Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

[Panajar]

Mystery still surrounds the 1976 shooting at Bob Marley's 56 Hope Road residence when the reggae king was wounded by one of the 56 bullets reportedly fired by gunmen. Most people believed the shooting was political.

Chris Salewicz, who spent time with Marley in Jamaica, in his book, Bob Marley—The Untold Story published in 2009, offers new insight into the incident, which made headlines around the world.

<span style="font-size: 17pt">&quot;He wrote, &quot;No one really believed that Claudie Massop, Bob Marley's good friend, would have involved himself in such a treacherous move, but Jim Brown, don of the JLP stronghold of Tivoli Gardens, and alleged godfather of the multimillion-dollar drug dealing Shower Posse, might have done it&quot; to <span style="color: #990000"><span style="text-decoration: underline">show his boss</span></span> that he could be a trusted assassin.&quot;</span>

'During rehearsals at 56 Hope Road, Salewicz said a 'white bwai' came to the property and advised the singer to tone one down his lyrics, and to stop aiming at a white audience in the USA; if he didn't, he would find his visa to enter America would be taken away. Then the man left, as suddenly as he had arrived.

&quot;Whoever this was would appear to have been acting under instructions from the US Embassy, if not from the CIA. <span style="font-size: 17pt">Don Taylor was convinced it was a message from the CIA, who at that time had a close relationship with the<span style="font-style: italic"> JLP;</span> this was part of a strategy of relentlessly undermining Michael Manley's policy of allying with other Third World nations, notably communist Cuba.&quot;</span>

<span style="font-size: 23pt">INTERESTING ,THESE ALLEGATIONS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS.. NOW WHO WAS JIM BROWN BOSS?
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READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE ... HERALD

[jah_yout]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

you mean the failed &quot;hit&quot; attempt...

the gong built a tune off of it...&quot;ambush in the night&quot;...

&quot;through political strategy they keep us hungry
and when you want to get some food
your brother got to be your enemy....&quot;


these political parties have long shown themselves to be the enemy of the jamaican people...
unfortunately there are no forces currently able to challenge their monopoly on power..

but their day will come

[RichD]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [img:center]

<span style="font-size: 23pt">INTERESTING ,THESE ALLEGATIONS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS.. NOW WHO WAS JIM BROWN BOSS?
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</div></div> caludie massop?

[Panajar]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [img:center]

<span style="font-size: 23pt">INTERESTING ,THESE ALLEGATIONS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS.. NOW WHO WAS JIM BROWN BOSS?
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</div></div> caludie massop? </div></div>

Intriguing answer, what lead you to this conclusion? The the general consensus at the time was that massop was only a pawn and there were more powerful people pulling the strings in West Kingston.

[RichD]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

wasn't Massop senior to Jim Brown up until his death?

[Derek]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [img:center]

<span style="font-size: 23pt">INTERESTING ,THESE ALLEGATIONS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS.. NOW WHO WAS JIM BROWN BOSS?
</span>
</div></div> caludie massop? </div></div>

Intriguing answer, what lead you to this conclusion? The the general consensus at the time was that massop was only a pawn and there were more powerful people pulling the strings in West Kingston. </div></div>


<span style="font-weight: bold">Did Jim Brown organise it for the gentleman on the right, who's mind seems to be elsewhere in this photo?</span>

[RichD]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [img:center]

<span style="font-size: 23pt">INTERESTING ,THESE ALLEGATIONS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS.. NOW WHO WAS JIM BROWN BOSS?
</span>
</div></div> caludie massop? </div></div>

Intriguing answer, what lead you to this conclusion? The the general consensus at the time was that massop was only a pawn and there were more powerful people pulling the strings in West Kingston. </div></div>


<span style="font-weight: bold">Did Jim Brown organise it for the gentleman on the right, who's mind seems to be elsewhere in this photo?</span> </div></div> and the bredda on the left look like him right into it?

[Panajar]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">wasn't Massop senior to Jim Brown up until his death? </div></div>

Assuming you are correct, then you will agree that as powerful as Massop was he too had a boss .Since we all agree that west Kingston at the time was a poverty stricken area and Dons like Massop survived off political patronage , Massop's patron has to be the ultimate boss, as the saying goes he who has the gold makes the rules.

[Derek]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body">wasn't Massop senior to Jim Brown up until his death? </div></div>

Assuming you are correct, then you will agree that as powerful as Massop was he too had a boss .Since we all agree that west Kingston at the time was a poverty stricken area and Dons like Massop survived off political patronage , Massop's patron has to be the ultimate boss, as the saying goes he who has the gold makes the rules. </div></div>


I'm no expert, but I can't understand how people can't see that Little Nut and those boys were 'working' for Seaga.
Everywhere I look, everything I read, I find the same claims. Except on here.
The guy's not even Jamaican. Why on earth would he have Jamaica's best interests at heart?

[franksterr]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

It was a CIA operation and members of &quot;shower possie&quot; carried it out, very likely whit the approval of Jim brown.

I am not an expert....but here goes Starting with Zackie, the 'High Priest', followed by Claudie 'Jack' Massop, then for a short while Carl 'Bya' Mitchell, through Lester Lloyd 'Jim Brown' Coke, to his son Anthony 'Jah T' Coke and now imprisoned Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.

[Derek]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: franksterr</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It was a CIA operation and members of &quot;shower possie&quot; carried it out, very likely whit the approval of Jim brown.

I am not an expert....but here goes Starting with Zackie, the 'High Priest', followed by Claudie 'Jack' Massop, then for a short while Carl 'Bya' Mitchell, through Lester Lloyd 'Jim Brown' Coke, to his son Anthony 'Jah T' Coke and now imprisoned Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.

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I found these pretty interesting:

<span style="font-weight: bold">It seems that the CIA has done a fine job in turning out career criminals world wide </span>
http://www.islandmix.com/backchat/f6/cia...ld-wide-189615/

<span style="font-weight: bold">The CIA employed Charles &quot;Little Nut&quot; Miller as a political thug attached to Edward Seaga's JLP Party</span>

http://www.blackplanet.com/news/article_comments.html?news_item_id=11396407

http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/forum/d...cruit-foreign/7

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

During the period When That hit Was made all political gangs were u derived the direct control of their political patron and in that case his patron was under the orders of foreign entities.
Jamaica Was a conduit of the guns for drugs where cocaine was exported to the US from Colombia using Jamaican shower posse as frontline sellers in the urban Ares.
The profits Was used to buy arms for the south and central American despots of which we All know who Was behind it.

Marley Was in the way of the movement in Jamaica towards maintain the colonial structure which is still in place 50 years after so called independence.

[Dr.Dudd]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [img:center]

<span style="font-size: 23pt">INTERESTING ,THESE ALLEGATIONS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS.. NOW WHO WAS JIM BROWN BOSS?
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</div></div> caludie massop? </div></div>Massop died or was murdered years before Marley was shot.

[neutral]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

Yeah,1979,he stopped 40 bullets.

[RichD]

Re: Did Jim Brown organize hit on Bob Marley?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Dr.Dudd</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RichD</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Panajar</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> [img:center]

<span style="font-size: 23pt">INTERESTING ,THESE ALLEGATIONS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR YEARS.. NOW WHO WAS JIM BROWN BOSS?
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</div></div> caludie massop? </div></div>Massop died or was murdered years before Marley was shot. </div></div> you are incorrect

Massop was killed on on February 4, 1979.. Marley was shot on December 3, 1976