The Ray Wood Story by Reggie Wood & Lizzette Salado

Author:Reggie Wood & Lizzette Salado
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cointelpro, Malcolm X, FBI, Shabazz, who killed Malcolm X, police corruption
Publisher: Madera Enterprises
Published: 2021-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

February 16, 1965

Ray had just shut his eyes when he received a phone call that abruptly woke him. He was asleep in his Bronx apartment located at 1640 Topping Avenue, trying to catch as much rest as he could. Ray was out late the previous night cruising the town and trying out some bars he’d heard about. He answered the phone in a daze.

“Hello?” Ray answered, stifling a yawn.

“Hi, it’s Michelle Duclos,” she replied. “I’m in town, meet me at the Colonial House as soon as you can,” she said, rushing to get off the line.

Before she’d hung up the phone, Ray was wide awake and hurriedly stepping into his shoes. Duclos had driven almost 400 miles from Montreal to New York in her Rambler and Ray didn’t want to keep her waiting. He grabbed the first taxi he could find and told the driver to take him to the Colonial House Hotel.

When Ray arrived at the Colonial House, he found Duclos waiting for him and it was straight to business. She informed him that she’d successfully smuggled 30 sticks of dynamite and 30 blasting caps across the border. She’d hidden the explosives at a certain parking lot and explained in detail how he could get to it. As she traced her gloved finger along the hotel wall, she mapped out the path he’d take to find the package.

“When you get to the edge of the parking lot, there’s a double fence marking the boundary.” She looked him directly in the eyes, making sure he followed what she was saying. “Once you pass this fence, you’ll see a bush in the adjacent empty lot. There’s a Benjamin Moore paint box under this bush containing the dynamite.”

“And the caps?” Ray asked. He liked her straight to the point attitude and the clarity with which she was depicting the scene.

“The blasting caps are wrapped in newspaper, hidden under the fourth car in the main parking lot.” With her final instruction given, Duclos left and went back to her own hotel.

Immediately following his meeting with Duclos, Ray was met outside of the Colonial House by his handlers. He succinctly debriefed them on the information Duclos had just given him regarding the location of the explosives. He was then given a rental car so he could carry out the rest of the plan. With a car at his disposal, Ray called Collier to tell him he knew where the explosives were, and that he was on his way to pick him up so they could go get the packages.

Ray and Collier drove through the semi-dark February morning uptown through Manhattan, towards the Bronx. When they arrived at the large parking lot that Duclos had described, both men got out of the car. Collier passed the double fence and headed directly to the bush that held the paint box with the explosives.

“Got it!” Collier said to Ray as he carefully carried the box full of explosives to the car. Collier tried to hand Ray the box.

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