From: Brad Pierce <pierce@CS.UCLA.EDU>
Subject: CAIB: The Murder of Martin Luther King Jr. (3/3)
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Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1992 08:15:33 GMT

The CIA and False Identities

It is not disputed that the CIA took a very active interest in 
Martin Luther King Jr. Documents released under the Freedom of 
Information Act reveal an extensive and ongoing CIA scrutiny of 
the thoughts, actions, and associates of the civil rights leader 
throughout the 1960s. One of those reporting back to the CIA was 
Jay R. Kennedy, a writer and broadcaster prominent in the civil 
rights movement. Kennedy fervently believed that King's 
opposition to the war in Vietnam was orchestrated by Peking-line 
communist agents.

There are other compelling questions about the complicity of the 
CIA in the King assassination. For example, although James Earl 
Ray never visited Toronto before April 1968, he used four 
identities belonging to individuals living within a few miles of 
each other in that city. Each of the four bears a rough physical 
resemblance to Ray. Of these the most elaborate alias was that of 
Eric Galt, a name Ray used extensively through the period before 
the assassination. Only on April 4th, the day of the 
assassination, did he abandon Galt's name and begin to use the 
other three. [30. Interview with Ray, {op. cit.}, n. 9.]

The Galt alias was not merely the result of a fraudulently 
obtained birth certificate - it was the wholesale usurping of the 
real Eric Galt's history and physical identity. Evidence shows 
that James Earl Ray had travelled in the same U.S. cities as the 
Canadian Eric Galt, had access to Galt's signature, and even 
inquired into emigrating to southern Africa - a place where Eric 
Galt had relatives. [31. See William Bradford Huie, {He Slew the 
Dragon} (New York: Delacorte Press, 1970).] Moreover Ray has 
scars on his forehead and his hand, as does the real Eric Galt. 
Two months before the assassination Ray had plastic surgery on 
his nose. Galt revealed that he, too, had had plastic surgery on 
his nose.

Eric Galt is, moreover, an expert marksman.

The question arises: How could Ray or his co-conspirators acquire 
such a detailed profile of this alter ego? According to Eric 
Galt, there is only one place where all the pertinent information 
is collected together - his highly classified security clearance 
file in the Union Carbide factory in Toronto, where, in the mid-
1960s, he was working on a top secret U.S. defense project. [32. 
Interview with Eric Galt, Toronto Canada, June 1989.]

Fletcher Prouty, a former Pentagon colonel and author of "The 
Secret Team," was responsible for providing military support for 
CIA covert operations in the early 1960s. Prouty finds these 
revelations highly significant: [33. Interview with Fletcher 
Prouty, Alexandria, Va, June 1989.] "The Royal Canadian Mounted 
Police (RCMP) [which at that time included the Canadian 
equivalent of the CIA] would have compiled this file and besides 
them and Union Carbide, the only people with access to it would 
have been U.S. intelligence."

The question of how Ray came to acquire these identities provided 
the original link to Jules Ron Kimble, the man who has confessed 
to us that he aided Ray in the assassination.


Who is Raoul?

Ray claims that the mysterious "Raoul" hired him to carry out 
assignments in Montreal in late July 1967. This sparked an 
interest in {Toronto Star} reporter Andre Salwyn, who sought 
corroboration to this claim after Ray's arrest. Salwyn conducted 
an exhaustive search of the neighborhood in which Ray had 
allegedly been seen drinking with an American stranger. He found 
that there had indeed been a man with similar characteristics to 
Ray's description of Raoul living there at different times during 
the previous year. He was known as Jules "Ricco" Kimble and was 
said by his girlfriend to have had a car with rifles in the trunk 
and a radio tuned into the police band. Salwyn checked phone 
records and discovered that Kimble regularly contacted numbers in 
New Orleans. [34. Salwyn testified before the House Select 
Committee on Assassinations; see also, Melanson, {op. cit.}, n. 
4, p. 44.]

But the phone numbers disappeared, and Salwyn was never allowed 
to pursue the story. The HSCA did manage to come across Kimble 
ten years later and they investigated. They  found an FBI file on 
him; and a CIA file; and an RCMP file.

Joe Oster, a Louisiana state investigator, conducted extensive 
surveillance of Kimble in 1967, and claims that there is a week 
in July 1967 when nobody can account for Kimble's whereabouts. 
[35. {Op. cit.}, n. 6.] This is the period in which Ray claims to 
have met "Raoul" in Montreal.

When interviewed in 1967, Kimble claimed to have been a low-level 
CIA courier and pilot. [36. Statement to Garrison, {op. cit.}, n. 
7.] When we talked to him from prison, Kimble confirmed that he 
had worked for the CIA as well as organized crime and also made 
the following allegations: [37. {Op. cit.}, n. 1.]

+ He claims that the HSCA did know all about his role in the 
assassination (more even than he could remember), producing 
documents, photographs, and files which proved his association 
with James Earl Ray, an association he then admitted. However, 
all files relating to the HSCA investigation have been sealed for 
50 years.

+ Kimble also stated that on the orders of a Louisiana FBI agent, 
he flew James Earl Ray from Atlanta to Montreal in July 1967 
where Ray was provided with an identities package by a CIA 
specialist in Mont Royal, Montreal. An ex-CIA agent with 
knowledge of Agency operations in Canada in the 1960s recently 
confirmed in an off-the-record interview that there was an Agency 
"asset" specializing in "identities" in Montreal in 1967. His 
name was Raoul Maora.

+ Kimble said that he then accompanied Ray to a CIA training camp 
in Three Rivers, Canada where Ray was taught to shoot. It was 
there that the two men were seen together by Kimble's former 
girlfriend.

+ At the same time, an assassination team was assembled to kill 
King. Kimble claims that he flew two snipers into Memphis using a 
West Memphis airfield belonging to a CIA front company. He said 
that the only involvement that Ray had in the assassination was 
to serve as a decoy.

+ Finally, Jules Kimble stated that elements of the Memphis 
Police Department did cooperate in the assassination but that the 
actual operation was coordinated by a high-ranking intelligence 
official based in Atlanta.

What is the validity of Kimble's assertions? The evidence 
presented here, and the many questions it raises, suggests one 
thing: Those responsible for the murder of Martin Luther King Jr. 
have yet to be caught and convicted of this political 
assassination. There is strong evidence that shows agents within 
the U.S. intelligence apparatus could have played a major role in 
King's murder. If that is the case, then the U.S. government 
could be guilty of not only covering up details of the 
assassination, but of the murder itself. The only way to answer 
these questions is through a complete and thorough investigation. 
The documents from the HSCA should be unsealed and a new probe 
begun. It is long past time for that to happen.

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