CLICK HERE TO GO TO THE INTERNET ARCHIVE PAGE CONTAINING THE FILE

The FBI’s Freedom of Information Act office elected not to post the entire file to its website; instead, they’ve posted only the first 201 pages here.

For a long time, if you wanted to view the whole thing, you had to pay the FBI FOIA office over $1,600 (10 cents/page) to get a paper copy, which isn’t a very convenient format for a huge file, or you had to go to a library that had it on microform, or you could view it in the reading room at FBI HQ in Washington, DC. Now you can get it online in PDF format. The FBI has divided MLK’s file into 121 sections, and they’ve made an Acrobat file for each section. But as mentioned above, they’ve posted only the first two sections to their site. The Memory Hole has put all 121 PDF files into a dozen zip files and posted them here.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/2008/09/fbi_mlk_file/

Wish they had a little more depth to ‘em, though. *g*

Ike had 8 full years to work to bring the Pentagon under his thumb, and had the enormous public support to probably make some good progress in that direction. But what did he do all that time? Mostly left his major FP decisions to his Sec’y of State and Director of CIA, which latter agency got wildly powerful and out of control during his presidency. Ike had other priorities — often involving a round of golf …

As for MLK, I’m aware of his fine Drum Major speech, though as the diarist indicates, almost everything about Dr King these days gets the heavy, feel-good I Have A Dream treatment in the MSM and the controversial other stuff goes unmentioned or is footnoted only. Our blowdried and overexposed establishment historians — Doris Kearns Goodwin et al — almost always willingly go along with the freeze-out of King’s courageous stance on VN, something which greatly irritated both the corp media of that day as well as Pres Lyndon Johnson. His top aide, Bill Moyers, advised him at the time (spring 67) to go on a PR offensive to explain his fine VN policy, which, Moyers assured him, would play well with the majority (later to be called The Silent Majority) if only Lyndon would lay it out clearly and forcefully.

LBJ was also greatly upset about Dr King’s planned Poor People’s March on Washington, planned for summer ‘68. Paranoid Lyndon saw the upcoming mass assembly of poor people in the nation’s capital as a real and direct threat to his presidency. Hmm …

And then there was racist J Edgar and his virulent hatred of King.

MLK was indeed a major threat to TPTB …

I personally refer to our shadow government as the military-industrial-congressional-corporate-intelligence-financial complex. Necessary to understand how extensive, powerful, well financed and hidden it is.

Our local Air America Host had Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston on this morning.” In Mother Jones’ Jan/Feb 2009 cover story, he offers a 14-part prescription for getting the economy back on its feet. As a tax reporter for the New York Times, he spent more than a decade documenting “the myriad ways in which our economy has been recalibrated to take from the poor, the middle class, and even the affluent and give to large corporations and the very richest of the rich.”

Johston’s mind blowing stats: Your taxes from Jan to May go to paying interest on the debt – about 70% of it added by Reagan/Bush. The next period, about the same amount of time, goes to pay our millitary bill. All the ‘entitlements’ are the last 2 months of taxes.

So we need to be sure Obama’s economic team is getting the 14 part prescription for recalibrating the economy to take back from the large corps and the very rich. Maybe we could get it into the Constitution as an amendment…

T minus 16 hours and 4 minutes.

Oh Happy Day

8. Israelis only have 15 seconds to run into bomb shelters once a rocket is fired by Hamas.

10. Hamas openly admits to using civilians as human shields.

11. How would the US react to a missile attack on its citizens coming from Canada or Mexico

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