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Conversation with Don Freed – Teri= 9/22/78
a) told him that if he ever needed a favor that JJ would move heaven and earth to see that it was gotten done and he was appreciative.
b) Told him how Mark [Lane] did the press conference in G/town and how it went – he was interested in the details.
c) he said that an idea of a press conference was good but before it got to a press conference with all the press that he would advise holding a mini conference on the sly with some of the sympathetic press and that then they should have their stories ready to be released when the real conference took place so that something good would be ready at that time.
d) in answer to the question about inviting the National Enquirer – he said fine however – only do so after having this mini conference beforehand.
e) as for his opinion on inviting Huey [Newton] – he said no problem but then again stressed the need to have the mini conference first.
f) asked him if we could run his article (speech) in our paper and he said that that would be fine – no problem.
Don Freed: continued: with Jean [Brown] earlier:
Don told Jean that the National Enquirer was ready to go with a story on us – long and hard – Don said that he tried to intrigue them into holding off until they could meet with Mark face to face. Don feels that he gave an heroic rhetorical – that may have stopped them.
He said that he had gotten to April [Ferguson] to get the notices on New West and National Enquirer sent. Don said that he would try to get a man who works with the National Enquirer who is friendly (Hal Jacks) to get onto this story too.
Don also made an appointment for him and [Jim] McElvane to talk at a Unitarian Church Sunday the first.
(Don mentioned that when he had the press conference that we should have kind of a town meeting and have a couple of thousand of people show up and really throw it all at them and thereby get a lot of publicity.)
Freed also agreed to talk on Lynn Hodges show sometime.
CONVERSATION WITH APRIL FURGERSON [Ferguson]: Teri 9/22/78
She called regarding Mark’s schedule – wanting to know when he would be coming into Memphis. She also said that she would send us copies of the telegrams that she sent to New West and the National Inquirer. Friendly – not much else said. Brief conversation. (she mentioned that Mark was having some trouble with getting a plane to London so that he was coming direct to Baltimore)
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Commentary On Don Freed’s Talk
Don Freed has been investigating the murders of Martin Luther King and John and Bobby Kennedy, and Malcolm X. He says they are all connected and that it is important to crack them to expose the “invisible governments” structure. The invisible government is that undercover spying system that controls the lives of Americans. He says that Americans are unconsciously aware of this invasion of democracy and Freed feels that it is important to bring it all to conscious level so that people can make their own decisions. He says it is time to change this “nervous disease called America that has come to rule thru the bullet not the ballot.” He goes on to say that equally important is the people’s right and need to know. The Ancient Greeks consider this need to know necessary for the survival of man, in science, politics and psychology. That is if man is to continue, he must know, the truth in all these areas. He also said that many people are afraid to know. He says people are caught between the fear to know and the need to know. However to live in fear amidst lies drives people crazy. America has become a madhouse. He says that a few people clung to the truth and remained sane. He says courage is the ability to face the truth and make decisions and that Jim clung to the truth bravely and remained sane. Martin Luther King said “The truth crushed to the earth shall rise again.” He chose to speak on the King murder because he and Mark Lane are currently working on the [James Earl] Ray case and because it is necessary to crack the ancient American practice of pitting poor rednecks against poor blacks. He says King would have seen Jonestown as the next step and would have urged more people to build Jonestowns, also that Jonestown is an example to Americans that sanity is still possible.
There are many victims of these conspiracies. One of them is Grace Walden who lived in a Memphis flophouse with a drunk named Charlie Stevens. On April 4, 1968 she heard a shot and ran out to see a man coming out of the communal bathroom. She recognized the shot because her dad had been a hunter. Based on her description the police issued a bulletin. When Ray was picked up by Scotland Yard in London, it was on information supplied by the Royal Canadian mounted police not American law enforcement. When the FBI came to her for her signature on the extradition orders, she asked to see a picture. They showed her. She said, “That’s not the man. I told you the man I saw was in his late 50’s, he was 5’3″ or 5’4″ and quite dark complected.” At that time Ray was 39, he was 5’11” and light complected. They said, “Just sign it. We’re sure this is the man and if you sign it you’ll receive $100,000 reward money offered by the Memphis papers. She said, “I wouldn’t lie for nothing and I won’t lie for $100,000.” She refused to sign. They said, “If you don’t sign or if you ever testify at the trial you’ll be in a lot of trouble.” For the first time in the history of Memphis, two officers from homicide picked Ms. Walden up at home and took her to the mental ward of the John Gaston Hospital where she was chained at the wrists, waist, and ankles to other people. They stood in the rain. She stood before a judge for 2 1/2 minutes who committed her to the state mental hospital where she stayed for 10 years until rescued by Lane, Freed and civil rights leaders. She is now in California. Charlie Stevens was offered the $100,000 reward to sign. He signed and testified against Ray. He never got the $100,000 and may testify for Lane and Freed before the investigating committee. Ray was convicted,
The FBI had Martin Luther King in an electronic cage. His home, his office, all his friends and their friends were bugged and or followed. As many as 50 agents at a time worked on the King case. Everywhere he went, the FBI went. However when King was killed there was no security on King. How was this possible? Two hours before King’s death the Black warrant officer who had been guarding King was transferred. He was removed by Frank Holloman, director of Fire and Place. He also transferred the only two black firemen at the fire stations across from the
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Lorraine Hotel where King was shot. Holloman was appointed just before the strike and resigned just after. For 25 years he had been an FBI informer, for eight years he worked closely with J. Edgar Hoover. He was a John Bircher. On March 28 the garbage workers strike turned violent. Rev. James Lawson rushed King away from the scene to the Holiday Inn in Rivermount. Rev. Lawson thinks that they had intended to assassinate King that day. The violence was begun by some young Blacks who called themselves “The Invaders”. They worked for the FBI, they were agent provocateurs. The leader was a man named McCullough. He’s the unnamed Black man who stood over King when he was shot. He’s the man who pointed off towards a window. Jessie Jackson and others, reacting to him, pointed in the same direction. McCullough worked for both the Memphis police and the FBI. He was armed the day King was shot and he had a rifle in his car. Later he went on to work for other governmental agencies. King would not leave the city with a violent strike. He intended to lead a non-violent march. The police had used mace for the first time on an American city. A Black man was killed. While King waited in the Holiday Inn the FBI machine continued to chum. Senate Majority whip, Robert Byrd spoke on the floor saying, “Martin Luther King leaves a trail of violence wherever he goes. Now he’s going to bring his poor people to Washington with Pigs and chickens, while he himself the Black Messiah conducts a lay-in in a posh Washington Hotel”. Byrd was using FBI code words. They referred to King as the Black Messiah, the “lay-in” refers to the FBI sex-pionage and the “posh hotel” refers to the Holiday Inn. The FBI unanimously [anonymously] gave the papers this message, “Do as I say and not as I do says King. King comes to Memphis to boycott white businesses and yet he stays at the Holiday Inn. Why can’t he stay at a decent Negro hotel like the Lorraine?” and so the scene of the murder was set. He moved to the Lorraine, with no interior corridor and was killed on the terrace. Hoover put King in that shooting gallery. The FBI had tried to whitemail King with phoney sex films. They had paid a Black actor and two white prostitutes to make a film. It was done in dim light, thru “a dirty window”. It was supposed to be King. The FBI sent a copy of the film to King. He and his wife watched the films and knew they were from the FBI. The FBI had tried to set him up before. Once when he went to a secluded place to write. The FBI had suspected a sexual retreat. They sent the fire department and the press after him only to find him writing. Another time King had visited Rev. Lawson. The FBI expected him to spend the night. Two white women came to the door and said they had a flat tire and asked to spend the night.
The FBI spent $7.5 million dollars to try and destroy King’s character. At one point King is reported to have said, “I’m not going to take it anymore. I’m going to rent time on national t.v. and say I’m just a human being, but what has that to do with justice?” But for all their efforts they could not stop him. In his last days he tackled Imperialism. He had begun to demand economic justice, far beyond civil rights, far beyond integrating lunch counters. He was going to take a million people into Washington and make the people decide on how they were going to spend their tax dollars on war or social welfare. The FBI called it a pre-revolutionary situation. King-was prepared to die. The FBI threats were in his consciousness. He said in his last days, “I would like, to live. Longevity has its purpose. I have seen the mountain top. I may not go with you.” He had also said, “Unless a major change takes place in society we will be marching in marches without end (as if he could see the future) Angola, Rhodesia, S. Africa, Mozambique and Guatemala.” He was appealing to the people. The FBI said, “King is the most dangerous Negro in America. He must be treated like [Soviet leader Nikita] Khrushchev.” This is why King was killed.” Freed said if King had seen Jonestown he would have seen that out of the unconscious of the damned they could hack out of the wilderness a new city of man.
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The Dept. Attorney General ordered the Justice Department to check on claims by ex-CIA agent Gary Thomas Rose that the FBI covered up his murder of a Black man while being an undercover agent for the FBI in the KKK in Alabama. FBI says there is no evidence to support Rose’s charge. Rose has also been investigated for involvement in the murder of a Michigan civil rights activist and the bombing of a Black Baptist church that killed 4 black girls (classmates of Angela Davis). There is not much chance of a conviction.
The Sandista [Sandinista] Liberation Front in Nicaragua took over a Parliament Building in the capital. They hold Samoza’s (dictator of Nicaragua for the last 44 years with U.S. backing) son and another relative, plus many legislators. The city is in a state of siege. The government may fall. The guerillas are asking for $44 million and free passage for 200 political prisoners. (Sandista was a liberation leader in Nicaragua from the 1930’s that was murdered for leading a people’s revolution).
There was a major earthquake in Costa Rica. Thousands pour into the cities.
Kenyatta, President of Kenya died. The country will be in a state of mourning for one month.
South Africans attack Northern Namibia. Zambia is aiding Namibia.
Chinese Chairman We called for an alliance among socialist countries, particularly the non-aligned countries, during his visit to Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Dr. [Ptolemy] Reid, Deputy Prime Minister of Guyana says that the world needs radical change towards socialism to prevent starvation. He said we must not forget that every 4 seconds a child, man or woman dies of starvation.
Buffalo, New York NAACP spokesman says, “We are fighting for our lives in Buffalo. The police are getting away with beating and killing people”. The Research for Justice Commission reports similar findings throughout the country.
Amnesty International verifies Young’s statement on the existence of political prisoners in the U.S.
Brezhnev is meeting with Czechoslovakian officials in Crimea. They said that NATO decision to step up the arms race is moving the world towards war and they criticized the U.S. for hypocrisy in their human rights attacks.
A shipment of hardline drugs from Columbia to the U.S. was stopped.
McGovern’s appeal to Carter to liberate the Nationalistic government in Kampuchea who have killed 1/3 of their people was turned down. The U.S. and China are allies.
Iraq was liberated from their King on Aug. 14, 1958. Later that month they opened relations with the Soviet Union. The national Progressive Front re-organized the life of the people. Medical care is almost free. In 1970 laws changed the feudal form of land distribution. The State owns most of the industries (oil, ore mining, construction). The Soviets have improved the irrigation system and have begun over 100 projects 47 of which are already in operation. Yesterday’s peasants are being trained by Soviet experts. Thousands of Iraqi students are studying [in] the U.S. Iraq
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Ray is a small time crook, a redneck, a man with his own set of codes… don’t inform. When asked if he was a racist, he said, “I expect most people black and white are out for themselves.” He’s worked and lived with Blacks all his life. During his trial he’ll be sitting with Black civil rights leader in a case that will attempt to overcome the racial division provoked by the ruling class.
Huey Newton will stand trial on Aug. 21 on assault charges. He’s accused of beating up his tailor, Preston Collins who has dropped charges, but the police are trying him anyway. The NBC article said that just days before, he had cruelly killed a young 17 year old girl (the press is not supposed to try people in the papers. It is a violation of the constitutional right to a fair trial, but it is being ignored). They cited the New Times smear article. Judge Kesey dropped the Seacliff assault charge against Newton, saying the “victim” was equally guilty in the fight. Charges for carrying a firearm as an ex-felon because the two years he spent in jail were dismissed from his record on a technicality. However, his bodyguard is in jail on a $10,000 bail for possession of a firearm as an ex-felon.
The Grand Jury toured the Santa Rita Prison and called it “grossly inadequate”. They ordered a new prison built. Once Santa Rita was a model prison but it has become so bad that the jury says even the best administrators couldn’t make it better. Santa Rita has a reputation for rapes and beatings being common. The jury came upon a man who had hung himself. He was in jail for 15 days for a traffic violation.
Johnny Spain of the San Quentin 6 is hopeful of overturning his conviction, said Velma Davis in a KQED interview. Ms. Davis smeared Cuba and also harassed us in S.F.
Brazil lost 1/3 of her coffee crop due to an early frost. She will have to use her stockpile. The cost of coffee in the U.S. will rise to as high as $8.00 a pound.
The U.S. will be selling 750,000 ounces of gold, bringing in $180 million a month. This is an attempt to balance the dollar.
A 50 ton, very advanced U.S. spy satellite fell into Soviet hands.
Carter is on a rugged camping trip in Idaho.
American polls show that 36% feel that Nixon was an excellent president, while only 25% will even rate Carter as a good president.
International Harvester businessman faces 8 years for currency fraud on the “whitemarket”.
NBC says Nixon lost only once and that was due to election fraud. They say the liberals hold a grudge against him because he bested Rockefeller and because he jailed Lefties like Alger Hiss.
Three members of the Bade Meyerhof [Baader Meinhof] landed a helicopter in a trial run of a prison break. They eluded W. German police in a Mercedes-Benz. They have successfully broken 3 jails.
Several Cleveland City Council members are under indictment for corruption.
Guyana condemns the U.S. for manipulating the sugar market to try and destablilize Guyana and says it won’t work.
[first line of item cut off] calls for the complete ad elimination of Israel. She is strongly pro-Arab. The Soviet Union says this is foolish and will bring on nuclear war. The Freedom of Information Act revealed that the CIA knows Israel has the bomb.
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1. When was Jim in Guyana both times within the last years.
2. When did he go first part of 1977?
3. When was Jim last in L.A.? Was he in L.A. in Feb., 1977?
4. Find out from Jackson Travel when Marcie and Sandy went to L.A. the two last times?
5. Close of escrow on Medlock property? August/September 1977
6. Date of New York Times article and interview with Marcie? 9/2/777.
7. What were the dates of Marcie’s trips to Guyana, back to S.F., and back to Guyana?
8. What was the exact date of Chris Lewis’ death?
9. What was the date of the meeting in which Kay Nelson, Mabel Medlock and A.J. got signatures on the deeds? Who was the third party with A.J. and Kay?
10. When did the meeting occur with the whole group there, including Neil?
11. When did they finally sign the property over?
12. Where was Neil when the final transaction took place?