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~ nation among Negroes of €& group's name is that sits ibmbers believe 85 per citnt of, Negroes sre “cattle.” dC cent are “Uncle Tom and 5 per cent are the leads memberg of the group. An- other version is that 85 per cent of all Negroes are e¢x- ploited. 10 Per ceént do the exploiting—and the Five Per- centers will destroy the ex- piolters In those two versions. such Negro greats as Ralph Bunche, and Jackie Robinson ara in-; cluded among the 10 per cent However, membere of the group said recentis that the & per cent are the “kindy. Tightsous people” who follow Allah. 10 per cent are the other followers of Islam and the 85 per cert are the rest of humanity . ALLAN A man who calls him}! “Allah. the Moskin word ipr God, is the leader. He is more Generally known as (jare: Puddin': Smith and his heer. in jall since late May. { His teenage followers are amed for numerous mug- gings. some fire-bombings and several other acts of } violence. They are believed to have been involved in at least one homicide. Mr. Wingate'’s statement yesterday was one of the first public expressions of concern sbou: the group and the first public statement that it has ‘Weapons. Generally, the Police De- partment has attempted to, keep it secret. ' But ranking police officers | tn Harlem have been briefing leaders of civil rights and civic organizations on the group and have asked their co-operation in fighting what ther describe as @ very ' dangerous group. . i Two Harlem weekly news- Papers. the New York Courtér _ ‘and the Amsterdam WNewe. jyesterday published storlis - iabout the menace posed ty he Five Percenters, reportedly \ Wet the request of police. . PUBLICITY ( ii ji The five Percenters troup ready te widely know on the streets of Harlem, and spparently ts equally feared. The Negro ghetto is full of rumors about it. with some Hariemites comparing it to the Ku Kiux Klan and other comparing it to the Hitler Youth organizatior. of the Nazis They also are com- pared to the “Blood Brothers,” publicized last year as 2 group of 400 youths trained to kil! whites Police maintained there were only 25 in the groun. One source has linked it to the Chinese and Cuban Communists and to the group convicted of attempting to dynamite the Statue of Liberty and other national onuments, The only official ageficies ‘hich have previously j-ad- itted knowledge of j,the group's existence sre Sthe Youth Board, which is charged with controling end ' breaking up youth gangs in New York City, and the Board of Education. which believes Five Percenters were involved in two assaults. and one tele- phone threat of an assault, all involving teachers at Junior High School 120 in Harlem. Harrison Lightfoot, deputy executive director in charge of community services for the Youth Board. said recently that the board's workers are not taking a direct interest in the Five Percenters, but are concentrating in keeping members of the supervised gangs from joining the group. “It's something like a secret society,” he sald. “The Youth Division of the Police Depart- ment is working on it, how- ever, and we don’t want to get jin the Police Department's way.” School officials complain ot only of rowdyism by Phe ive Percenters, but of their nsistence that teachers ital: hem dy the Musliin names given them in the organi- zation. However, Daniel Schreiber, s(berintendent of District he in Harlem, yesterddy dgnied published reports tha. thp Five Percenters had caused a wave of transfer ré- quests by teachers in Harlem schools. Sources in the Department said a special 21- man detal was assigned to investigate the Five Percent- ers las summer because of Police Commussioner Vincent Broderick’s concern about them. TRAINING 1 at it L. 1 3 derail also was sr- sigged tw St. Patrick's Cat:- edral during the recent vilbt of Pope Paul VI to New York City because of a rumor that the Five Percenters would make an attempt on his life at the Cathedral, the sources sald. All sources agree that mem- ders. mostly youths from 13 years tO 21 years of age, re- ceive intensive training in Mugyim theology. Black Nat tiorplism. judo and karat. Some add that they ate trained in garroting. Only Mx. Wingate so far has maint Police fe ey Heained that they are armic There is a general beile- at their warlike training is imed at white people, esr¢- ‘aliy white policemen; but rlemites maintain tha: eir hate is directed at both whites and Negroes, includinc their parents and Negro lead- ers. One police source said there are about 200 members, 75 of ‘them in Harlem, 75 in the * Port Greene section of Brook- lyn and a few dozen in the - Bronx and Queens; but Negro Jeaders have been told in _ their briefings that there are 1,000 members organized into - cells in every New York City using project with a sub- sntial number of Negro re- lents. 4h police source said thz: Cisrence Smith formed the pa ‘ar ago, short- ‘Jy after the late Malcolm x was dropped from Elijah Mu- hammad's Biack Muslin. movement and set up his own Black Nationalist group. The source said the Five Percenters threw Molot«.° - cocktails into three Protestant churches in Harlem Jast sum- committed nume?our amuggings and assaults on both. " Negroes and whites, and sxt- lgpders, the source said. 1 tacked several white police | n. Proceeds of the muggings i ere turned over to their adti: | u