director of the Memphis Police and Fire Department. President Lyndon B. Johnson made the orders to terminate in association with J. Edgar Hoover and the Italian Organized Crime group, aka Mafia. The motive for the killing was MLK's public stand against the Vietnam War. That stand was considered by US National Security Officials as a threat to them and their policies as well as a threat to the economic fortunes of the Mafia (billions of dollars made by the Mafia via the Heroin Pipeline.) The pipeline began in Burma and was strung by sea and air via Southeast Asia to the rest of the world. Most of it ended up on the streets of the biggest cities in the US. The presence of US Military in Southeast Asia protected that pipeline for the Mafia. If the Vietnam War had ended earlier the Mafia would have lost billions of dollars in illegal drug and black market weapons sales. When it finally ended in 1975 the Mafia's cash cow from illegal drug sales changed to the cocaine trade from Colombia."
Beyond the Trial
Martin Luther King's family and his attorney, William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty in the wrongful death of MLK. The 1999 trial, King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators, is the only trial ever conducted on the assassination of Dr. King. The King family's attempts for a criminal trial were denied, as suspect James Ray's recant of what he claimed was a false confession was denied.
Seventy witnesses testified under oath, 4,000 pages of transcripts described that evidence, much of it new. The jury came back in 59 minutes with their decision exonerating James Earl Ray, who had already died in prison. The jury found that Lloyd Jowers, owner of Jim’s Grill, had participated in a conspiracy to kill King. The evidence showed that the conspiracy included J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, Richard Helms and the CIA, the military, the Memphis police department, and organized crime.
Overwhelming evidence of government complicity was introduced and agreed as comprehensively valid by the jury. The 111th Military Intelligence Group was sent to Dr. King's location. The usual police protection was pulled away just before the assassination. Military Intelligence set-up alleged photographers on a roof of a fire station with a clear view to Dr. King's balcony. 20th Special Forces Group had an 8-man sniper team at the assassination location on that day. Memphis police ordered bushes cut down at the scene which multiple witnesses reported as the source of shooting. Those bushes could have hidden a sniper team. Along with sanitizing a crime scene, police abandoned investigative procedure to interview witnesses who lived by the scene of the shooting. (Revel)
Pepper’s witnesses included Glenda Grabow with her account of how she was told by Raoul that he had killed or assisted in the killing of King and had been raped by him. The jury was shown a telephone record of a conversation between Grabow and Raoul months before the trial, the conversation was 6 minutes long, which would indicate that they knew each other. Ms.Grabow also worked for Fercy Foreman who told her that Ray had to be "sacrificed" for their welfare and told her that Ray was innocent.
Beverly Oliver, Chari Angel and Madeleine Brown all picked Raoul out of a photo line up as a man they saw with Jack Ruby in his Carousel Club in Dallas. Ray’s alias after he tried to escape, 'Eric S. Galt', belonged to a man with high level security clearance. A British man, ‘Carthew’ testified that he was offered rifles by Raoul in the 60s. One of Pepper’s military sources known as Warren picked Raoul out of a photo line up as the man he had seen with Zip Chimento who ran Carlos Marcello’s gun running operation out of New Orleans.
Carthew was important to Pepper as the ex-British merchant seaman who recalled meeting a gunrunner by the name of ‘Raul’ in Montreal in 1967. During the trial and in his book, Pepper described Carthew as a ‘British Nationalist’ probably aware that most Americans would think nothing of this except he was simply a patriotic Englishman. Pepper does not, however, acknowledge that Carthew has been a committed racist from West Yorkshire, an activist who supported the racist British National Party, a political organization which has established close links to neo-fascist terror groups like ‘Combat 18’. If the Jowers’ jury had been informed about Carthew’s past they may have concluded the UK racist had given his support to Ray for ideological reasons. His value as a witness may be compromised, since his story lacks corroboration.
Covert Action
The FBI used domestic CA operations from 1956 thru 1971. Their stated motivation at the time was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order." However, the summary evidence below disputes that mis-information. Leutrell Osborne's experienced opinion is that five very important insights need to be understood regarding past Government led “dirty tricks’ and illegal activities.
1. From 1956 to the early 1970s, the secret domestic intelligence operations of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) for the most part were performed without the upper level political leaders of the US Government knowing the truth. In other words, persons conducting these domestic activities even fooled them. Thus most of the campaign was unknown to the upper echelons like the Presidents and Attorney Generals while the key elements of the IC deployed dirty trick specialists from the FBI, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) against so-called enemies of the state such as dissidents, the peace movement, and made secret war on select individuals and groups, particularly Blacks and Native Americans.
2. The FBI was not alone in doing these dirty deeds. Other members of the National Intelligence Community (NIC) collaborated and conducted the dirty tricks along side the FBI’s COINTEL PRO.
3. COINTEL PRO was not a Counter Intelligence operation. It was a Covert Action Intelligence operation equal to if not better than what CIA could perform.
4. Most of the so-called adversaries were not really “bad” people but the nature of dirty trick operations by the US Government made these persons appear “dirtier” than they were.
5. Several CIA components performed illegal domestic dirty tricks intelligence activities in concert with the FBI’s COINTEL PRO. As an IC activity, COINTEL PRO “neutralized” and fabricated threats against individuals and organizations. The NIC activities sowed distrust and disinformation utilizing a controlled system of informants and provocateurs against various individuals and organizations.
COINTEL PRO was unconstitutional clandestine activity meant to shape and manipulate the sociopolitical landscape by preventing or disrupting the exercise of First Amendment rights and advocacy. They wanted to suppress speaking, teaching, meeting, writing and publishing. Vigilante-style domestic covert action and propaganda was used against American citizens.
Agents infiltrated, manipulated and disabled organizations, conducted “dirty tricks” psychological warfare, used the legal system, warrant less break-ins, stalking, assaults and beatings for harassment. They inflicted physical, emotional and economic damage, and did not stop short of using assassinations to “neutralize” their adversaries. (Church Report)
Some of the main objectives of the secret so-called counter intelligence program COINTEL PRO were to prevent the rise of a “black messiah.” Surveillance was heavy on the Black Panthers, NAACP, Malcolm X, and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as other Black nationalists. Andrew Young made the statement that he and Dr. King, Jr. knew that the government surveilled them. He mentioned their discovery of a microphone.
In Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King, Jr. and his wife attended his honorary reception by the US Ambassador. He personally told Leutrell Osborne, Sr. that he knew the Government was watching him and his people in the USA. The legacy of this domestic spying continues today in the lies and continued persecution of political targets, such as former Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal.
On April 3, 2008 a CNN Special presented by Soledad O'Brien on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. tried in vain to convince us that James Earl Ray singularly escaped from Missouri State Prison and tracked MLK from coast to coast before finally miraculously having MLK come out on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel at just the exact moment that Ray was in the bathroom window taking aim to shoot and kill him. Osborne wonders why, over forty years after the fact, CNN validates disinformation by pointing the finger at James Earl Ray, restating the lies about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Neither James Earl Ray nor Loyd Jowers did the killing but both had dirty hands, according to Osborne.The King family brought a civil suit against Jowers because they refused to believe Ray was the killer. A jury determined the plot included “governmental agencies.” Pepper argued in Orders to Kill (1995) that King was the victim of an elaborate plot involving the Mafia, the FBI, the CIA, military intelligence - and the highest levels of the U.S. government.
“In an unlikely alliance, the King family was represented in the [Memphis wrongful death] case by William Pepper, who had been Mr. Ray's lawyer. The King family maintains that Mr. Pepper's version of the assassination is the one that gets at the real truth behind Dr. King's death, not the official version with Mr. Ray as the gunman. Mr. Pepper said federal, state and Memphis governmental agencies, as well as the news media conspired in the assassination.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04EFDC1631F93AA35751C1A96F958260
Why doesn’t media get the truth and point the fingers in the correct directions at COINTEL PRO and organized crime? The 2008 CNN documentary continues pointing at James Earl Ray and Loyd Jowers. But the bullet has never been linked to Ray’s rifle. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/black.in.america/. After more than 40 years, we need to focus on telling the truth of King’s untimely death. The full story still hasn’t been told.
Truth At Last (2008) is a book by James Earl Ray’s older brother John Larry Ray, claiming there is forensic evidence that exonerates his brother. He also says Ray was inducted into the CIA, then used as a patsy. He blames “white America,” but the perps may be fewer in number. The government is not the country.
"Martin Luther King Jr. was a man admired by millions, but my brother didn't kill him," John told the New York Daily News. "I believe my brother was not only misused by conspirators within our government but also greatly misconstrued as a 'racist' and a 'murderer' by the media." http://www.globepequot.com/special/whokilledmlk/
Gary Revel was commissioned in 1977 to go undercover to find the King killers. Since then, he has not been fired, decommissioned, told the job was done, nor been paid. The stark reality is that the King killers have not yet been found. But the only officially appointed undercover investigator of the MLK assassination, Revel doesn’t mince words – he names names: Lyndon Baines Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Vito Genovese, Santo Trafficante Jr., Sam Giancana, Meyer Lansky, Joseph Colombo, Frank Costello, Don Carlo Gambino, Joseph Bonnano, Paul Castellano, Carlos Marcello, and the CIA's E. Howard Hunt. http://leutrellosborne.50megs.com/whats_new.html
Revel previously advised Osborne about information that might lead to solving other related deaths to the assassination of King. When Osborne learned about the deaths of people associated with the investigation of King such as the two judges and six FBI Special Agents (SAs), Osborne said "There has to be fire where there is smoke."
Revel laid out these details to Osborne: Two of the judges in Tennessee, who were planning to give James Earl Ray the trial he never had, died of heart attacks just before their plans could be put into place. Six FBI officials, all of which were to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), were prevented from doing so because of their deaths. Revel said deaths of these FBI SAs could be more significant than what many realized because all six of these FBI SAs were identified to Revel as being important witnesses for the HSCA. "Is it likely that the stress of the planned testimony really brought on heart attacks to three of these people?" questioned Revel.
Osborne knows of eight people who died or were killed within a 6-month period. All eight were directly related to Revel’s investigation of the King assassination. When including other deaths during that year that were official suicides, accidents or deaths under unusual circumstances related to the work of the HSCA then a judicious person has to pause for thought. There is truth yet to be learned about unknowns who were directly involved in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as well as the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X. http://leutrellosborne.50megs.com/whats_new.html
Osborne is emphatic: “Let me frame one of the most important insights into the events surrounding the assassination of Dr. King, Jr. that I, Leutrell "Mike" Osborne, Sr., am able to state as of 040910. First ignore every mention of COINTEL PRO as a counter intelligence operation of the FBI. COINTEL PRO was not CI. The FBI led domestic dirty tricks intelligence operation known by the acronym COINTEL PRO was a Covert Action intelligence operation equal to if not better than one led and directed by the CIA Clandestine Service Spy Masters that I worked with in the past."
“This may be the most important insight I have for you to understand. CA as I define it included both assassinations and collaboration with intelligence operation resources such as organized crime and international hit persons. That is the way CA used to be even though there are rules of the game that tend to state that the US Government doesn't participate in such activities today. We are discussing the past."
“Further, it is enlightening that much of the COINTEL PRO or COINTEL FACTOR (as I prefer to call it) was not performed so that neither the White House nor the Attorney General knew in advance what was taking place. This observation is based on my research and reading so-called official documents.”
“Further many of the DOJ and FBI post investigations in my opinion confused matters and did not include persons doing the investigation who had a paradigm of a CIA Spy Master like me and others who understand the protocols and downside of CA intelligence operations. Plus many departments and agencies in the Intelligence Community collaborated both wittingly and unwittingly during the COINTEL FACTOR in the dirty tricks against US citizens.”
“One more point and I will hold for now. Also discount the mis-information about James Earl Ray. The true COINTEL FACTOR professionals (mostly out of the FBI and some of the US Army intelligence organizations) used Loyd Jowers. Perhaps the only true link is the coordinator and agent handler known as Raul.”
“In my opinion Raul had the attributes of a person trained by Spy Masters but Raul is not what I call a Case Officer, per se. However, he has the attributes that tend to resemble a "trained agent or asset who knows how to handle agents" or people like Ray and Jowers in this case. During my life I have been blessed to meet people who have first hand knowledge of COINTEL PRO and the related events concerning the assassination of Dr. King, Jr.”
Gary Revel suggests, based on his personal interviews of James Earl Ray, that there were several “Raul’s” or “Raoul’s” and all were covers. Revel’s opinion from deep within his own investigation winds up countering Pepper’s theory. Revel names former CIA officer and White House Watergate secret agent E. Howard Hunt once again holding the bag. Hunt died in January, 2007. Revel notes, "There are many Hunt and Sturgis like characters around still today. They can be hired or conscripted into killing people by more powerful people like President Lyndon Baines Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Their roles in the killing of MLK were important but did not make the crime. If it wasn't or hadn't been them it would be or would have been others."
Osborne disagrees strongly, counting Hunt out of the still-shadowy picture of the hidden truth of the assassination. Investigator Gary Revel pointed out that the artist drawing of a man who came out of the bathroom from where the MLK death shot officially came from looks more like Hunt than James Earl Ray and that several people place Ray sitting in his car on the street at the time he was supposed to be locked in that bathroom preparing to kill King.
If E. Howard Hunt was in Memphis on April 4, 1968 and also in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Leutrell Osborne is now asking the question, "Why was he there?" If it is true, as James Earl Ray believed, that Hunt was among those with Raoul in Memphis and according to Ray, they were planning to meet with individuals who wanted to buy weapons then what does the CIA know about Hunt's assignment on that day. If Hunt was a member of that group then there should be a document in the CIA that would prove it and if he wasn't then where was he on April 4, 1968?
All agree there was a dark marriage of organized crime and clandestine government behind the trigger and media manipulation after the fact, including contemporary depictions. Osborne even wonders if CNN isn’t under “adversary control.” But then what 3-lettered acronym organizations aren’t? Perpetual suspicion, even of one another, goes with the territory.
Comparing Notes
In 2006 veteran CIA Case Officer Leutrell Osborne encouraged investigator Gary Revel to uncover additional details on the deaths associated with their investigation of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Revel previously advised Osborne about information that might lead to solving other related deaths to the assassination of King. When Osborne learned about the deaths of people associated with the investigation of King such as the two judges and six FBI Special Agents (SAs), Osborne said "There has to be fire where there is smoke."
Gary had previously laid out these details to Osborne: Two of the judges in Tennessee, who were planning to give James Earl Ray the trial he never had, died of heart attacks just before their plans could be put into place. Six FBI officials, all of which were to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), were prevented from doing so because of their deaths. Revel said deaths of these FBI SAs could be more significant than what many realized because all six of these FBI SAs were identified to Revel as being important witnesses for the HSCA. "Is it likely that the stress of the planned testimony really brought on heart attacks to three of these people?" questioned Revel.
One FBI Special Agent, Alan Belmont, died of illness. People do die of illnesses but the prolific coincidences of 1977 makes even that death start to look bizarre. To review the events and deaths of that definitive year: William Sullivan, who previously had been the Director of Domestic Intelligence for the FBI and for years ran the 'Destroy King Squad', was killed by a hunter a week before his scheduled testimony,. Louis Nicholas, who was one of J. Edgar Hoover's special assistants, would have been privy to the inner workings of Hoover's methods of operations just as Sullivan was. Nicholas died of a heart attack. Like Sullivan, Nicholas was scheduled to testify before the HSCA.
The same thing happened to J. M. English who supervised testing the rifle that was purportedly the weapon that killed President John F. Kennedy and the pistol that belonged to Lee Harvey Oswald. Once again an agent, in this case English, missed his scheduled testimony before the HSCA because of his death. Donald Kaylor, another FBI official, was deep into the investigation of the assassinations of King and JFK. Kaylor was an FBI fingerprint specialist who examined prints found at scenes of both assassinations. Kaylor died of a heart attack before his scheduled testimony.
James Cadigan died from an accidental fall in his home. Normally this would not be suspect. However, for Revel there were too many accidental deaths that year. Another death was Ivan Riley, the husband of Revel’s cousin. Riley was an experienced electrical power worker who died of an electrical shock while working on a power line. Finally, Revel’s brother, Cecil Ray Fillingame, Jr., was killed during the height of this investigation. Revel’s 19-year-old brother was found hanged in his mother's garage in Ocoee, Florida. What alarmed Revel about these last two deaths was the knowledge that Revel had uncharacteristically shared private information about his investigation with both of them within days of their deaths. Osborne now knows of eight people who died or were killed within a 6-month period. All eight were directly related to Revel’s investigation of the King assassination.
Osborne and Revel had a brainstorming session:
Osborne : What was the setup in 1977?
Revel: In 1977, I was investigating the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. I worked with and for attorneys Jack Kershaw, Mary Kershaw, and Mark Lane in a unique arrangement with and for the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). At that time, I operated undercover.
Osborne: How did the song called They Slew the Dreamer develop out of investigating the King case?
Revel: After meeting James Earl Ray and hearing his story I learned enough to know that Ray did NOT shoot King. There were others involved in King's death so I began my own investigation. During that time, I wrote the song, They Slew the Dreamer, about Dr. King. I recorded the song in Nashville, Tennessee at the famed Acuff-Rose recording studios. Acuff-Rose was the top country music publisher in the world. They had hundreds of top ten pop and rock songs as well as Country. Some of my songs had been signed by their ASCAP branch, called Milene Music Inc. Included was the song They Slew the Dreamer.
Osborne: What happened after the song was recorded?
Revel: The record was released not long after it was recorded during the summer of 1977. It was released on Jack Kershaw's Rebel Records label as a single. Soon afterwards a negative story with a large picture of the record sleeve appeared on the front page of the local afternoon newspaper, The Nashville Banner. Under the record sleeve which prominently displayed my name and the name of the record was a picture of a T-Shirt with Ray's image and the words 'I Didn't Do It'. Included was an editorialized caption that read, 'James Earl Ray Promotion Gimmicks'.Osborne: How was airplay and record sales affected by the news story?
Revel: After story came out, promotion of my record by Acuff-Rose came to an immediate halt. All the planned airplay promotion was pulled. My calls to radio stations promoting my song were not well received. The lack of interest was not only for that song but all other songs I released over the next several years. All Nashville recording artists who had indicated earlier of an interest in my songs suddenly reversed their interest. A songwriter needs others to record his songs as well as himself if he is to be successful. The folks at Acuff-Rose that worked with me included Roy Acuff, Wesley Rose, Johnny Erdelyan, and Roy Acuff Jr. They were disappointed in the Federal Government's interference in the music business but were helpless to remedy the situation.
Osborne: What is your opinion today of how this all came about?
Revel: I believe the editorialized front page story was a secret Federal Government operation active in my investigation of the King murder. These operations include other murders, or so-called accidental deaths of several people within a 6-month period. These people were closely associated with me or they were scheduled to testify before the HSCA.
Osborne: If so, why didn't they kill you too?
Revel: One of the things I learned early in this case was that knowing a little would get me killed but knowing more than others knew would keep me alive. That is why I worked fast to gain knowledge about this case. During the late 1960's and into the 1970's highly classified Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intelligence files were inadvertently released and were accessible for limited research. The things that could be learned from those files provided me enough intelligence to avoid serious problems. I was lucky to have access to those files early in my investigation.
Osborne: With the knowledge out that you were investigating the case of Dr. King and with mysterious deaths occurring, were you concerned about your own safety?
Revel: As I worked undercover, there was no public knowledge that I was investigating the case of Dr. King. My cover was that I was a Nashville songwriter, a business associate and friend of Jack and Mary Kershaw. Writing and recording songs was a natural development due to my friendship with Jack. Most of the publicity was about the case. Previously I had a couple of single record releases, Little Did We Know and Peanut Man prior to They Slew the Dreamer. Both of the previous songs were on Jack's Rebel label, as well, so it did not appear that I was involved other than as a songwriter and recording artist. Somebody, an editor or publisher or both at the Nashville Banner, effectively destroyed the commercial success of my music with that one front page story. After years of investigation, study, and research I can only conclude that it was the Federal Government behind it.
Osborne: What evidence do you have today that Federal Government types were operating in or around your investigation?
Revel: A friend and business associate, Robert Barr, a CPA from Nashville told me that FBI Special Agent Vern Gauby was investigating my interest in the King case. One of the methods Gauby used was to visit with Barr. During casual conversations, he would bring up my name and ask questions related to my investigation. Bob was a friend of Jack Kershaw and was one of very few people aware of my work. The FBI office in Memphis only recently told me that Special Agent Joseph H. Trimbach oversaw the investigation related to my interest in the King case. Much later, I learned of the FBI Method of Operating (MO) related to evictions. After Gauby retired from the FBI he worked for the City of Nashville, Tennessee and reportedly used residential and business evictions to exercise control for political purposes. Within a few months after the demise of the commercial prospects for my song, I too, was evicted from my apartment. During the chaos of moving, files related to my investigation disappeared.
Osborne: Did you ever try again to get your song out?
Revel: In 1979 I released an album titled Revel on my own Star City Records Inc. label. The song, They Slew the Dreamer, was included on that album. Dave Cavanaugh of Capitol Records in Hollywood had a copy of the album. Cavanaugh asked me to come back to Hollywood where we could sign a deal giving Capitol the rights to release and distribute the album on one of their labels. In February of 1980 I moved myself with my family to Hollywood where I had lived from 1969-1972. There I delivered the stampers (metal plates used to manufacture records) for the album to Cavanaugh at Capitol Records. He told me he would quickly put the deal together. I did not hear back from him right away. Weeks passed before I started to enquire about our project. My calls were not returned. Eventually his secretary told me he had gotten sick shortly after our meeting. My deal was sidetracked but she would talk to Cavanaugh to check when it could be finished. Weeks turned into months then one day I called. I was told he was dead. When I asked if I could come to pick up my stampers I learned that they had been lost.
Osborne: There are reports that you are getting radio airplay on your songs. What has happened lately that seems to be changing for you and your music?
Revel: A few years back Sony bought the Acuff-Rose music company including the songs I had written in the 1970's. They Slew the Dreamer is one of those songs. Now most of the songs from the Star City Records Inc. are on a CD album called Deep Mountain Lake. I released that on my own label, Jongleur Music. All the songs are all published by Sony/ATV Milene Music based in Nashville, Tennessee, which is owned by Sony/ATV BMG now.
Osborne: Is your work on the King case and your work with your music motivated by your desire to sell records or is there something else going on?
Revel: I know of no songwriter or recording artist who would touch this subject matter by assuming it would help their music career. I wrote the song from a desire and an inspiration to share truth with others. The fact that the song is finally getting played on the radio is partially due to growing knowledge by the public of the King assassination case. The more the public learns about the truth the harder it is for the Federal Government to lie about it.
Osborne: It has been said that you are a former Naval Intelligence Officer and once Naval Intelligence always Naval Intelligence. Are you still working for the Federal Government yourself? Is this just window dressing for operations by the Feds?
Revel: If I were still working undercover I would simply lie and say, 'No, I don't work for the Federal Government." In fact, in a de facto way I am still working for them. They commissioned me in 1977 to find the King killers. Since then, I have not been fired, decommissioned, told the job was done, or any thing else. Neither have I been paid. The stark reality is that the King killers have not yet been found.
However, the lyrics in They Slew the Dreamer were written in 1977 but will ring true eternally. The Federal Government continues to say that HE slew the dreamer, referring to James Earl Ray. I made it clear in 1977 that I didn't believe that and that instead of He, I wrote They Slew the Dreamer. This was not a welcome concept to my government then and is not today. That is why there continues to be real fear within our government and the business world concerning my recording. I can say that if I am still working for the Federal Government, it is in a bizarre and complicated kind of way. Should I do my job well enough, then individuals that are still alive could go to federal prison for conspiracy in the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
COINTEL Redux
COINTEL lives on under the government-sanctioned name of the Patriot Act. The big difference from the 60s is that now we passively accept that we are all under potential surveillance most of the time. We are caught in the "matrix of a cultural illusion." The Cultural Illusion is a euphemism for Covert Action Intelligence operations. Collective delusion may be closer.
Whitewashed Black Leader
Big questions remain that haunt our nation. Issues from the 1960’s will not die, despite the fact that the icons of the “Triple K Assassinations” have been gone for decades. The deaths of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King were tragic milestones. We still grieve, are confused, depressed and angry. The national wounds inflicted on the body politic by assassinations refuse to heal because we have been given band aid remedies instead of digging down to root out the infection that contaminates the American government. The MLK files remain sealed, not scheduled for declassification until 2028.
James Earl Ray, a drifter and ex-convict, shot and killed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with a single bullet at the Lorraine Motel on an April evening in 1968. That is the official story and the reason Ray spent his last three decades in prison. Everybody knows it. But not everyone accepts the “lone gunman” theory. Almost as soon as Dr. King was cut down — and more after Ray recanted his guilty plea — conspiracy theories proliferated. Some said the assassin was an Army sniper. Among other avenues, DoD dirty tricks and massive spying on civilians under General Yarborough require further investigation.
The “Handler”
Mr. Ray insisted he had been framed by a man named Raul, hired by the CIA. Intelligence sources say, “Raul LNU is a real person born in Portugal. General William Yarborough knew and secured Raul’s assistance. Raul served in Angola. Raul is still alive and protected.” The HSCA suspected that Ray's mysterious co-conspirator Raoul was, in fact, Jerry Ray. Although the HSCA could never prove it, there were many signs that Jerry Ray had assisted his brother prior to and following the assassination. That doesn’t make him “Raoul.” The HSCA did not believe there was sufficient evidence to charge either of Ray's brothers, both of whom insist their brother was not a racist killer. But, James Earl Ray never provided any concrete proof that Raoul actually existed. How could he when undercover types remain in the shadows?
The King family still believes that Ray, who died of liver disease in 1998, was not the killer. Dexter King, Dr. King’s son, visited Mr. Ray on his deathbed. “The government killed my father,” Dexter King told him, “not you.” Mr. Ray’s family said they were finally getting the vindication they deserved. In one of the biggest media cover-ups ever, the government was found guilty of conspiring to murder King in a 1999 civil trial in Memphis. Strangely, the media boycotted this historic trial. Its government-damning verdict remains largely unknown to the public.
Many Americans want answers now that go beyond tired official stories that accuse hypno-patsies. The CIA document, "Hypnosis and Covert Operations" (written May 5, 1955), released through the FOIA as MORI 428311, describes brainwashing/programming techniques. According to his brother John Ray, in the Army, James was a military policeman "for a year and a half in the 382nd MP Battalion.”
Later, he joined a new organization formed out of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) known as the CIA after 1947. "When James joined the CIA, he was given a new U.S. Army serial number." His involvement in the Army with the OSS/CIA and his civilian criminal contacts haunted James Earl Ray, who later said: "When you join the OSS, it's like joining the Mafia, you never leave." He was assigned a "handler" who manipulated and directed him the rest of his life. Was that handler Raoul? Those who know the ropes at CIA say “the Raouls” didn’t behave like a CIA staffer or Case Officer. However, Raul was a trained handler of agents, so he could be traced to military, police, or another of the intelligence agencies that run agents and do domestic intelligence.
Criminal Conspiracies
Ray’s lawyer, Mark Lane and Dick Gregory drafted proposed legislation to establish a Select Committee of the House of Representatives to investigate the assassinations of Dr. King and President Kennedy. Once Code Name "Zorro" was published in 1977 various members of Congress and others supported such an inquiry. The United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was established in 1976 to investigate the JFK, MLK and Governor George Wallace shootings. The HSCA followed the Hart-Schweiker and Church Committee hearings that revealed CIA ties to other assassinations and assassination attempts. Their conclusions remain questionable to many.
Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney sponsored the 2005 version of the MLK Records Act, HR 2554. It had 67 co-sponsors at the time McKinney left office at the end of 2006. A Senate version of the bill (S 2499) was introduced by Senator John Kerry and was co-signed by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. The bill received numerous other endorsements from former Members of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA).
McKinney also conducted a Congressional Panel entitled “Murder of MLK.” attended by former CIA Case Officer, Leutrell Osborne, Sr. She had TV's popular Judge Joe Brown appear. Brown was removed from the reopened investigation of King's murder due to alleged bias. He announced unequivocally that the rifle known to all Americans as the murder weapon is, indeed, not the murder weapon.
Further, Dr. William Pepper, longtime King Family friend, was a lawyer at the 1999 Memphis trial in which the jury found that the government was part of a conspiracy to assassinate Dr. King. Testimony revealed that a very sophisticated operation to kill Dr. King was hatched in the bowels of the Pentagon, employing the Mob, local Memphis police, and US military intelligence to accomplish the objective. In fact, Dr. King's family had been under surveillance by our Government since the 1920s.
What McKinney couldn’t say was that the coordination of government activities performed to neutralize Dr. King, Jr. were part and parcel of COINTEL PRO, an FBI “dirty tricks” program to neutralize civilian political adversaries. The FBI set out to eliminate "radical" political opposition inside the US. When traditional modes of repression (exposure, blatant harassment, and prosecution for political crimes) failed to counter the growing insurgency, and even helped to fuel it, the Bureau took the law into its own hands and secretly used fraud and force to sabotage constitutionally protected political activity. Its methods ranged far beyond surveillance, and amounted to a domestic version of the covert action the CIA is infamous for globally. CA includes propaganda, lies, assassinations, drugs and agents of influence.
COINTELPRO was discovered in March, 1971, when secret files were removed from an FBI office and released to news media. It was as or more criminal than those it investigated, using extralegal force and violence. Freedom of Information requests, lawsuits, and former agents' public confessions deepened the exposure until a major scandal loomed. To control the damage and re-establish government legitimacy in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate, Congress and the courts compelled the FBI to reveal part of what it had done and to promise it would not do it again. (Glick) But, ignoring political designations, domestic covert action and psychological warfare did not end and continues under Patriot Act II.
In 2010-2011, many of these principals reunited for the "Truth Crushed to Earth," Assassination Trial Panel Discussions. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. said, “Truth crushed to earth will rise again.” Participants included Walter Fauntroy - Chairman Sub-Committee on Assassinations, Attorney Mark Lane - Author " Murder in Memphis", Former Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney - Introduced H.R. 2554 to disclose records on MLK assassination, Cyril Wecht - Pathologist, Attorney Arthur Hanes- Represented James Earl Ray at one point and Attorney James Lesar - testified about the window from which the fatal shot was allegedly fired. They discuss their investigations, research and Congressional efforts around the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Special Investigator Gary Revel provides entertainment, singing his song, “They Slew the Dreamer.”
Why Ask Why?
Among other reasons, Dr. King was targeted for “executive action” because the “powers that be” (PTB) could not tolerate a “Black Messiah” on the political scene. This makes it paradoxical that they would then ‘martyr’ him. But his political rhetoric and tone were increasingly anti-Vietnam War. So, besides his Civil Rights issues, King became lumped in with the Peace Movement and radical dissidents, each of which had its own “separate but equal” targeting from the intentionally disruptive forces of FBI’s COINTEL PRO. The mob didn’t want the war to end and disrupt its heroin pipeline.
The FBI's interest in King intensified after the “March on Washington” in August 1963, when King delivered his "I Have a Dream” speech, which many historians call the most important speech of the 20th century. After the landmark speech, an FBI memo called King "the most dangerous and effective Negro leader in the country." J. Edgar Hoover declared a vendetta against him, tracking his every movement on the pretext of Communist associations. FBI’s codename for Dr. King was ‘Zorro.’
Telling questions Lane and Gregory got the U.S. House Assassinations Committee to investigate in the murder of Dr. King included:
Why was Dr. King’s police protection removed on the day of the assassination? –and by whom?
Why was the same FBI squad which was originally assigned to “destroy” King (whom they code-named “Zorro”) also directed to investigate his murder?
What did the ballistics tests reveal – or fail to reveal – about the alleged murder weapon?
In what strange way has the most reliable witness been prevented, perhaps forever, from testifying in court?
To what documented lengths did certain FBI men go to threaten King and suggest that he commit suicide rather than accept the Nobel Peace Prize?
What of the mysterious “Raoul” who Ray claims masterminded and financed his movements before the murder?
Partners in the overall criminal conspiracy included the FBI, US Government Officials, the CIA, the Mafia and a network of drug money laundering businesses around the globe to keep it all running smoothly. Burglaries, extortion, violence, psychological operations and even murder were in their bag of dirty tricks. They used these tools to achieve desired results regardless of the laws they swore to uphold. They used innocent law abiding citizens, government officials, shadowy covert operatives and criminals; from the small time petty crooks like James Earl Ray to the Mafia Dons like Carlos Marcello. (Revel)
Martin Luther King Truth Committee
In 2008, Leutrell Osborne & Associates (LOA) formed an activist committee to further investigate the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and report its findings to the global community by the 40th anniversary of his death, April 4, 2008. This project is a continuance of work in this arena by Leutrell Osborne, Sr., a former CIA Case Officer, who is a recognized authority on the subject. The purpose is to identify the perpetrators that assassinated Dr. King, Jr. His revelation that COINTEL was both FBI and CIA is new to most audiences, though many suspected as much.Osborne can back up his claim that, as a CI officer, “I understood and performed duties to identify, analyze and neutralize adversary intelligence persons and activities as well as drug dealers when I was in the CIA prior to l984.”
“Those of us in the intelligence industry know that the term ‘neutralize’ has specific meanings that even include assassination. Osborne suggests we “know without doubt that the US Government agencies led by the FBI performed intelligence activities to neutralize Dr. King, Jr. The only reason I am not able to state that more emphatically is because we need the individuals who know about the actual details to come forward and become sincere whistle blowers if that is possible at this late date, over 40 years after the fact.”
“As a dedicated veteran CIA Case Officer who made his reputation on CI investigations, my knowledge of COINTEL PRO and information from at least one credible source leaves no doubt that the Government and organized crime collaborated in 1968 in the assassination of Dr. King, Jr. Both James Earl Ray and Lloyd Jowers were patsies who did not assassinate Dr. King, Jr. However, they were used by these forces to confuse and muddy the waters around the assassination.”
“I can still hear the words of one source who told me that he was under cover meeting with organized crime leaders like Carlos Marcello, when the source learned that Frank Camille Liberto (the reigning Memphis, Tennessee mob boss) received orders to ‘kill him,’ meaning Dr. King, Jr. The King family accused Liberto in court of advancing money to further the conspiracy.”
“I consider this topic of COINTEL PRO one of the most devastating historical facts in my life and I am ready to talk about Cointel Pro. It is fascinating that my story begins in l964 when I met Dr. King, Jr. the day after he received the Nobel Peace Prize. The CIA allowed me to note the details in the first book of “The Dark Operative Series,” The Black Man in the CIA (BMCIA). In l968, when I was a clerical level CIA employee I wanted to make a name for myself so I discussed the cable slug Cointel Pro with my supervisor who told me that Cointel Pro was a counter intelligence program of the FBI. I even raise the question in the story whether my supervisor was lying or did not know that Cointel Pro was a Covert Action Intelligence operation against US citizens especially Native Americans and Black people.”
The MLK committee, more a loose affiliation with mutual interests, is the outgrowth of LOA's past support of the re-opened investigation on the assassination of Dr. King, Jr. Osborne, the Black Man in the CIA asks one question "Is the identification of the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as or more important than resolving many of the racial issues that top the news today?" The answer of the Committee is, "Definitely. The nation and world still await an answer that satisfies." Doubts linger about the guilt of alleged assassin James Earl Ray, even among his own family.
Mr. Osborne has friends and colleagues among those with close associations to the MLK assassination case, including the only government-appointed undercover Special Agent Gary Revel, activist Dick Gregory, King-family attorney William F. Pepper, and Civil Rights leader, Rev. Ed King. He has interviewed Ray Kohlman, Mike Ruppert, former Congresswoman Cynthia Mc Kinney, Catherine Austin Fitts, and more to clarify the MLK assassination.
Attorney Kohlman worked as a legal investigator for William Pepper in the Ray trials and the King family civil trial. He suggests, “The King assassination is all mixed up. Every new book does not address much beyond; King was shot in Memphis, Ray did it. They even suggest that King regularly stayed at the Lorraine, when he usually stayed at the River Front overlooking the Mississippi. Our information was that Hoover's boys had wired everything including the patio.”
Leutrell "Mike" Osborne is a 26 year veteran CIA Case Officer and Counter Intelligence expert. Like many African-Americans he is somewhat familiar with the now deceased Director of Domestic Intelligence for the FBI, William Sullivan. He was killed a week before he was to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1977.
What can be learned of Sullivan’s career comes from his autobiography (that was completed and published after his untimely death), FBI files, news articles, and press accounts. One thing that rises out of the fog is that Mr. Sullivan directed the 'Destroy King Squad'. This was a Covert Action Intelligence Operation whose mission was to destroy the effectiveness of Martin Luther King, Jr. If assassination was an authorized tool in their tool-belt then they surely completed their assignment. This squad was part of the larger operation with the acronym COINTEL PRO for Counter Intelligence Program.
Mr. Osborne's knowledge of Bill Sullivan's operations goes far beyond what most know because of his special opportunities to learn of such things as a CIA Case Officer. Even with this special insight, Osborne continues asking others for more information and leads. One of those he asked was Gary Revel, the special undercover investigator on the King case.
Revel’s Wake Up Call
In 1977 Revel was 27. He “took a simple part-time job and found himself at the center of one of our history's major political and social events.” Danger and intrigue chased Gary through his quest for the truth. They tried to kill the truth, they tried to destroy all the evidence, but Gary is living proof the dream lives on. Investigating the cover-up was no easy task. No one believed him; witnesses and family members began dropping dead; he questioned his own sanity; the Mafia told him to back off and he didn’t. The musician wrote a song about it called “They Slew the Dreamer” to appeal directly to the public. He is currently trying to bring his spell-binding but controversial story to film. He is finding Hollywood resistant.
Revel had met William Sullivan in 1977 during his investigation of MLK's murder and saw a different side of the man than most. He learned a little known fact that William Sullivan became sickened with the FBI's abuse of the basic human rights of others and challenged J. Edgar Hoover the day before he was locked out of his office in 1972. Shortly after that he resigned. Revel remembers that Sullivan had challenged J. Edgar and said 'either you go or I go' and subsequently Sullivan left.
Another important detail of William Sullivan's life is that a few months before he was to testify before the HSCA he met at least one person, and most likely others, providing information and files that would be the basis of a real investigation designed to find the real killers of King. This also happened in 1977 and because of the government's tampering and interfering with the evidence in the case it is likely that the evidence is lost and will never surface again. Special Investigator Gary Revel's home was ransacked once and then during an eviction all his files on the King case disappeared. ‘Evictions’ are a COINTEL signature.
William Sullivan's goal was to testify before the public HSCA hearings, laying his cards on the table. He was going to give the committee and the American people the truth about J. Edgar Hoover's hatred of Martin Luther King Jr. as well as his hatred for President John Kennedy and Presidential Candidate Robert Kennedy. Sullivan had unique knowledge of how the FBI worked with the CIA when it came to J. Edgar driven plans to neutralize the human rights activities of African-American leaders and their supporters.
This knowledge and the evidence he was prepared to present would have given the HSCA the direction it needed to truly uncover and prosecute the perpetrators of the JFK and MLK assassinations. It is no wonder that those who had the most to lose if the truth came out were not unhappy to hear of his 'accidental murder'. The official record says that Robert Daniels mistook William Sullivan for a deer while deer hunting and shot and killed him before Bill could make his revelations public.
Revel says he is still trying to unravel the bizarre happenings of that year. His brother, his cousin's husband, William Sullivan and 5 other FBI or former FBI officials who could have been valuable to his investigation died mysteriously or were simply killed during that year. Sullivan and the other 5 were scheduled to testify before the committee.
Donald Kaylor was a fingerprint expert who had worked on the JFK assassination evidence. Alan Belmont and Louis Nicholas were both special assistants to J. Edgar Hoover. JFK assassination document examiner and expert James Cadigan was another. J.M. English, an expert on the rifle that supposedly killed President John F. Kennedy and head of the FBI Forensic Sciences Laboratory was also dispatched.
Those who travel to a place beyond reason and continue to try to defend the official stories of lone assassins and thorough investigations simply haven't gotten it yet. Though they differ on the particulars, all those of the loosely-knit unofficial Truth Committee agree that the truth about the “slaying of the dreamer” has not been publically acknowledged. They are committed to making that truth known. All operate at tremendous personal risk. All deplore and fight injustice and corruption.
[Sidebar] REVELations: Summary of Gary Revel’s findings in the MLK assassination:
"I have found that James Earl Ray was not in that bathroom from where it is claimed the shot was fired and further Ray did not have the character of a cold bloodied killer who calmly with one shot destroyed the hopes and dreams of millions by killing such a great man.E. Howard Hunt was the Team Leader of a group of assassins that included former CIA operatives (employed or contracted) and Mafia Assets. James Earl Ray was a patsy, like Lee Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan, set up to take the fall for the killing. Oversight of the crime scene and homicide investigation was supervised and directed by Frank Holloman - the appointed Director of the Memphis Police and Fire Department. President Lyndon B. Johnson made the orders to terminate in association with J. Edgar Hoover and the Italian Organized Crime group, aka Mafia. The motive for the killing was MLK's public stand against the Vietnam War. That stand was considered by US National Security Officials as a threat to them and their policies as well as a threat to the economic fortunes of the Mafia (billions of dollars made by the Mafia via the Heroin Pipeline.) The pipeline began in Burma and was strung by sea and air via Southeast Asia to the rest of the world. Most of it ended up on the streets of the biggest cities in the US. The presence of US Military in Southeast Asia protected that pipeline for the Mafia. If the Vietnam War had ended earlier the Mafia would have lost billions of dollars in illegal drug and black market weapons sales. When it finally ended in 1975 the Mafia's cash cow from illegal drug sales changed to the cocaine trade from Colombia."
Beyond the Trial
Martin Luther King's family and his attorney, William F. Pepper, won a civil trial that found US government agencies guilty in the wrongful death of MLK. The 1999 trial, King Family versus Jowers and Other Unknown Co-Conspirators, is the only trial ever conducted on the assassination of Dr. King. The King family's attempts for a criminal trial were denied, as suspect James Ray's recant of what he claimed was a false confession was denied.
Seventy witnesses testified under oath, 4,000 pages of transcripts described that evidence, much of it new. The jury came back in 59 minutes with their decision exonerating James Earl Ray, who had already died in prison. The jury found that Lloyd Jowers, owner of Jim’s Grill, had participated in a conspiracy to kill King. The evidence showed that the conspiracy included J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI, Richard Helms and the CIA, the military, the Memphis police department, and organized crime.
Overwhelming evidence of government complicity was introduced and agreed as comprehensively valid by the jury. The 111th Military Intelligence Group was sent to Dr. King's location. The usual police protection was pulled away just before the assassination. Military Intelligence set-up alleged photographers on a roof of a fire station with a clear view to Dr. King's balcony. 20th Special Forces Group had an 8-man sniper team at the assassination location on that day. Memphis police ordered bushes cut down at the scene which multiple witnesses reported as the source of shooting. Those bushes could have hidden a sniper team. Along with sanitizing a crime scene, police abandoned investigative procedure to interview witnesses who lived by the scene of the shooting. (Revel)
Pepper’s witnesses included Glenda Grabow with her account of how she was told by Raoul that he had killed or assisted in the killing of King and had been raped by him. The jury was shown a telephone record of a conversation between Grabow and Raoul months before the trial, the conversation was 6 minutes long, which would indicate that they knew each other. Ms.Grabow also worked for Fercy Foreman who told her that Ray had to be "sacrificed" for their welfare and told her that Ray was innocent.
Beverly Oliver, Chari Angel and Madeleine Brown all picked Raoul out of a photo line up as a man they saw with Jack Ruby in his Carousel Club in Dallas. Ray’s alias after he tried to escape, 'Eric S. Galt', belonged to a man with high level security clearance. A British man, ‘Carthew’ testified that he was offered rifles by Raoul in the 60s. One of Pepper’s military sources known as Warren picked Raoul out of a photo line up as the man he had seen with Zip Chimento who ran Carlos Marcello’s gun running operation out of New Orleans.
Carthew was important to Pepper as the ex-British merchant seaman who recalled meeting a gunrunner by the name of ‘Raul’ in Montreal in 1967. During the trial and in his book, Pepper described Carthew as a ‘British Nationalist’ probably aware that most Americans would think nothing of this except he was simply a patriotic Englishman. Pepper does not, however, acknowledge that Carthew has been a committed racist from West Yorkshire, an activist who supported the racist British National Party, a political organization which has established close links to neo-fascist terror groups like ‘Combat 18’. If the Jowers’ jury had been informed about Carthew’s past they may have concluded the UK racist had given his support to Ray for ideological reasons. His value as a witness may be compromised, since his story lacks corroboration.
Covert Action
The FBI used domestic CA operations from 1956 thru 1971. Their stated motivation at the time was "protecting national security, preventing violence, and maintaining the existing social and political order." However, the summary evidence below disputes that mis-information. Leutrell Osborne's experienced opinion is that five very important insights need to be understood regarding past Government led “dirty tricks’ and illegal activities.
1. From 1956 to the early 1970s, the secret domestic intelligence operations of the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) for the most part were performed without the upper level political leaders of the US Government knowing the truth. In other words, persons conducting these domestic activities even fooled them. Thus most of the campaign was unknown to the upper echelons like the Presidents and Attorney Generals while the key elements of the IC deployed dirty trick specialists from the FBI, CIA, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) against so-called enemies of the state such as dissidents, the peace movement, and made secret war on select individuals and groups, particularly Blacks and Native Americans.
2. The FBI was not alone in doing these dirty deeds. Other members of the National Intelligence Community (NIC) collaborated and conducted the dirty tricks along side the FBI’s COINTEL PRO.
3. COINTEL PRO was not a Counter Intelligence operation. It was a Covert Action Intelligence operation equal to if not better than what CIA could perform.
4. Most of the so-called adversaries were not really “bad” people but the nature of dirty trick operations by the US Government made these persons appear “dirtier” than they were.
5. Several CIA components performed illegal domestic dirty tricks intelligence activities in concert with the FBI’s COINTEL PRO. As an IC activity, COINTEL PRO “neutralized” and fabricated threats against individuals and organizations. The NIC activities sowed distrust and disinformation utilizing a controlled system of informants and provocateurs against various individuals and organizations.
COINTEL PRO was unconstitutional clandestine activity meant to shape and manipulate the sociopolitical landscape by preventing or disrupting the exercise of First Amendment rights and advocacy. They wanted to suppress speaking, teaching, meeting, writing and publishing. Vigilante-style domestic covert action and propaganda was used against American citizens.
Agents infiltrated, manipulated and disabled organizations, conducted “dirty tricks” psychological warfare, used the legal system, warrant less break-ins, stalking, assaults and beatings for harassment. They inflicted physical, emotional and economic damage, and did not stop short of using assassinations to “neutralize” their adversaries. (Church Report)
Some of the main objectives of the secret so-called counter intelligence program COINTEL PRO were to prevent the rise of a “black messiah.” Surveillance was heavy on the Black Panthers, NAACP, Malcolm X, and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as other Black nationalists. Andrew Young made the statement that he and Dr. King, Jr. knew that the government surveilled them. He mentioned their discovery of a microphone.
In Oslo for the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King, Jr. and his wife attended his honorary reception by the US Ambassador. He personally told Leutrell Osborne, Sr. that he knew the Government was watching him and his people in the USA. The legacy of this domestic spying continues today in the lies and continued persecution of political targets, such as former Black Panther, Mumia Abu-Jamal.
On April 3, 2008 a CNN Special presented by Soledad O'Brien on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. tried in vain to convince us that James Earl Ray singularly escaped from Missouri State Prison and tracked MLK from coast to coast before finally miraculously having MLK come out on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel at just the exact moment that Ray was in the bathroom window taking aim to shoot and kill him. Osborne wonders why, over forty years after the fact, CNN validates disinformation by pointing the finger at James Earl Ray, restating the lies about the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Neither James Earl Ray nor Loyd Jowers did the killing but both had dirty hands, according to Osborne.The King family brought a civil suit against Jowers because they refused to believe Ray was the killer. A jury determined the plot included “governmental agencies.” Pepper argued in Orders to Kill (1995) that King was the victim of an elaborate plot involving the Mafia, the FBI, the CIA, military intelligence - and the highest levels of the U.S. government.
“In an unlikely alliance, the King family was represented in the [Memphis wrongful death] case by William Pepper, who had been Mr. Ray's lawyer. The King family maintains that Mr. Pepper's version of the assassination is the one that gets at the real truth behind Dr. King's death, not the official version with Mr. Ray as the gunman. Mr. Pepper said federal, state and Memphis governmental agencies, as well as the news media conspired in the assassination.”
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04EFDC1631F93AA35751C1A96F958260
Why doesn’t media get the truth and point the fingers in the correct directions at COINTEL PRO and organized crime? The 2008 CNN documentary continues pointing at James Earl Ray and Loyd Jowers. But the bullet has never been linked to Ray’s rifle. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2008/black.in.america/. After more than 40 years, we need to focus on telling the truth of King’s untimely death. The full story still hasn’t been told.
Truth At Last (2008) is a book by James Earl Ray’s older brother John Larry Ray, claiming there is forensic evidence that exonerates his brother. He also says Ray was inducted into the CIA, then used as a patsy. He blames “white America,” but the perps may be fewer in number. The government is not the country.
"Martin Luther King Jr. was a man admired by millions, but my brother didn't kill him," John told the New York Daily News. "I believe my brother was not only misused by conspirators within our government but also greatly misconstrued as a 'racist' and a 'murderer' by the media." http://www.globepequot.com/special/whokilledmlk/
Gary Revel was commissioned in 1977 to go undercover to find the King killers. Since then, he has not been fired, decommissioned, told the job was done, nor been paid. The stark reality is that the King killers have not yet been found. But the only officially appointed undercover investigator of the MLK assassination, Revel doesn’t mince words – he names names: Lyndon Baines Johnson, J. Edgar Hoover, Vito Genovese, Santo Trafficante Jr., Sam Giancana, Meyer Lansky, Joseph Colombo, Frank Costello, Don Carlo Gambino, Joseph Bonnano, Paul Castellano, Carlos Marcello, and the CIA's E. Howard Hunt. http://leutrellosborne.50megs.com/whats_new.html
Revel previously advised Osborne about information that might lead to solving other related deaths to the assassination of King. When Osborne learned about the deaths of people associated with the investigation of King such as the two judges and six FBI Special Agents (SAs), Osborne said "There has to be fire where there is smoke."
Revel laid out these details to Osborne: Two of the judges in Tennessee, who were planning to give James Earl Ray the trial he never had, died of heart attacks just before their plans could be put into place. Six FBI officials, all of which were to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), were prevented from doing so because of their deaths. Revel said deaths of these FBI SAs could be more significant than what many realized because all six of these FBI SAs were identified to Revel as being important witnesses for the HSCA. "Is it likely that the stress of the planned testimony really brought on heart attacks to three of these people?" questioned Revel.
Osborne knows of eight people who died or were killed within a 6-month period. All eight were directly related to Revel’s investigation of the King assassination. When including other deaths during that year that were official suicides, accidents or deaths under unusual circumstances related to the work of the HSCA then a judicious person has to pause for thought. There is truth yet to be learned about unknowns who were directly involved in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as well as the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy, and Malcolm X. http://leutrellosborne.50megs.com/whats_new.html
Osborne is emphatic: “Let me frame one of the most important insights into the events surrounding the assassination of Dr. King, Jr. that I, Leutrell "Mike" Osborne, Sr., am able to state as of 040910. First ignore every mention of COINTEL PRO as a counter intelligence operation of the FBI. COINTEL PRO was not CI. The FBI led domestic dirty tricks intelligence operation known by the acronym COINTEL PRO was a Covert Action intelligence operation equal to if not better than one led and directed by the CIA Clandestine Service Spy Masters that I worked with in the past."
“This may be the most important insight I have for you to understand. CA as I define it included both assassinations and collaboration with intelligence operation resources such as organized crime and international hit persons. That is the way CA used to be even though there are rules of the game that tend to state that the US Government doesn't participate in such activities today. We are discussing the past."
“Further, it is enlightening that much of the COINTEL PRO or COINTEL FACTOR (as I prefer to call it) was not performed so that neither the White House nor the Attorney General knew in advance what was taking place. This observation is based on my research and reading so-called official documents.”
“Further many of the DOJ and FBI post investigations in my opinion confused matters and did not include persons doing the investigation who had a paradigm of a CIA Spy Master like me and others who understand the protocols and downside of CA intelligence operations. Plus many departments and agencies in the Intelligence Community collaborated both wittingly and unwittingly during the COINTEL FACTOR in the dirty tricks against US citizens.”
“One more point and I will hold for now. Also discount the mis-information about James Earl Ray. The true COINTEL FACTOR professionals (mostly out of the FBI and some of the US Army intelligence organizations) used Loyd Jowers. Perhaps the only true link is the coordinator and agent handler known as Raul.”
“In my opinion Raul had the attributes of a person trained by Spy Masters but Raul is not what I call a Case Officer, per se. However, he has the attributes that tend to resemble a "trained agent or asset who knows how to handle agents" or people like Ray and Jowers in this case. During my life I have been blessed to meet people who have first hand knowledge of COINTEL PRO and the related events concerning the assassination of Dr. King, Jr.”
Gary Revel suggests, based on his personal interviews of James Earl Ray, that there were several “Raul’s” or “Raoul’s” and all were covers. Revel’s opinion from deep within his own investigation winds up countering Pepper’s theory. Revel names former CIA officer and White House Watergate secret agent E. Howard Hunt once again holding the bag. Hunt died in January, 2007. Revel notes, "There are many Hunt and Sturgis like characters around still today. They can be hired or conscripted into killing people by more powerful people like President Lyndon Baines Johnson and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. Their roles in the killing of MLK were important but did not make the crime. If it wasn't or hadn't been them it would be or would have been others."
Osborne disagrees strongly, counting Hunt out of the still-shadowy picture of the hidden truth of the assassination. Investigator Gary Revel pointed out that the artist drawing of a man who came out of the bathroom from where the MLK death shot officially came from looks more like Hunt than James Earl Ray and that several people place Ray sitting in his car on the street at the time he was supposed to be locked in that bathroom preparing to kill King.
If E. Howard Hunt was in Memphis on April 4, 1968 and also in Dallas on November 22, 1963, Leutrell Osborne is now asking the question, "Why was he there?" If it is true, as James Earl Ray believed, that Hunt was among those with Raoul in Memphis and according to Ray, they were planning to meet with individuals who wanted to buy weapons then what does the CIA know about Hunt's assignment on that day. If Hunt was a member of that group then there should be a document in the CIA that would prove it and if he wasn't then where was he on April 4, 1968?
All agree there was a dark marriage of organized crime and clandestine government behind the trigger and media manipulation after the fact, including contemporary depictions. Osborne even wonders if CNN isn’t under “adversary control.” But then what 3-lettered acronym organizations aren’t? Perpetual suspicion, even of one another, goes with the territory.
Comparing Notes
In 2006 veteran CIA Case Officer Leutrell Osborne encouraged investigator Gary Revel to uncover additional details on the deaths associated with their investigation of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Revel previously advised Osborne about information that might lead to solving other related deaths to the assassination of King. When Osborne learned about the deaths of people associated with the investigation of King such as the two judges and six FBI Special Agents (SAs), Osborne said "There has to be fire where there is smoke."
Gary had previously laid out these details to Osborne: Two of the judges in Tennessee, who were planning to give James Earl Ray the trial he never had, died of heart attacks just before their plans could be put into place. Six FBI officials, all of which were to testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA), were prevented from doing so because of their deaths. Revel said deaths of these FBI SAs could be more significant than what many realized because all six of these FBI SAs were identified to Revel as being important witnesses for the HSCA. "Is it likely that the stress of the planned testimony really brought on heart attacks to three of these people?" questioned Revel.
One FBI Special Agent, Alan Belmont, died of illness. People do die of illnesses but the prolific coincidences of 1977 makes even that death start to look bizarre. To review the events and deaths of that definitive year: William Sullivan, who previously had been the Director of Domestic Intelligence for the FBI and for years ran the 'Destroy King Squad', was killed by a hunter a week before his scheduled testimony,. Louis Nicholas, who was one of J. Edgar Hoover's special assistants, would have been privy to the inner workings of Hoover's methods of operations just as Sullivan was. Nicholas died of a heart attack. Like Sullivan, Nicholas was scheduled to testify before the HSCA.
The same thing happened to J. M. English who supervised testing the rifle that was purportedly the weapon that killed President John F. Kennedy and the pistol that belonged to Lee Harvey Oswald. Once again an agent, in this case English, missed his scheduled testimony before the HSCA because of his death. Donald Kaylor, another FBI official, was deep into the investigation of the assassinations of King and JFK. Kaylor was an FBI fingerprint specialist who examined prints found at scenes of both assassinations. Kaylor died of a heart attack before his scheduled testimony.
James Cadigan died from an accidental fall in his home. Normally this would not be suspect. However, for Revel there were too many accidental deaths that year. Another death was Ivan Riley, the husband of Revel’s cousin. Riley was an experienced electrical power worker who died of an electrical shock while working on a power line. Finally, Revel’s brother, Cecil Ray Fillingame, Jr., was killed during the height of this investigation. Revel’s 19-year-old brother was found hanged in his mother's garage in Ocoee, Florida. What alarmed Revel about these last two deaths was the knowledge that Revel had uncharacteristically shared private information about his investigation with both of them within days of their deaths. Osborne now knows of eight people who died or were killed within a 6-month period. All eight were directly related to Revel’s investigation of the King assassination.
Osborne and Revel had a brainstorming session:
Osborne : What was the setup in 1977?
Revel: In 1977, I was investigating the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination. I worked with and for attorneys Jack Kershaw, Mary Kershaw, and Mark Lane in a unique arrangement with and for the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA). At that time, I operated undercover.
Osborne: How did the song called They Slew the Dreamer develop out of investigating the King case?
Revel: After meeting James Earl Ray and hearing his story I learned enough to know that Ray did NOT shoot King. There were others involved in King's death so I began my own investigation. During that time, I wrote the song, They Slew the Dreamer, about Dr. King. I recorded the song in Nashville, Tennessee at the famed Acuff-Rose recording studios. Acuff-Rose was the top country music publisher in the world. They had hundreds of top ten pop and rock songs as well as Country. Some of my songs had been signed by their ASCAP branch, called Milene Music Inc. Included was the song They Slew the Dreamer.
Osborne: What happened after the song was recorded?
Revel: The record was released not long after it was recorded during the summer of 1977. It was released on Jack Kershaw's Rebel Records label as a single. Soon afterwards a negative story with a large picture of the record sleeve appeared on the front page of the local afternoon newspaper, The Nashville Banner. Under the record sleeve which prominently displayed my name and the name of the record was a picture of a T-Shirt with Ray's image and the words 'I Didn't Do It'. Included was an editorialized caption that read, 'James Earl Ray Promotion Gimmicks'.Osborne: How was airplay and record sales affected by the news story?
Revel: After story came out, promotion of my record by Acuff-Rose came to an immediate halt. All the planned airplay promotion was pulled. My calls to radio stations promoting my song were not well received. The lack of interest was not only for that song but all other songs I released over the next several years. All Nashville recording artists who had indicated earlier of an interest in my songs suddenly reversed their interest. A songwriter needs others to record his songs as well as himself if he is to be successful. The folks at Acuff-Rose that worked with me included Roy Acuff, Wesley Rose, Johnny Erdelyan, and Roy Acuff Jr. They were disappointed in the Federal Government's interference in the music business but were helpless to remedy the situation.
Osborne: What is your opinion today of how this all came about?
Revel: I believe the editorialized front page story was a secret Federal Government operation active in my investigation of the King murder. These operations include other murders, or so-called accidental deaths of several people within a 6-month period. These people were closely associated with me or they were scheduled to testify before the HSCA.
Osborne: If so, why didn't they kill you too?
Revel: One of the things I learned early in this case was that knowing a little would get me killed but knowing more than others knew would keep me alive. That is why I worked fast to gain knowledge about this case. During the late 1960's and into the 1970's highly classified Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) intelligence files were inadvertently released and were accessible for limited research. The things that could be learned from those files provided me enough intelligence to avoid serious problems. I was lucky to have access to those files early in my investigation.
Osborne: With the knowledge out that you were investigating the case of Dr. King and with mysterious deaths occurring, were you concerned about your own safety?
Revel: As I worked undercover, there was no public knowledge that I was investigating the case of Dr. King. My cover was that I was a Nashville songwriter, a business associate and friend of Jack and Mary Kershaw. Writing and recording songs was a natural development due to my friendship with Jack. Most of the publicity was about the case. Previously I had a couple of single record releases, Little Did We Know and Peanut Man prior to They Slew the Dreamer. Both of the previous songs were on Jack's Rebel label, as well, so it did not appear that I was involved other than as a songwriter and recording artist. Somebody, an editor or publisher or both at the Nashville Banner, effectively destroyed the commercial success of my music with that one front page story. After years of investigation, study, and research I can only conclude that it was the Federal Government behind it.
Osborne: What evidence do you have today that Federal Government types were operating in or around your investigation?
Revel: A friend and business associate, Robert Barr, a CPA from Nashville told me that FBI Special Agent Vern Gauby was investigating my interest in the King case. One of the methods Gauby used was to visit with Barr. During casual conversations, he would bring up my name and ask questions related to my investigation. Bob was a friend of Jack Kershaw and was one of very few people aware of my work. The FBI office in Memphis only recently told me that Special Agent Joseph H. Trimbach oversaw the investigation related to my interest in the King case. Much later, I learned of the FBI Method of Operating (MO) related to evictions. After Gauby retired from the FBI he worked for the City of Nashville, Tennessee and reportedly used residential and business evictions to exercise control for political purposes. Within a few months after the demise of the commercial prospects for my song, I too, was evicted from my apartment. During the chaos of moving, files related to my investigation disappeared.
Osborne: Did you ever try again to get your song out?
Revel: In 1979 I released an album titled Revel on my own Star City Records Inc. label. The song, They Slew the Dreamer, was included on that album. Dave Cavanaugh of Capitol Records in Hollywood had a copy of the album. Cavanaugh asked me to come back to Hollywood where we could sign a deal giving Capitol the rights to release and distribute the album on one of their labels. In February of 1980 I moved myself with my family to Hollywood where I had lived from 1969-1972. There I delivered the stampers (metal plates used to manufacture records) for the album to Cavanaugh at Capitol Records. He told me he would quickly put the deal together. I did not hear back from him right away. Weeks passed before I started to enquire about our project. My calls were not returned. Eventually his secretary told me he had gotten sick shortly after our meeting. My deal was sidetracked but she would talk to Cavanaugh to check when it could be finished. Weeks turned into months then one day I called. I was told he was dead. When I asked if I could come to pick up my stampers I learned that they had been lost.
Osborne: There are reports that you are getting radio airplay on your songs. What has happened lately that seems to be changing for you and your music?
Revel: A few years back Sony bought the Acuff-Rose music company including the songs I had written in the 1970's. They Slew the Dreamer is one of those songs. Now most of the songs from the Star City Records Inc. are on a CD album called Deep Mountain Lake. I released that on my own label, Jongleur Music. All the songs are all published by Sony/ATV Milene Music based in Nashville, Tennessee, which is owned by Sony/ATV BMG now.
Osborne: Is your work on the King case and your work with your music motivated by your desire to sell records or is there something else going on?
Revel: I know of no songwriter or recording artist who would touch this subject matter by assuming it would help their music career. I wrote the song from a desire and an inspiration to share truth with others. The fact that the song is finally getting played on the radio is partially due to growing knowledge by the public of the King assassination case. The more the public learns about the truth the harder it is for the Federal Government to lie about it.
Osborne: It has been said that you are a former Naval Intelligence Officer and once Naval Intelligence always Naval Intelligence. Are you still working for the Federal Government yourself? Is this just window dressing for operations by the Feds?
Revel: If I were still working undercover I would simply lie and say, 'No, I don't work for the Federal Government." In fact, in a de facto way I am still working for them. They commissioned me in 1977 to find the King killers. Since then, I have not been fired, decommissioned, told the job was done, or any thing else. Neither have I been paid. The stark reality is that the King killers have not yet been found.
However, the lyrics in They Slew the Dreamer were written in 1977 but will ring true eternally. The Federal Government continues to say that HE slew the dreamer, referring to James Earl Ray. I made it clear in 1977 that I didn't believe that and that instead of He, I wrote They Slew the Dreamer. This was not a welcome concept to my government then and is not today. That is why there continues to be real fear within our government and the business world concerning my recording. I can say that if I am still working for the Federal Government, it is in a bizarre and complicated kind of way. Should I do my job well enough, then individuals that are still alive could go to federal prison for conspiracy in the murder of Martin Luther King Jr.
COINTEL Redux
COINTEL lives on under the government-sanctioned name of the Patriot Act. The big difference from the 60s is that now we passively accept that we are all under potential surveillance most of the time. We are caught in the "matrix of a cultural illusion." The Cultural Illusion is a euphemism for Covert Action Intelligence operations. Collective delusion may be closer.
REFERENCES
Former CIA Case Officer, Leutrell Osborne, Sr.
at MLK Memorial, Anne Arundel, Md.
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©2010 Iona Miller is a nonfiction writer for the academic and popular press, hypnotherapist (ACHE) and multimedia artist. She is a participant, not just commentator. Her conspirituality work is an omni-sensory fusion of intelligence, science-art, new physics and emergent paradigm shift, melding many social issues into a new view of society. She is interested in the effects of doctrines from religion, science, psychology, and the arts. Website: http://ionamiller.weebly.com
Jack Kershaw Is Dead at 96; Challenged Conviction in King’s Death
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/24/us/24kershaw.html?_r=1
By DOUGLAS MARTIN September 24, 2010
Jack Kershaw, who represented James Earl Ray as he fought to overturn his conviction in the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., arguing that Ray was an innocent participant in a conspiracy led by a mysterious figure named Raul, died Sept. 7. in Nashville. He was 96.
His death was announced by the League of the South, an organization Mr. Kershaw helped found that tries to keep the spirit of the Confederacy alive.
Mr. Kershaw, who was also a sculptor, was best known in his hometown for creating a 27-foot equestrian statue of the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, a founder of the Ku Klux Klan. Unveiled in 1998, it was erected in a private park along Interstate 65.
The monument, offensive to many, drew criticism, but Mr. Kershaw did not shy from offending. “Somebody needs to say a good word for slavery,” he once told The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.
Mr. Kershaw’s principal brush with history came in representing Ray in 1977 in the killing of Dr. King in Memphis in 1968. On the advice of another lawyer, Percy Foreman, Ray had pleaded guilty in a Tennessee state court to being Dr. King’s sole murderer. If he had been convicted at trial, he would have received an automatic death sentence. Instead, he was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Ray, a career petty criminal, soon argued that he had been coerced into pleading guilty. Without specifics, he blamed a man he identified only as Raul, whom he said he had met in Montreal. Ray denied shooting Dr. King but said murkily that he might have been “partially responsible without knowing it.”
Mr. Kershaw pushed this vague conspiracy claim. He accompanied Ray to interviews with investigators from the House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Assassinations, which was looking again at the killings of Dr. King and President John F. Kennedy. Mr. Kershaw persuaded the committee to conduct further ballistics tests on the rifle and the bullet that killed Dr. King. The tests were said to be inconclusive.
Mr. Kershaw told the panel in May 1977 that on the day of Dr. King’s killing, April 4, 1968, Ray was working for Raul, and that Raul had told him to go out to a movie that afternoon. (Dr. King was shot shortly after 6 p.m. as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.) Instead, he said, Ray went to have a spare tire fixed. The lawyer could not produce a witness.
An article in The New York Times the next month repeated Mr. Kershaw’s contention that Ray was guilty only of having “bought a gun for what he thought was a gun-smuggling operation.”
In June 1977, Ray and five other inmates escaped from a Tennessee high-security penitentiary, only to be caught days later. Mr. Kershaw argued that the escape required help from outsiders and that this was further evidence of a conspiracy.
But Ray grew disenchanted with Mr. Kershaw after he persuaded Ray to be interviewed by Playboy magazine and submit to a lie-detector test for the article. The results indicated that Ray was lying when he said he did not kill Dr. King and that he was telling the truth when he denied he was part of a conspiracy. Playboy said the results proved “that Ray did, in fact, kill Martin Luther King Jr. and that he did so alone.”
The last straw came when Ray learned that Mr. Kershaw had accepted $11,000 from Playboy. He fired Mr. Kershaw and replaced him with Mark Lane, a lawyer, author and conspiracy theorist.
John Karl Kershaw was born in Missouri on Oct. 12, 1913, and moved to Old Hickory, Tenn., as a child. He attended Vanderbilt, where he played football and graduated with a geology degree; became a building contractor; and earned his law degree at the Nashville Y.M.C.A. Night Law School.
Mr. Kershaw left no immediate survivors. His wife, the former Mary Noel, died in 1989.
Jack Kershaw, who represented James Earl Ray as he fought to overturn his conviction in the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., arguing that Ray was an innocent participant in a conspiracy led by a mysterious figure named Raul, died Sept. 7. in Nashville. He was 96.
His death was announced by the League of the South, an organization Mr. Kershaw helped found that tries to keep the spirit of the Confederacy alive.
Mr. Kershaw, who was also a sculptor, was best known in his hometown for creating a 27-foot equestrian statue of the Confederate general Nathan Bedford Forrest, a founder of the Ku Klux Klan. Unveiled in 1998, it was erected in a private park along Interstate 65.
The monument, offensive to many, drew criticism, but Mr. Kershaw did not shy from offending. “Somebody needs to say a good word for slavery,” he once told The Times-Picayune of New Orleans.
Mr. Kershaw’s principal brush with history came in representing Ray in 1977 in the killing of Dr. King in Memphis in 1968. On the advice of another lawyer, Percy Foreman, Ray had pleaded guilty in a Tennessee state court to being Dr. King’s sole murderer. If he had been convicted at trial, he would have received an automatic death sentence. Instead, he was sentenced to 99 years in prison.
Ray, a career petty criminal, soon argued that he had been coerced into pleading guilty. Without specifics, he blamed a man he identified only as Raul, whom he said he had met in Montreal. Ray denied shooting Dr. King but said murkily that he might have been “partially responsible without knowing it.”
Mr. Kershaw pushed this vague conspiracy claim. He accompanied Ray to interviews with investigators from the House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Assassinations, which was looking again at the killings of Dr. King and President John F. Kennedy. Mr. Kershaw persuaded the committee to conduct further ballistics tests on the rifle and the bullet that killed Dr. King. The tests were said to be inconclusive.
Mr. Kershaw told the panel in May 1977 that on the day of Dr. King’s killing, April 4, 1968, Ray was working for Raul, and that Raul had told him to go out to a movie that afternoon. (Dr. King was shot shortly after 6 p.m. as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel.) Instead, he said, Ray went to have a spare tire fixed. The lawyer could not produce a witness.
An article in The New York Times the next month repeated Mr. Kershaw’s contention that Ray was guilty only of having “bought a gun for what he thought was a gun-smuggling operation.”
In June 1977, Ray and five other inmates escaped from a Tennessee high-security penitentiary, only to be caught days later. Mr. Kershaw argued that the escape required help from outsiders and that this was further evidence of a conspiracy.
But Ray grew disenchanted with Mr. Kershaw after he persuaded Ray to be interviewed by Playboy magazine and submit to a lie-detector test for the article. The results indicated that Ray was lying when he said he did not kill Dr. King and that he was telling the truth when he denied he was part of a conspiracy. Playboy said the results proved “that Ray did, in fact, kill Martin Luther King Jr. and that he did so alone.”
The last straw came when Ray learned that Mr. Kershaw had accepted $11,000 from Playboy. He fired Mr. Kershaw and replaced him with Mark Lane, a lawyer, author and conspiracy theorist.
John Karl Kershaw was born in Missouri on Oct. 12, 1913, and moved to Old Hickory, Tenn., as a child. He attended Vanderbilt, where he played football and graduated with a geology degree; became a building contractor; and earned his law degree at the Nashville Y.M.C.A. Night Law School.
Mr. Kershaw left no immediate survivors. His wife, the former Mary Noel, died in 1989.