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1. April 25, 1969. Memo to W.C. Sullivan. Book Review 2. June 6, 1970. Memo to W.C. Sullivan. Book Review 3. August 20, 1970. Memo to CD. Brennan. Book Review 4. August 1, 1970. Memo to E.S. Miller. Book Review 5. April 19, 1972. SAC, Albany to Director 6. May 16, 1972. San Diego to Bureau 7. May 17, 1972. Memo. SAC, Seattle to Acting Director 8. May 19, 1972. New York to Acting Director. Teletype 9. May 20, 1972. Washington Field to Acting Director 10. May 20, 1972. Cincinnati to Acting Director. Teletype 11. May 31, 1972. Jackson, Mississippi 12. June 6, 1972. Memo. SAC, New Haven to Acting Director 13. June 9, 1972. Memo. SAC, Miami to Acting Director 14. June 21, 1972. Baltimore 15. May 29, 1980. Congressman W. Hughes to Director Webster 16. June 20, 1980. Asst. Director Revell to W. Hughes 17. Technical Surveillance Recordings. June 3-Oct 3, 1964 18. APPENDIX |
This final section offers book reviews, information regarding celebrations of Malcolm’s birthday in 1972, a request from New Jersey Congressman Hughes to reopen the case against Butler and Johnson, and telephone surveillance recordings from 1964. An appendix then offers reference assistance for the entire FBI file.
The book reviews are submitted in the form of memos written by b7C informants to agents with a summary of the publication followed by a reference as to whether or not the FBI is mentioned in the book. During 1972, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died, so some memos from that year are addressed to “Acting Director.”
The telephone recordings from 1964 were useful to the FBI because they could supply immediate information regarding Malcolm’s activities and could confirm informant reports as well. No reason is listed as to why they were discontinued after exactly four months.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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BOOK REVIEW |
This memorandum presents a review of captioned book published in 1965 by Merit Publishers, which is being placed in the Bureau Library.
REVIEW OF BUREAU FILES
The author is [BUREAU DELETION] former editor of The Militant a publication of that organization [BUREAU DELETION].
BOOK REVIEW
The author describes the life of Malcolm X from his childhood to his assassination in February of 1965. After the death of his parents, he lived at state institutions and boarding homes until the age of fifteen when he went to live with his sister in Boston, Massachusetts, and drifted into a life of crime including gambling, drugs, hustling, and burglary. In 1946 at the age of twenty, he was convicted of burglary and sentenced to ten years in prison.
During his incarceration, which continued for six years, he was introduced to the Nation of Islam headed by Elijah Muhammad. During this period he educated himself and learned to speak and debate. The author described him as the most respected debater in the country. After parole, he traveled to Chicago, Illinois; met Elijah Muhammad; was accepted into the Nation of Islam; and in a few short years his work, through his plain direct speaking style, helped transform the Black Muslims from a virtually unnoticed to a well-known organization.
While in the Black Muslims, Malcolm X traveled throughout the country as Muhammad’s troubleshooter and came to know the ghetto areas nationally. According to the author, Malcolm X became attuned to the needs and wants of a growing multitude of black people looking for a new road. In 1964 he decided his place was with the Negro masses rather than with Muhammad’s organization.
He split with Muhammed’s organization and undertook the difficult task of building a new movement based on the black unity of all Negroes regardless of their religion and philosophies as long as they were ready to fight for freedom. His new organization was known as Muslim Mosque, Incorporated. He traveled to Africa and the Middle East to mobilize African support behind a project to put the United States government on trial in the United Nations for continued oppression of the American Negroes. He favored Negroes organizing politically, electing their own candidates, and driving “black stooges” from office in the major political parties. Malcolm X was revolutionary and became increasingly more anticapitalist and prosocialist. He read the Socialist Workers Party publication, “The Militant,” and urged other Negroes to do likewise.
No mention is made of the FBI in the book.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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BOOK REVIEW |
This is a review of captioned book published in 1969 by Apollo Editions. The book is being placed in the Bureau Library.
[BUREAU DELETION] Epps is Assistant Dean of Harvard College. He is described as founder and advisor of “The Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs.”
Book, 191 pages, divided into two parts, latter part being verbatim texts of speeches by Malcolm X on 3/24/61, 3/18/64 and 12/16/64. First 112 pages are analysis by Epps of the speeches in effort to determine personal motivations and goals of Malcolm X (true name Malcolm Little). Epps noted first speech given at time when Malcolm X was deeply involved in Nation of Islam (NOI) and was dedicated follower of NOI head Elijah Muhammad. His remarks showed Black Muslim view of the white man as a lowly animal but freedom of the black man from yoke of white man was placed in terms of redemption by God. Shortly before second speech, Malcolm X resigned from the NOI because of disillusionment. In the second speech, he appeared no longer to believe to rely upon God to save the black man from the white man but presented the Negro people as both judge and executioner of the whites. The final speech was made shortly after he had returned from an extensive trip to Africa and just two months before his assassination. The author concludes that Malcolm X saw himself and the Negroes as exiles in a society which was a jungle for them, threatened by daily violence. He was a mixture of prophet, escapist and revolutionary.
No mention of the FBI is made in the book.
ACTION:
For information.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
MEMORANDUM
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BOOK REVIEW |
This is a review of captioned booklet published in 1969 by Merit Publishers, which is being placed in the Bureau Library.
REVIEW OF BUREAU FILES:
Breitman is [BUREAU DELETION] a former editor of The Militant, a publication of the SWP. Porter is [BUREAU DELETION] a writer for The Militant. [BUREAU DELETION]
BOOK REVIEW:
This booklet consists of twelve articles which appeared in The Militant between July, 1965, and March, 1966. Of the three subjects arrested, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Malcolm X the authors claim that one was undoubtedly guilty but he was not proved to be a member of the Black Muslims. The other two subjects who were Black Muslims were not a part of the assassination and were framed by the police in order to show Malcolm’s death was caused by the rival organization. Breitman writes in an introductory note, “Readers should also understand that if the New York police were involved in the assassination (and nothing said or done at the trial, or in the four years since the crime, has absolved them of this charge), that involvement could not have been on their own initiative, but must have resulted from the decision and direction of the Government in Washington, that is, the CIA.”
MENTION OF THE FBI:
The FBI is mentioned on pages 5, 6, 9, 11, 22, and 29. On the first three listed pages, mention is made of the Bureau in connection with its investigations and development of informants in extremist groups. On the last three mentioned pages the FBI is referred to as to testimony given during the trial and evidence obtained.
ACTION.
For information.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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This is a review of captioned book, published in 1971 by Merlin House, Inc. The book is being placed in the Bureau Library.
REVIEW OF BUREAU FILES:
Malcolm X (true name Malcolm Little) was Harlem hoodlum and ex-convict who became Muslim while imprisoned. He rapidly rose to become Nation of Islam (NOI) minister and major spokesman until split with NOI in March, 1964, and formed Muslim Mosque, Inc. (a quasi-religious, politically oriented black nationalist group), and Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), (a militant civil rights action group aligned with all African descendants). He was assassinated, at age 39, by three Muslims 2/21/65 while addressing four hundred OAAU followers in New York City (NYC). He has since been considered hero and martyr by many revolutionaries.
Editor Benjamin Goodman (true name Augustus Benjamin Goodman) is Negro, aged 40, former NOI Assistant Minister, who defected from NOI with Malcolm X and was his primary assistant.
BOOK REVIEW:
This book is collection of four speeches by Malcolm X introduced by Goodman, who relates background of this “impassioned and inspired” black nationalist and describes setting for each speech.
These speeches were delivered during period 12/62-12/63, the final year of Malcolm X’s NOI affiliation, and all except one were presented in NYC.
The first and longest speech entitled “Black Man’s History” was presented at Malcolm X’s NOI Mosque No. 7 in Harlem 12/23/62. It includes rambling, grossly distorted anti-white view of history emphasizing blacks’ oppression by “white devils.”
“The Black Revolution,” the second speech, was delivered at Adam Clayton Powell’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, NYC. Text relates view only lasting solution to race problem is complete racial separation. Malcolm X proposed that U. S. should give blacks land in proportion to population ratio or send blacks back to Africa and provide their subsistence there for twenty-five years.
“The Old Negro and the New Negro,” the third speech, is actually Malcolm X’s comments during appearance on Philadelphia radio station, Fall 1963, following address at University of Pennsylvania. Comments include his views on decline of European colonialism, awakening of “dark” world, and development of black pride and self-reliance.
The last speech, “God’s Judgement [sic] of White America,” (subtitled “The Chickens are Coming Home to Roost”), was delivered at Manhattan Center, NYC, on 12/3/63. He declares that decline of U. S. as world power is God’s punishment for enslavement of 22 million blacks and, unless whites “repent,” further retribution will occur.
MENTION OF FBI:
FBI is not mentioned in book.
ACTION:
For information.
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Director, FBI BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY—MALCOLM X MAY 19, 1972 EXTREMIST MATTERS |
Malcolm K. Little, better known as Malcolm X, a black militant leader, was born 5/19/25. He was killed in New York City (NYC) 2/21/65.
Because many of today’s black revolutionaries regard Malcolm X as a hero and a martyr, the possibility exists that the anniversary of his birthday may be marked by them with acts of violence. As an example, last year two NYC police officers were seriously wounded in a machine gun attack by black assailants the night of 5/19. Anonymous letters claiming credit for the attack linked the shooting to “Malcolm’s Birthday.”
Bring this to the attention of all Agents handling black extremist matters so that they may be alert for any information concerning possible violence in connection with Malcolm X’s birthday. Instruct black extremist informants to be particularly alert to obtain and report such information.
If any such information developed, promptly advise Bureau under appropriate caption and handle in accordance with existing instructions.
2—All Offices
HEH:aso (124)
NOTE: See memorandum [BUREAU DELETION] to Mr. E. S. Miller, dated 4/18/72, captioned as above, prepared by HEH;aso.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
MAY 16, 1972
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FROM SAN DIEGO (157-3191) (P) 4P
BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY—MALCOLM X, MAY NINETEEN NEXT, EXTREMIST MATTERS.
TWO SAN DIEGO SOURCES ADVISED SUBSTANTIALLY AS FOLLOWS ON MAY TWELVE LAST:
THE BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF THE LATE MALCOLM X, EARLY LEADER IN THE BLACK NATIONIST MOVEMENT, WILL BE OBSERVED WITH FESTIVITIES MAY NINETEEN AND TWENTY NEXT AT SOUTH-CREST PARK, FORTIETH AND KEELER STREETS, AND AT RUSS AUDITORIUM AT SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.
FESTIVITIES AT SOUTHCREST PARK WILL START ELEVEN THIRTY AM MAY NINETEEN AND WILL FEATURE SONGS, DANCES AND POETRY READING, AS WELL AS TALKS BY COMMUNITY LEADERS. LAST YEAR’S MALCOLM X CELEBRATION AT THE PARK WAS ATTENDED BY AN ESTIMATED FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS.
AMONG THOSE SCHEDULE TO ATTEND AND ENTERTAIN THE GUESTS WILL BE LE ROI JONES, REFERRED TO AS IMAMU BARAKA, POET AND BLACK POLITICAL ACTIVIST; CAIPHUS SEMANYAN, LEADER OF A MUSICAL GROUP CALLED THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA; LETTA MBULU, AN ENTERTAINER FROM AFRICA; DAVID NELSON OF THE LAST POETS, A POETRY READING GROUP, AND RUPERT CROSSE AND TATANISHA, STARS OF THE TELEVISION PROGRAM “ROOM TWO TWENTY TWO.”
HIGHLIGHT OF THE CELEBRATION WILL BE THE FIFTH ANNUAL MISS AFROAMERICA SAN DIEGO PAGEANT AT EIGHT PM MAY TWENTY NEXT AT RUSS AUDITORIUM. THE THEME OF THE PAGEANT IS “BLACK WOMEN DASH AFRICAN ESSENCE REBORN.” MASTER OF CEREMONIES DURING THE PAGEANT WILL BE BLACK ACTOR RICHARD ROUNDTREE CURRENTLY STARRING IN A MOTION PICTURE TITLED “SHAFT.”
THE TWO DAY CELEBRATION IS BEING SPONSORED BY THE CONGRESS OF AFRICAN PEOPLE (CAP), THE NATIONAL INVOLVEMENT ASSOCIATION (NIA), THE BLACK STUDENT UNIONS (BSU) IN VARIOUS LOCAL SAN DIEGO COLLEGES AND HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUSES, AND OTHER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS.
CAP’S BASIC GOAL IS THE GLOBAL EXPRESSION OF BLACK NATIONALISM.
NIA IS A LOCAL SAN DIEGO BLACK ORGANIZATION SELF DESCRIBED AS A MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY BLACK NATIONALISM AND IS DIRECTLY AFFILIATED WITH CAP.
THE BSU IS A STUDENT DASH BASED BLACK MILITANT ORGANIZATION.
VERNON JOHN FONTENETTE, JR., REFERRED TO AS IMAMU SUKUMU, WESTERN REGIONAL COORDINATOR FOR CAP, WILL BE THE OFFICIAL HOST OF THE EVENT.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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Re Bureau letter to Albany, 4/19/72.
During May, 1972, Seattle sources and informants familiar with black extremist activity were contacted and advised they did not have any information relating to any possible violence in connection with MALCOLM X’s birthday.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
MAY 19, 1972
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BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY—MALCOLM X
MAY NINETEEN, NEXT
EXTREMIST MATTERS
RE NEW YORK LETTER TO BUREAU, MAY NINE, INSTANT.
ON MAY EIGHTEEN, INSTANT, A CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE, WHO HAS FURNISHED RELIABLE INFORMATION IN PAST, ADVISED FOLLOWING DEMONSTRATIONS AND ASSEMBLIES ARE TO TAKE PLACE ON MAY NINETEEN, NEXT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF MALCOLM X:
ELEVEN O’CLOCK AM—PILGRIMAGE TO FERN-CLIFF CEMETERY HARTSDALE, WESTCHESTER, NEW YORK, BURIAL SITE OF MALCOLM X, AND SPONSORED BY ORGANIZATION OF AFRO-AMERICAN UNITY (OAAU), TWO TWO FOUR WEST ONE THIRTY NINTH STREET, NYC.
TWELVE TO SEVEN O’CLOCK PM—MALCOLM X MEMORIAL ASSEMBLY AT FULTON STREET BETWEEN LEWIS AND SCHENECTADY AVENUE, BROOKLYN. UN-SPONSORED.
TWO O’CLOCK PM—BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT SEVENTH AVENUE AND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FIFTH STREET, KNOWN IN BLACK COMMUNITY AS MALCOLM X SQUARE, WITH NO SPECIFIC SPONSOR INDICATED.
THREE O’CLOCK PM—DEMONSTRATION AT UNITED NATIONS BUILDING, FORTY SECOND STREET AND FIRST AVENUE, NYC, SPONSORED BY SEVERAL BLACK ORGANIZATIONS FOR PURPOSE OF DISCUSSING PLIGHT OF UNITED STATES POLITICAL PRISONERS ALSO TRIBUTES MAY BE GIVEN TO MALCOLM X.
ABOVE CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE ADVISED NO ACTS OF VIOLENCE TO HIS KNOWLEDGE ARE BEING PLANNED, AND ABOVE ASSEMBLIES ARE TO BE MEMORIAL TRIBUTES. NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES WERE RECONTACTED REGARDING ABOVE AND NONE WERE ABLE TO FURNISH ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
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ALL SOURCES MENTIONED HEREIN HAVE FURNISHED RELIABLE INFORMATION IN THE PAST.
MALCOLM X (LITTLE) WAS A MILITANT CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST WHO WAS ASSASSINATED IN FEBRUARY NINETEEN SIXTY FIVE IN NEW YORK CITY.
THE UNITED STATES PARK POLICE, WASHINGTON, D.C., ADVISED ON MAY TWELVE, SEVENTY TWO THAT A DEMONSTRATION WAS SCHEDULED TO BE HELD IN MERIDIAN HILL PARK, SIXTEENTH AND EUCLID STREETS, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C., ON MAY NINETEEN SEVENTY TWO TO COMMEMORATE MALCOLM X (MX). AN ESTIMATED THREE HUNDRED PARTICIPANTS WERE ANTICIPATED.
ON MAY SIXTEEN, SEVENTY TWO SOURCE ONE ADVISED A FLIER HAD BEEN PREPARED FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION ANNOUNCING A BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL TO BE HELD IN HONOR OF MX ON MAY NINETEEN, SEVENTY TWO AT MX PARK, SIXTEENTH AND EUCLID STREETS, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C., FROM SIX O’CLOCK A.M. TO NINE O’CLOCK P.M. INCLUDING A SUNRISE SERVICE, AFRICAN DANCING AND DRUMMING, AND ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITS. ATTACHED TO THE FLIER WAS A POSITION PAPER OF THE MX MEMORIAL COMMITTEE WHICH EXTOLS THE VIRTUES OF MX, STRESSES THE UNITY OF BLACK PEOPLE EVERYWHERE AND URGING BLACK PEOPLE TO BECOME TOTALLY INVOLVED IN THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK SURVIVAL.
SOURCE TWO ADVISED THAT ON FRIDAY MORNING, MAY NINETEEN, SEVENTY TWO, AT APPROXIMATELY SIX THIRTY A.M., NINE MALE NEGRO INDIVIDUALS DRESSED IN DASHIKIS AND AFRICAN-TYPE GARB WERE OBSERVED AT THE SPEAKER’S STAND IN MERIDIAN HILL PARK (MX PARK). THEY STOOD ABOUT FOR A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME, SOME WITH HEADS BOWED, AND DEPARTED FROM THE PARK. BETWEEN SIX THIRTY A.M. AND SEVEN FORTY A.M. ON THAT DATE, NO OTHER ACTIVITY IN THE PARK WAS NOTED. BETWEEN THE HOURS OF FOUR O’CLOCK P.M. AND SIX O’CLOCK P.M. ON MAY NINETEEN, SEVENTY TWO, MUSIC AND BONGO DRUMMING ENTERTAINMENT WAS FURNISHED AND ABOUT SEVEN TABLES HAD BEEN SET UP IN THE PARK DISPLAYING AFRICAN TRINKETS, SOUVENIRS, AFRICAN ART AND CRAFTWORK. APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED PERSONS, ADULTS AND CHILDREN, WERE MOVING ABOUT IN THE PARK. THERE WERE NO SPEECHES DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME AND NO INCIDENTS WERE OBSERVED. A HEAVY RAIN BEGAN FALLING SHORTLY AFTER FIVE THIRTYP.M. THE EXHIBITS WERE TAKEN UP AND THE CROWD BEGAN TO DISPERSE.
SOURCE THREE ADVISED THAT A LOCAL RADIO STATION HAD ANNOUNCED ON LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY NINETEEN, SEVENTY TWO, THAT THE EVENING ACTIVITY AT MX PARK HAD BEEN CANCELED BECAUSE OF RAIN.
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IN VIEW OF ABSENCE OF EXTREMIST ACTIVITY, NO DISSEMINATION BEING MADE LOCALLY. CASE CLOSED, NO LHM BEING SUBMITTED. C.
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MAY 20, 1972
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RALLY AND MARCH IN HONOR OF MALCOLM X,
FRANKLIN PARK, COLUMBUS, OHIO
MAY NINETEEN, NINETEEN SEVENTY TWO
ON MAY NINETEEN LAST, A RELIABLE CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE ADVISED THAT A RALLY CONSISTING OF APPROXIMATELY ONE THOUSAND NEGROES WAS HELD IN FRANKLIN PARK, COLUMBUS, ON MAY NINETEEN LAST IN HONOR OF MALCOLM X. SOURCE ADVISED HOWARD FULLER, PRESIDENT OF MALCOLM X UNIVERSITY, GREENBOROUGH, N.C. TOLD THE RALLY HE RECENTLY SPENT EIGHT WEEKS WITH RHODESIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND THAT THEY MUST UNITE BEHIND THEIR AFRICAN BROTHERS. FULLER CLAIMED POLICE IN THE U.S. ARE IN COLLUSION WITH BLACK DRUG PUSHERS TO PREVENT BLACKS FROM BEING INVOLVED IN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES. FULLER URGED CROWD TO TRAVEL TO W DC FOR AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY, MAY TWENTY SEVEN NEXT.
SOURCE ADVISED CROWD MARCHED FROM PARK THROUGH EAST SIDE OF COLUMBUS RETURNING TO PARK AND DISPERSING AT TEN PM MAY NINETEEN LAST ALL WITHOUT INCIDENT.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Jackson, Mississippi
May 31, 1972
BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY-MALCOLM X
MAY 19, 1972
On May 23, 1972, a confidential source, who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised that The Black Unity Coordinating Committee and the Social Science Division of Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi, furnished a program in connection with Malcolm X’s birthday of May 19, 1972.
Source stated this meeting was held on May 17, 1972, and that the principal speaker, Norman Hodges, was invited to speak by Roy Walker, senior student at Tougaloo College and president of The Black Unity Coordinating Committee, Tougaloo College.
Source stated that during the afternoon and evening sessions actual attendance was only sixty to seventy persons, primarily students.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
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RE: Bureau Letter to Albany, 4/19/72.
No information concerning above captioned matter has come to the attention of agents of the New Haven Office handling extremist matters.
UACB, no further investigation being conducted by New Haven in this matter.
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
MEMORANDUM
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ReBulet dated 4/19/72.
All appropriate sources of the Miami Office were alerted for any information concerning possible violence in connection with MALCOLM X’s birthday.
The date of his birthday has passed and no information was received that any individual or organization planned violence in connection with his birthday.
Also, no violence took place in the Miami area concerning MALCOLM X’s birthday.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
Baltimore, Maryland
June 21, 1972
RE: BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY
MALCOLM X
MAY 19, 1972
EXTREMIST MATTERS
On May 21, 1972, [BUREAU DELETION] advised that the members of the Ujamma Shop, Soul School, Black United Front, and Black Student Union, all from Baltimore, Maryland presented a Malcolm X festival at old Polytech, located at North Avenue and Calvert Streets on May 19, 1972. The admission fee was $1.50 for students, $2.00 for adults. About five hundred people attended in spite of the rain. The affair was given to help raise money for the expenses of the African Liberation Demonstration Day march in Washington, D.C.
[BUREAU DELETION] advised that members of the Ujamma Shop, Soul School, and other brothers presented a play showing how the black man was exploited by the white slavemaster throughout civilization. The white man came to Africa, killed, raped, and robbed the black man of his land and possessions. He then brought them into bondage to America. These same problems went on until the black man was so called “freed” after the Civil War. This so-called freedom turned into a political and economical stage where the white man still controlled the life of the black brother. Next the black man is forced to go to war to fight a man who has done him no harm. When the black brother reaches the war zone he finds that the man who he has been told to fight calls him brother. Then the black brother returns home to find out that the white man has enslaved his brothers and sisters by filling the community with dope. The black brothers should form a force and kill the white dope peddler and clean up [their] community.
There was a group of singers call the “Vandals” who the audience liked very much. The Super Simba Boot dancers of New Jersey performed African military marches directed by a leader, who spoke Swahili.
The main speaker was OWUSU SADAUKAI (master teacher) from Malcolm X University. He informed the audience it was “nation” time and all black brothers must march in the African Liberation Demonstration in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the march is to protest the exploitation of the blacks by white nations. SADAUKAI stated that he fought . . . with black brothers and sisters and saw that most of the military equipment came from America. America has raised corporations and has billions of dollars invested in the lands of Africa and do[es] not wish to see the black man free to own his own land because it would bankrupt [its] holdings. All of the persons attending the festival were invited to attend the celebration of Malcolm X’s birthday to be held at Druid Hill Park, Sunday, May 21, 1972.
On May 22, 1972, [BUREAU DELETION] advised that no information came to the attention of [BUREAU DELETION] concerning any incidents which arose out of the Malcolm X festival which was held in Baltimore on May 19-21, 1972.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20515
May 29, 1980
Mr. William H. Webster
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
10th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20535
Dear Mr. Webster:
I have recently received a petition signed by many of my constituents who are urging a new investigation into the assassination of Al-Hajji [sic] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X). A copy of the petition is enclosed.
According to the petition, new evidence has come to light which identifies all of the persons involved in the assassination and exonerates two of the three men convicted of the crime. In consequence, my constituents urge a new investigation of the assassination.
I would respectfully request that the FBI look into the statements made in the petition and inform me of its findings. I also would like to know if the FBI is currently conducting, or planning to conduct, a new investigation in the assassination of Al-Hajji [sic] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X).
In advance, I appreciate your attention to this matter.
With kind personal regards.
Sincerely,
(signed)
William J. Hughes
Member of Congress
WJH:emr
Enclosure
The undersigned citizens of the United States respectfully request that you use your best efforts to have the Congress investigate the assassination of Al-Hajji [sic] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) on February 21, 1965. We understand that there is new evidence identifying all of the persons involved in the assassination and exonerating two of the three men convicted of the crime, namely Muhammad Abdel Aziz (Norman 3X Butler), and Khalil Islam (Thomas 15X Johnson), and that this material has already been furnished to you. The House Committee on Assassinations investigated only the deaths of John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. In view of the new evidence relating to the killing of Al-Hajji [sic] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X), it is high time that a thorough investigation of his death took place so that two innocent men, who have already spent more than fourteen (14) years in jail, can win their freedom.
Name and Address
[BUREAU DELETION]
June 20, 1980
Honorable William J. Hughes
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515
Dear Congressman Hughes:
This is to acknowledge receipt of your communication dated May 29, 1980, with its enclosure on behalf of your constituents.
For your information, the complaint regarding Al-Hajji [sic] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) is being furnished to the Civil Rights Division (CRD), U. S. Department of Justice (USDJ).
A review of records of the FBI and CRD, USDJ, fails to reveal any information that the FBI has investigated, or been requested to investigate, the assassination of Al-Hajji [sic] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X).
A copy of your communication and its enclosure have been furnished to the CRD, USDJ, for its review as to whether any Federal investigation is warranted.
If you have any further questions regarding this matter, you may wish to write directly to the Assistant Attorney General, CRD, USDJ, Washington, D. C. 20530.
Sincerely yours,
(signed)
Oliver B. Revell
Assistant Director
Criminal Investigative Division
Editor’s note Technical surveillance was installed in the residence of Malcolm X at 23-11 97th Street, East Elmhurst, Queens, New York, at 4:00 P.M. on June 3, 1964, for a period of four months The following selections from the electronic surveillance logs in the month of June highlight in particular the causes, and the ramifications, of the rift between Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X.
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Thursday |
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6-4-64 |
Employee’s Name: [BUREAU DELETION] b7C
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. . . tells MALCOLM that “by the way” [BUREAU DELETION] contacted a paper [BUREAU DELETION] “and he told them about it—” and that “they” told him “we don’t print no scandals.” MALCOLM interrupts to ask if this is “a white newspaper.” [BUREAU DELETION] replies affirmatively and asks if there are any Negro newspapers “there.” MALCOLM mutters something (not completely intelligible) about “a Negro newspaper,” but he tells [BUREAU DELETION] “Everybody’s afraid of it.” [BUREAU DELETION] then indicates that [BUREAU DELETION] they don’t print scandals “like that” because “these type of things” sometime involve long lawsuits. MALCOLM confirms that “that’s what it involves” and tells [BUREAU DELETION] “Nobody can bring this out but those sisters themselves.” [BUREAU DELETION] “Isn’t that horrible” and MALCOLM agrees it is. . . .
[BUREAU DELETION]
[BUREAU DELETION] that he gave “the whole story” to the Amsterdam News and that none of it came out. [BUREAU DELETION] incredulous at first but then says that maybe it’s just as well “at this point—until we can plan the right attack.” MALCOLM agrees but comments that “it makes you wonder what you’re up against.” . . . tells MALCOLM that [BUREAU DELETION] suggested that she contact “that hush-hush magazine . . , and those kind of magazines” and let “them” bring “it” out. MALCOLM says he wishes [BUREAU DELETION] had not even let [BUREAU DELETION] know that he (MALCOLM) was involved. [BUREAU DELETION] didn’t mention MALCOLM by name; [BUREAU DELETION] “a Muslim Minister.” MALCOLM indicates he thinks [BUREAU DELETION] could tell it was him from that. . . .
[BUREAU DELETION] inquiring about how MALCOLM is, etc. MALCOLM says he has a combination of problems that he has to get solved and that he has to get them solved immediately; and that it looks as though he is going to have to solve them himself. MALCOLM indicates they are not financial problems.
[BUREAU DELETION] asks MALCOLM to let her tell him something else “this person” [BUREAU DELETION] told her that “from every angle it seems that they—they have a higher protection than just themselves . . . Now, he told me this.” [BUREAU DELETION] what he meant and that “he” said, “Well, you know no one could get that much protection on—and being black in America, and—all—all around the country.” MALCOLM says that is true but that he is going to break through it—”I know how to do it. . . . With Allah’s help I’ll do it. . . .”
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. . . M said he spoke to [BUREAU DELETION] and he told her “he” had [BUREAU DELETION] and others on the East Coast trying to kill him (Malcolm) because “he” wants me out of the way before “this comes out.” M stated that “he” was being pressured by his children and that they were afraid that if this comes out the Muslims will leave “him” and follow me (M). M said that they feel with him out of the way the Muslims will have no place to go if this breaks and so they will stay with “him.” M said that they were misusing “brothers” in New York and that the brothers don’t know what it’s all about. He said “they” were pumping these brothers with poison and they were trying to get a shot at him (M). M [BUREAU DELETION] now that he has let them know how he is in danger they have disappointed him with their reaction. M said the only way to end this was to expose him. [BUREAU DELETION] M said he agreed and that he would not be surprised if “he” had already left the country. [BUREAU DELETION] M said that “this man” has so many followers whom he has misled, followers that M has gotten for him and that he can turn them against anyone. M said that as long as he has the public on his side no lawyer will take the case. [BUREAU DELETION] M said he told the whole story to the Amsterdam News but that they would not print it until one of the sisters will talk. M said the “Messenger” had [BUREAU DELETION] telling this to “The Fruit” in such a way that they think Malcolm is bad and is trying to say false things about the Messenger and that M should be killed for this. [BUREAU DELETION] M said that if he thought he could get out there he would but that he would be recognized as soon as he got on the plane. [BUREAU DELETION]
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Sunday |
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6-7-64 |
Employee’s Name: [BUREAU DELETION] b7C
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3:25 P.M. |
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MALCOLM X to Unwoman asking her to tell [BUREAU DELETION] about the MESSENGER’S escapades with his secretaries and how the MESSENGER made them all pregnant. MALCOLM says that [BUREAU DELETION] must be told that the NOI is factionalized and that both factions will commit murders on each other unless the truth is publicized about the MESSENGER’S bad deeds. MALCOLM says he is not fooling or speaking for effect when he says that bloodshed will take place as “it almost happened yesterday in New York when those who were in the Mosque came up to the corner where he had a meeting going on and absolutely tried to start some trouble.” MALCOLM continued “The only thing that saved us and stopped trouble from starting was that one of my brothers went to the trunk of his car and got a shotgun out and chased away the black Muslims.” MALCOLM says that if any violence takes place it will mean [BUREAU DELETION] and [BUREAU DELETION] are trying to “create a situation of bloodshed so that I (MALCOLM X) will get caught up in it.” Unwoman asks “You mean the MESSENGER is that ruthless?” MALCOLM answers “that any man who will go to bed with his brother’s daughter and then turn and make five other women pregnant and then accuse all these women of committing adultery is a ruthless man.” MALCOLM says that the only reason the MESSENGER wants him dead is that he, MALCOLM, is the only one who can make the girls the MESSENGER has violated tell the truth about the MESSENGER. MALCOLM tells Unwoman to tell all [BUREAU DELETION] will be interested in knowing that the MESSENGER is now living in Phoenix, Ariz, with two teenage girls, [BUREAU DELETION], MALCOLM says that both these teenage girls are natives of California, and have lived at Los Angeles [BUREAU DELETION], MALCOLM says that if the two sisters [BUREAU DELETION] are now in Los Angeles [BUREAU DELETION] and that if these two sisters do not tell their story to the public within the next twenty-four hours, there will be bloodshed all over this country. MALCOLM continues “what I just said I really mean, [BUREAU DELETION] there will be bloodshed and murder all over this country.” MALCOLM says that the true story on the evil ways of the MESSENGER are known by many newspapers but that they will not print the story realizing that they (the newspapers) can hold it like a whip over the heads of the Black Muslim movement and keep it from being effective in any way. MALCOLM says that every day he stays alive causes worry to the MESSENGER and that the MESSENGER has given orders to sincere, but ignorant, Muslims to get MALCOLM X. MALCOLM says he is not afraid. MALCOLM tells [BUREAU DELETION] to also call [BUREAU DELETION] and tell [BUREAU DELETION] (MALCOLM spells name) was the second one the MESSENGER made pregnant and [BUREAU DELETION] and that the MESSENGER made her pregnant and then accused her of adultery and put her out of the Mosque. MALCOLM says that [BUREAU DELETION] should also know that [BUREAU DELETION] (name spelled out by MALCOLM X) [BUREAU DELETION] will make the calls that MALCOLM has asked her to make.
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4:02 P.M. |
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Unwoman to MALCOLM X. MALCOLM says the split in the NOI has brought about nothing but negative results. He says “every time I think of how those niggers threw me out of the NOI, I get mad.” He continues “that it is dangerous to have the Muslims controlled by criminals of the ilk of [BUREAU DELETION] and the like.” He says there must be some way we can salvage the Black Muslim movement before it is too late. Un-woman says she is sure MALCOLM can save the Muslims from the clutches of the MESSENGER. He says he feels he can save the Muslims if he can lift the cloud of the MESSENGER’S misdeeds from them by exposing the MESSENGER to the public. MALCOLM says that the FBI and the local police department do not want public exposure of the MESSENGER’S sexual escapades as the (FBI and PD) would lose the whip they use to control the Black Muslims. MALCOLM says that the MESSENGER’S fear of exposure by law enforcement agencies keeps the MESSENGER from leading the Black Muslims to their full potential. Unwoman says that if MALCOLM has faith in Allah all will go well with his cause.
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5:46 P.M. |
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MALCOLM X to [BUREAU DELETION] at Los Angeles, Calif., [BUREAU DELETION] MALCOLM asks “When did you get there and did you drive?” [BUREAU DELETION] MALCOLM says that she should be careful who she talks to as the MESSENGER might have a tap on her telephone. He says he believes that MESSENGER has a tap on [BUREAU DELETION] telephones. [BUREAU DELETION] tells the MESSENGER everything so she does not see why he should tap her telephone. MALCOLM asks if [BUREAU DELETION] accomplished anything in Phoenix? [BUREAU DELETION] would feel better if they had some legal backing to the allegations they were making. MALCOLM says that the truth of the statements is all the legal backing that they need and that they should not worry about the MESSENGER suing them. MALCOLM says that the best thing [BUREAU DELETION] could do would be to tell their story [BUREAU DELETION] then gets on the telephone and MALCOLM tells him that he had better get on the ball [BUREAU DELETION]. MALCOLM says that he has never tolerated failure in the past and will certainly not accept anything [BUREAU DELETION] less than [BUREAU DELETION] complete disclosure of the sins of the MESSENGER. [BUREAU DELETION] MALCOLM says “if you know what’s good for you, you will succeed.” MALCOLM tells [BUREAU DELETION] MALCOLM tells [BUREAU DELETION] to keep working [BUREAU DELETION] and to do whatever else is necessary. [BUREAU DELETION]
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Monday |
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6-8-64 |
Employee’s Name: [BUREAU DELETION] b7C
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9:08 A.M. |
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Unman to Unwoman. Caller asks to speak to “Brother MALCOLM.” Woman answering asks who is calling. Man replies that he just wants to speak to Brother MALCOLM. Then when woman again asks who is calling the man says she can just give MALCOLM the message: “Just tell him he’s as good as dead.” He then hangs up.
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10:37 A.M. |
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... I told MR. MUHAMMAD—about what was being said —and at that time he explained—he knew it all the time and explained to me—in the religious way. You know how in a religious cult there’s always a religious explanation for these things —so I accepted it, and I didn’t say anything more about it, but in October [BUREAU DELETION] told me that this thing was as bad as it ever was; that the person who was responsible for making these sisters pregnant had not stopped. Two of them had two children by him, six of them had become pregnant, two of the six had two children by him, one of the two who had two children by him was pregnant again—and having his third child—and he told me that the person who was responsible had not stopped in any way and what he was using to make these sisters stay under his control was the fact that they were supposed to be fulfilling the prophecy and all that kind of stuff. So I came back to New York and told [BUREAU DELETION] sent a report back in to MR. MUHAMMAD, and to the official staff in Chicago, giving them the impression that instead of me pouring water on the fire, that I was pouring gas on the fire. This is what caused the split— and then they thought that I was going to talk about it and so they put in motion machinery to try and silence me forever—and my only reason for never telling it was my fear that the, that the psychological effect that it would have upon the Muslims—the only thing that kept them with such moral discipline was the fact that MR MUHAMMAD and the others had an image of high morals. But MR. MUHAMMAD, himself, is the one who is the father of these children—MR. MUHAMMAD, himself. Two of them showed up in Phoenix last week demanding to get into his house. They had three children with them. The one who is pregnant and going to have a baby right now was there—and he had a fit—because he was frightened. These are the only two that seem to have nerve enough to try and make him do, do something for them—and they didn’t succeed. He sent them, with his chauffeur, off to a motel—and he thought that they had left and gone back to the city from whence they had come. But they stayed right in that city for three or four days trying to reach him, which they couldn’t. Now the two of them—two of them are back in Los Angeles, and what is happening, the officials here in New York and in some of the other Mosques, they know about it—but the Muslims in the Mosques overall don’t know about it. So MR. MUHAMMED is using his ministers and other officials to make the Muslims think that, that I have turned insane—in an effort to try and get them—some innocent, ignorant, well meaning Muslim to do something that I, myself, would have done, had I not found out what I now know.”
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Monday |
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6-15-64 |
Employee’s Name: [BUREAU DELETION] b7C
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1:26 A.M. |
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Unknown person called. [BUREAU DELETION] received no response, gave phone to MALCOLM X. MALCOLM X gave Unknown person a six minute sermon on the affairs of MUHAMMAD, naming the six women that he (MUHAMMAD) had relations with in the past. MALCOLM X at end of his sermon told Unknown person—now you get your rifle, come around to my house and talk some stuff.
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8:10 A.M. |
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Unman (possibly radio or television reporter?; long distance? —from ??) to (MALCOLM X). Man interviews MALCOLM about his rift with ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, asking questions, which MALCOLM replies to. (Note: Intermittent “beep” signals indicate that interviewer was having the interview recorded.) In the interview MALCOLM claims that his statement about President KENNEDY’S assassination gave ELIJAH MUHAMMAD the opportunity to suspend him but that the real reason for his suspension was the fact that ELIJAH knew MALCOLM had knowledge of ELIJAH’S violation of seven Muslim sisters by whom he had eight children, with another child expected to be born shortly. MALCOLM confirms that he thinks that ELIJAH MUHAMMAD would like to see him killed and mentions that “the National Secretary” of the Muslims stated on the radio that MALCOLM should be killed. In answer to query MALCOLM claims that he has some rifles and that other brothers associated with him have either rifles or shotguns and have no compunction about using them.
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8:53 A.M. |
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[BUREAU DELETION] had heard that MALCOLM X was supposed to be killed today on the Courthouse steps because he had not moved out of the house which they bought.
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Thursday |
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6-18-64 |
Employee’s Name: [BUREAU DELETION] b7C
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9:36 A.M. |
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Unwoman, [BUREAU DELETION] to MALCOLM X. Un-woman says “we plan to do a story today and have information that you are a ‘marked man.’ “ MALCOLM says that it is common knowledge that Mr. MUHAMMAD has been after me since I broke with him. MALCOLM says that the Black Muslims tried to attack him in Boston, Mass., last Sunday night but failed because he did not go to Boston that night. Unwoman asks if MALCOLM has taken any security precautions or if he has asked for police protection? MALCOLM says “I’m more watchful now but I have never asked for police protection as I have my own rifle.” Unwoman asks “ELIJAH MUHAMMAD is coming to New York on 6/28/64, do you (MALCOLM X) intend to see him?” MALCOLM says “No. We have nothing to say to each other.” MALCOLM says “You newspaper people won’t print the truth about ELIJAH MUHAMMAD but you don’t let the libel laws bother you when it comes to printing something unfavorable about me.” MALCOLM says “If you newspaper people would check with the FBI you wouldn’t be afraid to print the truth about ELIJAH MUHAMMAD as the FBI knows all about the things I’ve told you before about Mr. MUHAMMAD making the girls pregnant.” Unwoman ask “Why would the FBI know about this?” MALCOLM answers “Oh, they have it, the FBI was one of the first in Boston to know. The FBI mentioned it to a non-Muslim woman. An FBI man in Boston mentioned it to a non-Muslim woman that ELIJAH MUHAMMAD was the father of [BUREAU DELETION] one of his former secretary’s babies. One of the Muslim women mentioned this to [BUREAU DELETION] of the Boston Mosque, and I discussed this with [BUREAU DELETION]. Unwoman says “That is very interesting. I’ll pass that along. I think we will publish all the charges made against ELIJAH MUHAMMAD today.” Unwoman says she will call MALCOLM again if she needs any more information.
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Sunday |
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6-21-64 |
Employee’s Name: [BUREAU DELETION] b7C
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9:53 A.M. |
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[BUREAU DELETION] and all “I” asked was “one little hearing in front of the Muslims.” She relates an argument she had with her husband during which she asked him why “they” wouldn’t give MALCOLM a hearing, and he answered that “the Messenger has his reasons.” She says “he” didn’t know himself, because he is “too spooked up to ask a question.” MALCOLM says if “he” could be made to think about a couple of things, he would wake up overnight, and says that “if this doesn’t happen, then what they’re going to do, especially between now and Sunday, they’re going to try and provoke an incident.” She says that “they” will, and somebody will get hurt. He agrees, “because the brothers that are out will absolutely retaliate against anybody, and the only reason that I have been avoiding public situations is to try and avert any unnecessary bloodshed between innocent brothers. . . .”
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Friday |
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6-26-64 |
Employee’s Name: [BUREAU DELETION] b7C
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2:30 A.M. |
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(Malcolm, who appeared upset at being called at 2:30 A.M. made several remarks concerning the time of the call. [BUREAU DELETION] explained time of call was necessitated by newspaper deadline.) [BUREAU DELETION] (spelled) [BUREAU DELETION] inquired if Malcolm X had heard of the remarks of [BUREAU DELETION] and what did Malcolm think of these remarks? MALCOLM X said the charges were absurd and he thought they were made up by Mr. Muhammad himself in order to have an excuse not to come here. Discussion between Malcolm X and [BUREAU DELETION] followed concerning: Whether or not Muhammad would come to NY; division in Muhammad’s followers; Muhammad’s involvement sexually with nine teenage secretaries; Muhammad’s feelings (acc to Mal X) that if he came to NY he would never be able to answer questions of the press. Mal X said Muhammad is not anxious to come here (NY) at this time because too many people are beginning to ask themselves—? are the charges that Mal X leveled at Muhammad true? Acc to Mal X Muslim officials when questioned answer that Mal X is crazy or trying to seek publicity, etc. Mal X said you would never get a yes or no answer from them regarding the adultery charges. [BUREAU DELETION] was sure Mal X was aware of the libel laws, and added that as far as he knew none of the press had printed any of this. Mal X pointed out that it had been printed last week on the front page of the Phil. Tribune. Mal X also said that the NY Post printed it the day that he made the statement from the witness stand in Queens in a court trial. [BUREAU DELETION] if only there were some way that this could be proved so that it could be printed. Ma] X said that it would be proved that it was only a matter of time. Mal X said that in the Chicago Mosque it was being taught that they were divine babies. He continued that in Boston they were also teaching in the temple that these were divine babies, giving the explanation that Mr. Muhammad was told by God that the nations would be blessed through his seed, therefore he should plant his seed everywhere. . . . Mal X said that Muhammad as well as his whole family have been living off the fat of the land. Mal continued that there’s no program ever been put before his followers (Muhammad) designed to correct conditions that our people live under. Mal X said he would challenge MUHAMMAD to unite his followers and use some of the energy they are now wasting on each other and use it in Miss., Ala., and Georgia to help solve some of our peoples problems. Mal X said that Muhammad was not interested in the problems of Negroes. He then discussed Muhammad’s weaknesses and the fact that his (Mai X) concept of Muhammad’s divinity had been shattered. ... He said they were going to unfold a new organization based in NYC designed to involve the masses of our people in an action program to eliminate some of those evils that the other organizations have failed to eliminate. It’s not going to be a Muslim movement but probably the first mass organized movement non-religious that has existed in this country since MARCUS GARVEY (ph). . . . [BUREAU DELETION] Mal if he felt himself in danger? Mal said I think a Negro in America is born in danger. [BUREAU DELETION] from a specific source. Mal X said they are coming into town and they have been whipping up hatred inside the Muslims on a national scale for the past two or three months, they have something in mind. [BUREAU DELETION] asked if Mal had a bodyguard? Mal answered I have my rifle in my home and anyone who puts their feet on my doorstep without good reason will have to suffer the consequences. [BUREAU DELETION] he wished to God he could print the bit about the divine babies and so forth. Mal X told [BUREAU DELETION] to check the Queens Civil Court records for Tuesday a week ago (Eviction Case). Mal said he testified revealing to the Muslims in NY that Muhammad had taken nine teenage sisters and made six of them pregnant. Mal said that the NY Post had printed it and other newspapers had printed it and had never been sued. Mal X said that he had spoken it on the following Radio Programs: CBS Radio Station WEEI—Paul Benziquin (ph) program; Jerry Williams (ph) show; WDAS in PH.; Long John Nebel show last Fri night. Mal said there were no lawsuits as a result of any of the above. Mal said that Muhammad is not going to sue anybody over these babies because its too true. Its something that will destroy him. The only thing that holds the Muslim movement together is its image of morality, unity and militancy. Mal continued that most of the defectors from the movement were in Phila., NY, Boston and Chicago, the hdqtrs. but he could not say how many there were.
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Saturday |
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6-27-64 |
Employee’s Name: [BUREAU DELETION] b7C
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MALCOLM X to [BUREAU DELETION] asks if CLARENCE JONES has called him, and he says JONES tried but has not reached him. She says that JONES told her to ask MALCOLM to call him. She says that what it is is that Rev. KING would like to meet assoon as possible on the idea of getting a human rights declaration. She says “he” is quite interested and so is [BUREAU DELETION] and they would like to meet as soon as possible. MALCOLM tells her that since he has been back from Africa “we” have been working on an organization, and “we are launching it tomorrow night, the Organization of Afro-American Unity, and the basic aim of it is to lift the whole freedom struggle from civil rights to the level of human rights, and also to work with any other organization and any other leader toward that end. . . .”
The recommendations submitted on July 2, 1964, to the Director of the FBI in File No. 100-399321 on the efficacy of the electronic surveillance read as follows. [E.N.]
Little is a former national official of the Nation of Islam (NOI) who broke with that organization on 3/8/64 and formed Muslim Mosque, Incorporated (MMI), which he announced would be a broadly based black nationalist movement for Negroes only. Little has urged Negroes to abandon the doctrine of non-violence and advocated that Negroes should form rifle clubs to protect their lives and property. At MMI rallies, Little has surrounded himself by guards armed with rifles and there have been numerous incidents recently involving gun-wielding MMI members where violence has been averted only by timely police action. At an MMI rally on 6/28/64, Little announced the formation of a new non-white civil rights action group called the “Organization of Afro-American Unity” with headquarters at MMI headquarters in New York City, the aim of which would be to bring the United States racial problem before the United Nations and which would engage in civil rights demonstrations using the theme “by any means necessary.”
In the past thirty days this technical surveillance has furnished valuable information on Little’s travel plans, on the new Organization of Afro-American Unity, facts concerning the arrest of MMI members in Boston on a weapons charge following an altercation with Boston NOI members and information on a threat to Little’s life by a person unknown. It also furnished information that Little was sending an assistant to Phoenix and Los Angeles to contact two women who had illegitimate children by Elijah Muhammad, NOI leader. Public announcement of these children by Little has caused the virtual state of war now existent between the NOI and MMI. On 6/30/64 information was received that Little sent telegrams to civil rights leaders Dr. Martin Luther King and James Forman, offering to send his followers to teach self-defense to Negroes if the government did not provide Federal troops for protection.
All of the above information was furnished immediately to the Bureau and was disseminated to the Department and interested agencies. The Domestic Intelligence Division concurs with the recommendations of the SAC, New York, that this installation be continued for an additional three months,
Editor’s note. The report dated October 2, 1964, to the Director of the FBI on the technical surveillance from July through September follows. Surveillance was discontinued on October 4, 1964, at 12:00 noon.
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7/3/64 |
Information that MALCOLM notified New York City Police Department that an attempt was made on his life. |
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7/4/64 |
Information that MALCOLM and his followers were attempting to make a big issue out of the reported attempt on MALCOLM’S life in order to get the Ne-gro people to support him. (Police believed complaint on an attempt on MALCOLM’S life was a publicity stunt by MALCOLM.) (Teletype to Bureau 7/4/64) |
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7/6/64 |
Information that [BUREAU DELETION] attempted to contact MALCOLM. |
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7/6/64 |
Information that MALCOLM was leaving JFK International Airport, New York, on 7/9/64, for Cairo, Egypt, with a one day stopover in London where he was to meet with a representative of the Islamic Center of London. While in Cairo, Egypt he was to be met by one [BUREAU DELETION] (Airtel and LHM to Bureau 7/7/64) |
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7/7/64 |
Information that one of two women who had illegitimate children by ELIJAH MUHAMMAD contacted MALCOLM by phone from Los Angeles, collect, to advise him that another illegitimate child was bom on 7/7/64 and ELIJAH MUHAMMAD was named as the father. (Airtel to Bureau, Chicago, Phoenix and Los Angeles, 7/7/64) |
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7/21/64 |
Article in New York Journal American newspaper dated 7/20/64, stated MALCOLM is or has returned to the U.S. from Africa and will form a rifle club. Information from source refuted newspaper article and advised MALCOLM was not returning to the U.S. until August, 1964. (Teletype to Bureau 7/21/64) |
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7/23/64 |
Information that [BUREAU DELETION] (Letter to Chicago dated 8/12/64) |
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7/30/64 |
Article in New York Daily News dated 7/30/64, which stated MALCOLM was returning to the United States to hold a mass rally and to urge the Negro to fight against the police with no holds barred. Source advised 7/30/64, that [BUREAU DELETION] no information that MALCOLM planned to return before the middle of August, 1964, thus refuting the above newspaper article. (Teletype to Bureau 7/30/64) |
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8/7/64 |
Information about MALCOLM traveling to Alexandria, Egypt and attending a banquet given by the Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs. He gave a speech against the U.S. government’s treatment of the Negro people in the U.S. and urged Muslim students to persuade their governments to bring the U.S. before the United Nations for mistreating the American Negroes. (Teletype to Bureau 8/7/64 and airtel and LHM 8/10/64) |
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9/2/64 |
Information that MALCOLM was being evicted from his residence and was given until January, 1965, to leave the residence owned by the NOI. (Airtel to Bureau 9/3/64) Information received that MALCOLM was staying at the Hotel Shepherd, Cairo, Egypt and he is having a book about himself published. (Airtel to Bureau and Philadelphia 9/8/64) |
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9/10/64 |
Information that MALCOLM sent a letter from Egypt that was to be read at a Muslim Mosque Inc. meeting at New York on 9/9/64. According to the letter MALCOLM informed an unknown delegate to the Organization of African Unity conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, that he, MALCOLM, could supply ten thousand recruits from Harlem if needed to fight in the Congo against Moise Tshombe. (Airtel and LHM to Bureau dated 9/10/64) |
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9/26/64 |
Information that MALCOLM will return to the U.S. on 11/15/64 having toured Africa since July, 1964, with the Egypt Government paying his hotel bills and Supreme Council governing Islamic Affairs paying for his plane expenses. |
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9/26/64 |
Information that MALCOLM and his wife are now “Orthodox Muslims” and MALCOLM was appointed to the board of the Supreme Council governing Islamic Affairs, and, therefore qualified himself to “spread Islam in America among the Afro-Americans.” (Airtel to Bureau 9/29/64 and LHM 10/2/64) |
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