The Cold Six Thousand - James Ellroy [143]
Sir,
Per our phone conversation:
I agree. In light of your recent meeting with SUBJECT KING, you should suspend all public attacks and derogatory references to him, which should serve to deepen the cover needed to mount the SCLC and WHITE-HATE arms of OPERATION BLACK RABBIT. I agree further that no memorandums should be filed by any participant and/or circulant, that a strict read-and-burn policy should be observed and that all telephone communiqués should be patched through Bureau scramblers.
Per said participants/targets and our stated objectives:
1 - BLUE RABBIT (the undersigned/SA D. C. Holly). To oversee and coordinate both operational arms and direct the activities of:
2 - WHITE RABBIT (Lyle D. Holly). Our plant within SCLC. Conduit for data pertaining to SCLC policy and exploitable personal data on TARGETS KING and RUSTIN.
3 - CRUSADER RABBIT (Ward J. Littell). Cosmetically vouched civil-rights sympathizer. Has donated $180,000 in cosmetically proffered organized-crime funds, allegedly pilfered from organized-crime sources. Our plant, charged to tape and extract incriminating, embarrassing and compromising data from TARGET RUSTIN.
4 - FATHER RABBIT (Wayne Tedrow Senior). Conservative pamphleteer, covert handler of FBI informants and long-term KKK mail-fraud operative. Our liaison to the WHITE-HATE arm of OPERATION BLACK RABBIT. Liaison to our newly recruited Klan runner. Charged to provide said runner with lists of his hate pamphlet subscribers, including those within the Oklahoma & Missouri state prison systems, and to aid said runner in his Klan recruiting.
5 - WILD RABBIT (U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Bob D. Relyea). Said Klan runner, currently on duty with Military Police Battalion 618 in Saigon, Vietnam, and on loan-out to (Stage-1 Covert) CIA operation in Laos. (Note: Sgt. Relyea refuses to reveal the details of his current assignment and will not divulge the names of his CIA handler or ops colleagues. I did not pursue this inquiry. Sgt. Relyea is observing Stage-1 sanctions and secrecy waivers, and this speaks well of his ability to honor such.)
Sgt. Relyea is an experienced hate pamphleteer and a former Missouri State prison guard with pre-existing segregationist contacts throughout the midwest and south. He continues to mail hate pamphlets of his own design throughout the Missouri prison system. Sgt. Relyea will be discharged from the Army 5/65 and will terminate his CIA ops at that time. We can expect him to begin work on OPERATION BLACK RABBIT in early 6/65.
Per targets RED RABBIT (Martin Luther King) and PINK RABBIT (Bayard Rustin) and our objectives.
Said objectives:
1 - To discredit RED RABBIT and PINK RABBIT and undermine their subversively socialistic designs.
2 - Via the accumulating and disseminating of incriminating and/or embarrassing data pertaining to their Communist associations, hypocritical moral behavior and sexual degeneracy.
3 - To precisely orchestrate the release of said data, in order to reveal the socialistic underpinnings of the entire civil-rights movement.
4 - To create distrust within the civil-rights movement.
5 - To engender distrust and resentment against RED RABBIT within the Negro community and undercut the recent non-Negro cache that RED RABBIT has engineered.
6 - To reveal the Socialist-Communist designs of RED RABBIT, the SCLC and the civil-rights movement and influence an effective political backlash.
7 - To assail RED RABBIT’s obviously disturbed and deteriorated psyche with an anonymous mail campaign.
8 - To implement the WHITE-HATE arm of OPERATION BLACK RABBIT concurrent with 1-7, in order to buttress the FBI’s anti-Klan, anti-racist credentials and rebuff anti-FBI sentiment disseminated by civil-rights provocateurs and members of the liberal-socialist press.
In addition, I urge:
9- SCLC MAIL COVERS. The intercepting, reading, logging and resending of all U.S. and foreign mail sent to the main and regional