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 organizedcrime 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 handier of FBI informants and long-term KKX mail-fraud operative. Our liaison to the WHITE-HATE arm of OPERATION BLACK BABBIT. 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 Set. 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 handier 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 antiKlan, 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 SCLC Offices.
10 – SCLC TRASH COVERS. The examination, logging evidentiary seizure of all garbage and discard material dumped in trash bins at all SCLC Offices.
11 – An anonymous letter, to be written from a Negro perspective and sent to RED RABBIT's home in Atlanta.
The letter will begin "King, look into your heart" and will recount what a "grim farce" the Nobel Peace Prize and RED RABBIT's other recent accolades are held to be within the mainstream Negro community. The letter will subtly urge RED RABBIT to commit suicide rather than risk further disfavor within the Negro community, and will include bug-tap excerpts, pertaining to RED RABBIT's promiscuity, to buttress your deliberate public statements and convince RED RABBIT that those statements are widely received and accepted by mainstream Negroes.
In closing:
Our bugs and wiretaps remain in place, although they are severely compromised. Per our last phone call, I agree with your assessment. OPERATION BLACK RABBIT must launch and sustain at Stage-i Covert status. RED RABBIT has reached an unbearably high level of public acceptance that only our most diligent and secretive efforts will be able to dislodge.
Respectfully,
D.C.H.
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/21/64. Pouch communiquй. To: John Stanton. From: Pete Bondurant. Marked: "Hand Pouch Deliver Only"/ "Destroy Upon Reading."
Wayne hit paydirt. We're on go for 1/9/65, after final distribution, I'm predicting a net profit of $320,000. That makes the kadre's profit nut (45%) about $150,000. Right now I'm working out the details, but the plan is unchanged.
Laurent, Chuck and Flash will purchase weapons on the rightwing circuit in Texas the south will funnel them to exiles on the Gulf. That's the essential plan, with one proviso.
We've both been the coastal harassment route, and running missions out of South Florida the Gulf got us nowhere. I think our exiles should take advantage of _being_ Cuban should conduit the weapons to anti-Castro groups inside Cuba. I'm emphatic about this.
What do you think? Please reply ASAF.
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 12/26/64. Pouch communiquй. To: Pete Bondurant. From John Stanton. Marked: "Hand Pouch Deliver Only"/ "Destroy Upon Reading."
I approve the general outline of your plan and agree that our ultimate goal should be to provide on-island dissidents with the weapons our net profits secure. That said, I should again point out that you're jumping the gun on the Cuban end of things. _Make no specific profit distribution plans until our in-country costs can be assessed, with all monies flagged for laundering through appropriate Agency fronts_. We do not want our Cuban "contributions" to be traceable back to our Las Vegas business.
To close:
The Saigon cleanup will be implemented soon. A Can Lao contingent will secure the area around Khanh Hoi, but I have been assured that the lab will not be touched. Have Tedrow secure the lab and be off the premises by the a.m. of 1/8/65.
Por la Causa,
_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 1/6/65. Body-wire transcript. Marked: "Route to: Director/Blue Rabbit/White Rabbit/Father Rabbit/Live Tape Destroyed/Read Burn."
Location: Washington, D.C. (Lafayette Park). Date: 1/4/65/0842 hrs. Speaking: CRUSADER RABBIT/PINK RABBIT.
CR (conversation in progress): What I (static/ambient noise) read in the press. Dr. King sounded encour-
PR (laughing): With Martin, nonviolence extends to the absence of invective (pause/2. 1 seconds). No, Hoover was rude and intractable. Martin said he was shaking.
CR: No progress, then?
PR: None. lle did not affirm or deny the existence of the bugs and the taps. (Static/2.8 seconds.) Didn't really press it. He's so goddamn Christlike at times.
CR: Dr. King was wise not to rile him.
PR: You're right, Ward. You have a hateful lunatic in his declining years and a hugely important figure in his ascent. You have to believe that people will see through to the gist of that.