Chuck Bryan

I'm opposed to the Korean War.

And President Truman said, maybe we should get a file going on this guy with the FBI.

And they did that a couple of years later.

Yeah, for sure.

And as far as the FBI goes, like I said, they started a file on him, which they also had on Martin Luther King and John Lennon and everybody else.

We've talked about all this stuff.

But there was something they found out later from the files was at one point J. Edgar Hoover told the New York agency office they needed to do something about Malcolm X. But like you said early on, they had a hard time doing anything because they

In 1958, an informant said that Malcolm X was of high moral character.

He doesn't smoke.

He doesn't drink.

He's always on time for appointments.

He's kind of a stand-up guy if you're not listening to what he's saying, white America.

Of course, that didn't matter, but they couldn't pin anything on him, essentially.

And they even think, and I don't think it's a spoiler to say that he was assassinated, but I feel like everyone knows that.

But they even think that the FBI, because they had so many informants inside the Nation of Islam, that they knew about the plot to assassinate him and just let it happen.

That's right.

So we're going to take that break and we're going to come back with the sad end and the split from the Nation of Islam right after this.

Yeah, I mean, his kids thought that they were going to be next in line, basically.

And, you know, I mentioned the FBI had lots of people on the inside of the Nation of Islam.

They use those people to kind of stoke that strife internally and, you know, try and disrupt it from within.