Malcolm X (63 page)
Authors: Clayborne Carson
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 as
soon
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
.
7/3/64 | Information that MALCOLM notified New York City Police Department that an attempt was made on his life. |
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) |
7/6/64 | Information that [BUREAU DELETION] attempted to contact MALCOLM. |
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) |
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) |
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) |
7/23/64 | Information that [BUREAU DELETION] (Letter to Chicago dated 8/12/64) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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) |
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. |
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) |
The information received from this source has been used to supplement and corroborate information from live informants and has been channelized to appropriate files.
A. | American Nazi Party of the World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists, also known as The George Lincoln Rockwell Party |
B. | Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) |
C. | Freedomways Associates, Incorporated |
D. | Fruit of Islam (FOI) |
E. | Independent Socialist Youth (ISY) and Independent Socialist Club (ISC) |
F. | May 2 Movement (M2M), formerly known as May 2 Committee |
G. | Muhammad's Temple of Islam No. 11, Boston, Massachusetts, also referred to as Nation of Islam (NOI) |
H. | Muhammad's Temple of Islam No. 13, Springfield, Massachusetts, also referred to as Nation of Islam (NOI) |
I. | Muhammad's Temple of Islam No, 14, Hartford, Connecticut, also referred to as Nation of Islam (NOI) |
J. | Muslim Girls Training (MGT) |
K. | Muslim Mosque, Incorporated (MMI) |
L. | Nation of Islam (NOI), formerly referred to as the Muslim Cult of Islam, also known as Muhammad's Temples of Islam |
M. | Nation of Islam, Mosque No. 7 |
N. | Organization of Afro-American Unity, Incorporated (OAAU) |
O. | Progressive Labor Party, Progressive Labor Movement, “Progressive Labor” |
P. | Provisional Organizing Committee for a Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (POC); also known as Provisional Organizing Committee For the Reconstitution of a Marxist-Leninist Party; Provisional Committee For the Reconstitution of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party; Provisional Committee to Reconstitute the Communist Party, USA |
Q. | Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) |
R. | Socialist Workers Party-Los Angeles Local (SWP-LAL) |
S. | Socialist Workers Party-Philadelphia Branch |
T. | Socialist Workers Party-New York Local |
U. | Socialist Workers Party-San Francisco Division |
V. | Socialist Workers Party-Seattle Branch |
W. | Workers World Party |
X. | Young Socialist Alliance (YSA) |
Y. | Young Socialist Club of Wayne County (YSC); also known as Wayne University Young Socialist Club; Wayne Young Socialist Club; Young Socialist Club |
A. American Nazi Party of the World Union of Free
Enterprise National Socialists, also known as the
George Lincoln Rockwell Party
In his book
This Time The World
, copyrighted in 1961, GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL identified himself as Commander, American Nazi Party of the World Union of Free Enterprise National Socialists (ANP-WUFENS), Arlington, Virginia.
The April 4, 1963 issue of
The Richmond News Leader
, a Richmond, Virginia daily newspaper, reported that GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL had, on the previous day, again applied for the American Nazi Party to be chartered in the State of Virginia, but this request was turned down by the Virginia State Corporation Commission. This action was taken pursuant to an act of the 1962 Virginia Assembly which prohibits the use of “Nazi” or “National Socialism” in a Virginia charter. This article further pointed out that ROCKWELL'S party is presently chartered in the State of Virginia as the George Lincoln Rockwell Party.
On August 19, 1963, a source advised that the ANP-WUFENS was organized by GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL at his residence in Arlington, Virginia, on February 26, 1959, as an international “National Socialist” movement based on the German Nazi Party headed by ADOLF HITLER. He added that ROCKWELL is the dominant force and personality in this party; that he is espousing a “line” of hatred against the Jews and Negroes; and that he is seeking, through speeches, distribution of literature and picketing, to establish a cohesive and
dominant political party in the United States and in foreign countries.
On December 13, 1963, this source advised that in about September, 1960, the ANP initiated the Fighting American Nationalists (FAN) as a front group for the ANP, although it has never been a separate organization. He said the FAN name is merely used on occasion instead of the ANP name and there are no separate officials for FAN, the FAN officials being identical with the ANP officials. He stated that GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL has informed him the FAN name was originally used as a device to attract supporters to his organization who might rebel at the use of the Swastika and at being labeled a Nazi.
