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THE KU KLUX KLAN, REALM OF OHIO, EM-NKKKK", dated 7/5/74. \ a Enclosed for the Bureau are eight copies of an a LAM dated and captioned as above. FD-376 also being submitted. — foes Two copies of LHM being sbmitted to Atlanta and sb an information copy being submitted to Cincinnati. 2 oO 3 Two copies of LIM are being disseminated to United 38 B |Spates Secret Service locally. NA. 3 ese 3 The following souve was utilized in this LHM: ga 8 z Rage SOURCE LOCATION, aaa basa bgg2 2 ADMINISTRATIVE Bs 5 gent, ment ioned in enclosed LIM is SA 2 é - a8 Fr of, the Ku Ohio National Kni ux Rian yor of the NKKKK has been that the Clevelani vt Goureau Gre. saw REED / Fo 2.7 Atlanta (157-60) (Enc. 2) (RM) as meeveree 1-Cincinnati (157-245) (Enc, 1) (INFO) (RM) DP RECORTE 9-Cleveland i 2 ave 9 1974 ) (1=157-5031)__(VKKKK, REALM OF 0110) 7 ay (-157-567) / — b2 a seat as) -Z Phen sae (D6 = SS OEU~15749791)) es ae are eb) on 184 fas (1-157-6513) Pace (1-157-6514)| WH: jac (14) Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings PlanCV 157-NEW from the NKKKK, Realm of Ohio, Sources of the Cleveland Division have verified this information, but advised that the Cleveland NKKKK continues to operate as an NKKKK organization independent of the Ohio NKKKK, The Clevéeand NKKKK is hopeful of receiving recognition from NKKKK Imperial Wizard JAMES — VENABLE, Atlanta, Georgia. In view of the above, UACB, the Cleveland Division is opening, S7=N jng captioned title, but will continue oe follow organiza tion—underCV_157-503), aa OHIO"... Should.a, future-merger- consummated, Jadvised that the NKKKK is planning to hold their National Convention in Georgia over Labor Day Weekend, 1974. Source advised that several members of the Cleveland NKKKK are planning to attend. LEADS AT ATLANTA, GEORGIA Contact sources to ascertain J, towards the Cleveland NKKKK as opposed to| organization. CLEVELAND AT CLEVELAND, O10 Maintain contact with sources regarding captioned organization.D376 tev. 10-8797 * eae UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OPMUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, Dc. 20535 July 31, 1974 Direetor In Reply, Please Refer to United States Secrot Service Department of the Treasury Washington, D. C. 20220 RE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUK KLAN Dear Sir: CLEVEIAND CHAPTER ‘The information furnished herewith concerns an individual or organization believed to be covered by the agreement between the FBI and Secret Service concerning protective responsibilities, and to fall within the eategory or categories checked. 1. [_] Threats or actions against persons protected by Secret Service. 2. [2] Attempts or threats to redress grievances. 3. (D) Threatening or abusive statement about U. 8. of foreign official. 4. (2 Participation in civil disturbances, anti-U. $- demonstrations or hostile incidents against foreign diplomatic establishments. [J Miegal bombing, bomb-making or other terrorist activity. [Defector from U. S. of indicates desire to defect. 7. Cy Potentially dangerous because of background, emotional instability or activity in groups engaged in activities inimical to U. S. Photograph (has been furnished CJenclosed [J is not available. Very truly yours, : Clarence M. Kelley Director 1 = Special Agent in Charge (Enclosure(s)) 2 U.S. Seeret Service Cleveland \ Enclosures)- STATES DEPARTMENT USTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to Cleveland, Ohio File No. July 31,1974 Arona fn 'TiO1 320 i unease OATEP: 37, PR. By 3, NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN CLEVELAND CHAPTER This investigation is based on information which indicates that the Cleveland National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK) is engaged in activities which could involve a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 241 (Conspiracy against rights of citizens), Section 245 (Federally protected activities), Civil Rights Act of 1968, or related civil rights statutes. NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX KLAN, INC. (NKKKK, The National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc.,(NKKKK), was granted a charter in Georgia in 1963 as a "patriotic, secret, social, and benevolent order." ‘The NKKKK, a consolidation of various Klans in southern states, continues to be anti- Negro, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic, and anti-foreign born. on July 5, yova, [Ja source who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised that on July 3, 1974, approximately 12 members and supporters of the Cleveland National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK) ignited a cross in Cleveland Public Square, That same evening, a cross was burned at the correr of West 25th and Detroit Avenues. During the evening of July 4, 1974, another cross was ignited at Edgewater Park, Cleveland, Ohio. The source advised that the cross burnings were a result of the NKKKK's intention to demonstrate to the public that the NKKKK continues to be a political force in the Cleveland area. LS I-16 M gS icLosureRE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN CLEVELAND CHAPTER The following newspaper article appeared in the "Cleveland Press", July 4, 197.BeAPPROK, About 12 men identifying ves 23 members, of ‘bio Kix Klan burned + ross on Public Shue af 112 at mga ‘o> arrests were made. ‘ig. Fite Deparment put fire. But Cleveland e svid they were not fied of the crass burn- = no arrests were | Hob “Oldes, 48, of 1795 _W,:828 St, who idenlitied ‘higpell asl a 30jear Klan momen) seo mut deen |members (he ‘of the \erass. burning), fed Going to 6 Be : He_was questioned: by a burn cross Public a bé bic the scene after anoth Press employee observ the cross burning. “Press reporter who went 4 Oldag, “am _tronworker, sald. “Our was to pubiietze the. Klan and this reas 8 ay to doit” Ways Wolte, 21, of 6100, Pear Ave., who also" Was at ‘the cross ‘buroing, said, “T Delieve in white supremacy and in Jesus.” ‘A hole had been dug in the south quadrant of Pub- ie Square earlier in the | evening. The unrobed ‘ansmea planted the cross of wood, burlap and and sprinkled with = sere in the hole and set afire.RE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN CLEVELAND CHAPTER The following newspaper article appeared in the Cleveland "Plain Dealer", July 6, 1974:aoe rarer of cross burnings at 3 sites Cleveland police inteligence devective [egnsulied yesterday with the city prosect rs office to learn if charges can be file Nagainst persons believed to be members ‘dhe Ku Klux. Klan who burned a 14-foot [Rapes on Public Square’ and at two West Side locations in the last three days, E;_ Set. Thomas Mahon was told the'city’s ‘properties department would assess. the damage caused where holes were dug to lant the cross. * Police said the cross was made of tini= ber. wrapped with wire end burlap and doused in Kerosene, typical of crosses used by the KKK. ‘Two teamis of detectives from the intel- ‘iigence unit are working on the case. ‘= After the properties department as- séeses damage, the prosecutor's office will mine wheiher to proceed with charges. In addition to the cross burning iblic Square on Wednesday night, of yrié “cross “was seen burning yesterday morning at Edgewater Park and was re-! ported Seen ai third location that pice Police confiscated the cross fro ‘dgewater Park and sald they believed i the same one used in all three bur Bi :bic bID RE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN CLEVELAND CHAPTER The source advised that the Cleveland NKKKK is speaking of possible additional cross burnings in the future. The source advised that the Cleveland NKKKK is planning to attend the Cleveland City Council, July 8, 1974. on suly 5, 1974, vecective Sergeane{— —__] Headquarters Intelligence Unit, Cleveland Police Department, advised that his office is investigating. He further related that criminal charges involving violation of the Cleveland Clean Air Bill and Destruction of Public Property may be forthcoming. On July 8, 1974 of the K, contacted an Agent of the Cleveland FBI Office. advised that he had recently returned from vacation ‘and had learned of the cross burnings in Cleveland, Ohio. He stated he vanted the FBI to know that he vas not He stated nenbers of the ;_are responsible, and without the sanction of the Ohio NKKKK the Ohio NKKKK on May 18, 1974, after they were found guilty of undermining the NKKKK’ organization by creating verbal chaos. reer ]tavisea tneel_ wore not Satisfied under ship inasmuch as they preferred violent petiviurl———Trefused to elaborate, but staves 15| jare capable of anything. Bets savised that the Cleveland NKKKK is operating as ‘an independent Klan group. further advised that the Cleveland NKKKK maintains Cleveland Post Office Box 6003, and meets at the Blue Room Lounge, 6lst and Lorain Avenues, Cleveland. Detective [Headquarters Intelligence Unit, Cleveland Police Department, advised that on July 6, 1974, at 1:00 am, police cruisers were 6RE; NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN CLEVELAND CHAPTER dispatched to David's Bar, 4105 lark Avenue, after an anonymous caller adv. was arrested for Sllowing individuals Carrying a concealed weapon, an were arrested for disorderly conduct: Ad havritowo © All of the above individuals were observed wearing K.K.K. jackets. A locked 1964 Chevrolet, bearing Ohio license EH 8914, was illegally parked in front of the tavern. Attacned to the windshield on the back was a KKK sticker. The stock of a shotgun was observed in the rear of the auto. Upon search of the vehicle, a loaded shotgun was discovered, numerous parking tickets, and hand printed instructions on how to construct bombs, igniters, napalm, and corrosive acids. Law Enforcement Automated Da ta System revealed 4 te Listed tol] IClevel and. On July 8, rors] ahivisea that the Cleveland NKKKK changed their minds regarding attending the Cleveland City Council meeting on July 8, ot ore oa intend to jeopardize his forthcoming Court case. 7bic bID RE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN CLEVELAND CHAPTER. On July 12, 1974, detectivel ___Jaavigea that 2 Sus. egarding[__—_] fesse nas Ton ‘Over to the Grand Jury- This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.aoe ae » ge ime sees > Memorandum strbydik DIRECTOR, FBI Ge Fey $ CRW AL 273 SAC, NEW YORK (157-9250) (C) Gwe ROULING UNL ERRGR LELPER SEN. KR E 5 a Enclosed herewith for the Bureau are five copies of ") an LHM, dated and captioned as above. Review ices failed to reflect any references identifiable wit! Bureau letter to New York, dated 9/11/73, captioned Oma i sof the Ku Kiux Klan (NKKKK), EM", instructed that all members of Kiavern 102, New York State Realm, NKKKK, Pine Bush, NY, be identified conducting limited investigations to determine whether they possess a propensity for violence and hence establishing whether a full investigation is warranted f in accordance with Section 122 of the Manual of Instructions. a4: Limited inquiry has determined subject's activity does not warrant further investigation at this time and she does not meet current ADEX criteria, Interview of aaa not being recommended at this S_such action could possibly jeopardize the identity of a source of continuing value, who is providing coverage on @ small group. Sct ge 1 Coe aaeenaene N so [st- Ml — Md 2, x Attached ving submitted to the Bureau for indexin and appropriate dissenfnagio XQ \ “S - Bureau (Encls. = . @: New York y ee 2- -Chimtysse seu) apg “CLO; 1-85 wes EAS EMO174 =a Si ‘a Bi US. Sevings Bonds Regularly onthe Payroll Savings Plan2 STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION eats vk Dotrrt sh. } Beaty, Phase Refer to New York, New York File No. July 22, 1974 ALL WFO 2 ow COMTaRED a The information in this memorandum is classified "Confidential" except those paragraphs marked "U" (Unclassified). This investigation is based on information which indicates that this individual 1s engaged in activities which could involve a violation of Title 18, United States Code, ection 241 (Conspiracy against rights of citizens); Section 245 Federally protected activities), Civil Rights Act of 1968; or Pelated Civil Rights. Statutes. (U) This individual was reported on February 10, 1973, to be a member of Kiavern 102, New York State Realm, National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK), Pine Bush, New York, Klan organizations claim as their aims the promotion of Americanism, white supremacy, and segregation of the races, They are primarily anti-black and anti-Semitic. (U) Klan members and leaders have been involved in atrocities including beatings, bombings, and murders, and have engaged in activities seeking to deny others of their constitutional rights. (U) 1, BACKGROUND A, Residence This document contains neither recommendations vor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of ‘the FBI and is lesved to your agency; it and its contents are not to be Gistrinuted outside your agency. Sources whose identities are concealed herein have furnished reliable information in the past.SAC, New York REGUL August 12, 1974 pirector, Far /S7- /b/— WAS 14 rk Field Guidance —_ — ‘EM - N&KKK CNYPILE: 1157-10772) —_—— se aronrse.cane Gor NS. ngs oR (in cea a aly Reurlets 7/22/74 and LHM pertaining to Johnson. peferenced letters have been declassified by the pureau and New York should declassify its copies. For information of New York, in order to properly qualify for classification under Executive Order 11652, infor- Gttion must be of such @ nature that its unauthorized disclosure vould presumably be expected to damage U. S. national defense or foreign relations. However, information pearing on white-hate setivities ordinarily does pot fall within the purview of national defense data unless there are ‘subversive elements (i.e,, unle! sch activities are aimed at overthrowing, destroying, verting the U. S. Government or its political subdivisions) or hostile foreign intelligence elements ere involved. Accordingly, communications dealing with white-hate activities should not Gréinarily be classified in the absence of unusual circumstances justifying such action, pawe. bv. JDP: ekw ek J 66) SEE NOTE PAGE TWO 99h Zh EL pO AUG 26874Letter_to New York RE: There are no apparent umusual circumstances in this particular instance. In addition, even if information in the letters and LUM is disclosed, as written, it would not lead to identifying the source of the information nor would it reauit in damage to U, S. national defense or foreign relations, In future correspondence to the Bureau concerning members of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK), designate the character as EM - HKKKK.. en a 7 NOTE Referenced New York 1qftéis were;-classified "Confidential," Category 2, Information contained therein identifies subjects as members of Klavern 102, National . Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, This information would not lead to the identity of the informant and if the informant were identified, it would not affect national security. Although New York has separate cases on subjects, Bureau does not have individual cases on these subjects, members of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, but rather this matter is being handled in the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan organizatiori file, 157-168,¥ anon supect:| od 3 SLT cette * UNITED STATES GOV! ENT Memorandum DIRECTQR, FBI pate: 7/22/74 : NED ronnie CONTA * lee NEW YORK (157-10772) (C) ween Ph Cyphowna. Seah ee tne 3, captioned IKKKK) , EM." Captioned subject has been identified a as being a member 2, NKKKK, New York State Realm, Pine Bush, NY! is presently employed as a Review of NYO indi iscloses no references identifiable with previously advised subject submitted an application for membership in Klavern 102 during the Summer, 1973, but was never initiated as a member, or attended any Klan’ meetings. Accordingly, on 3/6/74, by SAS) in vicinity of| Ine Bush, NY, at which time He appeared cordial and receptive, He stated he was aware of NKKKK activity in the Pine Bush, NY, area as klan literature __ had been distributed throughout that area. He commented that his knowledge of any individuals involved with the NKKKK was based only on hearsay and he did not wish to disclose their identities oI related hat atone tine he was con- sidering joining the NKKKK gojeryout of curiosity. We comented that after further consideration he would be jeopardized. he interview ‘adi New York State Realm, NRKKK, having BEA clanbake Fe ace in Pine Bush e Summer, 1973, He commented he did“TOe = jas involved with klan. 8 sul 25 19 @- sureau (RH WB x AA 1 - New York eee ac CHES 9 arengNY 157-10772 PRE L Salas appeared cooperative when inter- Viewed, stated he would attempt to locate some of the klan literature which had been distributed in the are: on 3/8/74 was reinterviewed by SA at which time he advised he was unable to locate any Klan literature which had been distributed in the Pi + NY, area, During the course of this interview indicated that he would under no circumstances join the klan because he felt it would jeopardize his future earned of any violence being planned by the NKKKK in the area. On 4/14/74, dvised the subject was initiated into Klavern 1UZ, Pine Bus held on 4/12/74, at the residence of On 2/4/74, SGT. Ulster County Sheriff's Office, Kingston, NY, which covers Pine Bush, NY, upon review of the files of that agi 1d’Locate no arrest record identifiable wi: — The following is a description of the subjec; through observation and interview on 3/6/74, and fron] supra on 6/12/74 OT,NY 157-10772 Name Race Sex “Birth Residence Height Weight Hair Eyes Social Security Account Number Military Marital status Occupation Employment, ‘Education Arrests Auto on 7/3/74,| ______ravised tha continues to be active as a mamber of Klavern 102, Pine Bush, NY. Source commented the subject has never promoted or advocated violence relative to his affiliation with the klan, It is noted the subject's activities to date indicate no propensity for violence and it is felt that further in- vestigation in this matter is not warranted at this time. sablesete involvement with the NKKKK is sind cleselt followed = The above is being furnished the Bureau for indexing purposes per instructions set forth in reBulet.eae 106. aaa ot “Memorandum DIRECTOR, FBI (157-168) pate: 9/6/74 i Seon fA se, woman (asr—3980) (yy INFORMATION CONTAINED 2 (evn, ren or —_HERENYIS UNCLASStFIED Vv dni tpei’ting Ty x { : Have lar ae ae enusip SEP 12 gh O-7 BAL OMG MEM ~ Teo” DAE 9 ll Re; New York airtel to marge ld Enclosed for the Bureau are eight copies of an LHM, captioned as above. The LHM sets out information indicating that the National Klan of New Jersey, and possibly the National Klan of fennsylvania and South Carolina were assuming an independent status. Atlanta is requested to advise whether it is in possession of any information which would tend to verify this information which would reflect a change of affiliation with the National Klan. Enclosed for each receiving office is an in~ formation copy of the LHM. Enclosed LHM has been classified “confidential” to protect the identity of the source utilized. Source utilized in LIM ts[___ka57-29807 191 and 209). reau (Zinc. 8 a eeaiaG-80) oe. 2) 7 — xt 1-Columbia/(157-141) (Ene. 1 1~Phi lade 1phia/”(157-2035) (Ene. wm sep 9 1974 1-New York/(157-8010) (Ene, 1) 2-Newarkonl, STATES DEPARTMENT OF rcs FEDBRAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION - Newark, New Jersey In Reply, Ploe Refer to fen ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED, September 6, 1974 LEREIN 1S UNCLASSIFIED DATE 4 20-2 BY sea ‘THE NATIONAL KnIGHTs OF THE? OO KU KLUX KLAN, INCORPORATED The National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Incorporated, (NKKKK), was granted a charter in Georgia in 1963 as a “patriotic, secret, social, and benevolent order," The NKKKK, ‘a consolidation of various klans in southern states, continues to be anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic, and anti-foreign born, On April 23, 1974, a source, who has furnished reliable information in the past, furnished the following information: A meeting of the State Board of the New Jersey Realm, NKKEK, was held on April 16, 1974, at the home of eee of New Jers At this meeting, a motion made and eee Elan of New Jersey go independent claimed to be speaking for the National i stated that Pennsylvania would follow New Jer: Be coming affiliated with the Independent Klans, further indicated ti ‘or the Independent Kian were being issued by| lof the South Carolina Klan, ~ On April 30, 1974, this same source furnished in- formation indicating the following: CLASSIFIED BY EXEMPT FROM GENERA meee eh EEE Peecrnondat tons nor gonciusions of the FAI. It is the property of the FBI and 1s leaned to your agenoy; At end its contents are not to be Astributed outside eagney=pie bID THE NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, INCORPORATED A meeting of Unit Number 1, NKKKK, Realm of N ld on April 30, 1974, at the home eee this meeting, it was mentioned that Unit Number 1 would be known hereafter as the -kumberland Konservation Kiub.of, New Jersey, Realm 7 SETTER ‘lan, and that a checking account in this name had been opened at the Cumberland National Bank, Bridgeton, New Jersey. At this meeting, tentative plans were made for a pilot board meeting to which all Klan Grand Dragons would be invited. statement was made that| dependent Klan, Realm of New York, ‘promised $100 to help defray the cost of this meeting.lit 1 OF AMERICA, INC. (UKA) GHTS OF THE KU KL ee macige rene GLAS onre.? nel This is to advise that the 1974 National Klonvokation (annual convention) of the United Kleans of America, Inc, (UKA), Knights of the Ku Klux Kian, 1s again scheduled for the Labor Day weekend at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. This year, as last, the Klonvokation dates coincide with the annual convention and cross burning of a top rival Klan group, the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK), That affair will be held at Stone Mountain, Georgia. We will have informant coverage for both events. The UKA, organized in 1961, currently the largest of 15 existing Klen organizations with members in 18 states, has normally held its Klonvokation up until last year. Last year,| of the UKA, set the Klonvokation for the Labor Day weekend. He 4 did this because he hoped to thereby get some advance of funds for the treasury and also because the UKA, besides experiencing serious financial problems, was also experiencing a loss of membership with threats units and members were planning © to defect to the NKKKK, jis scheduled to be the principal O speaker at the UKA affa: ‘expects the Grand Dragon (State President) and other representatives to attend from each of the 18 states. The Grand Dragons will meet on Friday evening 8/30/74 with most of the convention activities scheduled for Saturday and Sunday 8/31-9/1/74. Attendance this year is expected to be about 200 members. ae z '~370 157-168 (NKKKK) iB scp 3 197% 5 6 SEP 6! 1974 _—$ Yanorandsn cof Rei United Klans of America, Inc. Knights of the Ku Klux Klan National Klonvokation, 1974 Extremist Matter - Klan 157-370 The WKKKK, chartered in Georgia in 1963, has each year held an annual convention - rally and eross burning on the Labor Day weekend to commemorate the "rebirth" of the Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia, in 1915. This year the rally is again scheduled to be held at Stone Mountain on Saturday evening, 8/31/74, Although the NKKKK is represented in only 6 states, Imperial Wizard Janes R. Venable has sent invitations to many Klansmen througheut the country and expects a crow! of about 250 will be present. The Saturday evening cross burning, open to sympathizers as well as members, is normally the highlight of the annual affair, Venable is in poor health due to a recent operation and it is not known if he will speak at the Saturday rally. Pertinent field offices involved have been advised of these acheduled events and we are arranging appropriate informant coverage to be alert to any major problems or policy matters discussed, particularly at closed meetings and caucuses. ACTION: For information.STATES DEPARTMENT (22: RAL BUREAU OF INVES Coknbia, South Carolina In Reply, Pease Refer Marvgust 20, 1974 Bussonee-eurours OF” THE~KU-KLUX KEAN, ‘ INCORPORATED. (NKKKK) SOUTH CAROLINA REALM EXTREMIST MATTERS = KLAN Characterization of Subversive Organization Sources have advised that the Natbnal Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Incorporated (NKKKK) South Carolina Realm, was officially formed in South Carolina in October, 1973, and is subordinate to the parent group at Stone Mountain, Georgia, and i ce from the National Headquarters. lof this organization and its State neadquar Tg address is Post Office Box 717, Laurens, South Carolina, 29360. (Characterization of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Incorporated, should be used in conjunction with above.) ALL INFORCAATION CONTAWVED HERE 18 UNCLASSITIED. Sources: TxiLED = SEPG 1974 ot 1974 approven SEP 6 1974ns ae Transmit the following in (Hype tn plaintext ot coded Vio __AIRTEL i Trion? DIRECTOR, FBI (157-168) FROM: SAC, NEW YORK (157-8010) (P*) r y SUBJECT: Guursonat, KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN (NKKKK) ae ‘EM - KLAN xe 18, (00: at) wen Enclosed herewith for the Bureau are eight copies of an LHM, captioned and dated as above, concerning the activities of Klavern 102, New York State Realm, NKKKK, Pine Bush, NY, on 8/10/74. Appropriate copies of the LHM based on its contents Svare enclosed for indicated offices. Attached are-two copies of an FD-376 for transmittal to Secret Service, WDC. A copy of the LHM 4s being disseminated to Secret Q G 3 service, N¥C. Atlanta (Encl 8 - Philadelphia 2 = 157- 2 - 157- 157- is7- 187- 157- 2 - New York | tee ED 576 GET KID fee st ect (5) IES Se 5 ; Bureau (Encls,NY 157-8010 Source utilized in the LHM is For information of ta and Philadelphia; Bulet to New York, dated 9/11/73, captioned as above, instructed that all members of Klavern 162 be identified, condueting limited investigations to determine whether they posse8s a propensity for violence and hence establishing whether a full investigation is.warranted in accordance with Section 122 of.’the Manual of Instructions. ” . ‘The Bureau is aware of the identities of the Klavern 102 mémbers with exception of the following, on which limited inquiries are pregently being conducted: New York will initiate limited inquiry on the following Klavern 102 members who were initiated 8/10/74, to develop background and ascertain their propensity for violence: FD-306s are being prepared and @isseminated to subjects of NYO files who participated in the activity described herein. Philadelphia ‘should exercise extreme any further action-on information fu the Induction into the klan of| in order not to jeopardize the identity of this source ‘of continuing value.UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE ©, PD876 iRev. 10-90-73) 8 “W" gprick of Tae DinxcToR e GF sen Oy FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535 August 16, 1974 le Reply, Please Refer, United States Secret Service FileNo, Bufile 1577168 Department of the Treasury NYfile 157-8010 Washington, D.C. 20220 RE: National Knights of the any Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK) ‘The information furnished herewith concems an individual or organization believed to be covered by the agreement between the FBI and Secret Service concerning protective responsibilities, and to fall within the category or categories checked. 1. (J Threats or actions against persons protected by Secret Service [Attempts or threats to redress grievances. 2. 3. (2 Threatening or abusive statement about U. 8. or foreign offi 4, | [Participation in civil disturbances, anti-U. $. demonstrations or hostile incidents against foreign diplomatic establishments. (J Megal bombing, bomb-mal or other terrorist activity. [7 Defector from U. 8. oF indicates desire to defect. '. (X) Potentially dangerous because of background, emotional instability or activity in groups engaged in activities inimical to U. 3. Photograph [—j has been furnished Jenclosed [is not available. Very truly yours, Clarence M. Kelley Director 1 ~ Spocial Agent in Charge (Enelosure(s)) (1) U. 8. Secret Service» NYC (RM) Enclosure(s) (1)&.. STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION i New York, New York Fuse ee Mere August 16, 1974 1. INFORERATION CONTAINED fenent 1 UNCLASSIFIED . National Knights of the nare.#.3/:6% BY Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK) On August 12, 1974, a confidential source furnished the following information regarding the annual clambake~~ sponsored by Klavern 102, New York State Realm, National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK), Pine Bush, New York residence of [ -— Pine Bush, New York. - The NKKKK was granted a charter in Georgia in 1963 as a "patriotic, secret, benevolent order." The NKKKK, a consolidation of various klans in the southern states, continues to be anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic, and anti-foreign born. Activity at the clambake began when people started to arrive at the| Property around 10:00 AM, Approximately 40 persons were in attendance including the following NKKKK members: Pennsylvania Realm - NKKKK members not identified This document contains neither The source whose identity recommendations nor conclusions is concealed herein has of the FBI. It is the property furnished reliable of the FBI and is loaned to your information in the past, agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. py hy =, 4 eo -1ep— ‘ENCLOSUREvoor S28 ga o National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK) Klavern 102 - New York State Realm, Pine Bush, New York [_TTFrtated the roifoping expenses were incurred for the clambake which totalled §3p8,20: Clams $170.00 Corn 14.00 Ice 16.50 Soda 22.00 Beer 36.50 Chicken. 9.20. ol A total of $166.28%Has donated t plambake ineludins $50.00 contributions by jang.a_$2! ution byl S money was given to ho stated the remainder of the money needed to pay the expenses would come from the treasury of the New York State Realm. Throughout the clambake activit: speeches were Aven by any of the NKKKK members poets Hees) Ceeperetavern 102, did announce to the gathering at a avern meeting would be held at 7:30 PM followed at 8:00 PM with a klan initiation ceremony. stated he had written a letter to Governor George Wallace of Alabama offering him klan-support for the 1976 presidential election campaign, a arNational Knights of the Ku Klux Klan’ (NKKKK) Around 8:00 PM, a NKKKK natura: held in the woods located to the rear of property a being inducted Into ‘625-Spring Avenue ork, New york -3-National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan’ (NKKKK) The NKKKK naturalization ceremony ended at 10:30 PM with the burning of a er; height. After the cross lighting ceremony, spoke to the klansmen:present about trust In each other and doing what is righ asa klan member. He thanked ‘or attending, but would not let them have the floor to give a speech, ere re memritve te gigging ceremony ant Smisse ie fan members at 11:30 PM. No comments promoting or advocating violence were made by any of the NKKKK members present at the clambake,SEP OAS Neve NRO@I ATLANTA PLAIN TELETYPE Fite & Gon 10313 AN NITEL SENT SEPTENBER 1, 1974 ATH {1 THFORHIATION CONTAINED ene is URN See ae: : DIRECTOR FBICATTENTION INT.» DAERAH coLUMBIA CINCINNATI ‘ CLEVELAND NEW ORLEANS eo JACKSONVILLE SAVANNAH ATLANTA ¢ [5 7-668) Z a ANNUALRALLY SPONSORED BY THECNATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KLU KLUX KLAN AT STONE MOUNTAIN ,GA. AUGUST 31,1974. EM-NKKKKe 621 satin whe Bas (ioie mht RT, A SOURCE REPORTED RALLY TOOK PLACE AS SCHEDULED AT 8:@@ PM, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31,1974. APPROXIMATELY BETWEEN 300-32) PEOPLE ATTENDED. SPEECHES GIVEN BY SEVEN KLANSMEN, AMONG THEM , NXKKK IMPERIAL WIZARD-JAMES R. VENABLE, NKKKK OHIO FROM SOUTH CAROLINA, AND [free MABLETON,GEORGIA. aLso| __] FROM BATON ROUGE,LA. ONE THIRTY FOOT CROSS BURNT. NO INCIDENTS ory ENOY stig "4 RALLY ENDED 10315 Pie REC- 106 - AF 7 sp 101974 | ADNINISTRABIVE a ovina en S RE ATLANTA TEL TO BUREAU AUGUST 7, 1574." SO} els), [eee] e Dies Joo-sac Criminal Dyviston 4feiic A047 leew LHM TO FOLLowe® ‘ vee ~ Cleat EO i Eatin ony yoRT apes Teles ais/7s OFFIEIAL NOTIFICATION OF ER’ Quay 2070) To SAG Atlanta Sebiect ANNUAL RALLY (Olas garelewpe (Amel CRadiogam CC Noneubstontve Error nctlty cpcopriate pertonnals mark notstion (}Substemtive Eeor «cet ats tenet foley and consider tn nt performence rlingh Coneldee Reference: [= Cover pages of SA THE NATIONAL. OFTHE Kus-KLUX KLAN AT STONE MOUNTAIN, GA. “AUGUST 31, 1974. EM-NKKEK, Caremnotsa Your mail dispatch of ‘ployee’ work recurs ae to any needed ceton ENLGHES Leuerhead Catewan daci 9/774 om ARLanta aaa te Seo LHL aEEEELEL ‘Take aperopriate action in connection with error i subject mater cheched below: [1 Aaiinsteotive Dore 5 Gee [ie Paited to subst leterssod rome re abject whe Se No description jrnmem enpioree. = Fie ett ronry of ram cttonnt en ntanecs ems fiat in cua, compan el werent eed bn ine Je: Roasen for protecting souren ct elven ‘fate nearing batow Uc. Vag. ast repr Ea. Docemontaton ro PISUR Agente citing [)a. Belay'in receiving Intonation tom P-D. iasaten lack of Se! Patsre to meet Say reverting rule alter ast alice Iateon 7 Inveatigattc (Cle. Transcripttc st cod Hed go oe Biss Es. Resoreing HE. Foiled Ge BSineaton > Fey ke swor stienen SE. Bete ormtenon Bb mpsomems coger ets (Wy. Goranson sea ohio Peete "FN Saies BS Space aated tof worn statement Seite Fae Sons 2 eames RC ne nteation Ui. & Norse nhs Mo. Cates. Pom Sa ry Pe am 1 &. 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A characterization of the National Knights of the KU: Klux Klan (NKKKK) was omitted in referenced teletype. Reliability statement arding source utilized in forth. referenced teletype was not set fo: wei augrnsanan OTE, Gu \ Je F a esa r S8her sume ME nada Us qFESR ¢ BUREAU OFF COMMUNICATIONS SECTION SEP 031974 NROGI AT PLAIN fi 11200 AM URGENT SEPTEMBER 3, 1974 JXV 0 oid cINctNNATE CLEVELAND DALLAS: ys EL PASO { ‘SAN ANTONIO HOUSTON FROM ATLANTA 157-68 P Director Sey 2 cONTARED aroma ‘penett 15 UROLASSIM ED WERE oate. 3 ATTNa INTD © i NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, EM = KLAN, OW SEPTEMBER 2, 1974, THE IMPERIAL BOARD MEETING OF THE NATIONAL WUTENTS OF THE KU YLUX WLAN CNKKKKD, MEETING AT STONE MOUNTAIN, GAs, anounced THat[ [FROM OHIO, AND BE THE ORGANIZATION'S PRESIDENTIAL AND is PRESIDENTIAL ries IN THE 1976 PRESIDENTIAL FLECTION. Pen (575 led ADMINISTRATIVE: RE ATLANTA TELETYPE{O/{HE BIREAU; qremeer—- 1, 1974, AND CAPTIONED “ANNUAL RALLY OF THE NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE XU ¥LUX HLAN AT STONE MOUNTAIN, GAs, AUGUST 31, 1974.7 ae wife Bo ‘sum arery“aINITED STATES Goy “Aen ~~ Memorandiwm DIRECTOR, FBI (157-168) pate: 8/30/74 f tt (©, CLEVELAND (157-5031) (P) ee ‘TIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX ws i N, INCORPORATED (NKKKK) Pow EM ~ KLAN WEE o Re Cleveland LHM to Bureau, 6/3/74. Enclosed for the Bureau are eight (8) copies an LHM, dated and captioned as above. Also being submitted are two copies of FD-376, ‘Two copies of LHM are being forwarded to the United States Secret Service, Cleveland, Ohio. Informational copies of the enclosed LHM are being sent to the Atlanta and Cincinnati Divisions for information. INFORMANTS ing/datelined Atlanta, Georgia, for further protectio mn of this source, Individuals ‘mentioned in the LHM who reside within the Cleveland Division are all subjects of current or past investigation. DB Bureau (Enc. “ype fe @- 2 ta’ (En¢ 1S 7- = LY Fe hy ? BEM 2 2 - Cleveland JRM: Jes no) ecret, service /. Dd cyt, - AAG Civil Rights Div. faccrisinar sive (Y Atta? ISS = Miter Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings PlanCV 157-5031 Cleveland will continue to follow and report the activities of the Ohio National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535 Atlanta, Georgia August 30, 1974 Director In Reply, United States Secret Service Fite w Department of the Treasury Washington, D.C. 20220 RE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, INCORPORATED (NKKKK) Dear Sir ‘The information furnishod herewith concoms an individual or organization believed to be covered by the agreement between the FBI and Secret Service concerning protective rosponsibilities, and to fall within the category or categories checked. 1. [2 Threats or actions against persons protected by Secret Service. 2. (*] Attempts or threats to redress grievances. 3. (2 Threatening or abusive statement about U. S. or foreign official. 4. © Participation in civil disturbances, anti-U. S. demonstrations or hostile incidents against foreign diplomatic establishments. 5. [J Mlegal bombing, bomb-making or other terrorist activity. 8. [J] Defector from U.S. or indicates desire to defect. 7. (Potentially dangerous because of background, emotional instability ot activity in groups engaged in activities inimical to U. 8. ished CJenclosed is not available. Photograph [J has been fu Very truly yours, Clarence M. Kelley Director 1 = Special Agent in Charge (Enelosure(s)) (2) U. S. Secret Service, Cleveland (By Hand) Enelosure(s)FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Atlanta, Georgia August 30, 1974 ‘ALL ISFORMATION CONTAINED MEREIN IS UNCLASSIFIED. DATE. #.5/:88; BSC NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX KLAN INCORPORATED (NKKKK’ l gt, [Jara nae[ —] Ohio National Knights of ux klen met with about 20 members of Gieveland faction of the Onto NKKKK on July 27, 1974. The Clevelan; 8 armed with handguns (concealed), according to| Source stated that[_—___Jhowever, was not arme: the following week, On the Cleveland faction wes going t; State Office of the Ohio NKKKK and thé was not going to dictate to the Cleveland faction. There was no incident at this meeting. NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, INC. (NKKKK) The National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., (NKKKK), was granted a charter in Georgia in 1963 as a "patriotic, secret, social social, and benevolent order." The NKKKK, @ consolidation of various Klans in southern States, continues to be anti-~ Negro, anti-Jewish, anti~Catholic and anti-foreign botn. July 31, 1974,[-___Jeavised that an NKKKK dat the residence of Ohio Klan member n Columbus, Ohio. Source adviséd that. ORGANIZATION ‘MEMBER OF SUBJECT Sources whose identities are concealed herein have furnished reliable information in the soe past except where otherwise noted. waRE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, INCORPORATED (NKKKK very few people / “Sourey the main purpose of this meeting was for| to reassess his Klan strength in view of recent defections by Klan members in the Clevela, ayton, Onio areas, Source further stated tha fished to evaluate the potential of his remaining Support and at this meeting he laid down his new policies and objectives for the Ohio NKKKK and he designated his new state officers which would assist bim in the carrying out of these new plans and objectives. advised tne pas. the. torner for the Ohio NRRXK and has traveled with fon many occasions in the past concerning Klan matters throughout the state of Ohio, Source also advises that[ position asRE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, INCORPORATED (NKKKK) Ku is a position formerl Klan member, Source stated that} ntends to noteey hat he is no longer w fe Ohio NEKKK and that al, an material in his possession should be Source stated that Klan sonber[—— vee formerly and may still be an affiliate of the Dayton Chapter’ o ational State Rights Party and source dosertteef | as follows: Age: Height: Build Hair: Characteristics; NATIONAL STATE RIGHTS PARTY The National States Rights Party (NSRP) » formerly known as the United White Party, was organized in 1957 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The NSRP's official party line promotes hatred against Jews, Negroes, Communists and certain law enforcement agencies, NSRP National Chairman J.B. STONER has publicly advocated killing or deporting Jews; deportation of Negroes; "doing away with FBI pimps"; and repeal of all civil rights laws, The NSRP carries out its line of hatred through the use of propaganda media and provocative demonstrations. Source stated thatL___]aia sesist{ in his campaign efforts for the governorshin primary by collecting approximately 200 petition signatures. 5 ed that ho has. / worked witl for about seven years, is a relatively néw applicant and did not have much to do versation at this meeting. bed | jas follows: . Height: 3RE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX KLAN, INCORPORATED (NKKKK) Build: Hair: Characteristics: Source stated that! Ohio, and has been selected by nly because he could not find anyone else in the Cleveland, Ohio region to fill the vacancy. Sour, at | he and that| ource stated tha nas charged with the main function to keep tabs on the seceded Cleveland faction. Source stated that Klan member] n the Columbus,area, Source : . = = = “ — = : = : = — oa Ephiowinsae ‘gotabiisn iar piblication qo) aw newspaper form Tor the purposes “of educating ‘the unin-. (férmed. masses of. the global conspiracy, obtaining: revenue f roviding a’ mediun' “p'for the unification of all Klan. groups throughout the 'Uni= as ited. States. through a recular activity. report column foous=; !Yng.on the efforts of Klan zroups ‘throughout the United" «: «States This project: wil) bea’ major Dreakenrouay for the yo progress’ of the Ohio W “yo all members... The. establishment of an assdciate status: with the: Ohio. Ne K:K.K.x., for the purpose of obtaining regular ‘eontriput: from individuals. “Who do- not’ see it proper “for thi ‘hel to becomea member, but would like to, be“able”to ‘certify: theif having supported thé: Ohio 'N.K.K.. es Ane Of Supporter card ‘will be iseued to“such individuals for an: i Stavlished mintmum contributions The Official’ Supporter he card will bear an‘expiration date just as le membership...’ card does, inorder to secure a regular annual or semi> ~ Yvamnual contribution. The supportership ‘program! -well.in’ the past. or other: Patriotic, Christia: and often results in ‘the Qreyetal Supporter: ‘becom: ng” “Cer of the organization. i 36Tre Impiimentation. of an‘educdtional programa Members of the Chio N-K-«.Ksks for the benifit of shaving @ WeLl informed organtzaticn And enabling its members,. the ‘fore, to effectively spread the Truth and: Warr thé public: of |the global conspiracy; ‘to: reinforce ‘the: Chris} amd materials necessary to defend our Race and Survive aur: ine'the stugsle to cone. WThe. _AnpLimentation of @ security systemand/ort erecniea th of sate Within, the ‘structure Of! the Onto N.K.KskuKs. to “protest: stiex ‘ ‘Orter. from subversion, infiltration and att ack:.from Hheand, without.) Sguveniers ror the se , Purposes of, South “aay. needed. revenue ey 5 :jer Cofrespondanice and” communication ‘ the, Pield levels ofthe Order, will: lnducé a better relationship among -them,.and willadd: (ly, to. the ‘over, #11 piticlensy of! the ORLO Nei KK 2 ‘A sence of responsibility. to the growth’ and progress of’ ‘the Onto N.K.K.K,K-,° which 1s compelled by.a dedication’ ae to-Jesus: Christ,” Race ‘and \Country shouldbe: felt byrevery, re “xshould, be composed. of} Reliable and Responsible ° andivtaueys. Trithis: eriterion ts:used we will beable. to avold, many fof: “the problems. we nee experient din’ the. pastes. We. ‘must, “how begin. to bulla our order from cwithin, ‘en the istructure:and composition: of: the Ohio, Nw In the past we have dedicated, the greater’ portion’ of our.) - “efforte: to: propogating the. truth ‘and. attempting tovattain”.\')). “Support ‘from the Caucasian ma'jority-of .this nation The. utile table of ouf enemy now constrains us to: redirect ‘our, iv efforts.to the establishment: ofan Indestructable,..Revolu- onary Order dedicated. ‘tothe redemption of. our. Christian Mi ture and, the: Breservation, of. our: ‘Race: “Avgreater sense of true Brétherhbod,/ardl. a eensalor! mutual’ janderstend ing must. ‘be: maintained ‘by the members. of ‘thé “Ohio KekWK.K.. We are a fraternity. of Christians asi mich: ‘a: woare a Revolutionary. Order, If we :consider one. another: 4 LOM. frictt Will ‘be .keptto. the absolute minimum; ial] owini the Orden. ° to-operate-on.thevhighest level of “effictency.."Be’kindly,:? ‘Affectioned ‘ore. to! another with: brotherly. love i) Preferring one Another." Homans! 12:10." 5. The suosess of the Ohio N:K.K.K.K. wnt aependton the iabil- ity it has to.maintain the, Secrecy of its compositton and, activities. This: is why our enemy fears. us.and Seeks: to divide and ssubyeért us," for the'-very reason. sthat: ‘we are Secrét organization. livery’ member.’ Grand Dedgon OF Tha 23 NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX KLAN, INCORPORATED (NKKKK) On Au 1974,[____advisea thatL ___] jwent to the Loveland-Cinginn Ohio area_on August 3, a emma met with loyal @ regions poke with NKKKK land, Ohio, and also with Greater Cincinnati, Ohio area, at his yésidence in Winchester, Ohio. on the date, ___ladvisea tae[ eae in igot with an assoubly of DAytOn Porat enters at the residence of Dayton member ion August 4, 1974, Source stated that this meeting lasted approximately one hour and was attended by the two top Kl; re; nd individual namex ‘ce advised that the purpose of the trip by during this weekend was to outline his new program for the Ohio NKKKK in which he spelled out his new policies and objectives. This document contains neither recomuendat ions nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.bc 7 om As pa DIRECTOR, FBI (157-168) 4 » CLEVELAND (157-5031) (P) \TIONAL KNIGHTS OF ‘THE KU KLUX KLAN (NKKKK) EM - secu 00; Atlanta Re Atlanta niter Go ‘tn te Bureau and other offices, 9/1/74. Enclosed for the Bureau are eight (8) copies of an LHM, dated and captioned as above. Two (2) copies of the LHM are being disseminated to U.S. Secret Service, Cleveland, Ohio. Two (2) copies of an FD-376 are also being submitted. Informational copies of the enclosed LHM are also being forwarded to those divisions which had represented at the convention over the Labor Day weekend. The sources utilized in the enclosed LHM are.as follows: ‘The LHM is further datelined Atlanta, Georgia for additional protection of thig, source. Bureau cme) (20, Atlanta (Enc. if Birmingndn ‘Ene. Ra Cincinnati (Ene. i Columbia (Bne. 1 Dallas (Enc. 1 shee) Ra) a Jackson (Enc. (Bato) tn New Orleans (md. 1) ¢ no) (RM) Miami (Enc. § (into Philadelphia (Enc. 1 ato) fg Secret Sorvice/ p-> Cleveland ~~ AAG Civil Rights Div. AKG Criginal Div, 18s DEP PRR PEE Charlotte (Enc. 1) RM, a1 (Ges tate) 2 ge 1) SEP 19 1974 \/ PAT ROA “Av acti PN” mars Racv 157-5031 Individuals mentioned in the LHM who reside within the Cleveland Division are all subjects of current or past investigation. Cleveland will continue to follow and report the activities of the Onio NKKKK,DATE Mev. 109-73) i UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, D.C. 20535 Atlanta, Georgia September 13, 1974 Director 0 Refer to United States Secret Service Department of the Treasury Washington, D.C. 20220 RE: wangONAL MHIGHTS OF HE KU Doar Sir: KLUX KLAN (NKKKK) ‘The information furnished herewith concerns an individual or organization believed to be covered by the agreemont between the FBI and Secret Service conceming protective responsibilities, and to fall within the category or categories checked. 1. 1) Threats or actions against persons protected by Secret Service. 2. [Attempts or threats to redress grievances 3. (] Threatening or abusive statement about U. S. or foreign official. 4. (7 Participation in civil disturbances, anti-U. $. demonsteations or hostile incidents against foreign diplomatic establishments. [J Megal bombing, bomb-making or other terrorist activity. [5 Detector from U. 8. oF indicates desire to defect. - (] Potentially dangerous because of background, emotional instability or activity in groups engaged in activities inimical to U. 8. Photograph [has been furnished [“Jenclosed 1] is not available. Very truly yours, Clarence M. Kelley Director 1 = Special Agent in Charge (Enclosure(s)) (2) U. S, Seerot Service cleveland Enclosure(s)@ @ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Dé bic b7D FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Atlanta, Georgia september 13, 197% NATIONAL KHIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX KLAN (NKKKK) on September 5, 1974] Jno has furnished reliable information in the past advised that the 1974 National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK) convention held in Stone Mountain, Georgia during the Labor Day weekend was represented by delegations from the states of Ohio, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Florida, and North Carolina. ‘There were also several representatives from California, Pennsylvania and Mississippi. NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX KLAN, InIC. (WKKKK) The National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Inc., (NKKKK) was granted a charter in Georgia in 1963 as a tpatriotic, secret, social, and benevolent order." The BKKKK, @ consoli- dation of various Klans in southern states, continues to be anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-foreign born. Source advised that the first official activity was the annual NKKKK opening or rally beginning at 8:15 p.m. on August 31, 1974. JAMES VENABLE introduced the speakers, interjecting Klean history and ideology between the speeches. Source stated that the following individuals spoke at the 1974 NKKKK convention rally: SS the Louisiana qa KKKK operates in cooperation with the however, it is an associate of the NKKKK. Cerro mera hitcussed for 30 to Ho ainutes the heritage ux Klan, during the reconstruction period and compared the raae of the Klan in the past, to the rise of the Klan during contemporary times. Source stated that [ ES pad EN TES ST-168 |( See So ts nro ‘OH Fue BATION ii 7 PAST EXCEPT WHERE Orrinnt Nore,o Rl NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX KLAN (NKKKK! Tre alrericcts much of the propaganda and political Strategy maintained by tonal Socialist White Peoples Party (NSWPP). ig ACtAVE With the NSWPP during the late 60s. NATIONAL SOCIALIST WHITE PEOPLE's PARTY (NSWPP) Also Known As, THE AMERICAN NAZI PARTY, AMERICAN WAZIS, THE WORLD UNION OF FREE ENTERPRISE NATIONAL SOCZLISTS, THE GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL PARTY The American Nazi Party - The world Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists was organized by George Lincoln Rockwell on February 26, 21996;, based upon the concept of an international *National Socialist" movement, as espoused by the German Nazi Party, which was headed by Adolf Hitler. on January 1, 1967, the official name of this organization was changed to National Socialist white People's Party. The NSWPP supports and follows the line of hatred against blacks, Jews and communists through various propaganda media, demonstrations, and other publicity- seeking devices for the purpose of seeking a legitimate dominant political party within the United States and in foreign countries. Headquartered in Arlingt NSWPP is currently led by| eS (member of the Florida NKKKK since 192k) discussed the Christian rraternal concept of the NKKKK and reflected ve: pitta sects ideology during his 30 minute addres: as soft-spoken and perhaps the least radical or militamtof all Klan speakers this day. Speaking after[ ]was a masked Klan lady from Florida, who reenforced the Christian idealism of the NKKKK and reaffirmed that Jesus Christ was the leader of the NKKKK.~o RE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX KLAN (NKKKK) Source advised that this Klan's lady also spoke at the NKKKK convention meeting on September 1, 1974 held at the Imperial Palace. Source stated that she spoke without her robe on September 1, 1974 and she is about 55 to 65 years old, with red nair, medium height and build, and wears glasses, Source further advised that the next speaker was a Klan officer from either Alabama or Texas. He began fis speach by screaming "Are you a white man?" ‘This individual made the congregation reply to his questions and then continued his address in a typical anti-Negro, anti-Semitic ideology. lor the Texas NKKKK) propagated a very radical ideology, calling for an @nd to’the non-wites in America by using whatever means necessary. Ohio, Source stated that ‘Said that the whites are a@ greater ‘threat to the ie blacks and the = {j"" Jews. Source advised t dress, which had a less radical tone thi fended with an excerpt from a, PATRICK HENRY speech, "Give me liberty or give me jeath." Same source advised that at least half the congregation left the festivities after the cress\llumination, which reduced the attendance at the rally from about 350 see ¢ =e : o stated that after the cross illumination South Carolina NKKKK) spoke to explained that his klanemen were prepared to physically oppose and resist busing in South Carolina when racial tensions had reached their peak during 1973. id that he told several parents who came to him for 1973 that he would take the school building apart "brick by brick" if the school officials of the particular school districts involved did not release their children into the custody of the parents immediately.Ri NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX_KLAN (NKKKK’ ce advised after poke, 4 Jor Pennsylvania NEKKK) then read from a five,“ page handwritten manuscript in a monotone regarding the (/% Bible and the spiritual nature of the Jews, source stated eee —““——} ae Georgia NKKKK) discussed the heritage an sology of the NKKKK, referring to the organization as a "politically oriented organization" rather than a military oriented one. 7 was the last speaker, focusing on the relation of the white e Bible, and the spiritual significance of the NKKKK.| ropagated. the “identity ministry" which puts the Christian religion into a group which makes it applicable to white ‘Fing ideology terminated the rally that date with a brief prayer. Source stated that the four public address for the rally this date belonged to| eee advised that during] ________kpeecn, presented the South Carolina Grand Dragon with a plaqw@ from the Greensville, South Carolina lodge of the NKKKK for their appreciation off efforts to organize the NKKKK in South Carolina. Source advised that about 100 to 150 robed klansmen attended the 1974 NKKKK rally on this date. Source advised that there were about 24 male and female NKKKK security guards from South Carolina in attendance with ages ranging from 16 to 45 years old. Source stated that these guards wore black uniforms with arm badges and were unarmed. ‘Their function was limited to directing traffic and parking cars on August 31, 1974. Source stated that there were no incidents or violence during this date, and that the entire rally was filmed by the American Broadcasting Company (ABC). on september 5, rot [dno has furnished reliable information in the pas’ advised that on September 1, 1974 from 9:00 a.m. until 10:45 a.m. a breakfast was provided for about 75 to 100 delegates of the 1974 NKKKK klonvention meeting at the Imperial Palace in Stone Mountain,RE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX_KLAN_(NKKKK) Georgia. Source stated that beginning at 11:00 a.m. various speakers representing klan groups throughout the U.S. occupied the platform at the Imperial Palace until 3:45 p.m. that date. Source stated that the speakers in ther approximate order were as follows: A South Carolina klan officer (described as in his mid-50s, medium to heavy build, 5'8" to 5'11", dark hair, bald on top). This speaker insisted that the NKKKK should never cross the boundaries of being a Christian fraternalorganization. He mentioned that he was violently opposed to the racist-hate ideology maintained by many klan officers. then took issue iwith the speaker vetore ~~ him, stating as follows: "The klan is the ction organization. When the enemy pickets, we must picket. when the enemy demonstrates, we must demonstrate. When the enemy moves, he must advance. The white majority of this nation will be lookhg for the most radical means to a solution for their problems. TI ho} the klan will be that means." Source stated that| hen compared this theory to the reason why the Russians chose the Bolsheviks over the Mensheviks during the Russian revolution, and why the Bolsheviks were more radical than the minority party at that time, Source stated that left for Baton Rouge, Louisiana after he spoke to the delegates this day. Ce STS atten Plasted pacitist and non Gctivist philosophy, stating that he hopes that he returns to Texas with a racist, hate image because he wants to attract racist haters. [ Tthen advised the: elderly klansmen and Klansladies followed| speaking in a casual manner, focusing on the virtures and spiritual significance of "klancraft." Ac Same source advised that| then spoke in a very emphatic manner, blaming men Tor holding the progress of his Ohio organization back. He also stated that if an imperial board was not formed before he returned to Ohio, he would never return to another KKKKK convention or activity.RE NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX_KLAN_(NKKKK) Same source advised that[ __]then dis- cussed his progress and sat, on with £he NKKKK. Source stated that althaugh| maintains an extreme philosophy, he does not follow a militart program in South Carolina, and refers to the NKKKK as a political instrument of the Caucasian majority of the U.S. Source stated that at the end ol speech this date he was presented with another plaqw from the lodge in South Carolina. urce stated that the next speaker this date Z state Organizer for the Ohio.NKKKK. hat he hoped to. prepare the Ohio NKKKK hen mentioned Tight wing ideology, then for several minutes over Source advised that following several more elderly speakers, including ke from Florida. ource advised that[ ______Jroliowad spoke with the same philosophy as tated that the NKKKK was a political representative for the white majority in the U.S. Source advised that| then briefly discussed the recent Se burHIng activity in Cleveland, Ohio, Ga jource ed that also speak: ber 1, rom Florida. 7 Source stated that JAMES/VENABLE introduced an\, the speakers on September 1, 1974 and addressed the delegation several times, discussing klan virtures and christian idealism as applied to the political strategy _ eosRE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX KLAN (NKKKK) Same source advised that the final speaker this date was a self-claimed minister residing in Georgia, whose sermon bore more on evangelism than the klan. He terminated the meeting with a prayer. Source stated that from 3:45 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. a Russian smorgasbord was provided for the September 1, 1974 delegation to the NKKKK convention at the Imperial Palace of the NKKKK, on September 5, 1974 a that the 1974 Imperial Board meeting of 1c was held in the rear office room of the Imperial Palace from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. on September 1, 1974, Attending delegates to this meeting were: JAMES VENABLE (Chairman of the NKKKK Imperial Board) A few other unidentified individuals.e NATIONAL KNIGHTS OP THE KU_KLUX KLAN (NKKKK ouree stated enae{ acted as advisors to ie board members 4’ U this meeting. Same source advised a: fa began with a prayer by| phe then demanded that every delegate at the meeting be interrogated to insure that no Catholics were attending, or he would drop out of the Imperial Board. Every delegate was then interrogated by Chairman JAMES VENABLE and no Catholics were found to be in attendance. Source advised that the Imperial Board then “ compiled an official Imperial Board press release, composed of the political aims and goals of the NKKKK. Source advised that these aims and goals were the common objectives such as the distllusion of the U.S. in the United Nations, lower taxes, and the restoration of the U.S. constitution. The Imperial Board also released a resolution that the NKKKK abhorred the nomination of NELSON ROCKERFELLER for Vice-President of the U.S, This press release was submitted to the UPI and AP by [scenes] during the Imperial Board meeting. Same source advised that the Imperial Board then voted to raise the initiation fee of the NKKKK to new members, and/or applicants from 15 to 20 dollars and yearly dues from 12 to 24 dollars. An additional resolution was added that inhardship cases the initiation fee and dues would be set at the discretion of the Grand Dragon of the state. Source advised that at this meeting JAMES VENABLE advised that the klan would be, 1976 Presidential election would run for president selected from Texas as his Vice-Presidential candidate. Source stated that this move on the part of VENABLE fas mainly to give the ne Yr reporters something to write about, and Ena adnevined that he would not confirm any efforts on his part to run for the president until at least December of 1974.RE! NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX KLAN (NKKKK Source advised that the remainder of the Imperial Board meeting was dedicated to informal discussion and was adjurned with a prayer by a minister. The next Imperial Board meeting has been scheduled for sometime in December, 1974. on September 5, 1974,[__]who has furnished reliable information in the past, provided the following background and descriptive data concerning some of those individuals in attendance at the annual NKKKK convention at Stone Mountain, Georgia over the Labor Day Weekend: Name Title Residence Descent Age Hair Build Height Station wagon, bearing 1974 Pennsylvania license number 927349. Title Employment Age Hair Eyes Height BuildRE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN (NKKKK) mother and father are active in the South carolina NKKKK and both attended the August 31, 1974 rally. Source advised tha{_________Irrom south Carolina was not convent ion. Source stated thatL are not the best of friends. Name Alias Age Height Build Hair Vehicle Name Height Age Build Hair Name Residence Name . Residence Name ResidenceRE: NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX KLAN (NKKKK was also accompanied by and two other individuals from the Dayton, Onio area. Name Residence Name Residence on september 5, 7 a has furnished reliable information in the past, provided the following calling cards, which were passed out by individuals in attendance at’the 1974 NKKKK convention at Stone Mountain, Georgia:ot You have been patronized by the KU KLUX KLAN bé 7c SOON) AVON XADI AT SHL dO SZHOINY ‘TWNOILWN tauaS SDDDIN) NVDT XD! AT SHEL dO SLHOINY ‘IvNOLLYN Cftice Of Grand DragonNATIONAL KNIGHTS SECURITY GUAKD FOR NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN VGvE MY LIFE MY BLOOD MY ALL 600 GIVE me GRACE THAT | NOT FALL MWS 18 TO CERTIFY THAT CURITY FOR THE SHL JO SLHOINA TWNOTLYN HON) NAVD XAD!28 oo we ue RVD! xnrDE 1 Ny TWNOTLYN iN) THOT! aFRIENDLY VISIT [mperial Wizard ~ Grand Dragon SOON) NV XD gAL dO SLHOINN TWNOILVN,Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, FOREVER SOON) NVR XAT OF SHL dO SGHOINY ‘TWNOLLYN KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN P.O, Box 1236 Denharn Springs, La. 70726Invisible. Empire Notional Knights Ky Klux Klan th “gh Wr Di NOT TYNOLLYN SSDom aHL gO SLHOTJAMES R. VENABLE MASONIC TEMPLE BLDG. DECATUR.GA, 30030 SOOO) NVDX XAT SHL dO SLHOINY TYNOTLYNGREETINGS You have been patronized by the KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN P. 0. Box 717, Laurens, S. ¢. WOON) AVON XAT! Mr aHL dO SEEOIN TYNOLLVNé NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU_KLUX KLAN (NKKKK) . on same date,[_____]a1so provided the following book concerning the “Invisible Empire of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan." This book was prepared by| from Ohio, which book was prepared Tor imperial wiza: VENABLE for the members in attendance:WVISIBLE: EMPIRE. -1S OUR ONLY SALVATIO} SAVE, AMERICA AND THE: WATTE RACE ‘THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE WORLD = A Short History, of the Klan ‘snd, why 1 have a Klansman for Fifty-Nine Years James R, Venable Inperial Wizard of :the National insights 2 THE KU KLIN KLAN, J -P, 0s Box tone Mountain, .GeNATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, INC. SEGREGATION - OUR SALVATION - ARYAN SURVIVAL. By! -DALE REUSCH Lwant my grandson to look-tike me— Be intelligent, Loyal; Happy and Free. Notell-taie marks upon his face To brand him with a Mongrel Race. Be loyal to the Nation and the South With active deeds and word of mouth, Preserve the Aryaiy Race—the Whites ‘Arid ready to battle for their rights. ‘The niegro should also want his grandson ‘To always be and look like one Of his owri Rave, aid in color ind shade, Be like the negro the good Lord made. He should not want a spot of white To deny his grandson his inborn right "To be as Black as the Lord ‘decreed— _ Like his old Ancestor when he was Freed. “The Mulatto is the Mark of Death, ~ Should cause both Races to hold their Breath, He defies what the good Lord has in mind ‘When He said—"EVERYTHING AFTER ITS KIND.” He's an opén challenge to WHAT GOD HATH WROUGHT ‘And brings both Races down to Naught Neither Race can be free agaift ‘After they fall'to the Mulatto plane. Rat ign “Imperial Wizard -.:- James’ R.-Vanable: ral “Knights Ks lux KlanImperial Palace National Knights Ku Klux Klan ee ac James R. Venable The author of this story of the “Ku Klux Klan has been associated with the Klan for practically his whole lifetime. He is a prominent practicing attorney in Atlanta and with sufficient opportunit and ample time to defend, mill over, and ferret ® the many aspects of the origin, motives, principle! and the purposes of the Klan, Living in Stone Mountain, home of the Klan, he has been in constant contact with all the phases of Kiankraft for all of his adult life. Being a-"man of the law" he has never found an inkling. of deceit, or departure’ fron the highest of ethical standards and behavior n@® the part of true Klansmen or the fraternal’ order that represents them, The noble ride of: the Ku Klux Klai of the Sonstruction ‘period is. immortalizad. by. £tNo-errors of omission OF comission (civitization and ali the fruits. thereof. by projudicod historians can dim tho lustre of its | Fifty-nine years ago the inspiration of revivir deeds or. rob it of its rightful place in history a8 /ths original Ku Klux Klan and of perpetuating tho (ho ‘savior of the South; and thereby, the savior of'nobie principles upon vhich the noble organization the nation, for had there been no ride of the Ku vas foundod, and of perpetuating its spiritual pur- Klux Klan, there would not today be 50 stars in the poss, originated in the mind of Colonel Willian flag that floats from the dome of the capitol in ‘Joseph Sinmons, professor of Southern History at Washington. Lanior University in Atlanta, Georgia, Not to @® To keep alive the memory ‘of the original Klan yevive its original necessary modus operandi, for ac and the principles, traditions and institutions such conditions justifying this, exist today, but te which they risked their lives to preserve for them-rzincarnate its lofty spiritual purpose in a new selves and for posterity, the men of today, who body of a real patriotic fratera’l order, appreciate their patriotic and chivalric work, have For fourteen years Colonel Simons thought, established a living, lasting, memorial to them by Studied, snd worked to prepare himself for launching the organization of the Invisible Empire, Knights this great movement. He dedicated his life to ™“e of the ku Klux Klan, as a national, standard, purpose and durin those years he kept his ovn fraternal order, composed of real American manhood counsel and in the secret recesses of his, soul he of the riation who uncompromisingly believe in per~ worked out thy great purpose and plan. preservation of the fundamental principles, ! ‘Then, in October 1915, .he mentioned his. ambi- and institutions “of, the pure Anglo-Saxon’ itton: to some friends, among whdmwerg many ‘bona £4dé © : eS 23 Embers of the original Klan whon it was @isbanded by General Forrest. All were enthusiastic over the proposal and, as a result, at a meeting held in the ‘ame month, all present, thirty-four in number, signed a petition for a charter. The petition was accepted and on Thanksyiving aight in 1915 the organizers of the Klan assembled on top of a giant granite mountain near Atlanta snown as Stone Mountain, the largest solid rock in the world, and there, at midnight, under a blazing fiery cross, they took the oath of allegiance to the invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, The bharter was issued by the State of Goorgia, December , 1915, and a Special charter was granted by the juperior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, July 1, 1916. The new Klan had, among its charter mers laree members of the original Ku Klux Klon. It vas jeclared to be the ‘original organizatior'S oniy ghts ‘to all its siyris | symbols, regalia, atc, It has, each year.since | 1919, held its anniversary celebrations which wore j 3 mainly by public appearances in official costumes, on Kay 6, the date on which the old Klan was founded From this small beginning in Atlanta, Georgia, over fifty-nine years ago, with only. thirty-four members, the Klan has spread until its membership runs far {inte the millions and it has representation in [every state in the union. The purpose of the modern Ku Klux Klan is to = inculcate the sacred principles and noble ideals of chivalry, the devolopment of character, the protec- ° tion of the home, and the chastity of womanhood, the exemplification of a pure and practical patriot- ism toward our glorious country, the preservation @® American ideals and institutions and the maintenance ef white supremacy, and unrelenting opposition to Communism and Socialism. No man 18 admitted to the fellowship-of ‘theand Duty with serious purpose to keep the same inviolate. No man is admitted to fellowship ‘ino will not, or can not, Syear an unqualified ‘allegiance to the government of the United States of America, its flag, its Constitution and institutions. Only native-born, white, American citizens, who believe in the tenets of the Christian re~ ligion and who owe no allegiance of any degree or nature to any foreign government or institu- tion, religious or political, or to any sect, person of persons--are eligible for membership. While its name would indicate that it is purely a Southern organization, such is not the The Ku Klux Klan is non-sectionai anc case. non-sectarian, It is a purely patriotic, frater- nal organization. In fact, in the few yoar: its existence, the organization has numbered amon its membership many men and vomen, sons of them nationally known’, who have never lived in the South, As proof of its non-political attitude, men and women prominent in both the Democratic and Republican parties, including mem- bers of the national Congress, were leaders in the organization. Its compelling appeal to citizens of all soctions lies in the fact that it is strictly an American institution, of and for, white, Anerican citizens, pledged to tunan~ ® mental American ideals and American institutions. Throughout the annals of the ages in all recorded movements for the betterment of Human- ity, whether by revolt against tyranny or along more peaceful lines, we see the manifestation of what justly may be termed "Ku Klux Spirit’--the spirit that rebels at oppression and even defies @ law itself when that law, measured by all the standards of wisdom, justice and understanding, is tyrannical and the instrument of depotism. Before the great Persian Empire was created, there was an organization formed for. the purpose Rydof enforcing Justice, It worked secretiy and it was impelled by the intolerable conditions surrounding the very conduct of the courts in | which there was open and brazen miscarriage of Justice. Its emblem was the star and crescent-~ symbolic of the sovereignty of Justice. True, this ancient organization did its work in secret and took the law into its own hands (so to speak), but the attitude and the purpose of this early order, which was one of the first recorded manifestations of the "Ku Klan Spirit,” hundreds of years later was endorsed by no Less an authority than Thomas Jefferson when he declared: “Rebellion against tyrants (or tyranny) is obedience to God," and by Patrick Henry when he shouted in defiance of the tyrannical British parlioment: "Give me liberty or give me death.” Patrick Henry's declaration, if it stood for anything at ali,‘meant that he would rathor 38 die than submit to tyranneous lav. The history of continental Europe is filled with instances in which men who vere oppressed and who Saw no relief in sight by open rebellion because of the superior power of the oppressor banded thenselves together in secret with an osthbound determination to die if by death alone they could free themselves from vhe rule of the tyrant. Man of Anglo-Saxon stock is a Sovereign being and he will vear no man's yoke. The followers of Calvin and Luther, and of John Knox in Scotland exemplified to a high the Ku Klux spirit, Because of the fevness of their numbers and because they faced death or e. imprisonment if they waged their fight in the open, they carried on their work in seeret until they felt the time was opportune to bring the issue out into the open. 39 The spirit that prompted the followers ofLuther and Knox was identical with the alvin, spirit that actuated our Revolutionary fathers and the men of the South in the Reconstruction period. : The American colonies rebelled against con- stituted authority, They rebelled against the Aniquitous tax laws imposed upon them by the mother country, because the laws were unjust and therefore tyrannical. They rebelled because they saw the rights and liberties for vhich they had braved the unknovn terrors of the sea and the unexplored vilds of the Nev Yorld rapidly receding to the vanishing point. Fully understanding the superior power arrayed against them, they realized that the “Little leaven that leaveneth the vhole lump" must be started working before they openly challenged the power of the United States government. Thus, 1t came to pass that long bsfore the "shot heard ‘round the world’” was fired. The mighty force was secretly put in operation that cemented the colonies in the determination of "liberty or death,” and made possible the greatest monument of all time to liberty and justice--the Republic of the United States of America. In Revolutionary history we have two note- worthy manifestations of the ku Klux spirit. @ One was the "Charleston Tea Party" and the other was’ the "Boston Tea Party" which occurrec four days after the former. In the first in- stance the outraged citizens of the Colonies recorded their wrath against the tyranneous taxes of the British government by boarding eleven ships in tho Charleston Harbor and, eo without masks, but with guns in their hands, Sank the tea ships by boring holes in their bottoms, In the case of the Boston Tea Party the Colonists disguised ‘themselves as Indians, ~~" 40ded the British tea ships and dumped their Irgoes into the sea. The only difference between the members the Boston Tea Party and the members of the Klux Klan of the Reconstruction period lollowing the Civil War was that the former ore disguised as Indians while the latter dis~ luised themselves as ghosts with masks and lowing robes. The actuating motive and the piritual purpose of the mon in both instances jes the samo, When the roar of guns had ceased and the moke of battle lifted from the South in 1865, ut it marked the beginning of a new battle for he South--a battle for its very existence as h free people, a battle for its sacied civili- Ration and for the exercise of its rights which pa Grant had recogriized and so frankly admitted at Appame’-- ahd.which President AD Lincoln so emphatically reaffirmed when he kt meant the end of the "War Between the States," | declared of the Southern States: "I shall treat them as if they had never been away." Lincoln's intentions toward the South were honest and sincere, because they were in harmony with the fundamental principles of American civilization, The issues which had driven the two sections had been settled ad the arbitrament of the sword and out of the fairness and brotherly love of his great heart he found it possible to welcome the men of the South back into the Union as brothers whose misunderstanding had been adjusted. But the bullet that snuffed the holy Light of Lincoln's life struck down the mM powerful friend the South and civilization had above the Mason-Dixon line, and made it Possible for’ Thad Stevens and his henchmen--an | "| unscrupulous group of South-haters--to attemptheel of brutal and despotic tyranny upon necks of a helpless, defenseless, but a people. we come down to that much misunder- shamefully slandered organization of p Reconstruction period which manifested on le largest scale of which we have any record, Jo Ku Klux spirit, and which made famous the Ine by which the Spirit--the spirit of opposi- Jon to tyranny and oppression in any form--has come known. With the fiery cross, symbol of the purest d most loyal patriotism as their beacon, the Klux Klan rode in the cause of humanity save the God-given heritage of racial tegrity; to restore civilization; to protect je defenseless; to shield that which was ered; to avenge the crimes against the innocent; } restore to a free-born people their sacred rthright created for them by the shed blood | a noble ancestry. 43 When the "Light of Right" was established over “Might, the Klan felt that its job was done--so it was honorably disbanded. In spite of the noble purpose of the Ku Klux Klan, and in spite of the great service it rendered to both the white and the negro races; to North as well as South--yes, to ALL America--no organization in the history of man @ ever had heaped upon it the abuse and misrep- resentations that fellto its lot.’ Foes of the South and enemies of the Southern people viciously assailed it as a band of murderers who stopped at nothing and who whipped ond terrorized both black and white, and vented its spite and avenged its..wrongs, real or fancied, upon oe Whoever incurred its displeasure. No fouler slander was ever perpetrated. Instead of being murderers and cut-throats, the members of the Ku Klux Klan, then, as now, were men of the highest type as a body and they vere 4asworn to, and stood firmly upon, the principles of constitutional law. They worked to safeguard life and property, or what there was left of it; to ameliorate the terrible conditions growing out of the carpet-baggers from the North and scalawags from the South, who turned traitors to their own people, and their baneful influ- ence over the Negro. IT IS regrettable that the reading public has accepted as factual many fictitious stories from unscrupulous fiction writers who have dreamed up Klan horror-dramas for the sole pur- pose of selling their stories to a publisher ‘The carpet-baggers and their unscrupulous associates in the North were NOT the valiant soldiers who fought and bled in the battle- fields, but, using a modern phrase, they were the cowardly "Slackers" of that time, pie-counter politicians and unreasonable and unreasoning fanatics, 45 Constitutional lar was stripped by profane hands of her virtuous vestments; ignorance, lus . é and hate seized the reins of stato:Aihe long steblished order of society was disrupted by the sudden slevation to power of a grossly interior rac: vd by the most skillful fionds in humon form, end the very blood of the Cauca- as vhrestened with an everlestin, a tion. Never before in the annals of an insult to human ‘The vholo land vas hing aaay enthroned by mititary despotism; law and order, pene: and justic: gre thiays of the past sad that sacred bulvadt}# of human berty--the Constitution of the United States of Amoricn--was in practice considered "mere scrap of paper." The originators and perpetrators of this, the darkest epoch in the history of the world, were NOT the good people A6of the North because they were in ignorance of the real facts of what was being done. Those responsible for this unparalleled reign of ruthless despotism were less than a dozen un~ scrupulous politicians, prompted by hate and led on in their infamous purpose by graft and greed. ‘The chastity of wife, mother, daughter and sister was imperiled; life and living were made intolerable, In the name of Law, the property of the husband and father was ruthlessly snatehed from him without provocation-~ confiseated--and the grim visages of Want, Hanger, Fear and Yo2, unutterable, vere visible everywhere. The people of the South turned appealingly to the power of their National government, but were spurned away with contempt and scorn, They cried out to the nations of the earth, as Ar France cried in the hour of her greatest peril, but they, too, "passed by on the other side,” But the cry of the defenseless, terrorized and bleeding people, scorned by their own government to which they had been guaranteed protection, and with the treaty of peace signed by Grant and Lee, branded by Thad Stevens, in conduct if not in words, as a "scrap of paper was not to go unanswered, The men who for four years: had borne upon their bayonets the Ark of the Confederacy through one of the most savage wars in history heard and answered the cry and, as Knights of the Invisible Empire, impelled by an instinct of the race, thoy leaped into the saddle, con@ secrated to their task by the touch of the hot tears of defenseless womanhood and borne upon the backs of their faithful steeds, they came-- they saw--they conquered! ABNORTHERN MAN LAUDS WORK OF OLD KLAN (Excerpt from "Secret Political Societies in the South During the Period of Reconstruction,” written by Walter Henry Cook, of Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio.) ‘The Ku Klux accomplished much. From a political viewpoint it secured home rule for several of the Southern States. It ended the disgraceful rule of the carpetbaggers therein, and it helped to re-establish honest and efficient govern- mental institutions. This example was an inspiration which, after 1872, soon led the men of the Southern states still in radical control to a GLORIOUS VICTORY in regaining self-government. From an economic standpoint, the negroes had been frightened into going to work and were prevented, to a large extent, from breaking labor contracts. These were important services in the re- habilitation of the South. From a social standpoint the Klan protected property, protected life, and brought order out of chaos, The Ku Klux Klan of the Reconstruction period was the outgrowth of a dire necessity horn of insufferable conditions forced on the ag Southern people by a group of greedy, conscienceless politicians, and the character of the men who were at its head in the various Southern states is a lasting rebuke to the charge that it was composed of a band of outlays. I deny that it was then, and I deny that it is now, composed of a band of outlavs as stated by Mw. Harry Truman and President Johnson. @ When conditions in the South became in- tolerable, a number of Southern gentlemen called a meeting to be held in Nashville, Ten- nessee, to consider the situation. They decided that a secret organization alone could cope : with the conditions so they made their plans accordingly and adopted the nane Ku Klux fron @ the Greek word "kuklos" meaning an unbroken circle. General Nathan Bedford Forrest, a noted Confederate officer, then living in Yemphis, Tennessee, was induced to become its chief under the title of Grand Wizard. 5022 General Forrest's chief judicial officer in the Klan was General Albert Pike, a native of Boston, Massachusetts. General Pike is known to Masons throughout the world for the work he did in building up Scottish Rite Masonry and for the books he wrote on Masonry and which were considered authoritative. Chief among the officers of the Kian were Genefal ¥. J. Hardee who was grand dragon of Alabama; General John B. Gordon, grand dragon of Georgia; General Wade Hampton, grand dragon of South Carolina; General Robert Woods, grand titan of northeast Georgia; and Nathan Buford Forrest, II, son of General Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was Grand Dragon of Georgia, and who lived on Forrest Avenue, Atlanta, Georgia. Because this street was named after General Forrest, the negroes, in 1973, attempted to change its name, but were unsuccessful. To these names could be added a long list of others especially well-known, Contrary to popular opinion, the Ku Klus Klan was not sectional except as to territory. Among its members were many men who had fought in the Federal army and who had decided to make their homes in the South after the war. They held no resentment against their Southgan brothers. ‘They realized the insanity of attempting to force negro domination upon the South and they cast their lot with their former foes of the battlefield in the movement to restore the South to its rightful place in the nation, In addition to these, many of the white soldiers of the Federal army of occupation e were actually on duty in the South and who were under orders to kill a member of the Invisible Empire on sight, were members of the Ku Klux Klan, And connected with the Klan work | were hundreds of Negroes who rendered a service ‘|for, smperasaapie ampore anu wid suftered [ftorture, and death for many, at the hands of the Union League and the carpetbaggers, for their unshakable fidelity. The Klan may be antagonized and forced to fight many battles, but perish--never! To de- , Stroy it is an impossibility for it belongs, jin essence, to the realms spiritual. It is unshaken by unjust criticisms; no power can tavart it in its onward conquest of RIGHT; it | courts not the plaudits of the populace, nor is it swerved from its course by the libel of its foes. Attuned with Deity, functioning only for the good of a1] humanity, misjudged by ignor- ance, misunderstood by many, slandered by |. prejudice, it never falters and will never fail. ! I h The war between the states destroyed the institution of slavery the dark years of the carpetbaggers' domination well-nigh destroyed the South and Anglo-Saxon civilization, for after the sword came the canker-vorm and the enforcement of despotic intrigue. After the Confederate soldiers had laid down their arms and accepted their paroles in good faith, singly, in squads, many of them on foot, without a dollar in their pockets and without a friend to borrow from, they returned to their desolate homes and began anew to re~ build their vanquished fortunes, Insofar as the Confederate soldier was concerned the war was over, He had fought to the limit of his capacity for the cause he was convinced was right, the issue had been Settled by the sword and he had accepted the @ecree. The reins of government had again been placed in the hands of the best men of the South and the voices of the former army 5hcommanders again were heard in the halls of the National Congress, ‘Little attention was paid by them to the mouthings of the "blood-hounds of hate,” directed by Lust and Greed, who, in peacetime, stili refused to leave the track of their infamous conquest for spoils. For over a year, peace ostensibly hovered over the battlefields of the South. But soon the: thunder of the impending storm of the American Reconstruction, was heard in the land. Throughout the North, and especially in New England, meetings were held and from pulpits, rxostrums and public halls, those frothing enemies of the South preached a crusade of extermination against the Southern People. If Grant's order to Halleck to “eat out Virginia clear and clean, so that crows flying over it will have, for the balance of the season, to carry their own provender with 55 them," or his order to Sheridan to hang without trial any of Mosby's men who were caught, may be excused on the grounds that it was justified by the exigencies of war--what excuse can be made for this tirade delivered after the war was over by Wendell Phillips from the pulpit of Henry Ward Beecher's ehureh: @ I do not believe in battles ending this war, You may plant a fort in every district in the South, you may take possession of her capitals and hold them with your armies, but you have not oegun to subdue her people, I know it seems something like absolute barbarian con- quest, I allow it, but I do not believe there will be any peace until 347,uJ0 men of the South are either hanged or exiled, Some time later, at a convention held i: New York, "Parson" Brownlow said: If I had the power I would arm every wolf, panther, catamount and bear in the mountains of America, every crocodile in the swamps of Florida, every Negro in the. South, every devil in hell, clothe them with the uniform of 56the Federal army and ‘turn them loose on the rebels of the South and exter- And who was this Butler that Parson minate every man, woman and child south of Mason and Dixon's line. I would Brownlow wished to command an army of Negro like to see Negro troops, under the : comuatid of Butler, crowd every rebel troops and drive every former confederate into the Gulf of Mexico and drown them as the devil did the hogs in the Sea soldier into the Gulf of Mexico? He commanded of Gallilee,” the Federal army in New Orleans after the In another convention held in Philadephia, Yankees captured the city and earned the title Parson Brownlow said: of “The Beast" because of his conduct tovard I am one of those who believe the war ended too soon, “We have whipped defenseless Southerners generally, and vomen the South, but not enough. The loyal masses constitute an overvhelming in particular, It was Butler who ordered majority of the people of this country and they intend to march again on the General Weitzel to compel the Negroes of La South and intend this sécond war shall be no child's play. Thé second army Founce parish to murder the white people of the will, as they aught to, make the entire South as God found the earth--without parish. In reply to this order, General Weitzel form and void. ~ wrote: Following Brownlow's speech, Governor. y ) The idea of my inciting the Negro fates, of Illinois, rose in his seat and insurrection is heart-rending. I will E resign my command rather than induce baid: Negroes to outrage and murder the i helpless whites. Illinois furnished 250,000 troops to fight the South, and now we are Indicating the storm of hate let loose ready to furnish: 500,000 more to finish the good work; ~ upon the South after the Civil War--and for the purpose of disclosing what our histories do not reveal--that the people of the South were30 ‘ompelled to fight a second war more terrible i chan the first, to preserve their honor and the land of their birth--these facts compiled i . by Lamar Fontaine, C.E., Ph.D., of Lyons, \iississippi, who lived through that perilous deriod, are reproduced: Thus it was that for two years after the close of the great war in every hamlet and convention hall in the North, thousands of preachers, orators and teachers dinned into the ears of the listening multitudes, their fiendish Venom until a wild wave of fanatical, insane, New England Puritan hate, swept like an East Indian hurricane over the entire North . . , the Southern members of the National Congress were as impotent to stay the dark whirlwind of Hate as a cork floating upon the crest of a tidal wave. Then a species of Negro insanity raged among the negrophiles of the New England states and it too spread like a prairie fire and took possession of the unthinking masses. Books and pamphlets fell from the New England presses like hail froma passing cloud. Men and women from pulpit and rostrum, advocated the mixing of the Negro and white races and the establishment of a Negro republic in the South after its conquered people had first been destroyed and the land rendered, as Parson Brownjow expressed, ‘as God found it, without form and void, 31 Judge Salmon P, Chase, one of Lincoln's cabinet, paid a visit to the Sth after the surrender, Returning home he said: I found the whites a worn-out, effete race, without vigor, mental or physical, On the contrary, the Negroes are alive, alert, full of energy. I predict in 25 years the Negroes of the South will be at the head of all affa political, religious, the arts and sci ences. A New England schoolmarm, returning with her swarthy, thick-lipped husband, said to a gaping crowd of her associates: I hope that when I pass away from earth I will be able to look down from the Heavenly blue above and see the black heel set on the white necks of those (Southern) people. Henry Ward Beecher and Theodore Tiller asserted; The Negro is superior to the white race. If the latter do not forget their pride of race and color and amalgamate with the purer and richer blood of the blacks they will die out and wither avay in unprolific skinniness,The spread of anti-Southern sentiment throughout the North forced Congress to act and the Reconstruction Act was the result. Southern Senators and Representatives were sent back to their homes, the entire civil govern- ment of the South was disrupted, and the Negro was placed in power in every department, state and national, In support of this Reconstruc- tion Act in Congress, James A. Garfield, later elected president of the United States, said: This act sets out by laying hands on all the rebel state governments and taking the very breath of life out of them. In the next place it puts a bayonet at the breast of every rebel in the South, In the next, it leaves in the hands of Congress utter and absolute power over the people of the South. The Reconstruction acts of Congress con- stitute the most appalling tragedy in human his tory, Elections in the South were carried at the point of the bayonet; white men of the South were forced away from the polls and rs d 33 Negroes and conscienceless carpetbaggers from the North, who had been in the South only a few weeks, were alloved to cast ballots and were elected to office, All in violation of the Constitution and every fundamental prin- ciple of Republican government. QuorE-- Adventurers swarmed out of the North, as much the enemies of one race of another, to cozen, beguile, and use the Negroes. . . « The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation until at last there sprung into ex~ istence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable Empire of the South, to protegs the Southern country. e j --Woodrow Wilson We have said that the Ku Klux spirit throughout the ages has been the antithesis of tyranny, the foe of despotism, and always festered liberty. ..Why should we call it theoa Ku Klux spirit rather than by any other nane, and why should we feel warranted in the asser- tion that it is the antithesis of tyranny? The Ku Klux spirit has never manifested itself with force except when driven to it by the usurpation of power or attempt to usurp it, It has never questioned the right of any man of any race to live his life and conduct his own affairs as he sees fit so long as such conduct does not conflict with the established order of society. : Finally, the Klan vill demand stricter lays for the removal of any holdoy of an offic: of public trust of lay enforcement ‘ho dares to deviate from the role of publi Servant and usurps.the vole of publicmaster. We, the people, of this America and its Government. The death knell of the Poli ate, Welfare State, Communist State, the Alion State, has struck in this Constitutional Republic, “2, the Yrotostont Christian cit ans, “ill never harm nor oppress ony tlinority Groups in the free exereiss of their boliefs. But wo varn them nuver to try again to fores us to conform to those beliefs through a treasonous Judiciary if they are alien or unconstitutional. We are taking back our Country--politic- ally, legally, socially, and cconomically, and religiously and financially. All who don't like it--GET OUT! All who can qualify to the requirements of this splendid heritage of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan--COME IN! 95 WHITE SUPREMACY BY DIVINE RIGHT You have heard of the "Divine Right of Kings" or royalty. They claim this right of succession to the throne was given to them by the Creator (God), This also applies to the Pope, head of the Roman Catholic church and many others. The white race also claims this right because our Creator placed white people in the north temperate zone and imposed upon them requirements for survival that was not imposed upon the black race who inherited the jungles of equatorial Africa, The Negro was not required to have any more than the 2e:, and intelligence to escape the jungle beasts and gather his food which grew wild and in abundance. This was not our doing but that of our Creator, » 9668 The Negro had one of the richest countries the world but never had a language nor did ever build a skyscraper and for hundreds of ars he had diamonds pushing up between his foes and did not have sense enough to pick them p and recognize them as precious stones. His is the only race in the world today hat is still eating its own people. God made he different races with different languages G different colors, which he had a reason for Hoing, and man can not change what God created. fhe Negroe's characteristics are quite differ- pnt from that of the white man, History does not record that the white man lever went into the jungles of Africa and cap- tured these people and sold them into slavery-- it was his own people and his own tribe who were the slave traders, The author recommends that every American should read Some. of the great books written by Thomas Dixon, such as, The Clansman, in which the film "Birth of a Nation" was produced and it was perhaps the greatest film ever made; The Leopard Spots, The Flaming Sword, The Black Hood, The Traitor, The Southerner, The Man in Gray, and The Fall of a Nation. Dixon wrote twenty-eight books and, in my opinion, ho wi @ genius unparalled. In retrospect, Dixon seemed to have bad an uncanny insight as to the future. ‘The author himself has written a factual book, Choose Your Side, which will soon be distributed in paperback at a cost of $6.00, This is a lengthy book of approximately 200g words revealing history and characterizations covering the period from 1215 until 1972 and with special stress on the Colonial period in America from President Abraham Lincoln to President Nixon, In this book theauthoy gives the backgrounds og," Klan from its inception 270 [915 and the part it played in the struggle for the white man's survival, The reader will find this book quite com~ plete and factual as no other history of the Inited States has ever been written, All of he facts which, taken separately might puzzle fou, are linked together. You are brought from she Old Testament to the present! This is the boldest book of this century, historical-wise! The author has been a Klansman for fifty years hnd is an active attorney of forty years Btanding. At this date, there is being filmed in Falifornia a picture titled "The Klansman" the cast of which includes actors Richard Burton and Lee Marvin and which also includes the legro football player, O. J. Simpson, "The Klansman" is based on a novel written by rere Bradford Huie, an Alabaman, who slants \ 99 7 i the theme in a derogatory fashion against the ku Klux Klan. | There is available to everyone in this country a publication called “Liberty Lobby” which originates in Washington, D. C. and hich gives complete details on Congressional matters, including if and how your congress @ or senator voted for, and/or against, any Bill Placed before the House or Congress, and other pertinent details of what goes on in Washington. Colonel Curtis B Dall, Chairman of “Liberty Lobby," is, in my opinion, a most dedicated American patriot, well versed in government affairs, He broadcasts weekly ~~» Washington Radio and the writer highly recommends that you tune in; also, the writer recommends that every American subscribe to ; the "Liberty Lobby" letters publications by | writing to: 300 Independence Avenue, S.E., | Washington, p. c., 20003. 100he Klan reminds the public that there Klan yesterday, there is a Klan today, here will be a Klan tomorrow, and James R, Venable Imperial “Wizard National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan ‘The contents of this publication is pyvrited and no part of it may be produced vithout written permission from le author. 73 Conquer Or Submit “If we wish to be free-- 1f we mean to preserve inviolate those in- estimable privilages for which we have been so long contending-~ if we mean not basely to abandon the noble Strug- gle in which we have been so long en- gaged, and which we have pledged our- selves never to abandon until the zlor- tous object of our contest shall be obtained, we must fightt I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arns and to the God of Hosts 1s all that is left us! They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so for- midable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will 1t be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed. "Gentlemen may cry peace, peace but there is no peace. The war 15 no- tually begunt... Our brethren are al- ready in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!" -Patrick Henry/March 23, 1775 The second American Revolution has begun, But will there be a second war for Independance? Will the American people cowardly consent to tyranny in 1976 or conquer as the Valiant Amer- ican Colonists did 11776? The choice 1s yours.BECOME AN OFFICIAL SUPPOATSR OF THE NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN TODAY! The “Invisible Empire” is a secret “oh¥rstian, Patriotic, Fraternal order Aedicated to the preservation of our Christian, Anglo- Saxon culture. It has never sought, nor never will seek sunport fron larce industries or pol- itical organizations. It depends en- tirely on the support the Empire re- cheves from the middle class worker who 1s concerned for the welfare of nis family and the detertorating con= tion of his country; the same who oce the membership of the National Knights of the kx Klux Klan. If you are a dedicatea American and wish to do something positive for your Galture and your Country, burn your phony federal reserve notes tnto weapons against tne enemies of your God, Race, and Freedom. The Crusade against the Anti- Christ forces in our land deperis on your support! “Ps the restoration of our Consiitu~ tional Republic, to the defence of individual freeton and to the preser~ vation of our american herltage, we pledze our lives, oun fortunes and our sacred honor.” ~ NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN- 103 Narsaw Beprogo Forrest A sage plutogtanh of Grand Wizard Forrest, taken about 14, in Afemmnhise Teun. then hs home ouster und first Imperial Wisard uf the Kaighte of the Ke ia immesiately after the Ciyit War of 1601-1865, rentenant General in the Confederate States Armies and cot sidered by nulany striae the eatet cavalry. Com mansers of all time, oan sd 1041ob« neither ‘ae nor conclusions Of the propert ent contains mis aooum pecemmondath Th is tre at and its aistribute content! a outside —_PAUL IRFORAATION CONTARED REMEIMIS UNCLASSIFIED be BY 5084 ets pic oe ie OF) INFORWATIVE NOTE cote 9/5/74 The attached states that annual National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK) rally was held at Stone Mountain, Georgia, on 8/31/74. NKKKK imperial wizari, James R, Venable, was the master of cere- monies. Rally was highlighted by cere- monial cross burning. 300-325 persons werp in attendance. No violence occurred. ‘At_NKKKK Imperial Board Meeting on f Lodi, Ohio, and Houston, Texas, were nomi esidential and Vice-Presidential candidates respectively, for the Presi- dential Blections to be held in 1976. The Klan will campaign against foreign aid, lwelfanés the United Nations, taxes, the present Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, and the tt system of regional goverment [stated that Klen stands for separation of the races and he would seek black support on this issue. ‘The1NKKKK 18 an anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, lanti-Catholic and anti-foreign born con- solidation of various Klans in southern states, Dissemination made to the Criminal Division (Internal Security Section, Special Litigation Unit) and Civil Rights Divisio: of the Department and Secret Service. 1 ~ General Investigative DivisionFebeeae GutAU CF 2 TIT COMMUNICATION: 21 AT CODED a PH NITEL SEPTEMBER 4, 1974 LAP , eet Ca TO: DIRECTOR, FBI HOUSTON & CLEVELAND CINCINNATI F JACKSONVILLE COLUMBIA conte FRONE ATLANTA C1S7=HEW) CC) STK PAGES |, yyeontihWR cred weer cd "at he Oya veer alee 70M fe Us HT VF iT NE annual RALLY OF THE XNIGHTS OF THE XU MLUX WLAN AT STO f j\ MOUNTAIN, GEORGIA, AUGUST 51, 1974, EM - KLAN. ey he A SOURCE, WHO HAS FURNISHED RELIABLE \INFORMATION IN THE q PAST, ADVISED AS FOLLOWS ON AUGUST 31, 1974: THE ANNUAL RALLY OF THE NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX WLAN CNKKKK) WAS HELD ON SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1974, AT THE BASE OF STONE MOUNTAIN, STONE HOUNTAIN, GA. /cy 7 -| L2 i THE NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU HLUX FLAN CNKKKK)y INC. y 5 omen WAS GRANTED A CHARTER IN GEORGIA IN 1963 AS A “PATRIOTIC, eo sep 101974 SPORET, SOCIAL AND BENGVALENT ORDER". THE NKKKK, A . CONSOLIDATION OF VARTOUS KLANS IN SOUTHERN STATES, CONTINUES TO BE ANTI-NEGRQ, ANTI-JEWISH, ANTI-CATHOLIC, AND ANTI FOREIGN BORN. ace cOCEEE-SeM) lec - SS. \ Tee — CRO ” Soapase USI74 fee - G1BATIDPAGE TWO APPROXIMATELY BETWEEN 390 AND 325 PEOPLE ATTENDED THE RALLY, WHICH BEGAN AT 8:00 PM. IMPERIAL WIZARD, JAMES Re VENABLE, WAS THE MASKTER OF CEREMONIES. VENABLE STATED THAT AMONG OTHER THINGS, THAT HE DID NOT THINK THAT THE KLAN WOULD ENDORSE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, LESTER MADDOX, FOR GOVERNOR IN TUESDAY'S DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY RUNOFF, VENABLE, WHO IS RECOVERING FROM PROSTRATE SURGERY, MADE A FEW VERY PRIEF REMARKS AND THEN INTRODUCED THE FIRST SPEAKER OF THE A TEN MINUTE SPEECH IN WHICH HE TOLD THE CROWD OF THE RISE OF THE KLAN DURING THE RECONSTRUCTION DAYS AFTER THE CIVIL WAR. HE STATED “THE SAME ORGANIZATION IS RISING AGAIN FROM THE ASHES. THE KLAN TODAY IS EXPERIENCING THE GREATEST GROWTH IN KLAN HISTORY. IN HIGH SCHOOLS, COLLEGES,PAGE THREE FACTORIES, EVERYWHERE PEOPLE ARE REALIZING THAT THE HLAN IS THE ONLY ANSWER FOR AMERICA". HE PLEADED WITH THE CROWD TO" SAVE THIS COUNTRY FOR THE WHITE RACE WHO THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT FOR”. FOLLOWING[—_] 4 NUMBER OF SPEAKERS, AMONG tum __] (ric ont0, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA, OF SOUTH CAROLINA, SPOKE FOR AN HOUR AND ONE HALF ABOUT KLAN DOCTRINE. THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE EVENING WAS THE CEREMONIAL CROSS- i MABLETON, GAs, SPOKE OF HER 48 YEARS IN THE KLAN AS APPROXIMATELY 5@ ROBED MEN AND WOMEN PARADED AROUND THE CROSS WITH FLAMING TORCHES. TWO OF THE KLANSMEN RODE WHITE DRAPED HORSES. THE ACTUAL CROSS LIGHTING WAS UNDER THE DIRECTION or|_ at THE PROPER MOMENT THE FIRST TORCHPAGE FOUR WAS THROWN, IGNITING THE CROSS AS THE SONG “THE OLD RUGGED CROSS" PLAYED ON THE LOUD SPEAKER. AFTER THE CROSS wAS IGNITED, A SMALL RAIN SHOWER STARTED AND THE CROWD BEGAN TO DISPERSE. THE CEREMONIES ENDED AT APPROXIMATELY 10:15 pM. MANY OF THOSE ATTENDING WERE YOUNG CHILDREN WHO CAME WITH THEIR PARENTS. THERE WERE NO INCIDENTS OF VIOLENCE. OF THE NKKKK WAS HELD ON THE PROPERTY OF a AT STONE MOUNTAIN, GEORGIA. IT WAS DECIDED AT THIS MEETING FOR THE FIRST TIME IN KLAN HISTORY TO HAVE A PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE. THE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE THE VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE WAS VENABLE STATED THE "WE FEEL THAT BOTH THE REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC PARTIES ARE THE SAME, THEY HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING TO HELPTHE PEOELE OF THIS COUNTRY". VENABLE STATED THAT THE KLAN PAGE FIVE WOULD CAMPAIGN AGAINST FOREIGN AID, WELFARE, THE UNITED NATIONS, TAXES, AND THE PRESENT CHAIRMAN OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD, AND THE CURRENT SYSTEM OF REGIONAL GOVERNMENT. VENABLE STATED THAT THE KLAN ANNOUNCED ITS PRESIDENTIAL AND VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES EARLY BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO COMPLY WITH EACH STATE'S ELECTION LawS AND GET ENOUGH SIGNATURES ON QUALIFYING PETITIONS. IN A STATEMENT SAID THAT HE WOULD APPEAL TO BLACK AS WELL AS WHITES FOR THEIR VOTE, HE STATED THAT THE KLAN STANDS FOR SEPARATION OF THE RACES AND IS AGAINST RACE MIXING AND THAT BLACKS SHOULD WANT TO MAINTAIN THEIR RACIAL INTEGRITY AND THIS IS WHY HE WOULD APPEAL TO THEM. : ADMINISTRATIVE: RE ATLANTA TELETYPE TO THE BUREAU, SEPTEMBER 1, 1974, CAPTIONED AS ABOVE, AND ATLANTA TELETYPE wPAGE SIX 7 TO THE BUREAU, SEPTEMBER 3, 1974, CAPTIONED "NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN, EM - KLAN.” SOURCE PROVIDING INFORMATION lias WELL AS INFORMATION GATHERED FROM PUBLIC INFORMATION SOURCES THE ATLANTA AREA, NO LHM BEING SUBMITTED. END LRF FBIH® CLRUNITED STATES Gt Memorandum Z DATE: 9/19/74 Ac, NEW YORK (157-12116) (c) SUBJECT: sux nro renee - fee a ‘ATE. pad ReBulet to New York, dated 9/14/73, captioned ‘National Knights of the Ku Klux Kian (ain =m," Captioned subject has been identified b; as presently being a member of Klavern 102, New ——— z k Realm, NKKKK, Pine Bush, NY, and New Board, Subject_is currently employed yea aed at fe Subject 's NKKKK affiliation by SA On e/14/74[___upra, furnished the following background information regarding the subject : Height: Wei gh’ ~SSAN: Oceupat ion: Employment : @- Bureau (RM) i@ SEP 231974 1 - New York GTT:kjp (3) f ogo .$. Savings Bonds Regularly on she Payroll Savings Plan AMvey BIAS 0 ba NY 157-12116 Education: @ Military: Marital Status: Arrests: On 8/16/74, Officer] ewoure) Police Department, upon review of the Tiles of that agene advised pasa locate no record identifiab, subject, PE *hrevate presently resides at Review sclose no references, identifiable wit on 8/13/74 [[____ havised thatl continues to be an active member with Klavern 102, NEKKK and \ State Realm Klan Board. Source related that| aS never promoted or advocated violence relative to his NKKKK affiliation initiated when he began to attend NKKKK meetings on 6/14/74. It is noted the subject's activities to date indicate no propensity for yiolence and it is felt that further inquiry in this matter is not warranted at this time. et followed b individual. The above 1s.being furnished to the Bureau for indexing purposes per instructions set forth in reBulet.bo 5 Je (EF N34 : - NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU CHARACTERIZATION OF SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATION EXTREMIST MATTZR ‘The National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, Incor- porated, (NKKKK), a consolidation of various klan groups, was granted a charter in De Kalb County, Georgia, in November, 1963, he NKKKK was chartered as « patriotic, secret, social, and benevolent order; howeve?, in December, 1963, the NKKKK issued a statement of its progsam which indicated the organization to be anti-Negro, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic, and anti-foreign born, The MAKKK and its affiliate groups purportedly promote white Christian Americanism and dembat communism, An annual NKKKK rally and eross burning has been held on Labor Day Weekend in Stone Mountain, Georgia, on the property of NKKKK Imperial Wirerd James R. Venable. Some klan members and leaders have been involved in atrocities including beatings, bombings, end murders, end have engaged in activities seeking to deny others their constitutional rights. 157-168 cota ronanTiON © AL ACA 5 seer secrtme bn (65) t NOTE: See memorandum Mr. J. G. Deegan to Mr. W. R. Wannall, dated September 16, 1974, captioned as above. Ste y GE 7 4 ae yl tevev}t>Son a @. UNITED stares Q@PERNMENT L-Mr. J. A. Mintz Memor anes (Route Through for Review)! ut ono. Sran Mr. W. R, Wannal! Mr. J. G. peegex OY sunsccr Rar roma KNIGHTS OF THE RU_KLUX_KLAW “CHARACTERIZATION OF SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATION aut FORMATION CORTAED eee HERES UNELISSIED sare. 2 PSY SB Memozandua re “Sane 25, 1974, recommended, and it was approved, that(haracterizations of subversive organizations and publications which are of field-wide interest would be sent through Headquarters channels for approval prior to dispatchment to the field. bate September 16, 1974 Attached is one such characterization. It pertains to the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Ee ACTION If approved, attached characterization will be reproduced and, thereafter, dispatched to all Field Offices. Enclosure 157-168 (JPG; bmf (6) 4( ta Field Guidasice / Airtel b6 9/27/74 & Hp koe Ra aT i STONE MOUNTAIN, GEORGIA, 8/31/74 aug Foe EM - KLAN were 1508 oer ReATnitel FA captioned "Annual Rally of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan at Stone Mountain, Georgia 8/31/74, mM - KLAN." Submit IHM setting forth information contained in referenced communication. In future, gubmit communications of this type in form suitable for ‘dissemination so that interested agencies may be expeditiously advised by PBIHQ. It is noted that referenced nitel reports information obtained from your source on ‘9/16/74, The use of a teletype on 9/23/74 to report information obtained from your source seven days earlier, does not appear warranted, Insure that maximum economy is exercised in the use of teletype communi- cations consistent with the urgency of the information to be reported. Correct title is as captioned above, not as used in referenced communication. Score errors of form to responsible supervisory and Agent personnel. SEE NOTE PAGE 2 MAIL ROOM] TELETYPE uNITAirtel To Atlanta Re: Annual Rally of the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK) At Stone Mountain, Georgia, 8/31/74 157-370-2 NOTE: ee ee [Jor the National Knights of the Ku Klux Kian Of Ohio, did not have NKKKK sanction vhen he announced that he and his Klan vice presidential running maj for natio} tel also stated. tha Louisiana| f the NKKKK, would mot be welcome at any further NKKKK rallies because of the fiery speech he gave at Stone Meuntain on 8/31/74') Atlanta was closing their investigation with this communication.Js: AT PLAIN ERAL DUREAU UF EIVESTIGATION @ SENT 5:25am SEPT. alc toil 23, 1974 JXw bie JACKSONVILLE HOUSTON CINCINNATI COLUMBIA au wo wee oy NEW ORLEANS ATLANTA 157-7116 © ATTN: = INTD ai ‘ ioe 70 ata 31x ® sep 27 1974 Ain 2g RE ATLANTA TELETYPE TO BUREAU, SEPTENBER 4, 1974. oc ee ee | [Jor THe NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU HLUX HLAN OF OHIO, DID NOT HAVE THE SANCTION OF THE NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU XLUX KLAN TO RUN, FOR PRESIDENT, THIS PLAN WAS SOLELY DEVELOPED BY[___|fO GET Som PUBLICITY OUT OF THE KLAN RALLY, AT STONE MOUNTAIN. HE MADE THIS ANNOUNCEWENT ON HIS OWN AND DID NOT HAVE THE APPROVAL OF JAWES VENABLE, IMPERIAL WIZARD. THIS ALSO HOLDS TRUE FOR [—Tronwine abe FoR VICE PRESIDENT. Sv SOURCE FURTHER ADVISED THAT AS A RESULT OF THE FIERY SPEECH Jor re ritcars oF rie xu mate man END PAGE ONEAT 157-7116 > J PAGE, TWO @ LOUISIANA, VENABLE TOLD HIM THAT HE WOULD NOT BE WELCOME TO SPEAK AT ANY MORE KLAN RALLYS. END MAH FBIHQ ACK FOR ONE WA CLRso = cm) eae STATES CO@ameNT e ee be = emorandum pic bib ‘OR, FBI pate: 9/26/74 ALL INFORMATION CONTAINED ‘HEREIN [$ UNCLASSIFIED. bare. 7, BV ¢v aw 1048 ReBulet to New York, dated SAAT captioned 27, qhational Koiahte of thei iaa-Kan, (NKKK \, mM", OV instructed that all members of Klavern 102, New York State Realm, NKKKK, Pine Bush, NY, be identified conducting limited investigations to determine whether they possess a propensity for violence and hence establishing whether a full investigation is warranted in accordance with Section 122 of the Manual of Instructions. @ YORK (157-10177) (C) Enclosed herewith for the Bureau are four copies of an investigative summary dated and captioned as above. Limited inquiry has determined subject's activity does not warrant further investigation at thls time and i; he does not meet current ADEX criteria. ee Review of N¥O indi: Lect any references identifiable witn| rotepview,of[ Jia, noe vedo neconmended at this time as there is no Indication he has informant potential and there is no information that he would be cooperative. Q- Bureau (Encl§¢ ~ New York QTT:kjp (@) z @ SEP 30 1974 103 eel & li, a : ie PT & ; OVS 19% U.S. Sovings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings PlanIn Reply, Please Refer to File No, FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION New York, New York september 26, 1974 ALC i Heresy ROAR oy biig, pl Unceng INVESTIGATIVE SUMMARY "4.2, RogiSsiren oS EXTREMIST NATTER-KLAN 4 This investigation is based on information that Jin view of his affiliation with the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (NKKKK), a characterization of which is contained in the appendix hereto, is engaged in activities which could involve a violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 241 {Conspiracy Against Rights of Citizens); Section 245 (Federally Protected Aétivities), Civil Rights Act of 1968; or related Civil Rights Statutes. was initiated on June 9, 1973, into Klavern 102, New York State Realm, NKKKK, Pine Bush, New York, but did not begin regular ance at NKKKK meetings until March 7, Soa ca eosequently has attended five NKKKK meetings. During his NKKKK affiliation[7_Jhas not been engaged in or made any comments advocating oF promoting violence, acquisition of weapons or klan terrorism. This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI, It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.APPENDIX EXTRENIST aa =) The United Kians of America, Inc. (UKA), Knights of the Ku Klux Klan was chartered in 1951 at Atlanta, Georzia. It was formed as a result of splits in and consolidation of other Klan groups. In July, 1961, the United Klans, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of America, Incorporated. merged with the Alabama Knights, Knights of ¢] The merged organization was headed oe eoerdin October 2961, @ najority of the Kiaverns © mIved states Hiens, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, were merged with the UKA and Co Pont invea as the leader, The UKA is the dominant Klan group in thé United States with headquarter; Tuscaloosa, Alebara, and members in several states. of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, continues to be the imperial Wizard of the organization. The stated aims and purposes of tic UKA are the promotion of Americanism, white supremacy, and segregation of the races. Like other Ian organizations ‘t is anti-Negro, anti-Semitic and anti-Catholic. Klan members and leaders have been involved in atrocities including beatings, bombings, and murders,: and have engaged in activities seeking to deny others their constitutional rights. APPENDIX ~ 28NRG16 IP CODED HSL PM 18/1/74 NITEL DNP Tor bu BOSTON MEMPHIS NEW ORLEANS [v ATLANTA FROM? «© INDIANAPOLIS = (157-175) ATTN INTD ATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN —M ON OCTOBER {, 1974 A CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE wHO Has RELIABLE INFORMATION IN THE PAST ADVISED THE] CL Jor tae natrowat xurerrs oF 71 ¥LAN, DENHAM SPRINGS LOUISIANS IS SCHEDULED TO SPEAK AT VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY ON OCTOBER 3, 1974 AND PLANS TO HOLD A RALLY ON OCTOBER 4, 1974 AT THE RAMADA INN, NASHUTLLE, TENNESSEE, THE NATIONAL KNIGHTS OF THE KU REG 108 ISA rsa Gu] 133 OF VARIOUS KLAN GROUPS AND WAS CHARTERED AS AN ANTI-NEGRO, ANTI-JEWISH, ANTI@CATHOLIC, AND ANTI-FOREIGN BORN ORGANIZATION. SOME MEMBERS AND LEADERS HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN ATROCITIES. ADMINISTRATIVE: SOURCE UTILIZED ABOVE [vo Has FURNISHED RELIABLE INFORMATION IN THE PAST. Agency: Secret Service /,// 4 Dept, ~ AAG Civil Righta Div, ad AAG Criminal Dive Attn: Iss Gos (Lit. Unit) How forwarded 0/5 MT Date__M-2 7 yyIP 157*175 PAGE TWO COPY BEING FURNISHED BOSTON IN VIEW OF THEIR INTEREST INL] UNDER CAPTION, POTENTIAL FOR VIOLENCE, FORCED BUSING, CIVIL UNREST. SOURCE HAS BEEN INVITED TO ATTEND RALLY AT NASHVILLES BUREAU AUTHORIZATION BEING REQUESTED UNDER SEPARATE NITEL. SOURCE WILL BE SPECIFICALLY TARGETED TO OBTAIN INFORMATION REGARDING ANY FROPOSED ACTIVITY ay[_ hw BOSTON AREA. ‘END DBS FBIHO CLRNR 828 CV CODE B45 PY NITEL 10/3/74 RJB To: vipetion JBROM: CLEVELAND (157-5031) “gn : Rates: Ex — l ATTENTION: INTD ae KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX KLAN (NKKKK), EM-KLAN. ov oct. 3, 1974, DerEctive serccasr[ i HEADQUARTERS INTELLIGENCE UNIT, CLEVELAND, OHIO PD, ADVISED THAT ON THE EVENING OF OCT. 2, 1974, THE AUTOMOBILE wINDOWS [________}eoca. sian menpen, WERE SHOT OUT BY OTHER WLAN WEMBERS OF THE CLEVELAND mEA.[____[cowrinus twatL____] WAS ARRESTED ON OCT. 2, 1974, ON A WARRANT BASED ON A COMPLAINT FILED BY ALSO KLAN MEMBERS OF THE CLEVELAND CHAPTER: ]AS CHARGED WITH AGGRAVATED MENACING STEMMING FROM AN INCIDENT LAST FRIDAY, SEPT. 27, 1974, WENT ro[___ front AND WAS MET BY 9 |AT THE FRONT DOOR POINTING A TPL AT, THEM. SERGEAI EB IPF OEP W354 JAS ADVISED oyL__ |r aD PREVIOUSLY MADE é TREATS AGAINST HIS CHILD. - (C7 FJstaren js IN COURT THIS MORNE TOE + Agency? S.eret Sorvico Dept, = AAG Civil Rights Biv. ‘AAG Crituinal Div. “Attn: |- ISSPAGE Two cov 157-51 WHERE HE FLED NOT GUILTY, REQUESTED A JURY TRIAL SET FOR NOV. 8, 1974, AND WAS RELEASED ON HIS PERSONAL 80N~[____] sap THat[__]VoULD PROBABLY BE CHARGED TONORROW WITH AGGRAVATED MENACING AND er a ANOTHER YLAN HENBER , WOULD BE CHARGED WITH CRININAL DAMAGING. [-“Jeovisen tHat THERE 1s a GREAT DEAL OF DISSENSION AMONG THE NEMBERS OF THE CLEVELAND CHAPTER AND THAT EACH ONE IS CHARGING THE OTHER WITH MINOR OFFENSES, ; ADMINISTRATIVE [IS SUBJECT OF CLEVELAND FILE 157-6526. IS SUBJECT OF CLEVELAND FILE 157-6051. IS SUBJECT OF CLEVELAND FILE sri. | { IS SUBJECT OF CLEVELAND FILE 157-567. AS SOON AS ADDITIONAL INFO AND DETAILS ARE DEVELOPED BY CLEVELAND DIVISION, AN LHM WILL BE SUBMITTED.LAU Of IEVESTIGATION PAuNGATIONS SECTIOR “~ ocr 0 4g TELE NR G19 NK CODE Y) QAM 184-74 PM NITEL 16-35-74 J¥C kK DIRECTOR, FBI (157-168) ATTN: INTD COLUMBIA (157-141) a FROM NEVARK (157-1980) ¢PD porte o ri Aart rowan HES. OF THE KKKS were. a EM-KLAN . A SOURCE, VHO HAS FURNISHED RELIABLE INFORMATION IN THE PAST, FURNISHED THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION ON OCTOBER 3, 1974: reNTS OF THE WLU KLUX KLAN, INDEPENDENT REALM OF NEV JERSEY, HAS MADE ¢RRANGHENTS FOR A KNIGHTS OF THE LU WLUX LAN.RALLY ON OCTOBER 5, 1974) AT THE IVY STONE INN, US ROUTE 150, PENNSAUKEN, NeJ- DINNER TO BEGIN AT 5238 PN, AND INDOOR RALLY TO BEGIN 7252 Pit iat: pure Tee MES i CAROLINA. PURPOSE OF RALLY IS “TO SHOW ZIONIST-COMMUNEST ocT g 1974 VILE THAT VE ARE MAKING A STAND FOR GOD AND ODUNTRY---JOINoWEEis FOS 5 Sirk Dy) 3. CL) ACI 2 SY SESE COO By fZfe 2 fifo 4NK 157-1989 PAGE TWO US IN OUR FIGHT TO SAVE AMERICA". IVY STONE INN CAPABLE OF SEATING 500; HOVEVER, ONLY 260 INVITATIONS HAVE BEEN SENT OUT AND ONLY TWO ANSUERS RECEIVED TO NATE FOR DINNER RESERVATION, NO MORE THAN FIFTY PERSONS EXPECTED TO ATTEND ALi [ieee] EXPECTED TO BRING NINE PERSONS WITH HIM. ADMINISTRATIVE SOURCE s_____|uno, TOGETHER ee EXPECTED TO ATTEND AND PROVIDE COVERAGE. NEW JERSEY STATE POLICE NOTIFIED. NO.LIM BEING SUBMITTED$ HOWEVER, BUREAU WILL BE ADVISED IF ANY PERTINENT DEVELOPMENTS OCCUR. END HOLD TMA FBIHQ OLR