NYPD Cop's Deathbed Confession Involve the FBI and NYPD in the Murder of Malcom X

 Last month marked the 56th anniversary of the assassination of a civil rights worker. Since that fateful day back in 1965, controversy has swarmed the case with conspiracy theories abounding. The official story happens to be one of every of the foremost flawed versions.

According to the official story, Malcolm X, born militant in 1925, was assassinated by rival Black Muslims on February 21, 1965, while addressing his Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights.

Three members of the state of Islam (NOI) — Talmadge Hayer or Thomas Hagan (a.k.a Mujahid Abdul Halim), Norman Butler (a.k.a Muhammad Abdul Aziz), and Thomas Johnson (a.k.a Khalil Islam) — were convicted of his murder in 1966 — despite glaring inconsistencies within the case.

Officials at the time of his murder claimed Malcolm’s assassination was the result of an ongoing dispute between him and therefore the NOI. Though Malcolm had left the group in 1964 on bad terms, Butler (Aziz) and Johnson (Islam) have consistently professed their innocence, and students who have studied the case have raised doubts about the killing’s circumstances.

What’s more, there was no evidence linking Butler or Johnson to the crime. Butler even had an alibi for the time of the murder: He was reception resting after injuring his leg. This was saved by a doctor who had treated him and who took the stand during the trial. Nonetheless, all three men were found guilty in 1966 and sentenced to life in prison. Case closed.

Following the discharge of a Netflix documentary series last year, that delved into these doubts, Manhattan prosecuting officer Cy Vance announced that his office was visiting to review the case. Little has come from this investigation and it sounded like more feigning from officials.

Then, last week, a letter was released, reportedly written by Ray Wood who was an undercover law officer at the time. Wood’s attorney and family claim Wood wrote the letter on his deathbed confessing the NYPD and therefore the FBI conspired to kill activists.

According to Wood’s cousin, Reggie Wood, who released the letter, Ray Wood wrote it after being diagnosed with stomach cancer back in 2011. His wishes were that the letter is released after his death. Because Ray Wood would get into remission, Reggie didn't release the letter thus far.

“For 10 years I’ve carried this confession secretly in fear of what could happen to my family and myself if the govt discovered what I knew,” Reggie Wood said.
Raymond Wood, he said, “lived in constant fear for 46 years, worried about what the NYPD and FBI would do to his family if he had told the dark secrets that he held that helped destroy Black leaders and Black power organizations.”

After Wood’s death in November, Reggie Wood contacted civil rights attorney Ben Crump and also the letter was released.

The letter described how Raymond Wood while working as an undercover NYPD officer, was assigned to a unit that infiltrated civil rights groups in search of illegal activities in order that the FBI could arrest their leaders.

The Washington Post reported that in February 1965, per the letter, Wood’s supervisors had him lure two key players on Malcolm X’s security team into a plot to bomb the Statue of Liberty. Four people were arrested on Feb. 16 on charges that they sought to blow the pinnacle off the structure, and Wood was credited on the front page of the big apple Times for infiltrating the group.

According to the letter, Wood’s supervisors threatened to charge him with false crimes if he tried to resign so he was forced to travel together with the conspiracy.

Though the letter is disputed as “fake” by Wood’s daughter, Kelly Wood, the data it revealed filled within the gaps of the conspiracy perfectly. Also, she is that the only loved one who is making this claim.

“If he was involved in any way,” she said, “he would have spoken up earlier.”

But per the opposite members of the family, he failed to speak up out of fear of retaliation.

“I participated in actions that in hindsight were deplorable and detrimental to my very own black people,” the letter read. “Under the direction of my handlers, I used to be told to encourage leaders and members of the civil rights groups to commit felonious acts.”

This is the quality procedure when authorities infiltrate groups. We’ve reported on cases of the FBI giving explosives to groups so as to catch them within the act.

The idea of the NYPD aiding within the assassination makes perfect sense because the day the civil rights leader was killed, police were nowhere to be seen. Over 400 people were present at his speech that day and a significant police presence was routine for all of his rallies. thereon day, however, no cops showed up.

In fact, within the letter, Wood reportedly guaranteed that police wouldn't be at the Audubon Ballroom the day he was killed.

What’s more, Malcolm was under near-constant surveillance by the federal and the big apple state governments. The FBI first opened a file on Malcolm in March 1953 and closely monitored him over the subsequent decade using surveillance and informants within the NOI, OAAU, and MMI.

On June 6, 1964, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover sent a telegram, which later became public, to the FBI office in the big apple City that said: “do something about Malcolm Little.”

Apparently, something was done.

Also, the NY department of local government (NYPD) had, at the time, a special unit called the Bureau of Special Services (BOSS) that had infiltrated many political organizations, including Malcolm’s. Malcolm X: A lifetime of Reinvention describes the NOI, MMI, and OAAU as “virtual rats nests of conflicting loyalties” thanks to the number of informants positioned among their members’ ranks.

After the letter was released, the FBI released a press release on the investigation.

“The FBI’s the big apple field office is conscious of recent reporting regarding the circumstances surrounding Malcolm X’s death. Over the past several months, we've got worked cooperatively with the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office to help in its review of the matter and supply relevant documents from FBI holdings. Today’s FBI stands for the noble pursuit of justice, and that we will still support the review in any way we are able to.”

The NYPD also responded.

Several months ago, the Manhattan DA initiated a review of the investigation and prosecution that resulted in two convictions for the murder of Malcolm X. The NYPD has provided all available records relevant thereto case to the prosecutor. The Department remains committed to assisting therewith review in any way.

Although over fifty years have passed since his killing, his words still ring even as true today as they did then. His ideas are at the middle of a national debate over the treatment of minorities by the criminal justice system and have taken center stage with the recent events in Minneapolis et al.

“They attack, bust you all upside your mouth, then take you to court and charge you with assault… What quite a democracy is that? What quite a freedom is that? What quite social or social group is it… They attack the victim, and so the criminal who attacked the victim accuses the victim of attacking him. this is often American justice, this can be American democracy and people of you that are aware of it know that democracy is hypocrisy,” said an activist.

Is it any question on why the NYPD might want him out of the way?