April 4, 1967 "BUG EXTRACT TRANSCRIPT"

DOCUMENT INSERT: 4/4/67. Bug-extract transcript. Marked: "Confidential"/"Stage-1 Covert"/"Eyes Only": Director, SA D. C. Holly.

Location: Office/Mike Lyman's Restaurant/Los Angeles/listening-post-accessed. Speaking: Unidentified Males #1 & #2, presumed organized-crime associates. (Conversation 2.6 minutes in progress.)

UM #1: . . . under Truman and Ike you had order. You had Hoover, who bore us no ill fucking will. Fucking Bobby and Jack changed all that.

UM #2: LBJ's got schizophilia. He don't take no shit from the Reds in Vietnam, but he sucks up to that King like he's his long lost soul brother. The policy guys back east see this correlation. King comes to Harlem, gives these speeches and gets all the pygmies hopped up. They quit playing the numbers, our policy banks take it in the shorts, and the fucking pygmies get agitated and start feeling their oats.

UM #1: I see the correlation. They quit betting policy, their minds wander. They start thinking about Communism and raping white women.

UM #2: King likes white women. I heard he's a pig for it.

UM #1: All the niggers want it. It's the fruit of the forbidden fucking tree. (Non-applicable conversation follows.)

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Excerpted from The Cold Six Thousand by James Ellroy Copyright 2001 by James Ellroy. Excerpted by permission of Knopf, a division of Random House LLC. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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