In the months before her death, Alberta's car was deliberately scraped, her phone was tapped, and two white men showing police badges followed her sister while she was driving Alberta's distinctive Thunderbird. The government was actively surveilling civil rights leaders at this time.
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Far from being 'paranoid,' Alberta had documented, concrete reasons to fear for her safety. Her sister Flora was tailed by two white men showing police badges while driving Alberta's Thunderbird — they thought they were following Alberta. Someone repeated Alberta's private phone conversations back to her, confirming a tap. Declassified records show that US agencies including the CIA surveilled Martin Luther King Jr. during this same period, and Alberta was a significant figure in the same civil rights movement. The night she went to Gladys's, she was reportedly reading about the Kennedy assassination and said she hoped she wouldn't end up like him. After her death, the family learned she had just installed a burglar alarm on her car and purchased a gun.
Alberta O. Jones became the first Black woman prosecutor in Louisville, Kentucky's history, making her a trailblazer at the height of the civil rights movement.
Alberta co-founded the Independent Voters Association and helped register roughly 6,000 Black citizens to vote in Louisville.
Indiana experienced a resurgence of KKK activity in the 1960s, a fact Ashley Flowers noted in the context of the mysterious 51-mile odometer discrepancy and the purse being found on the Indiana side of the Sherman Minton Bridge.
Just two days after Alberta's murder, Detective Lancaster discovered that key fingerprint cards from her rental car had been thrown in a trash bin in the Louisville PD fingerprint lab. The most critical prints — from the left door window — were never recovered. Sergeant Miller, the last person with them, was never questioned.
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Lebanese terrorists backed by Iran were holding American hostages throughout the Reagan presidency. Reagan had loudly campaigned against negotiating with terrorists — putting him in an impossible position that his team quietly decided to ignore.
During the Iran-Iraq War, the US openly supplied Iraq with weapons, training, and intelligence. At the same time, Oliver North was secretly funneling missiles to Iran. The US was playing both sides of a shooting war.
Oliver North traveled to Iran under the alias 'William P. Goode' with a fake passport. CIA Director William Casey allegedly gave him cyanide pills so he could kill himself rather than be tortured if captured. He returned safely and the deal moved forward.
The Pentagon sold missiles to the CIA for $3,700 each. The CIA sold them to Richard Secord at cost. Secord sold them to Iranian middleman Ghorbanifar for $10,000 each. Ghorbanifar charged Iran even more. The profit — including $3 million in interest in one Swiss account — was diverted directly to fund the Nicaraguan Contras.
America secretly transferred 2,000 missiles and missile parts to Iran in 8 shipments over more than a year. Only 3 of 7 hostages were released. Three more were taken. The net result was zero freed hostages and a full-blown constitutional scandal.
On October 5, 1986, a CIA Contra supply plane flew a weapons drop at 2,500 feet in broad daylight. A Sandinista soldier shot it down. The only survivor, Eugene Hasenfuss, had borrowed a parachute from his skydiving brother. He was captured, paraded in front of cameras, and told the Sandinistas everything he knew.
The CIA supply operation used a front company called Southern Air Transport, widely known to be a CIA cover. Crew members of the downed plane carried their Southern Air Transport employee IDs in their wallets. One also had a business card directly linking him to Oliver North's office in Washington.
When the scandal broke, Oliver North and his secretary Fawn Hall conducted what became known as a 'shredding party,' destroying a day's worth of documents. The full truth of Iran-Contra may never be known because of what was fed through that shredder.
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