The cold six thousand

25

(Los Angeles, 1/9/64)

He bought Jane a wallet. Saks engraved it.

Soft kid. A lowercase "j.f."

Jane fanned the sleeves. "You were right. I showed them my Alabama license, and they gave me a new one right there."

Littell smiled. Jane smiled and posed. She leaned on the window. She jutted a hip out. She blocked off the view.

Littell pulled his chair up. "We'll get you a Social Security card. You'll have all the ID you need."

Jane smiled. "What about a master's degree? You got me the B.A. already."

Littell crossed his legs. "You could go to UCLA and earn one."

"How about this? I could divide my studies between L.A., D.C., and Vegas, just to keep up with my peripatetic lover."

Littell smiled. "Was that a jibe?"

"Just an observation."

"You're getting restless. You're overqualified for a life of leisure."

Jane pirouetted. Jane dipped low and stood on her toes. She was good. She was lithe. She'd studied somewhere.

Littell said, "Some people from the safe house have disappeared. That's good news more than bad."

Jane shrugged. Jane scissored low. Her skirt brushed the floor.

"Where did you learn that?"

Jane said, "Tulane. I audited a dance class, but you won't see it on my transcript."

Littell sat on the floor. Jane scissored up to him.

"I want to find a job. I was a good bookkeeper, even before you improved my credentials."

Littell stroked her feet. Jane wiggled her toes.

"You could find me something at Hughes Aircraft."

Littell shook his head. "Mr. Hughes is very disturbed. I'm working against him on some levels, and I want to keep you out of that side of my life."

Jane grabbed her cigarettes. "Any other ideas?"

"I could get you work with the Teamsters."

Jane shook her head. "No. That's not me."

"Why?"

She lit a cigarette. Her hand shook.

"It's just not. I'll find a job, don't worry."

Littell traced her stocking runs. "You'll do better than that. You'll excel and upstage everyone you work with."

Jane smiled. Littell pinched out her cigarette. He kissed her. He touched her hair. He saw a new gray.

Jane pulled his tie off. "Tell me about the last woman you were with."

Littell cleaned his glasses. "Her name was Helen Agee. She was a friend of my daughter's. I got in trouble with the Bureau and Helen was the first casualty."

"She left you?"

"She ran, yes."

"What kind of trouble were you in?"

"I underestimated Mr. Hoover."

"That's all you'll tell me?"

"Yes."

"What happened to Helen?"

"She's a legal-aid lawyer. The last I heard, my daughter was, too."

Jane kissed him. "We have to be who we decided to be in Dallas."

Littell said, "Yes."

o o o

Jane fell asleep. Littell feigned sleep. Littell got up slow.

He walked to his office. He set up his tape rig. He poured some coffee.

He nailed Doug Eversall. He called him yesterday. He threatened him. He crossed the line.

He said don't call Carlos. Don't tell him what Bobby said. Don't rat out Bobby.

He warned him. He said I'm working freelance. Don't fuck me or I'll retaliate. You're a drunk driver/killer. I'll expose you for that. I won't let Carlos hurt Bobby.

Bobby suspected the Boys. That meant Bobby KNEW. Bobby didn't say it flat out. Bobby didn't need to. Bobby sidestepped the pain.

_Mea culpa_. Cause-and-effect. _My_ Mob crusade killed my brother.

Littell spooled the tape-tape copy #2.

He'd doctored a dupe. He pouched it to Mr. Hoover. He retained the small talk. He layered in static. He x'd out Bobby's Mob talk.

Littell hit Play. Bobby talked. His grief showed. His kindness showed through.

Kind Bobby-a chat with his clubfooted friend.

Bobby talked. Bobby paused. Bobby said the name "Littell."

Littell listened. Littell timed the pauses. Bobby faltered. Bobby _KNEW_. Bobby never said it.

Littell listened. Littell _lived_ the pauses. The old fear came. It told him this:

_You believe in him again_.

_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 1/10/64. Verbatim FBI telephone call transcript. Marked: "Recorded at the Director's Request"/"Classified Con.fidential 1-A: Director's Eyes Only." Speaking: Director Hoover, Ward J. Littell.

JEH: Good morning, Mr. Littell.

WJL: Good morning, Sir.

JEH: Let's get to the tape. The sound quality was very poor.

WJL: Yes, Sir.

JEH: The text was unenlightening. If I wish to discuss Airedale dogs with the Dark Prince, I can dial his direct line at will.

WJL: My plant fidgeted, Sir. He moved and caused distortion.

JEH: Will you try again?

WJL: That's impossible, Sir. My plant was lucky to get one audience.

JEH: Your plant's voice was familiar. He sounded like a handicapped lawyer the Dark Prince employs.

WJL: You have a fine memory for voices, Sir.

JEH: Yes. And I have a few plants of my own.

WJL: Myself among them.

JEH: I wouldn't call you a "plant," Mr. Littell. You're too gifted and diversified.

WJL: Thank you, Sir.

JEH: Do you recall our conversation of December 2nd? I said I needed a man with a "fallen liberal" image, and hinted that it might be you.

WJL: Yes, Sir. I recall the conversation.

JEH: I'm miffed at Martin Luther King and his egregiously unChristian Southern Christian Leadership Conference. I want to further penetrate the group, and you're the perfect "fallen liberal" to help me accomplish my goal.

WJL: In what way, Sir?

JEH: I already have a plant within the SCLC. He has established his ability to procure dossiers on policemen, organized-crime figures and other notables that left-wing Negroes might consider adversaries. My plan is to provide him with a dossier on you. The dossier will portray you as an ousted Bureau man with leftist tendencies, ones which you have frankly yet to outgrow.

WJL: You've piqued my interest, Sir.

JEH: Your assignment would be to appear sympathetic to the civil-rights cause, which I know will be no great stretch. You will donate numerous allotments of marked Mob money to the SCLC, in $10,000 increments, over a sustained period of time. My goal is to compromise the SCLC and render them more tractable. Your goal is to convince the SCLC that you have embezzled the money from organized-crime sources, in an effort to assuage your guilt over working for mobsters in the first place. This will also be no great stretch. I'm sure that you can tap the ambivalent aspects of your nature and front a convincing performance. I'm equally sure that you can justify the continued expense to your mobster colleagues, as a proactive means to avoid civil-rights trouble in Las Vegas, which will please them and Mr. Hughes.

WJL: It's a bold plan, Sir.

JEH: It is that.

WJL: I'd appreciate some more details.

JEH: My plant is an ex-Chicago policeman. He possesses chameleon qualities similar to yours. He's ingratiated himself with the SCLC very nicely.

WJL: His name, Sir?

JEH: Lyle Holly. His brother was with the Bureau.

WJL: Dwight Holly. He transferred out, I think.

JEH: That is correct. He's with the Federal Bureau of Narcotics in Nevada now. I think he finds the assignment enervating. A brisk dope trade would be more to his liking.

WJL: And Lyle is-

JEH: Lyle is more impetuous. He drinks more than he should and comes off as a hail-fellow-well-met. The Negroes adore him. He's convinced them that he's the world's most incongruously liberal ex-cop, when in fact that prize goes to you.

WJL: You flatter me, Sir.

JEH: I do anything but.

WJL: Yes, Sir.

JEH: Holly will portray you as a Chicago law-enforcement acquaintance and present the SCLC with documents pertaining to your Bureau expulsion. He will point you to a Negro named Bayard Rustin. Mr. Rustin is a close colleague of Mr. King. He is both a Communist and a homosexual, which marks him as a rara avis by all sane standards. I'll send you a summary on him, and I'll have Lyle Holly call you.

WJL: I'll wait for his call, Sir.

JEH: Do you have other questions?

WJL: On this topic, no. But I would like your permission to contact Wayne Tedrow Senior, on Mr. Hughes' behalf.

JEH: You have it.

WJL: Thank you, Sir.

JEH: Good day, Mr. Littell.

WJL: Good day, Sir.

_DOCUMENT INSERT_: 1/11/64. "Subversive Persons" summary report. Marked: "Chronology/Known Facts/Observations/Known Associates/Memberships in Subversive Organizations." Subject: RUSTIN, BAYARD TAYLOR (male Negro/DOB: 3/17/12, West Chester, Pa.). Compiled: 2/8/62.

_SUBJECT RUSTIN_ must be viewed as a cunning subversive with a significant history of Communist-inspired alliances as a pronounced security threat, due to his alliances with perceived "Mainstream" Negro demagogues, such as _MARTIN LUTHER KING_ _A. PHILIP RANDOLPH_. _SUBJECT RUSTIN'S_ radical Quaker background his parents' association with the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) point out the extent of his early radical indoctrination. (See Addendum File #4 189 on _RUSTIN, JANIFER RUSTIN, JULIA DAVIS_.)

_SUBJECT RUSTIN_ attended Wilberforce College (a Negro institution) 1932-33. He refused to join the ROTC (Reserve Officers Training Corps) and led (abetted by numerous Communist sympathizers) a strike to protest the allegedly poor quality of food served to students. _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ transferred to Cheyney State Teachers College (Pennsylvania) early in 1934. It is believed that he communicated with numerous notable Negro subversives while at the institution. _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ was expelled in 1936. It is widely assumed that a homosexual incident resulted in his expulsion.

_SUBJECT RUSTIN_ moved to New York City circa 1938-39. He became a member of the so-called Negro "Intelligentsia," studied the philosophy of _MOHANDAS "MAHATMA" GANDHI_ described himself as a "Committed Trotskyite." _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ (a gifted musician) fraternized with numerous white Negro subversives, including _PAUL ROBESON_, who have since been identified as members of 114 certified Communist-front organizations. (See "Known Associates," Addendum File #4190.)

_SUBJECT RUSTIN_ became a member of the Young Communist League (YCL) at New York City College (NYCC) was a frequent visitor at a Communist cell on 146th Street. He fraternized with Communist folk singers led a YCL-inspired campaign to protest segregation in the U.S. Armed Forces. In 1941 _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ became acquainted with Negro labor agitator _A. PllILIP RANDOLPH_ (b. 1889) (see Randolph Files #1408, 1409, 1410). _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ helped to organize the aborted 1941 Negro March on Washington joined the socialist-pacifist Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) the War Resisters League (WRL). During this time he became a skilled orator and disseminator of SocialistCommunist propaganda.

_SUBJECT RUSTIN_ registered as a conscientious objector with his (Harlem, N.Y.) draft board was ordered to appear for a physical examination on 11/13/43. _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ sent a letter of refusal (see Addendum Carbon #19) was apprehended on 1/12/44. He was tried convicted of violating the Selective Serv. Act (see Addendum File #4191 for trial transcript) sent'd to 3 yrs in the Federal Penitentiary at Ashland, Ky. _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ led several attempts to desegregate the prison dining hail was transferred to Lewisburg Penitentiary (Pa). _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ was paroled (6/46) became a traveling speaker for the FOR. In 1946 '47 he participated in numerous Communist-inspired attempts (the "Journey of Reconciliation") to desegregate interstate bus lines. In 11/47 _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ joined the "Committee Against Jim Crow in Military Service Training" counseled Negro youths to avoid military service (see Addendum File #4192 for list of members cross-referenced Communist front-group memberships).

_SUBJECT RUSTIN_ traveled extensively in India (1948-'49), returned to the U.S. served a 22-day jail sentence for his subversive activities in the "Journey of Reconciliation." He spent substantial time (thruout 1950, '51, '52) in Africa studied insurgent Negro nationalist movements there. On 1/21/53, _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ was arrested on a morals charge in Pasadena, California (see Addendum File #4 193 for arrest rpt. trial transcript). _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ 2 white youths were engaged in a homosexual tryst in a parked car. _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ pled guilty served 60 days in the Los Angeles County Jail. _SUBJECT RUSTIN'S_ homosexuality is well known is considered to be an embarrassment to the alleged "Mainstream" Negro "Leaders" who utilize his skills as an organizer orator.

The 1/21/53 incident resulted in _SUBJECT RUSTIN'S_ expulsion from the FOR. _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ moved to New York City and cultivated friendships in the heavily bohemian leftist-influenced Greenwich Village district. He rejoined the WRL again traveled to Africa studied Negro nationalist movements. _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ returned to the U.S. met _STANLEY LEVISON_, a Communistindoctrinated advisor to _MARTIN LUTHER KING_. (See Files #5961, 5962, 5963, 5965, 5966.) _LEVISON_ introduced _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ to _KING_. _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ advised _KING_ per the staging of the Montgomery Bus Boycott of 1955-56. (See Central Index for individual files on boycott participants.) _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ then became a trusted advisor to _KING_ is credited with influencing KING'S Pacifist/Socialist/Communist program of planned disruption social disorder. _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ drew up a document for the formation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) 8e _KING_ adopted it at a (1/10-11 / 57) church conference in Atlanta. (See Addendum File #4194 Electronic Surveillance File #0809.) _KING_ was elected leader of the SOLO on 2/14/57 has remained in power to this (2/8/62) date.

_SUBJECT RUSTIN_ joined the American Forum (classified as a Communist front group in 1947) planned the SOLO/NAACP "Pilgrimage of Prayer" March on Washington (5/17/57). 30,000 people attended, including numerous Negro celebrities (see Surveillance Films #0704, 0705, 0706, 0708). _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ organized the "Youth March for Integrated Schools" in 10/58. Per this march: associate _A. PHILIP RANDOLPH_ publicly attacked _DIRECTOR HOOVER_ for his comment that the march was a "Communist-inspired promotion." _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ staged a 2nd youth march in 4/59. (See Surveillance Films #0709, 0710, 0711.)

_SUBJECT RUSTIN_ rejected (early 1960) an offer to work full time for the SOLO. He has remained to this date (2/8/62) a vociferous critic of democratic institutions has continued to support _MARTIN LUTHER KING_ and his socialist designs, serving as an advisor organizer of SOLO activities. _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ is considered the leader of the SOLO braintrust the mastermind behind _KING'S_ rise to prominence as a demagogue and fomenter of social unrest, He has strategized deployed white Negro demonstrators in the "Sit-In" "Freedom Ride" demonstrations of 196O-'61 has retained documented friendships with a total of 94 members of certified Communist fronts (see Known Associate Index #2). In conclusion, _SUBJECT RUSTIN_ must be classified as a Top Priority Internal Security Risk should be subjected to periodic surveillance possible mail trash cover operations. (Note: Addendum files, films tapes require Level 2 Clearance Deputy Director Tolson's authorization.)