Subsitute the Chicago communist cabal for the CIA operatives in your comment, and you will see that Alice Palmer is the most likely candidate for who it was told the Russians the US would have a black president...
I mention the CIA involvement because of Andrew Basiagio, but further into this it becomes kind of like the IRS scandal. No one needs to get orders from Zippo, they just understand what to do. Plant the seed in a liberal political garden and watch what grows.