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_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 a
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 Ke
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 Ke
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 bu
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.
BR: Yes, Sir.
DIR: Lyndon Johnson is furious. He despises himself for the way he's coddled RED RABBIT. He knows that this wave of silly discord is partially of his manufacture.
BR: Yes, Sir.
DIR: I've planted a Negro within the SCLC. My former chauffeur, no less.
BR: Yes, Sir.
DIR: He's a sensible Negro. He despises Communists more than the white power structure.
BR: Yes, Sir.
DIR: He tells me the SCLC is in a state of great disarray. They are attempting to recruit an army of the wretched to compete with Ha
BR: Yes, Sir.
DIR: They will storm our nation's capital. They will urinate and fornicate with abandon.
BR: Yes, Sir.
DIR: This display of pique will be a catastrophic disaster. It will encourage the unruly and criminally prone and give them an unprecedented license. The ramifications will be severe and nihilistically defined.
BR: Yes, Sir.
DIR: I am at my wits' end, Dwight. I do not know what more I can do.