Clyde Tolson

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Person.png Clyde Tolson   History Commons SpartacusRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
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BornClyde Anderson Tolson
1900-05-22
Laredo, Missouri, U.S.
Died1975-04-14 (Age 74)
Washington DC
Alma materGeorge Washington University School of Law
"Alter Ego" of his close friend FBI director J. Edgar Hoover

Employment.png Acting Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

In office
May 2, 1972 - May 3, 1972
Succeeded byL. Patrick Gray
"Alter Ego" of his close friend FBI director J. Edgar Hoover

Clyde Tolson, long time #2 in the CIA, was accused by William Pepper of being involved in the assassination of Martin Luther King.[1]

Career

Tolson was Associate Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation for 42 years (1930-1972).


 

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William Pepper“that J. Edgar Hoover used his number two, Clyde Tolson, to come into Memphis on a regular basis and liaise with the Dixie Mafia and organize the on the ground killing of Martin King. It shows that Tolson carried $25,000 in, and that money was carried to the prison where James Earl Ray was. He - James - had been profiled and never knew this. That given to the warden, Swenson, and James was allowed to escape, and then he became part of their network. He was under a handler whom he knew as Raoul and who I later came to know as Raoul Coelo. He was an ex Portuguese intelligence officer who lived in Yonkers New York."”William Pepper
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