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wy ~ oe (aka) Clarence | Five Percenters Racial Matters Both of these articles further indicated that Wingate was apparently speaking of a Black Muslim-oriented extremist youth group known as the "Five Percenters"(W) On October 15, 1965, a confidential source who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised that the "Hive Percenters" is a particularly vicious type of a street gang in New York City composed of Negro youths who have found in their Muslim form of indoctrination a mysterious ideolosy that seems to unite and inspire them. The gang is composed of approximately 200 youths in New York City ranging in age from 12 to 21. Approximately 125 of-them are centered in the Harlem section of New York City around the 120 series of streets bounded by Seventh and Lenox Avenues. The remainder are scattered throughout the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens with concentrations in the Fort Greene area of Brooklyn and the Saint Mary's Park roy section of the Bronx (yu) p, appr. fn This same source advised that th ‘iginal leader of the "Five Percenters\ was one Clarence smitloware, also known as eXi3x\Gmith, "Puddin", who a former mémber— of the Nation of a (Nox), ~yétirs is a 36 year old Nééro male who was known’ to the "Five Percenters” as "Allah" and aTong | | 3 with his associate Janed{towell, a 37 year old Negro male, Bre indoctrinated these youths.in the perverted NOT form of Muslim ideology with anti-white overtones. Jowars and Howell were arrested for felonious assault with four youthful "Five Percenters" in New York City on May 31, 1965, and both are still incarcerated awaiting trial which has been postponed due to a court ordered psychiatric examination. of ars. Following the jailing of Jowars and Howell one Eugene#White, aka "Hebeka", a Negro male age 22, assumed a leadershi ition with the "Five Péertenters”. However, on August 29, 1965, White was arrested for selling marijuarato one of the gang members and is currently awaiting sentencing after having entered a guilty prealvy a arpa | 4