PLOT BY KU KLUX KLAN
INVESTIGATION IN , GEORGIA
NEW YORK, June 23. The Governor of Georgia (Mr Ellis Gibbs Arnall) said to-day that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had uncovered a well-organised plot by which two Ku Klux Klan members would be given the job of “taking care of him.”
Mr Arnall quoted an Atlantic agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who is staying at Oakland City, California, as saying that the klavern, or chapter of the Klan, had decided to instigate the plot by having the names of five klansmen drawn by lot from each klavern. “From these names the Grand Dragon is to draw two," said Mr Arnall. “The. Federal Bureau of Investigation advises that these two will be unknown to each other or anyone else except the Grand Dragon. They are to be given the job of taking care of me. The whole thing is silly, of course, but it shows to what lengths the Klan will go in an effort to impede the State’s fight against it.” The State filed a suit on June 20 to have the Klan’s charter abolished.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24910, 25 June 1946, Page 5
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