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 by: Jack Frost - Wed, 11 May 2022 03:43 UTC

On Friday, April 5, 2002 at 11:59:42 AM UTC, Yours Truly wrote:
> In article <20020404174114...@mb-mt.news.cs.com>, Xgl0wstickNinjaX
> says...
> >
> >I think we all know that Ray did not kill Dr.King.It was a government plot.
> Former CIA Participant Says He Was Part Of It - Raoul Identified As FBI Agent By
> Pat Shannan Media Bypass Magazine
> New evidence has surfaced in the 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. murder case,
> supplied by an insider who claims to have been part of a "hit team" that had
> come out of the "Missouri Mafia" headquartered in the town of Caruthersville, a
> small town in the boot heel section of that state.
> In a yet-to-be-published book, former Missouri County Deputy Jim Green reveals
> his assigned role in the conspiracy, the name of the actual triggerman, and the
> long-suspected involvement of J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI. Green also believes
> that he possesses the actual murder weapon, which he personally secreted away
> only hours after the murder. "Jim Green is telling the truth," says Lyndon
> Barsten, an astute researcher of the case over the past decade. "I have no doubt
> whatsoever. The pieces he has supplied fit perfectly and could not have come
> from someone who was not there." Indeed they do fit, and it is all backed up by
> FBI documentation derived by Barsten through numerous FOIA requests.
> On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was gunned down on the second floor
> balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn., by a single shot from a
> high-powered rifle. Several witnesses said the shot came from the bushes on a
> slope from across the street. The FBI concluded that it came from the rear
> bathroom window of a cheap hotel, also across the street and higher up the hill.
> Two weeks later the name of James Earl Ray, a fugitive escapee from the Missouri
> State Penitentiary, was announced to the world as the man who killed King, had
> escaped to Canada and was currently in hiding somewhere across the border. After
> Ray was identified as the killer, and long before he was captured, the FBI spent
> little or no time pursuing any other leads. Two months later the fugitive was
> caught changing planes at Heathrow Airport in London after having left Canada
> and spending ten days with persons unknown in Portugal. He was attempting to
> board a plane to Brussels.
> On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray, with his attorney Percy Foreman, pled guilty
> to the murder before the court of Judge Preston Battle. He was sentenced to 99
> years in prison. He recanted almost immediately and filed a motion for a trial
> only three days later. But before the month was out, Judge Battle was found dead
> in his chambers, slumped over his desk. Beneath his head were the papers of the
> handwritten motion from James Earl Ray. The case was closed, and Ray began his
> sentence in the Tennessee State Penitentiary.
> The "Official" Story - The scenario released by Memphis police and the FBI and
> later used by the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) was that in
> late March of 1968, James Earl Ray had purchased a Remington 30.06 rifle from
> the Aeromarine Supply Store in Birmingham and had traveled with it to Memphis in
> a white Mustang. Here he checked into Bessie Brewer's boarding house in the 400
> block of South Main Street on the afternoon of April 4th. Directly behind it was
> the Lorraine Motel on Mulberry Street. At 6:00 p.m. Martin L. King stepped out
> of room 306 and was joined by a group of followers with whom he had been in a
> meeting all afternoon. He was gunned down only a minute later by a single shot
> from the rear bathroom window across the street. Not one witness saw the actual
> firing of the shot or claimed it had come from the window. Most believed it had
> come from the bushes on the slope, fifty feet closer.
> Still according to the official story, Ray allegedly ran out of the bathroom and
> down the hall to his room. Here he stuffed the rifle back into its box and
> included it with a bundle containing his clothes, binoculars, ammunition, a beer
> can with his fingerprints; and perhaps the most incriminating of all, a portable
> radio with his inmate number from the Missouri State Penitentiary engraved in
> the back side. He ran down the stairs and out onto the street where he then
> dumped the bundle in the doorway of Canipe's Amusement Company next door to the
> rooming house. He then zoomed away in the soon-to-be-infamous white Mustang. He
> stayed a few days in Atlanta before moving on to Canada.
> James Earl's Version - In 1987, after being imprisoned for 19 years, Ray told
> his side of the story in Tennessee Waltz, a book that went out of print and was
> later published under the title of Who Killed Martin Luther King? (The biggest
> loss here was original publisher Tupper Saussy's brilliant epilogue, "The
> Politics of Witchcraft," which exposed certain secrets that the establishment
> publishers preferred not to discuss. Under the new title the epilogue was
> eliminated.) However, he appeared to be avoiding "the whole truth and nothing
> but the truth" in certain areas, apparently out of fear of self-incrimination -
> not necessarily for the murder but for some lesser crimes. It also appears that
> James became aware too late that he had indeed been unwittingly involved in the
> conspiracy to assassinate Martin Luther King.
> Ray tells of his prison escape via a bread truck in April of 1967. After laying
> low in East St. Louis for a couple of months, he made it to Chicago where he
> looked up some old contacts that enabled him to purchase an old Chrysler for
> $100. From there he went to Detroit and crossed the border into Canada. In July,
> he met a man he knew only as "Raoul," who quickly began to give James money in
> exchange for his help with importing some kind of contraband. James said he
> never knew if this was guns, drugs, or what, as he never actually participated
> in anything more than trial runs. Raoul always seemed to remain in the
> "planning" stages of a smuggling operation.
> Ray had a contact phone number in the Area Code of "504," where he had phoned
> his contact, "Raoul," many times over the months prior to the murder. However,
> when he tried to dial this New Orleans number on the day after the
> assassination, it was already disconnected. Through Raoul, James was kept
> supplied with money to go to Mexico to wait for instructions and to Los Angeles
> to see a plastic surgeon for a "nose job," effectuating a change in his
> appearance. He never worked at a job in any of this time frame prior to the
> assassination and was obviously under the financial control of Raoul. James was
> traveling in a 1966 pale yellow Mustang (not white as were the others),
> purchased with $2,000 supplied by Raoul.
> James always claimed he had acquired the names of his aliases at random from a
> Toronto phone book. He bought the gun in Birmingham under the name of "Harvey
> Lowmeyer," checked into the Memphis flophouse as "John Willard," acquired an
> Alabama driver's license as "Eric S. Galt," and traveled to Europe on a passport
> as Ramon George Sneyd. However, all four, for which he [or someone] had created
> I.D., looked very much like Ray. The odds of these being a random choice were
> just short of impossible. It also is likely that the Los Angeles plastic surgery
> rounding out his previously pointed nose was designed to make him look more like
> these men, none of whom knew they were being impersonated.
> In February of 1968, Raoul sent travel funds to James in Los Angeles and ordered
> him back to New Orleans. From there the two drove together to Atlanta. In late
> March, James says that Raoul was making plans for them to drive to Miami but
> these plans abruptly changed around March 29th. They were now going to Memphis.
> It was on or about this date that MLK had cancelled a planned speaking
> engagement in Miami in order to fly to Memphis and tend to the problems with the
> garbage strike. It now seems that Raoul had this information before anyone else.
> En route they spent the first night in Birmingham. After checking into a motel,
> Raoul gave James a wad of money and sent him to the Aeromarine Supply Store to
> purchase a "deer rifle for your brother-in-law." Having little knowledge of
> weaponry, James bought what he thought was appropriate and returned with a .243
> caliber Winchester. Raoulimmediately decided he didn't like it and sent James
> back to the store the next morning to exchange it for another with a "larger
> bore."
> The salesman told James, "Tell your brother-in-law that this gun will bring down
> any deer in Alabama!" But he did agree to exchange it for the higher priced
> Remington 30.06. After his incarceration, James was always certain that real
> purpose of this instructed return to the gun store was simply another part of
> the "set-up" to make sure that the salesman would not forget him. In Memphis on
> April 4th, the afternoon of the murder, Raoul had suggested that James go to a
> movie, but James declined. After several tries at getting rid of James for
> awhile, Raoul finally sent him on an errand only minutes before King was shot.
> James said that he was going to get the worn tires changed on the Mustang but
> that the man at the tire store was too busy and could not get to it that day.
> When James returned to the flophouse/Lorraine Motel location, it was surrounded
> by police cars with flashing lights, and he decided it would be prudent to leave
> the area, as it certainly was not a place for an escaped con to hanging
> around.
>
> Ray was very vague about this time frame, and it may be assumed, again, that he
> did not want to admit to having backed out of a planned armed robbery, which
> appears below. To do so might have led to too many questions about his
> foreknowledge of the murder about to take place and exposed his (assumed) role -
> that of getaway driver. We must remember that while in prison, Ray was extremely
> vulnerable. It was while he was driving south on U.S. Highway 61 into
> Mississippi that James heard the news on the radio that Martin Luther King had
> been shot. He then turned east and headed back to Atlanta. James was always
> vague about the details of his return trip to Canada and the contacts he made
> there prior to his flight to Europe - often appearing to be protecting others.
> In Tennessee Waltz, Ray told a chilling story of harassment and torture,
> describing his treatment in the Shelby County Jail, which sounded as if he were
> relating experiences from the Soviet Union rather than America. He was kept
> under floodlights 24 hours a day for eight solid months prior to his guilty
> plea, never knowing if it was day or night outside. His cell was "bugged," and
> two deputies were monitoring and recording every conversation - even those
> purported sacrosanct exchanges between client and attorney. Tired and weakened
> by the strain, Ray was finally coerced into a guilty plea by his attorney, to
> whom he referred for the rest of his life as "Percy Foreflusher."
> New Pieces To The Puzzle - Over the years Jim Green's Federal Intelligence
> connections have become legendary in his hometown of Caruthersville, Missouri.
> "He's untouchable," or "He can't be arrested, the feds just walk him out of
> jail, everybody knows that." But now one must assume that the Untouchable is
> fast becoming anathema to his former handlers. Jim has had an attack of
> conscience and is talking! "I hope to change a lie in history to the truth
> about that day in Memphis," says Green, 54, a reformed "bad boy" who spent the
> first half of his life as a teenage runaway, moonshine runner, and car thief.
> The last half was spent in law enforcement, raising children, teaching school,
> and coaching football - along with occasional undercover work. His only source
> of income today is a social security disability check. Since coming forward
> with his story, he has refused all offers of any work involving government
> covert action, for fear of being "set up" and/or killed.
> On December 3, 1998, he spent six hours with MLK's son Dexter King, Rev. James
> Lawson, and William Pepper (Ray's attorney and author of Orders to Kill, a
> semi-accurate compilation of facts and conjecture describing the government's
> involvement in the King assassination). "At this meeting, I cleared my soul
> telling Dexter of my involvement on the day of his father's death," says Green.
> "I knew there would be many more questions to come, and that's when I decided to
> put my story in writing." He calls his book, Blood and Dishonor on a Badge of
> Honor, and when he put it up on the internet two years ago, it caught the
> attention of Lyndon Barsten on Minneapolis. Barsten decided to check Green's
> story against the known facts as well as the suppressed information uncovered by
> him and others over the years. He was astounded. Everything fit. Green knew
> details that could only have been known by someone who was there, and the FBI
> documentation acquired by Barsten substantiated his story. Some of these papers
> show that the FBI had been constantly tracking James Earl Ray and had knowledge
> of his whereabouts during most of the year he was an escaped convict. Both Green
> and Barston believe that the FBI was instrumental in Ray's "escape" from the
> Missouri State Penitentiary in April of 1967 for the sole purpose of setting him
> up as a "patsy" when the time came.
> "Why else would these reports be in the record?" says Green, "And why would they
> have any files on an escaped con from a state prison?" Indeed. And something
> even more suspicious, why did the FBI not contact the Missouri authorities and
> have Ray picked up? He was under their thumb for some ten months. Later
> investigation showed that the fingerprints sent out by JeffCity for "escaped
> prisoner James Earl Ray" were not really his, ensuring his release if he
> happened to be captured as an escaped felon.
> CIA/Peace Corps - Jim Green was student at Caruthersville High when he decided
> that the Peace Corps would be an exciting way to see the world. At the tender
> age of 16, he had no way of knowing that this was a major feeding ground of the
> Central Intelligence Agency (he assumes that his school counselor who helped him
> fill out the forms did not either), but this was where the initial contact was
> made. He was contacted by FBI personnel and given a thorough background check.
> Then a series of interesting and mysterious events began after he was accepted
> and was under the government's control. In a short time this led to the Missouri
> State Pen where he knew James Earl Ray in 1966. "I have a good memory, but
> there are two weeks from this time at Jeff City that I can only remember a few
> hours of," Jim reflects.
> Lyndon Barsten says, "The contacts and methods utilized in the murder of Dr.
> King bear the signature of the CIA, including the probable use of MK-Ultra mind
> control techniques. Parallel psychiatric irregularities at the Missouri prison
> system are described by James Earl Ray and Jim Green, including the shocking
> drugging of inmates which could render the indication of hypnosis easier or
> otherwise enhance its usefulness. It seems highly likely that Jim was subjected
> to psychological assessment and manipulation, the results of which directed back
> to Federal Intelligence Agencies."
> A further series of events led to Jim's early release (effectuated by "Paul,"
> the FBI Agent who became his handler) and a reunion back in Caruthersville with
> Butch Collier, his former partner from the moonshine running days. For the next
> year and a half, Jim and Butch and others ran moonshine and delivered hot cars
> from St. Louis to New Orleans. Both operations were under the direction of Paul,
> who would later show his credentials to Jim and identify himself as a FBI Agent.
> At first Green was concerned about this ("I had never known the feds to be
> crooked!"), but he was assured by others whom he trusted that Paul had the power
> to isolate them from any investigation. "Paul's boss is at the top," he was
> told. Jim took this implication to mean none other than J. Edgar Hoover.
> This complicated, sometimes hard-to-follow sequence of activities in Green's
> life is made plainer (especially to those unfamiliar with the facts of the MLK
> murder case) by the frequent interjection of Lyndon Barsten's clarification of
> facts. But at this point, Green and his older (by six years) friend, Butch
> Collier, resumed their lives of crime. Not only would they hot wire and snatch
> individual autos from parking lots and drive them to Memphis, but they were also
> paid $5,000 on occasion to drive an 18-wheeler load of several cars from
> St.Louis to New Orleans for delivery to the Carlos Marcello mob. Green says that
> this was done with full knowledge and protection of the FBI.
> ("At this time of my life, the only thing that made me nervous was Paul. His
> being an agent of the FBI didn't fit into my little world at the time. Also, I
> didn't like it because it seemed like Paul was running the show and he was an
> outsider! I guess, at that young age, I just did what I was told. This must be
> why eighteen-year-olds are chosen to fight wars. Most men with experience will
> ask `Why are we here,' and most teenagers will just follow orders.")
> April 4, 1968 - Jim Green's story fills in more blanks with logical answers to
> the previously unanswered questions. His assignment, for which he was to be paid
> $10,000, was to kill James Earl Ray. "On the night of April 3rd," Green says,
> "Paul met us in our room. He had a small package which he laid on the bed, he
> told us "there's $5,000 in that package for you and five more when the job is
> done, once James Earl Ray is killed on the fourth." Indicative of the
> compartmentalization of each participant in this textbook CIA assassination,
> Green says that he was not even aware of the total operation of which he had
> been a part until he was back home in Caruthersville watching the Ten O'clock
> News with his father. He would only be following orders and believes that he was
> chosen for this segment because he had spent time at Jeff City with Ray and knew
> what he looked like.
> Jim and his partner, Butch Collier, stalked Ray in the early afternoon after
> they found him at Jim's Cafe - exactly where they had been told they would find
> him. Later Jim climbed to his assigned rooftop position of a dilapidated three
> story office building in the next block south of Bessie Brewer's rooming house
> on Main Street at around 3:30 p.m., armed with a .357 caliber rifle. His
> instructions were to shoot James Earl Ray "after five o'clock" and only in the
> event that John Talley, a Memphis Police Detective, failed. The planners did
> not want to face another Oswald- Tippet-type snafu as in Dallas. James Earl Ray
> was in the rooming house, and Green observed him come and go three or four times
> during the next two hours. On one of these occasions, Ray came outside and stood
> by the Mustang for several minutes before going back upstairs.
> This coincides with Ray's story that Raoul kept attempting to get James away
> from the area. It also telegraphs again that Ray was purposefully not telling
> the whole story, apparently being careful not to jeopardize his position of
> "innocent and framed" by admitting planned criminal activity. Green's next
> segment shows us the real plan already in motion to set up Ray. The man that
> Green knew as Paul, the FBI Special Agent, was the same person Ray knew as
> Raoul, who had kept him on a leash for eight months - from Montreal to Memphis.
> When Ray left the flophouse the final time, at a few minutes before six (King
> would be shot at 6:01), Green knew the instructions from Paul/Raoul had been for
> Ray to first rob Jim's Grill at gunpoint and hurry south on Main Street to the
> Arcade Restaurant. The phony ploy was that they were getting ready to travel and
> would need some quick cash. However, James must have become suspicious. When he
> came out on the street, he did not commit the armed robbery nor continue walking
> down the sidewalk as instructed but climbed into the Mustang (James' car was not
> white, as reported by police and the news media, but a pale yellow) and calmly
> drove north away from the scene. He never returned. By this time Butch Collier
> was stationed in the bushes in back of the boarding house and directly across
> the street from the Lorraine Motel.
> It was a fortuitous intuition on the part of Ray. Lingering in the next block
> was Memphis Police Detective John Talley, whose assignment was to kill Ray. He
> was carrying the standard police issue .357 Magnum revolver. Jim Green was on
> the roof of the building across the street and armed with the.357 rifle in the
> event Talley missed or was killed by Ray. Green was the backup in case anything
> went wrong. The caliber would match.
> Remember Dallas in 1963 Re.Oswald and Officer Tippett. Again this is straight
> from the textbook of "Assassinations 101." After the patsy is dead, anything can
> be leaked to the press to demonize him, as it was in both these cases, even
> while each was still alive. But when Ray was "spooked" and drove away in the
> pale yellow Mustang, it threw a monkey wrench into the conspirator's plans.
> However, there was a second Mustang that still remained parked on Main Street.
> This one was white and belonged to Joe R. Tipton but was brought to Memphis by
> Jim Green and Butch Collier. They had also brought several rifles, which were
> still in the trunk. Green's instructions were to stay on the rooftop until
> Collier arrived in the parking area at the rear to pick him up. At 6:01 p.m., he
> heard the shot, and only moments later saw Paul and Butch emerge one behind the
> other from the stairway of the flophouse onto the street. He saw Paul dump the
> bundle of evidence into the doorway of Canipe's Amusement Company, while Butch
> was jumping into the driver's seat of the white Mustang, and watched as they
> sped north on Main Street. Paul/Raoul and the Memphis Police utilized a third
> Mustang, also white, as a diversion.
> Suddenly the FBI's folly of the utter stupidity of the alleged assassin (Ray)
> dumping his own incriminating evidence on the street begins to take shape. Paul
> intended to drop it in the back seat of the pale yellow Mustang - Ray's -
> thinking that James Earl had followed instructions and was down the street
> getting killed. Then the FBI would have had its open and shut case. (Ray is dead
> and here is the "murder" weapon found in his car.) But when Paul/Raoul is
> suddenly confronted with the current situation of no Ray car available, he
> frustratingly drops the bundle in the first handy place, and he and Butch
> hightail it up the street in the white Mustang. Jim Green watched all this
> unfold from his secluded rooftop position.
> Butch Collier had just killed Martin Luther King with one shot from the bushes
> on the slope across the street from the Lorraine Motel. He then ran up the rear
> stairs to the second floor and back down the front stairs to Main Street. By
> this time, Paul had run down the hall from the upstairs bathroom (where he had
> watched the shooting) carrying the "plant" rifle purchased in Birmingham by Ray
> in hand. (Paul was seen by other tenants who later said this person was not
> Ray.) He then stuffed it in the bag with the other "evidence" and was down the
> front stairwell only seconds behind Collier.
> Jim Green watched as Butch drove two blocks up the street before pausing to drop
> off Paul at a parked Memphis Police Department squad car. A couple of minutes
> later, Butch was tooting the horn of the Mustang in the parking lot behind Jim's
> three-story perch. Jim came down to join his confederate, stashed his rifle in
> the trunk with the others, and the two men headed for the Mississippi River
> Bridge toward Arkansas. Jim tells of hauling several guns to Memphis in the
> trunk of the Mustang on April 2nd, following the instructions of Paul. Butch had
> removed the one of his choice for the King murder earlier the next day, but the
> other weapons were still in the trunk. In Collier's haste to escape the murder
> scene, he had not bothered to open the trunk but had quickly thrown the murder
> weapon onto the floor behind the front seat as he and Paul jumped into the
> Mustang.
> When Collier and Green crossed the river into Arkansas, they took an immediate
> turn onto the frontage road and headed back down to the riverside. They
> hurriedly opened the trunk and dumped the cache of weapons into the water.
> Headed up U. S. 61 and halfway home an hour later, Jim peered into the back seat
> and noticed the rifle on the floor. When he called his partner's attention to
> it, Butch realized that they had failed to dump the most important evidence of
> all. "Well !@#$," said Collier, we can't drop it here on the side of the
> highway. What do we do with it?'
> Jim pondered a moment and said, "Never mind. I know a friend who will take care
> of it with no questions asked." Green delivered the rifle the next morning to
> his trusted but unnamed friend in Caruthersville, who kept it for 29 years. When
> he decided to write his book, Green retrieved it and has had it stashed in a
> safe place in another state ever since. The rifle has now been tested for
> ballistics and the results are pending. While James Earl Ray was running from
> the FBI in April, May, and June, he had no way of knowing that he was also being
> pursued by Jim Green and Butch Collier as well - although he may have suspected
> it. On April 6th, the shooters were called together for a meeting at the Climax
> Bar in Caruthersville with Paul some others. Jim Green describes the situation:
> We were told we had "some serious problems" to deal with. "First you have to
> find Ray and kill him, in order that nothing can lead back to the government or
> us," Paul said. "We're all in this together, and if one of us goes down, we all
> go down." He told us that his orders came from the top. "Roachie will kill us
> before he or his boss will get involved." Paul seemed more serious than ever.
> Later, I figured out who Roachie was: Cartha Deloach, the number three man [in
> the FBI] behind Hoover and Tolson. . . Butch and I told them what we did with
> the rifles but forgot to mention the 30.06 that I have to this day. . .
> Everybody in that room that day is dead except for Paul and me.
> (In those days Green and Collier always used as their "life insurance policy"
> the bluff that they had the rifle and various tapes and records that would go
> public if anything happened to them. It wasn't true, but it worked. Collier died
> about ten years ago of cancer.)
> For the next few weeks Green and Collier went to several places, toting
> unregistered Rossi .38 pistols made in Brazil, in their quest to kill Ray. Paul
> always seemed to have a line on Ray's whereabouts, and the two hunters came
> closest to their prey in Toronto. Paul had sent them to a hotel where they
> learned that James Earl had checked out only two hours earlier. They searched
> several other places for two other aliases under which Paul knew Ray to be
> traveling and hiding, but they could not locate him. Green says that it was
> obvious to Butch and him at the time that Paul had ongoing intelligence being
> fed to him by either the Royal Canadian Mounted Police or the Toronto City
> Police. "Ramon George Sneyd" soon acquired his passport and made his way to
> Europe, never knowing how close he came to being murdered on the run-ironically
> by the same faction that had murdered Martin Luther King and pinned the crime on
> Ray.
> Green subsequently served a short time in jail for some previous infractions but
> had his very early release aided by Paul. Two years later, Green met with
> Missouri Attorney General John Danforth and about a half dozen others, including
> Paul, at a Sikeston, Missouri motel. It was a secret investigation in an attempt
> to oust the county sheriff and expose his corruption - which eventually
> succeeded. But Green's performance, with the correct double-talk, exposed
> nothing, and for this he was later rewarded with a deputy's job in the new
> administration. He later moved on to federal undercover work in Memphis.
> During one seven-month period in the mid-70s, the Memphis group got 265
> convictions and failed only once when a mistrial was declared. Green says, "I
> know first-hand that the police will testify in whatever way they have to in
> order to get a conviction or further their careers." For now exposing the
> corruption of the courts and the FBI, Jim Green is certain that he will be
> called a liar. "But the same people," he is quick to point out, "who will
> attempt to discredit me today will have to be the same ones who in the 1970s
> said that I was the most honest, reliable, and trustworthy witness. If I am a
> liar, then all the cases I testified at should be appealed and thrown out and
> the records set straight."
> Conclusion - As mentioned, Jim Green's revelations fit too many pieces
> (confirmed with the FBI's own documents) to have been contrived from his
> imagination. He had told it to one official long before James Earl Ray told his
> story in Tennessee Waltz, which Green did not read until 1998, after he had
> begun his own book. Jim Green had attempted to "clear his soul" as far back as
> 1973, when he told journalist Kay Black of the Memphis Press Scimiter the same
> story printed here with only slightly fewer details. It was never published but
> frightened Ms. Black enough for her to report it to law enforcement authorities.
> This led to Green's appearance in front of the HSCA in 1976. There his testimony
> was obliterated from the record and never made public. So much for government
> inquiries.
> One of James Earl Ray's brothers has now come forward with information
> corroborating the FBI's cooperation in James' escape as well as the Chicago
> mob's participation in the assassination, under the direction of Sam Giancano.
> John Ray admits that it was he who picked up his brother after his 1967 "escape"
> in the bread truck and drove him to a safe house in East St. Louis. Lyndon
> Barston's detailed research shows powerful evidence implicating the FBI with
> complicity in a CIA plot. In late 1964, the FBI had tried to get Dr. King to
> commit suicide prior to his departing to Europe to claim his Nobel Peace Prize.
> This was accomplished by sending an alleged surveillance tape of Dr. King in an
> extra-marital sexual relation to the SCLC with a letter warning that all would
> become public if Dr. King didn't kill himself prior to his collecting his Nobel
> Prize.
> 2] Lab work relating to the murder of Dr. King at FBI Headquarters was
> dreadfully inadequate. The Remington 30.06 rifle purchased by Ray in Birmingham
> and deposited at the scene of the crime was not even swabbed to see if it had
> been fired! Today it still remains as the "official" murder weapon of the MURKIN
> case. Yet, for some reason, this test was run on even the rifle James Earl Ray
> had returned to Aeromarine Supply in Birmingham in exchange for the Remington
> prior to the murder!
> 3] Atlanta FBI informant, J. C. Hardin, is documented in the MURKIN file as
> contacting James Earl Ray in Los Angeles just prior to Ray's packing up and
> heading east to Atlanta and Memphis.
> 4] On the 29th of March, the FBI, through its "friendly" press contacts, placed
> Dr. King in the open and insecure Lorraine Motel by criticizing him in the press
> for patronizing "white owned Hotels."
> 5] Journalist Louis Lomax who later died in a mysterious car crash, was
> investigating Dr. King's death when visited by two FBI men who instructed him to
> abruptly end the series of fruitful articles he was producing for the N. A. N.
> A. Louis Lomax, described as being "no good" in an FBI memo (HQ 44-38861-3196);
> was a highly respected journalist. It was Lomax who uncovered the deception of
> the false fingerprints sent out by JeffCity for escaped prisoner James Earl Ray.
> This strongly suggests the duplicity of both state and federal agencies in the
> ploy. The Intelligence Community's relationship with the mob and union
> racketeers, as described by Jim Green, is highly documented in the post-World
> War II era. Chicago mob boss Sam Giancana often described the CIA and his
> organization as "two sides of the same coin." Blood and Dishonor on a Badge of
> Honor will be published later this year. Limited copies of Tennessee Waltz by
> James Earl Ray are still available from Pastoral Business, POB 3252, Santa
> Monica, Calif. 90408.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------THE ON-GOING
> COVER-UP - March 24, 1998: CBS News' 48 HOURS broadcasts "Orders To Kill," a
> scathing attack on Dr. William F. Pepper, for eighteen years the attorney of
> James Earl Ray. In 1995, Pepper had released his book by that name, and it is
> his assertion that his client, James Earl Ray, was a patsy, manipulated to
> cover-up the real events surrounding Dr. King's death. A hit team, Pepper
> claims, murdered Dr. King at the request of the Intelligence Agencies of the
> Federal government. On camera, in his Memphis hotel room only days before, Dr.
> Pepper is notified of the arrest of his new witness.
> (The witness, James Cooper Green, was actually a participant on that bloody day
> thirty years before. As with most domestic Intelligence operations Jim's job, to
> murder James Earl Ray after 5:00 p.m. on April 4th, was to be performed on a
> "need to know" basis. Jim Green was not to be privy to the day's full
> operations, only his part. He would not learn that Dr. King was killed until he
> watched the news at ten o' clock that night.)
> Jim Green never talks to the 48 HOURS team. After arriving in Memphis in March
> of 1998 for the specific purpose of going on camera, he is arrested under
> suspicious circumstances by the DEA and held for ten days on flimsy charges that
> would later be dropped, long after the CBS team has left town. The DEA report of
> Jim's arrest describes Task Force surveillance of a room near his in the Memphis
> Holiday Inn Express. A "possible methamphetamine lab" is operating out of room
> 165. Seemingly without reason, the DEA runs a check on the Florida plates of the
> truck owned by the guests in room 163, James and Linda Green. The investigation
> report states "registration on the Florida plate came back James (redacted)
> Green". As with nearly all of the Federal Government's involvement in this case,
> a seemingly routine document is a lie. The Green's truck was registered to Linda
> Green, Jim's wife, and was in her name only. The only way the feds could have
> known Jim was in that car would be if he were under surveillance for another
> reason.
> The same incestuous Memphis power structure that had prevented James Earl Ray
> from getting a real trial also makes certain Jim Green remains in a cell until
> the 48 HOURS team leaves town. A routine $5,000 bond set by Judge Joe Brown
> would be increased tenfold within hours after the arrest. Within the 48 HOURS
> presentation, Dan Rather reports that on the fourth of April in 1968 Jim Green
> was "in Federal prison." However, that too is a lie. His own records show that
> he was not sentenced until three months later, and his official record was
> expunged in 1988. Therefore, any existing records of Jim's imprisonment in April
> '68 are a recent fabrication and of dubious origin.
> There was far more reason to believe that the real purpose for the arrest was
> that the Federal Agents were looking for physical evidence Jim had preserved
> since April 4, 1968. They suspected he would be bringing some of it to Memphis
> for the filming of the TV show. The most important and damning evidence Jim has
> protected is one of two 30:06 rifles left in one of the duplicate Ray Mustangs,
> a rifle that has a high likelihood of being linked through ballistics to the
> slug that took Martin Luther King's life. However, the instigators of this
> surreptitious kidnapping, while succeeding in preventing Jim's story from being
> aired, came up empty in a search for evidence. He did not bring the rifle with
> him.
> For nearly a quarter of a century Jim Green has remained silent about his
> participation in government assassination and abuse. His only breaking of this
> code was his 1977 testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
> When that testimony is made public in 2029, it will reveal that Black
> Congressman Louis Stokes of Ohio badgered Jim into silence at those hearings.
> Even Linda Green, Jim's wife, was protected from the truth until the their
> children were grown. In 1998, to provide documentation of what he was to reveal,
> Jim handed Linda a copy of James Earl Ray's autobiography. In Tennessee Waltz
> (pg. 73-74) Ray weaves a vividly detailed description of two strangers trailing
> him in Memphis hours before the King murder. Jim pointed to the description of a
> thirty-ish man in a navy peacoat and questioned, "Who's that, Linda?"
> "Butch Collier", was Linda's response. There was no doubt from Ray's vivid
> recollections that she recognized one of the men trailing James Earl Ray. For
> the past quarter century she had been married to the other. Later, documents
> within the FBI's own investigative file would validate what Jim was claiming:
> that forces within the Federal Government directed the murder of Dr. King
> through racketeering union-associated-operatives who, in turn, hired locals in
> Jim's home town of Caruthersville, Missouri. Jim's amazing memory for details
> would prove invaluable. Phone call conversations written up in the FBI's own
> MURKIN (FBI acronym for Murder of King case) investigation files suddenly begin
> to make sense. Jim's description of two fake James Earl Ray Ford Mustangs finds
> credibility in the FBI's own documents. In addition, the long-held suspicion
> that Ray was allowed to escape from prison in 1967 gains validity when FOIA
> requests by researcher Lyndon Barsten show that the FBI was tracking Ray for
> eleven months prior to the King assassination in Memphis.
> http://www.4bypass.com/archives/may-01.htm
Green is my father, and know this t be true


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