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Behind the Gemstone Files |
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AUTHORSHIP ALPHA-1775 GEMSTONES A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z |
Who
is Stanley King? Stanley E. King is one of the men who went through Jim Moore's files in 1979 after he was arrested on trumped-up marijuana charges. He is also the individual who, on February 3, 1981, warned Trina Holman that Moore "is a dead man." King in 1981 was owner of United Security Alarm and was Great Titan of the Tennessee Invisible Empire (Ku Klux Klan) and enjoyed a "special relationship" with the Metro Nashville Police Department as a "special officer." King claimed to have 27 years' background in "national security" including the CIA and claimed to have been involved in carrying out the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. On August 5, 1980, his concealed gun permit and "special officer" commission was revoked by Nashville Police Chief Joe Casey ("Casey Revokes Gun Permit of Klan Titan Stanley King" by Michael Williams, The Tennessean, 6 August 1980). In May 2002, files were uncovered in the effects of Jim Moore that shed new light on King's background and involvement in the Gemstone Files affair, even though his name has never appeared in any Key or other Gemstone document before. Moore believes that King was sent to his [Moore's] home by Charles Galbreath. Galbreath at the same time was Moore's lawyer when the lawsuits against Larry Flynt and Hustler were being prepared. Unknown to Moore, Galbreath was also King's lawyer. "CIA agents do not retain lawyers that are not cleared by the CIA," Moore pointed out. "This is done to 'keep it in the family.' The fact that Galbreath was King's lawyer strongly indicates that Galbreath is also CIA, and that Galbreath, while acting as my attorney, was the one feeding confidential information to the CIA in order to have me arrested and temporarily put out of the way so Galbreath's CIA-KKK client, King, and the federal agents could make a thorough sweep of my files and copy and/or remove the sensitive Gemstone material." "Casey Revokes
Gun Permit of Klan Titan Stanley King" Metro Police Chief Joe Casey revoked Ku Klux Klan Titan Stanley E. King's gun permit yesterday because of his Klan membership. In a letter hand-delivered by a police sergeant to King's home, Casey said King's commission as a special policeman [allowing him to carry a gun in connection with his security agency] includes the responsibility to meet the Police Department's "rules and guidelines." "This [KKK] membership violates the rules and regulations of the Metro Police Department," King read in his copy of the letter. He said the sergeant told him, "I have a letter I want you to read and sign, and I'm going to take your police commission back with me." "I said, 'I'm not going to give you my commission,'" King said, explaining that the letter said to take it to Capt. Paul Gill, who issues commissions from Casey's office. King said he then called the office of his attorney, Charles Galbreath, whose aide advised him not to hand his commission over to the officer. He said he was to meet with Galbreath this morning, turn the commission over to him and let him handle "whatever legal action is required." Casey was not available for comment last night because of an out-of-town speaking engagement. "I have never violated my commission," King said. He said the major requirement for the permit is not to commit a felony. "I'm not going to stand by and let the Metropolitan government get away with this," King said. "I've violated no rules with that commission. None whatsoever." "There was nothing [on the commission application] about you couldn't belong to the American Legion and this or that," he said in objecting to Casey's singling out the his (sic) KKK membership. "I was told by Paul Gill one time that it didn't matter whether or not you had committed a felony," he said. "If they didn't want to issue a commission, they would refuse at their discretion." King said he went beyond the requirements in applying for his permit five or six years ago by providing a resume showing 27 years of security work across the nation and 10 years with a telephone company. Following is a transcript of an investigative report found in Moore's files under KING, STANLEY: INVESTIGATIVE
REPORT: CONFIDENTIAL Trina Holman recently began
working at Hardy’s Pot Belly Inn at 3305 Gallatin Road, owned and
operated by Roger and Shirley Hart (phone 615-226-9427), cleaning up
and cooking Mexican food. Because she will be given a key to the
business and will be handling cash, Roger asked her to submit to a
polygraph and stress analyzer tests, and a security check, all to be
conducted by United Security Alarm, Stanley E. King, general
manager, phone 262-1747.
This morning when Trina went
in, she sat down at the bar and an elderly man, well-dressed,
about 5’l0” and about 49 or 50 years old, came up and sat down
beside her, introducing himself as Stanley S. King.
“You must be Trina,” he
said. Trina had never met the man before.
“Yes,” she replied.
“Trina Holman … and you
live with Jim Moore. James L. Moore. You’re living with a dead
man.”
He then gave her two business
cards, one of which identified himself as the general manager for
United Security Alarm and one which introduced him as Great Titan,
Tennessee, Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, P.O. Box
65, Antioch, TN 37013.
He told her he was an ex-CIA
agent, to which she replied there was no such thing as an “ex”
CIA agent.
He told her, “I’ve been
told by Roger that you’re good people and I just want to give you
this warning. If he files that lawsuit tomorrow, he’ll be killed.
We know he intends to file it.” (Trina had not been told of these
plans and had no foreknowledge that the suit (Case 80—-3025 in U.S.
District Court, Judge Thomas Wiseman) was going to be filed on any
specific date. Not even the consulting attorney, Abby Rubenfeld,
Rose Palermo, Denny Cheatham or Larry DeWayne knew this. Apparently,
either the home or office and/or telephones may have been bugged in
order for Mr. King to know this information.
He also told her that:
“When he was arrested the
police went through his files and made a copy of every piece of
paper in the house.”
“How much of it is true?”
she asked.
“About 30 percent.”
He also said that he had been
heavily involved in the Bay of Pigs operation and that he was sure I
had a file on him. (I don’t).
Trina asked him about Rick
Fogel, a Canadian reporter with inside information on the Kennedy
assassination who had frequently picketed the White House. He told
her he knew Rick (“that fat bull dyke”) and said that she had
been put away in a mental institution where she couldn’t talk any
more.
He also told Trina that
Nashville Tennessean reporter Jerry Thompson, who wrote on the Klan,
was known to the Klan before he showed up. He claims that Tennessean
Publisher John Siegenthaler is a Klan sympathizer and that the
information about Thompson came from Siegenthaler (who was assistant
attorney general under Robert Kennedy). He said Thompson was
shuffled around from group to group and that he was never given
access to any information that wasn’t already public record,
except in some cases where the Klan wanted to discredit certain of
its own members and used Thompson to do it.
He said the beating of
Siegenthaler in Mississippi during the school integration crisis was
a set-up to keep Siegenthaler looking “clean.” He provided no information
about who, when or where Moore’s assassination would take place,
but indicated that although he knew the individuals involved, he was
passing the information on as a warning because of his friendship
with Roger Hart, and that he (King) was not personally involved. My information is that King has
written letters to the editor of the Tennessean or Banner, and also
that he is a former Metro policeman. I don’t yet know how true any
of this last information is at this time. A file has been initiated on
King and further information is being obtained through police
sources, from U.S. Senate sources and through Jewish Klan monitoring
projects. COMMENT:
I don’t believe this about Siegenthaler. First place, he’s
Jewish and the KKK hates Jews. Second, I know Siegenthaler
personally, and I believe he’s every bit as liberal as RFK was.
Jerry Thompson won a Pulitzer Prize for his KKK series. DATE:
FEB. 6, 1981 Two on-duty Metro policemen
came into Hardy’s Pot Belly Inn tonight and were drinking on duty.
T believes that they are on the take, as well as an official from
the Alcoholic Beverage Commission who was present last night and was
believed to have received a payoff, R said, “I have to take care
of this guy; he’s the one who keeps me in business.” Reminds me of Jack Ruby’s
setup. Competition is vicious around there, The other night, four
customers had their tires slashed. Metro Internal Affairs Division
claims (privately) to have no files whatsoever on S.K. Strange, he
is a former cop and now #2 man in the KKK ... and no file? That
reinforces his claim to being ex-CIA. We do have a license no. on
a green Dodge van S.K. was driving ... 2GK843, I met him face to face
yesterday, and we sat and shared fried chicken off the same plate. I
had been helping T clean the place up when he came in ... T clued me
in. He kept looking at me and I at him; I’m certain we knew who
each other was, but it was all so fucking cool. We never introduced
ourselves nor did any of our common knowledge come out. Like two
total strangers. The police have been putting
the house under surveillance since the first day S.K. entered the
picture. The car N and P were driving was gone over with a fine
tooth comb two nights in a row. B saw them the first night, N saw
them the 2nd night; everyone’s getting paranoid and now I think I
may have lost two very frightened employees. I’ve even thought of
pulling an Abbie Hoffman on the world to get out from under this
load. We are checking with all available agencies to find out what the poop is on this S,K. Is he ex-CIA with KKK mentality and political beliefs … or is he undercover, warning me of some covert assassination plot? Is he friend or foe? If he’s friendly, then I have an obligation to protect him, too, I wish I knew. I wish I were spiritually stronger. Help me, oh, Lord, in this, my hour of need.
Handwritten notes of Feb. 6, 1981 in the investigative file state: "He still carries a gun in a shoulder holster. Why? Police protection?" A typed recount of the above documents (believed written on Feb. 6 or 7, 1981) also has the following: "Because of these events, Jim Moore has expressed his concern that he will be assassinated if he follows through on a lawsuit naming as defendants Air America and several others. Air America was an airline company employed by the Central Intelligence Agency to fly heroin out of southeast Asia to be marketed in the United States. The CIA's agreement with Montagnard tribesmen to market their opium was the price the United States paid for their fighting services. This has been thoroughly documented in the news media. "Air America, Fighting Tigers, Inc., and Republic Pictures Corp., all named as defendants and all interlocking corporations, have published a book and are producing a movie based on a manuscript Moore claims was written by him and published in the February 1979 issue of Hustler Magazine, also named as a defendant. The lawsuit claims that Hustler publisher Larry Flynt was probably shot and paralyzed because of his decision to publish the article against the advice of his attorney, Mark Lane. "The manuscript accuses Aristotle Onassis of being the man behind Kennedy's assassination and claims that Onassis controlled the Howard Hughes empire and also, through Hughes' connections, the CIA. "Moore has until February 29, 1981 to file the suit." Below is another document found in the file, a letter dated February 9, 1981 to U.S. District Judge Thomas A. Wiseman, presiding judge in the Gemstone lawsuit. This is believed to have been Moore's file copy and was not signed.
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