KING ALFRED PLAN / CODE NAME: REX 84 Totally repugnant to the United States Republic Constitution for People under its Protection

INTRODUCTION:
The Plan first appeared in John A. Williams’ 1967 novel, The Man Who Cried I Am, a fictionalized account of
the life and death of Richard Wright. In the afterword to later editions, Williams compares the King Alfred Plan
to intelligence programs devised by J. Edgar Hoover in the 1960s to monitor the movements of black militants.
It also bears similarities to rumors in the early 1950s surrounding the McCarran Act, an anti-Communist law, in
which political subversives were to be rounded up and placed in concentrations camps during a national
emergency. When his novel was first published, Williams photocopied portions of the book detailing the King
Alfred Plan and left copies in subway car seats around Manhattan. As a result, word of the King Alfred Plan
spread throughout the black community and the truth of its existence was often assumed to be unchallenged.
Performer and musician Gil Scott-Heron created the song “King Alfred Plan,” included on his (1972) album
Free Will that takes the Plan at face value. Jim Jones, head of the ‘apostolic socialist’ People’s Temple, discussed
the Plan at length in numerous recordings of his rant-style speeches both in the USA and in the Jonestown
community in Guyana, treating it as completely genuine.
KING ALFRED PLAN / CODE NAME: REX 84:
KING ALFRED*
In the event of widespread and continuing and coordinated racial disturbances in the United States, King Alfred,
at the discretion of the President, is to be put into action immediately.
PARTICIPATING FEDERAL AGENCIES
National Security Council
Department of Justice
Central Intelligence Agency
Department of Defense
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Department of Interior
PARTICIPATING STATE AGENCIES
(Under Federal Jurisdiction)
National Guard Units
State Police
PARTICIPATING LOCAL AGENCIES
(Under Federal Jurisdiction)
City Police
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Memo: National Security Council
Even before 1954, when the Supreme Court of the United States of America declared unconstitutional separate
educational and recreational facilities, racial unrest and discord had become very nearly a part of the American
way of life. But that way of life was repugnant to most Americans. Since 1954, however, that unrest and discord
have broken out into widespread violence which increasingly have placed the peace and stability of the nation
in dire jeopardy. This violence has resulted in loss of life, limb and property, and has cost the taxpayers of this
nation billions of dollars. And the end is not yet in sight. This same violence has raised the tremendously grave
question as to whether the races can ever live in peace with each other. Each passing month has brought new
intelligence that, despite new laws passed to alleviate the condition of the Minority, the Minority still is not
satisfied. Demonstrations and rioting have become a part of the familiar scene. Troops have been called out in
city after city across the land, and our image as a world leader severely damaged. Our enemies press closer,
seeking the advantage, possibly at a time during one of these outbreaks of violence. The Minority has adopted
an almost military posture to gain its objectives, which are not clear to most Americans. It is expected,
therefore, that when those objectives are denied the Minority, racial war must be considered inevitable. When
that emergency comes, we must expect the total involvement of all 22 million members of the Minority, men,
women, and children, for once this project is launched, its goal is to terminate, once and for all, the Minority
threat to the whole of the American society, and indeed, the Free World.
Chairman, National Security Council
Preliminary Memo: Department of Interior
Under King Alfred, the nation has been divided into 10 regions. In case of Emergency, Minority members will
be evacuated from the cities by federalized national guard units, local and state police and, if necessary, by units
of the Regular Armed Forces, using public and military transportation, and detained in nearby military
installations until a further course of action has been decided.
1 – Capital Region
2 – Northeast Region
3 – Southeast Region
4 – Great Lakes Region
5 – South Central Region
6 – Deep South Region
7 – Deep South Region II
8 – Great Plains, Rocky mountain Region
9 – Southwest Region
10 – West Coast Region
No attempt will be made to seal off the Canadian and Mexican borders.
Secretary, Department of Interior
* 849-899 King of England who slaughtered thousands under the disguise of protecting the European religion of
Christianity. As a result he was revered as one of the most noble Kings in the history of England.
Combined Memo: Department of Justice
Preliminary Memo: Federal Bureau of Investigation & Central Intelligence Agency
There are 12 major Minority organizations and all are familiar to the 22 million. Dossiers have been compiled
on the leaders of the organizations, and can be studied in Washington. The material contained in many of the
dossiers, and our threat to reveal that material, has considerably held in check some of the leaders. Leaders who
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do not have such usable material in their dossiers have been approached to take government posts, mostly as
ambassadors and primarily in African countries. The promise of these positions also has materially contributed
to a temporary slow-down of Minority activities. However, we do not expect these slow-downs to be of long
duration, because there are always new and dissident elements joining these organizations, with the potential
power to replace the old leaders. All organizations and their leaders are under constant, 24-hour surveillance.
The organizations are:
1 – The Black Muslims
2 – Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
3 – Congress of Racial Equality
4 – Uhuru Movement
5 – Group On Advanced Leadership (GOAL)
6 – Freedom Now Party (FNP)
7 – United Black Nationalists of America (UBNA)
8 – The New Pan-African Movement (TNPAM)
9 – Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
10 – The National Urban League (NUL)
11 – The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
12 – Committee on Racial and Religious Progress (CORARP)
NOTE: At the appropriate time, to be designated by the President, the leaders of some of these organizations are
to be detained ONLY WHEN IT IS CLEAR THAT THEY CANNOT PREVENT THE EMERGENCY,
working with local public officials during the first critical hours. All other leaders are to be detained at once.
Compiled lists of Minority leaders have been readied at the National Data Computer Center. It is necessary to
use the Minority leaders designated by the President in much the same manner in which we use Minority
members who are agents with Central and Federal, and we cannot, until there is no alternative, reveal King
Alfred in all its aspects. Minority members of Congress will be unseated at once. This move is not without
precedent in American history.
Attorney General
Preliminary Memo: Department of Defense
This memo is being submitted in lieu of a full report from the Joint Chiefs of Staff. That report is now in
preparation. There will be many cities where the Minority will be able to put into the street a superior number of
people with a desperate and dangerous will. He will be a formidable enemy, for he is bound to the Continent by
heritage and knows that political asylum will not be available to him in other countries. The greatest
concentration of the Minority is in the Deep South, the Eastern seaboard, the Great lakes region and the West
Coast. While the national population exceeds that of the Minority by more than ten times, we must realistically
take into account the following:
1 – An estimated 40-50 percent of the white population will not, for various reasons, engage the Minority during
an Emergency.
2 – American Armed Forces are spread around the world. A breakout of war abroad means fewer troops at home
to handle the Emergency.
3 – Local law enforcement officials must contain the Emergency until help arrives, though it may mean fighting
a superior force. New York City, for example, has a 25,000 man police force, but there are about one million
Minority members in the city.
We are confident that the Minority would hold any city it took for only a few hours. The lack of weapons,
facilities, logistics — all put the Minority at a final disadvantage.
Since the Korean War, this department has shifted Minority members of the Armed Forces to areas where