JFK, MLK Senator Kerry wants FBI data public

[Joseph Tracy]

For those who question the lone gunman story there is an article  
published on the Common Dreams  Website By Thom Hartman and Lamar  
Waldron that revisits some pretty interesting data about the M.L.  
King killing:
	"In 1979, a Congressional investigation headed by Rep. Louis Stokes  
"concluded that there were was a likelihood of conspiracy in the  
assassination of Dr. King" and that "the expectation of financial  
gain was [James Earl] Ray's primary motivation."  Yet the  
Congressional committee wasn't able to figure out who was putting up  
the money that motivated Ray, in part because of material withheld  
from the committee by the FBI and other agencies.  Some of those  
files withheld from Congress are available now online, through  
private organizations like the Mary Ferrell Foundation  
(maryferrell.org), though others have never been released.

One example is the case of Joseph Milteer, a white supremacist from  
the tiny south Georgia town of Quitman, who was affiliated with an  
unusually wide range of racists and racist groups, ranging from the  
Ku Klux Klan to the more respectable White Citizens Councils.   
Milteer also worked with violent white supremacist J. B. Stoner, who  
eventually became James Earl Ray's lawyer.

Rep. Stokes's committee investigated not only Dr. King's murder, but  
also that of President Kennedy, and they were given information tying  
Milteer to the assassination of JFK.  That's because Milteer was  
recorded on Miami Police informant tape on November 9, 1963--thirteen  
days before JFK was killed--describing "a plan to assassinate the  
President with a high-powered rifle from a tall building" and saying  
that authorities ‘will pick up somebody within hours afterwards."  
Milteer also talked on that tape about an associate's unsuccessful  
plot to assassinate King."

The article also touches on records about Mafiosi Carlos Marcello.

Apparently millions of files are still secret and unreleased despite  
US Congress's JFK act.


http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/04/05-1