In an interview with Iranian Television, former Georgia congresswoman Cynthia McKinney claims that the American authorities killed JFK, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King Jr. She is a classic example of a useful idiot who continues to witting or unwittingly push Cold War era covert influence themes:
Cynthia McKinney: So what I would say since the United States is, as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said, is the greatest purveyor of violence on the planet and sadly suffers with guided missiles and misguided men. I would say that those who have worked very hard for peace, there was a time when we almost won. We almost won in the 1960’s but unfortunately because we were so close to winning the authorities fought back. We were so close to winning, and then they killed John Kennedy our president, they killed Malcolm X, they killed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
Iranian Host: They were killed by the authorities?
Cynthia McKinney: Yes
Iranian Host: Ok
Cynthia McKinney: Yes, um... this is all documented. Um... The CoIntelPro Papers, the Counterintelligence Program Papers document the history of US Government, uh how can I say, efforts to quash dissent and in the founding document which was written April 4 1967, the US Government said they wanted to misdirect or otherwise neutralize certain leaders in the Black Community, the Latino Community, the Mexican-American Community the Puerto Rican Independence Movement, the American Indian Movement, all these various organizations, you could say they were liberation organizations, they all came together in the 1960s and 70’s... the people who want to deny human rights, human dignity, the warmongers; their revolution is always financed. So, if we could organize in such a way so that we could bring back the spirit of resistance inside the United States that we once had; organize it, finance it mobilize it, I think we’d go a long way to having peace.
Iranian Host: Definitely
First of all, the assertion by Ms. McKinney that U.S. Authorities “killed” any of these men is simply ridiculous. Worse yet is that she was spewing this garbage in Iran of all places. So what exactly are the CoIntelPro Papers? A simple Google search will yield plenty of results. One of which is a book written by none other than Ward Churchill called The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI's Secret Wars Against Dissent in the United States. For those of you who don’t remember, Ward Churchill is the angry, fake Native American who wrote about America’s “chickens coming home to roost” shortly after the tragic events of 9/11. Oh yes almost forgot, Ward was found guilty of plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification in various written works concerning Native American history. Documented indeed.
