Former NYPD Undercover officer Ray Wood penned a letter before his passing about his alleged involvement as well as the alleged involvement of NYPD and FBI, in the assassination of Civil Rights Icon Malcolm X.
In his letter, dated January 25, 2011, Wood says that his job was in infiltrate Civil Rights groups to find criminal activity that the FBI could use to "discredit and arrest its leaders."
This letter continues to claim that Wood's supervisor was the mastermind behind the plot to plant a bomb at the Statue of Liberty only days before the assassination of the Civil Rights legend and place the blame on Malcolm X's main security detail.
Woods further says in his letter that it was his job to draw the two men that were part of Malcolm X's security detail into "felonious federal crime, so that they could be arrested by the FBI and kept away from managing Malcolm X's door security on February 21, 1965." He continues to say that he was not aware that "Malcolm X was the target."
Woods alleges that his role in what would be the assassination of Malcolm X was done "under duress and fear."
Woods says he wrote the letter fearing that if he were to die Thomas Johnson, one of the men convicted of killing Malcolm X, would never be able to be exonerated for the crime.
Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965 while addressing while addressing the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom. Three Nation of Islam members were convicted of his murder.
You can see the letter penned by Ray Wood alleging the NYPD and FBI role in Malcolm X's assassination below.
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