FERRE, NELS F.S. -- PROMINENT THEOLOGIAN'S CONDEMNATION OF CIA
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00459884
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June 6, 2025
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June 12, 2025
Publication Date:
May 28, 1969
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1O4-10129-103471 r GUNT-iP CIAL Chief, Personnel Security Division, OS Director, Donestic Contact Service (Chief, Services Division) i; t, 71. .)( � !A . Jc 28 NET 1969 - Prominent Theologian's Condemnation of CIA 1. During an address at the Southern Baptist C.covention- - Departments held at St. Louis, Missouri, Subject, prominent ;T-stM!4:� and publicist of Andover Nevton Theological Seminary, now associated vith Wooster (Ohio) College, expressed his concern aver the growing power of the cu. in the US. As an example, be said. that the Agency vas "dire -ctlyirearpotable" for the assassinations of Martin Luther King and. Senator Robert Kennedy, and had been involved in the death of President John F. Kennedy. 2. As his rationatization for the King assassination, Subject claims that the Johnson Administration bad become concerned. that King .ou34 lead another "massive march on Washington" during an election year, and. therefore ordered the Agency to murder King. lie also said that theAgencyliBB quite chagrined vthen thPir "brother service," Scotland. lard, had arrested their hired assassin, James Earl Ray. after CIA had believed he had tzDezt safely spirited abroad. fis rationaLizations for the other assassinations ire not given. Subject is an ordained. Congregational minister vho has a PhD from Harvard. 3. Because of his prominence�he is listed in liho's Who,"--Bubjectls remarks apparently were not challenged by the Baptist student directors Nilo appeared to be quite concerned about the charges. These directors_ are responsible for the Southern Baptist activities on all universit*Jand college campuses in theip respective states, primarily southern..and Oates. _ 4. 13attP11 e Memorial previously has been a cooperative contact. 5. Any questions pertaIntng to this memorandum should, be directed to Mrs. Virginia Thorne, Ext. 2738- B. FRANKJOUNG r�