10 – I wrote PROSPECT on 10/6/67 told him to meet me in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico with the camera equipment. PROSPECT agreed to meet me after he "fenced the goods." Again, I promised to secure him valid ID papers added that I could get him a Canadian passport. PROSPECT met me in Nuevo Laredo with $ from the equipment he fenced, at a loss. I told him I was not mad had more "narcotics runs" for him. PROSPECT was mad that I had not yet secured papers for him, but agreed to stay in Mexico wait for my calls.
11 – PROSPECT traveled throughout Mexico by car called me at phone-drop in New Orleans. I forwarded sums of $ to him at American Express offices paid him for 4 "narcotics runs" from McAllen to Juarez. I met with PROSPECT 4 times from 10/22/67 to 11/9/67 drew him out on political issues. PROSPECT described a "Bounty" offered thru the Grapevine Bar in St. Louis ($50,000 to kill MLK), which sounded like a fantasy but indicated that he might be willing to step up for D-Day, which would upgrade his role in our plan. PROSPECT was drinking heavily, taking amphetamines smoking marijuana in Mexico while there got into altercations with prostitutes pimps. PROSPECT drove to Los Angeles (without calling me) called with address on 11/21/67. He stated he wants more work from me, is taking self-hypnosis self-improvement courses is visiting "segregationist bookstores." He urged me to get him his passport papers as an "advance against future jobs."
12 – PROSPECT remains in L.A. I'm L.A.-based, so I'll be able to surveil him. PROSPECT remains pliable I'm convinced he'll work for us. Have we got a date or location yet?
I'll pouch again when required. Again, READ BURN.
F.O.
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/4/67. Pouch communiquй. To: Fred Otash. From: Dwight Holly. Marked: "Confidential"/"Eyes Only"/"Read Burn."
No date or location yet. Continue with PROSPECT. Will try to secure RED RABBIT's travel plans.
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/4/67. Atlanta _Constitution_ headline and subhead:
KING ANNOUNCES "POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH" ON WASHINGTON
PLEDGES TO WORK FOR "REDISTRIBUTION OF WEALTH"
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/5/67. Cleveland _Plain Dealer_ headline and subhead:
KING ON SPRING MARCH:
"TIME TO CONFRONT POWER STRUCTURE MASSIVELY"
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/6/67. Verbatim FBI telephone call transcript. Marked: "Recorded at the Director's Request" / "Classified Confidential 1-A: Director's Eyes Only." Speaking: Director Hoover, President Lyndon B. Johnson.
LBJ: Is that you, Edgar?
JEH: It's me, Mr. President.
LBJ: That goddamn march. It's all over the news.
JEH: I've read the announcements. They've fulfilled my very worst fears and apprehensions.
LBJ: That son-of-a-bitch is bringing an army to protest me, after all I've done for the Negro people.
JEH: The march will unleash a bloodbath.
LBJ: I asked him to call it off, but the son-of-a-bitch refused. He's killing my chance to get reelected. He's in cahoots with that spoon-fed cocksucker, Bobby Kennedy.
JEH: I will let you in on a little-known fact, Mr. President. Bobby allowed me to tap and bug King himself, back in '63. He has forgotten his initial misgivings in his rush to embrace that Communist.
LBJ: The cocksucker wants my job. King's creating the fucking dissent that will get it for him.
JEH: I'm putting 44 agents on King. They will disseminate derogatory data nationwide. I will do everything in my power to subvert this march.
LBJ: Edgar, was there ever a better friend to the Negro people than me?
JEH: No, Mr. President.
LBJ: Edgar, has my legislation improved the lot of the Negro people?
JEH: Yes, Mr. President.
LBJ: Edgar, have I been a friend to Martin Luther King?
JEH: Yes, Mr. President.
LBJ: Then why is that cocksucker trying to cornhole me when I've bent over backwards to befriend him?
JEH: I don't know, Mr. President.
LBJ: He's a worse bane to my fucking existence than this fucking war I'm fucking knee-deep in.
JEH: I'm going to plant a Negro in the SCLC. He used to work as my chauffeur.
LBJ: Tell him to chauffeur King off a cliff
JEH: I understand your frustration, Sir.
LBJ: I'm getting fucked from two flanks. I'm fighting a two-front war against a King and a fucking Kennedy.
JEH: Yes, Mr. President.
LBJ: You're a good man, Edgar.
JEH: Thank you, Mr. President.
LBJ: Do what you can on this, all right?
JEH: I will, Sir.
LBJ: Goodbye, Edgar.
JEH: Goodbye, Mr. President.
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/7/67. Los Angeles _Examiner_ subhead:
BUSINESS COMMUNITY ATTACKS KING FOR "POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH"
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/9/67. Dallas _Morning News_ subhead:
SPRING MARCH ON WASHINGTON "SOCIALISTIC,"
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/17/67. Chicago _Tribune_ headline and subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/17/67. Miami _Herald_ headline and subhead:
CLERGYMEN ON WASHINGTON MARCH:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/18/67. Chicago _Sun-Times_ subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/18/67. Denver _Post-Dispatch_ headline and subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/20/6 7. Boston _Globe_ subhead:
KING CALLS FOR WAR PROTESTERS TO EMBRACE POOR PEOPLE'S MARCH
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/21/67. Sacramento _Bee_ subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/22/67. Los Angeles _Times_ subhead:
RFK, HUMPHREY PLAYING COY?
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/23/67. Kansas City _Star_ subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/28/67. Las Vegas _Sun_ headline and subhead:
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 1/4/68. Verbatim FBI telephone call transcript. (OPERATION BLACK RABBIT Addendum.) Marked: "Recorded at the Director's Request" / "Classified Confidential 1-A: Director's Eyes Only." Speaking: Director, BLUE RABBIT.
DIR: Good morning.
BR: Good morning, Sir.
DIR: RED RABBIT is misbehaving. He's being a very bad bunny.
BR: I've been reading the newspapers, Sir. I think he's stepped over the line.
DIR: He has, but not to the extent where he'll discredit himself finitely. He is immune to that form of censure. He is riding a wave of unjustified discontent that is bigger than any of us.