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H2O Man

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4. Interesting.
Mon Jan 19, 2015, 04:06 PM
Jan 2015

Thanks for the link. I looked through it briefly, and will definitely be reading it much more closely later today.

As you know, James Douglass is completing a book on Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X and the Unspeakable. (For those less familiar, Douglass's book on JFK and the Unspeakable is a "must read." He started the Martin & Malcolm book, but got sidetracked, briefly, and did the second of the series, on Gandhi and the Unspeakable. It, too, is an essential read.)

Call it "speculation" on my part, but I believe that Douglass will include documentation on the nature of the coordinated efforts of Hoover's FBI and army intelligence -- and not only in Memphis, where the public learned a bit about this from the Congressional investigation, but as an on-going part of a larger program of domestic interest.

The same concept applied to Malcolm. I suppose most people understood that the NOI could not have blocked Malcolm's entry to France. Douglass's research documents some of the connections -- so much so, that it can't be called "speculation."

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