Covert Action Information Bulletin, Number 34 - The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

Washington DC. 1990. Summer 1990. Covert Action Publications. Magazine. Marking Pen Marks on the Front Cover, Otherwise Very Good In Staple-Binding. 67 pages. magazine. Cover Photo: Martin Luther King Jr. Credit: Clover International; Washington Star collection, D.C. Public Library. James Earl Ray and Jules Ron Kimble. Credit: Otmoor Productions. Cover design by Kathleen Cashel. Back Cover Photo: POI Pot in China. Credit: Hsinhua News Agency. keywords: Magazine Politics. DESCRIPTION - EDITORIAL - This issue of CAIB is a glimpse at the many faces of the U .S. intelligence apparatus. From the CIA's involvement in a variety of conflicts in South East Asia to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., we examine the breadth of illegal activities which the government attempts to cover up and which the mainstream media is afraid to explore. Information about CIA operations in Central America continues to surface. The CIA organized and controlled a group of Costa Rican intelligence officers who, for large retainers, spied on their own government. For many years the CIA clouded the fact that Manuel Noriega's relationship with the Medellin Cartel made him a very rich man. However, when Noriega began to tire of toeing the U.S. line, George Bush decided to act. Panama was invaded, thousands of civilians were killed, and Noriega was captured. Now Noriega will stand trial for activities that the U.S. once condoned. Perhaps even more appalling is the U.S. backing of the Khmer Rouge in their attempt to overthrow the Hun Sen government in Cambodia. Into this devastating conflict the U.S. government has sent food and covert military aid to support the guerrilla coalition. Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge is by far the strongest military contingent. If victorious, they would be in a position to gain complete power and return war-ravaged Cambodia to the nightmarish rule of the 1970s. Finally, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. must be reexamined in response to new evidence which reveals that James Earl Ray may have been set up. A self-professed political assassin, Jules Ron Kimble, claims that he was part of a conspiracy to kill King. Kimble says that he helped several members of the CIA plan and carry out King's murder. Additionally, new evidence suggests that there was a CIA identities specialist who helped Ray develop his aliases. These articles, as well as others in this issue, demonstrate how U.S. covert operations repeatedly work in direct contradiction to our society's professed values. If the United States is ever to achieve the openness and democracy that it so loudly touts to the world, it will first have to do away with the destructive operations of the CIA. TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial; Covert Operations in Costa Rica by Tony Avirgan; Panama: U.S. Addiction to National Security by Robert Matthews; Testimony to an Invasion: Inside the South African Government Interview by Jane Hunter; The Council for National Policy by Russ Bellant; The Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. by John Edginton and John Sergeant; The U.S. Invades Panama by Howard Friel; Nicaraguan Electoral Coup by William I. Robinson; U.S. Supports the Khmer Rouge by Jack Colhoun; The Bombing of Pan Am 103 by Jeff Jones; The Marcos Network and Murder by Dan Junas; El Salvador: A Pattern of U.S. Complicity by David Kirsh; Publications of Interest: Taiwan Government Agents in the U.S. by Marc J. Cohen; The History of Operation CHAOS by Verne Lyon; South African Death Squads. inventory #47880 Marking Pen Marks on the Front Cover, Otherwise Very Good In Staple-Binding.…