BR: I was down in New Hebron. I saw Bob dipping the numbers off some flamethrowers he was getting ready to route to the Gulf. They had triple-zero prefixes, which I just happened to know designates CIA-disbursement lots. I asked Bob about it. He lied, which was the wrong thing to do under the circumstances.
FR: You're talking Swahili, Dwight. I've got no idea where this is going.
BR: I leaned on Bob. He gave it up.
FR: Gave what up?
BR: His Cuban gun-running gig is nothing but a shuck. Carlos Marcello and that CIA guy John Stanton cooked it up. The guns have been going to Castro sources inside Cuba, with Marcello's best wishes. The Outfit's been sucking up to Castro, so he'll help them implement some plan they've got to plant casinos in Latin American countries. Castro's got juice with leftist insurgents in the countries the Outfit's looking at, and he's sending them the guns that Bob and the other guys smuggle in. That way, if the lefties implement takeovers in their countries, they'll let the Outfit in. If they don't take over, the Outfit will grease the right-wing guys still in power.
FR: I'm seeing visions, Dwight. I'm seeing all the Latter-day Saints.
BR: It gets better.
FR: It couldn't. And you don't need to warn me not to tell Wayne, because we both know this would drive the boy insane.
BR: The Outfit's covered on both ends. Castro's sacrificed Xnumber of Militia troops to the venture, because Bondurant, Wayne and their guys have been boating in and taking scalps with impunity. Castro's making money, it's worth a few Soldiers of the Revolution in the long run, it all goes to fuel the Commie agenda in Latin America.
FR: Dwight, I'm flabber-
BR: Stanton and the other CIA guys involved have been kicking back Bondurant's dope profits to an Agency source. He's been supplying Bob with CIA disbursement weaponry, which fucking Bob has been passing off as ordnance stolen from armory heists and Army pilferings. Stanton and Marcello have diverted millions in profit overflow, and they've paid Bob and these guys Laurent Guery and Flash Elorde percentage cuts to work the scam from the beginning. Only Bondurant, your son, and some guy named Mesplede think the whole thing is for real. They're the stupes and the true believers.
FR: My lord. All the Saints and the Angel Moroni.
BR: Bob's socked away a hundred cold. He'll kick it into our operation, if we let him shoot or play back-up to our fall guy.
FR: I wouldn't deny him. Not after a story like that.
BR: He's in, then. He kept all that covert for years, so I think we can trust him.
FR: We've got to keep this quiet. If Bondurant or my son find out, it all hits the-
BR: I've got Bob's balls. He won't talk to anyone else.
FR: Dwight, I should.
BR: Yeah, go. Have a drink and talk to your saints.
FR: Visions, Dwight. I mean it.
BR: I almost went into civil law. Can you believe it?
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 8/12/67. Pouch communiquй. To: FATHER RABBIT. From: BLUE RABBIT. Marked: "Eyes Only"/"Read and Burn."
FATHER,
Here's Bob's memo. His facts observations are based on his personal relationship with the PROSPECT on files he stole from the Missouri State Prison System. I cleaned up his grammar spelling included some perceptions. READ, BURN pouch me your response.
The PROSPECT:
Ray, James Earl/white male/5' 10"! 1 60/DOB 3-1 6-28/Alton, Illinois/ 1 of 10 children.
PROSPECT grew up in rural Illinois Missouri. Father was career petty larcemst. PROSPECT first arrested (1942) at age 14 (theft). Became frequenter of traveling carnivals houses of prostitution. Became friendly with older man (German immigrant) who was pro-Hitler member of German-American Bund. PROSPECT began to develop anti-Negro attitude at this time.
PROSPECT enlisted in U.S. Army (2/19/46) requested Germany as duty station. Attended basic training at Camp Crowder, Missouri assigned (as truck driver) to Q.M. Corps in occupied Germany (7/46). Later assigned as driver to MP battalion in Bremerhaven. Trafficked in black market cigarettes, frequented prostitutes was treated for syphilis gonorrhea. Began drinking heavily taking Benzedrine. Transferred to Infantry Battalion, Frankfurt (4/48) requested immediate discharge.
Request was denied. PROSPECT charged with being drunk in quarters (10/48) held in post stockade. PROSPECT escaped, was recaptured sentenced to 3 months hard labor. Returned to the U.S. (12/48) given "general discharge." Spent time at family's home in Alton, Illinois. Hitchhiked to Los Angeles (9/49), arrested for burglary (12/9/49), sentenced to 8 months county jail time, released early for good behavior (3/50).
PROSPECT traveled east. Arrested for vagrancy (Marion, Iowa, 4/18/50), released 5/8/50. Arrested for vagrancy (Alton, Ill., 7/26/5 1), released 9/51. Arrested for armed robbery (taxicab hijack, Chicago, 5/6/52, shot while attempting escape).
PROSPECT received two-year sentence. Served time at Joliet Pontiac facilities. Established reputation as prison "Loner" habitual user of home-brew alcohol amphetamines. Paroled 3/12/54.
PROSPECT arrested for burglary (Alton, Ill., 8/28/54). Bailed out absconded before trial date. Traveled east with criminal companion shared political views (e.g., all Negroes were inferior should be killed). Arrested (robbery of post office, Kellerville, Ill.) 3/55. Sentenced to 36 mos. Federal prison. Received at Leavenworth Penitentiary, 7/7/55. Paroled 5/58.
PROSPECT's parole jurisdiction transferred to St. Louis (family members lived there). In 7 8/59, PROSPECT 2 accomplices went on supermarket robbery spree (St. Louis Alton, Ill.). PROSPECT arrested 10/10/59. Attempted jail escape 12/15/59. Sentenced to 20 yrs. Missouri State Penitentiary. Received at Jefferson City Facility, 3/17/60.
Jeff City reputedly the toughest most harshly run prison in the U.S. White Negro inmates largely segregated. White inmates mostly of "Hillbilly" lineage vocal per their hatred of Negroes. Facility had informal chapters of KKK, National States Rights Party, National Renaissance Party Thunderbolt Legion.
PROSPECT worked in dry cleaning plant unsuccessfully attempted escape in 10/61. PROSPECT bootlegged prison bakery goods amphetamines, habitually injected amphetamines frequently indulged anti-Negro tirades when "high." PROSPECT also sold rented contraband pornographic magazines joined informal meetings of extreme right-wing groups (attended by both convicts guards) often discussed his desire to "kill niggers" "Martin Luther Coon."
PROSPECT also discussed desire to move to segregated African countries, become a "Merc" "kill niggers." BR contends that PROSPECT was especially vituperative, even by white convict standards.
PROSPECT openly fantasized that a "White Businessman's Association" had a $100,000 bounty out on King. This is enticing when considering recent "bounty-talk" picked up via bug at Grapevine Tavern in St. Louis. BR contends that "Bounty" concept strongly plays into PROSPECT's "get-rich-quick mentality."
PROSPECT denied parole in '64. Attempted escape 3/11/66. Escaped 4/23/67 (hiding in an outbound bread truck).
PROSPECT stated to BR:
That he walked hill roads to Kansas City, did "odd jobs built up a stake," bussed to Chicago got dishwasher's job at restaurant in Wmnnetka. PROSPECT visited family members childhood haunts in Alton, Quincy East St. Louis determined that no intensive manhunt was being conducted. PROSPECT robbed liquor store in East St. Louis (6/29/67) stole $4,100.
PROSPECT traveled south spent week at BR's compound (7/5-7/12/67). Grocery store near New Hebron robbed (7/8/67). BR believes PROSPECT was perpetrator. PROSPECT BR discussed "politics" PROSPECT apparently was not afraid that BR would report his fugitive status. PROSPECT "kept to himself," drank took amphetamines, ignored BR's Klansmen, talked to BR exclusively frequently stated his desire to "kill niggers," "collect nigger bounties," "hire on as a merc kill niggers in the Nigger Congo" "live in a white man's paradise like Rhodesia."