                               Chapter 6
                The Assassinations of Robert Kennedy and
                       Dr. Martin Luther King and
                 Lyndon B. Johnson's Withdrawal in 1968

The Power Control Group faced several dangers in 1968.  While  President
Johnson had cooperated fully with their desires in Viet Nam and in other
parts  of the world, he had not met their requirements in  other  areas.
He had gone too far in appeasing the blacks and had shown some signs  of
giving in to the young people in America in early 1968.  Through threats
to expose his role in covering up the truth about the JFK  assassination
or  personal threats to the safety of his family, the Group  forced  his
withdrawal  from the 1968 election race.  Their plan now was to  install
Richard Nixon as president at all costs.

Robert  Kennedy and Dr. King posed real threats to this plan.  Dr.  King
was  beginning a movement in the direction of a coalition with Malcom  X
followers and other black militant groups.  He was speaking out  against
the  Viet Nam war.  His influence might help defeat Nixon at the  polls.
So  the Power Control Group created an environment in which he could  be
assassinated by his arch enemies.

The FBI and J. Edgar Hoover had become a vital part of the Power Control
Group  by 1968.  Hoover had no love for King and was harrassing  him  in
several ways.  The Power Control Group undoubtedly let Hoover know  that
it  wouldn't  be  a  bad idea to have King out of  the  way  before  the
election campaigns really warmed up.  They also passed the word along to
some  of  the groups who were out to murder King that  the  crime  would
probably not be stopped.  Fletcher Prouty has described this approach in
some  detail.[1]  The net result of these actions was the  assassination
of  Dr. King by a group of wealthy white bigots who employed two of  the
intelligence  community's  own  expert assassins.   One  of  these  men,
Frenchy,  had  fired shots at JFK.  The other, Jack  Youngblood,  was  a
soldier  of fortune and CIA contract killer.  They recruited James  Earl
Ray and set him up as a patsy.

The FBI removed King's protection in Memphis and after the assassination
they  took the case out of the hands of the local police to control  and
suppress  the evidence of conspiracy.  Hoover did not know  exactly  who
was going to assassinate King or where.  He did not know in advance  who
the  patsy was supposed to be.  The best evidence in support of this  is
that  from April to June 1968 the identity of the patsy was  a  mystery,
first unidentified, then identified as Eric Starvo Galt, then as Raymond
Sneyd,  and  finally as James Earl Ray.  If Hoover had been  in  on  the
plan, Ray's identity would probably have been revealed immediately.   In
fact,  the  scenario might have been similar to the JFK case,  with  Ray
being killed in a shoot-out.

After Ray was identified and arrested in London, Hoover and the  Justice
Department had to manufacture some evidence to get Ray back to the  U.S.
They  had  no qualms about bribing one witness, Charlie Stevens,  to  do
this.   They  forced  him to say he had seen Ray.  Then  a  new  problem
arose.  Ray began telling the truth to his lawyer and a writer,  William
Bradford  Huie.  He almost revealed Frenchy's true identity.  The  Power
Control  Group, led by J. Edgar Hoover, solved this problem  by  getting
rid of Ray's lawyer, Arthur Hanes, and they hired Percy Foreman to  keep
Ray quiet.  They also were forced to pay off or frighten off author Huie
who  had by then become convinced Ray was telling him the  truth.   Huie
had found several witnesses who had seen Ray and Frenchy together.

The  group  got  Foreman to talk Ray into pleading guilty  and  Huie  to
retract  his conspiracy talk and publish an article and a book  claiming
Ray  was the lone assassin.  Ever since Ray was put away for  99  years,
the  FBI and the Power Control Group have been hard at work covering  up
the  truth, bribing or influencing judges who have heard  Ray's  appeals
for  a trial, publishing disinformation like Gerold Franck's  book,  "An
American  Assassin," suppressing evidence, and placing key witnesses  in
psychiatric wards.  It is still going on.  They have killed at least one
reporter--Louis  Lomax--who  was getting too close to  the  truth.   The
local  D.A.,  Phil Canale, was brought into the  conspiracy  along  with
Percy  Foreman,  Judge Battle, Fred Vinson (who  extradited  Ray,  using
Stevens'  false  affidavit), and local authorities who  committed  Grace
Walden Stevens to a mental institution because she knew Charlie had been
dead drunk and saw nothing.

The  mechanics  of  the assassination are as  follows:   Youngblood  and
Frenchy recruited Ray in Montreal for smuggling drugs into the U.S. from
Mexico and Canada.  They recruited him in the assassination plan in such
a way as to make him believe they were smuggling guns to Cuba.

Frenchy  (Ray  knew  him as Raoul) set up Ray as  a  patsy  by  planting
evidence  with  Ray's  prints  on it near the  fake  firing  point.   He
persuaded  Ray to rent a room opposite Dr. King's motel, to buy a  rifle
with telescopic sight, and a white Mustang, and park the Mustang outside
the rooming house to wait for Frenchy to come out.  Youngblood stationed
himself  on a grassy knoll beneath the rooming house where  Frenchy  was
located.  When King came out on his balcony, Youngblood killed him  with
one  shot  fired  at  an  upward angle.   Frenchy  ran  from  his  perch
overlooking  King's  balcony.   He  made  plenty  of  noise  to  attract
attention, and dropped a bag full of items with Ray's prints on them  in
front of an amusement parlor next door to the rooming house.

Frenchy  must have had some anxious moments then because Ray had  driven
the Mustang to a gas station a few blocks away to have a low tire pumped
up.   Three witnesses remember his being there.  When Ray returned,  not
yet knowing what had happened, Frenchy told him to drive away toward the
edge  of town where Frenchy got out of the back seat.  Ray drove  on  to
Atlanta with the intention of meeting Frenchy there.

Meanwhile,  Youngblood mingled with the crowd under King's  balcony  and
then  faded  away.  A false trail was created by another member  of  the
team  who drove away in a second white Mustang and then created  a  fake
auto  chase  on the police band radio.  Youngblood was tracked  down  by
various reporters in early 1976 and began negotiating to tell his  story
for  a  very high price.  Meanwhile, judge after judge and  court  after
court  keep turning down Bernard Fensterwald and James Cesar, Ray's  new
lawyers, who appealed for a new trial.

All  of  the information above has been reported with  factual  evidence
backing it up in several articles, one book, and at Ray's legal  hearing
for a new trial in Memphis in 1975.[2]

After  Dr.  King was eliminated, the Power Control Group  faced  a  much
greater  threat.   Robert Kennedy began his quest  for  the  presidency.
There was little doubt in the minds of anyone in the Group that  Kennedy
would be nominated as Democratic candidate at the convention, and  would
have  a  very good chance of defeating Richard Nixon.  This would  be  a
near  certainty  if  Eugene McCarthy decided to  drop  out  and  support
Senator  Kennedy.   Robert Kennedy represented a double  threat  to  the
Group in that he would undoubtedly expose them after becoming  president
and seize control.

The  plan  they adopted was again to create an environment in  which  it
would  be easy for an enemy like the Minutemen or the Mafia  or  certain
local hate groups in California to assassinate RFK and get away with  it
by  setting  up another patsy.  Available at the time was  a  CIA  agent
planted inside the Los Angeles police department.  Strong influence  was
brought  to  bear on chief of police, Ed Davis, to remove  all  official
protection  for Senator Kennedy in the Ambassador  Hotel.   Arrangements
were made for the Ace Guard Service to supply three extreme right  wing,
militant  guards  at the hotel to guard the Senator  after  his  victory
speech.  One of these was Thane Eugene Cesar, a known Kennedy hater  and
friend of a group of Southern California Minutemen.  He was also  almost
certainly  a CIA contract agent or "blind" assassin.  At the  same  time
another  group was recruited to hypnotize Sirhan Sirhan and  to  program
him for firing some shots in Robert Kennedy's direction.  Two hypnotists
and at least three other people were involved in the framing of Sirhan.

Cesar  killed Robert Kennedy from behind while Sirhan was  firing  under
hypnosis from in front of the Senator.  His programmed signal was  given
by a girl in a polka dot dress and another young Arabic man with them in
the pantry.

After  the  crime,  the FBI, the CIA agent (Manny  Pena),  the  District
Attorney's office (Evelle Younger and Joseph Busch) and the Los  Angeles
Police  Department (Ed Davis, Robert Houghton and others),  knowing  the
truth,  all teamed up to suppress all other evidence except  that  which
was aimed at framing Sirhan.  The Power Control Group has since  wielded
its influence to keep the RFK case under wraps.  They pushed legislation
through  the California legislature to lock up the evidence.   They  put
Thomas  Noguchi, the L.A. County Coroner who wouldn't keep  quiet  about
the autopsy evidence which proved conspiracy, in an insane asylum.  They
arranged  for the FBI report on the assassination to be  classified  and
locked up.  They killed at least one person who knew what had  happened.
They  controlled the media on the subject, especially the  "Los  Angeles
Times"  through  its  owner,  Norman Chandler,  and  his  friend  Evelle
Younger, who became California State Attorney General.

After Al Lowenstein, Jerry Brown, Paul Schrade, Vincent Bugliosi, Robert
Vaughn,  Tom  Bradley and others began to try to expose the  truth,  the
Group  fought back by setting up their own expert ballistics  panel  and
buying  or frightening them into distorting the evidence  proving  there
were  two  guns fired.  The Group is certainly not  through  yet.   More
planted  disinformation can be expected and more bribing of  judges  and
expert  witnesses.   There may be more killings.  Cesar's life  and  the
lives  of  the  two hypnotists won't be worth much if  they  ever  start
talking.[3]
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[1]  "The  Fourth Force" -- L. Fletcher Prouty -- "Gallery Magazine"  --
     December, 1975

[2]  "Frame  Up:  The Martin Luther King/James Earl Ray Case" --  Harold
     Weisberg -- E.P. Dutton -- 1971

     "The  Assassination  of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr."  --  R.E.
     Sprague -- "Computers & Automation," December 1970

     "The Assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. --  Parts  I
     to  II"  -- Wayne Chastain -- "Computers  &  Automation,"  December
     1974.

[3]  Most  of  the above information has been published in a  series  of
     articles and in two books and one movie.

     "The Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy" -- R.E. Sprague --
     "Computers & Automation" -- September 1972 and October 1970

     "RFK Must Die" -- Robert Blair Kaiser -- 1970

     "The  Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, A Searching Look  at  the
     Conspiracy  and  Cover-Up  1968-1978" -- William  Turner  and  John
     Christian -- 1978

     "The  Second Gun" --  Documentary Movie -- Ted Charach --  American
     Films -- Beverly Hills

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