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.. . .. &% . . c 0 SITUATION INFORMATION REPORT ;w The militant Cleaver faction of the Black Panther Party appears - to be. decaying while the non-militant Newton-Seale faction undergaes a rebirth. The Cleaver faction or International Section of the RPP was established in Algeria in September 1969, under the leadership of Eldridge Cleaver. Cleaver has been living in self-imposed exile to avoid imprisonment in the United Stakes for a parole violation infraction. rc* fi9f IN G ??3 2 4f.f 2 11, u t - In 1969, Cleaver had been welcomed in Algeria as a revolutiona.ry hero after jumping bail and evading arrest in the U. S. on charges arising from a 1068 Panther shootout in Oakland, California. The government of President Houari Eoumedienne set him up in a white stucco villa in the diplomatic suburb of El Eiar and grant.ed himan allowance of $500 a month. i5 TI I W /,!bp- - *. - The government of Algeria has put up with its somewhat difficult guest until shortly after the 31 July hijacking of a Delta Airlines jet by three men and two women connected with Cleaver's Afro-American Liberation Army, the international arm of the Elack Panther Party. Flight 841 was skyjacked to Algeria for $1,000,000 which has since been returned to the U. S. airline by the Eoumedienne regime. The Algerian government showed no intention of letting the Panthers get their hands on the Delta ransom? In fact, after an open letter to Eoumedienne writ- ten by Cleaver on 2 August, the government of Algeria placed restric- tions on the movements of the Black Panther exile colony, a s well a s * placing under house arrest, all radicals who have hijxcked airliners to Algeria in recent months. 1, Mflp!f (:, .,., d , J , , I a L 3 . ? ~ - Cleaver w i s repoftealy called in for a scolding by a ranking Jhont. Two weeks ago, when the Panthers invited political exiles, ' . 4.p 7,. member oL the government party of Algeria, the National Liberation - 8s: