Did the CIA Kill Malcolm X Over His Ties to China? | Silk and Steel

2025-12-08

In this explosive episode, host Carl Zha sits down with Dana "Showtyme" Burton—a Detroit native, lifelong Malcolm X scholar, and long-term resident of China. Dana presents a groundbreaking and disturbing theory: Malcolm X was assassinated by the CIA not just for his domestic activism, but specifically to sever his growing alliance with Mao's China and revolutionary movements in Africa. He argues this was done to protect two key U.S. operations—the international drug trade funding covert wars in Asia and the deliberate flooding of drugs int...

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00:00 - Introduction: Dana Burton's Lifelong Study of Malcolm X

02:50 - Malcolm's Early China Connections: Chinatown, Family, & Food

09:30 - The Core Thesis: CIA Motive - China & The Drug Trade

13:50 - Allegation 1: The Chinese Government's Immediate Accusation (1965)

18:45 - Allegation 2: Pan-African & Black Socialist Groups Blame U.S. Imperialists

25:05 - Evidence 1: CIA Asset Victor Riesel Tails Malcolm in Africa & Cairo

31:55 - The Geopolitical Threat: Malcolm, China, and African Liberation