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In Reply, Please Refer to a UN.fED STATES DEPARTMENT OF USTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION New York. Now York File No. November 4, 1905 Five Percenters Racial Matters & ) The October 15, 1965 edition of "The New York Times" and the "New York Herald Tribune", daily New York City newspaper, both contained articles on page one dealing with a speech and impromptu press conference given by Livingsto ‘Wingate on October 14, 1965, before the eastern regional nference of the Urban League at the Belmont Plaza Hotel, New York City. The two articles were respectively captioned "Wingate Warns of Negro Revolt If Haryou's Program Is Curbed" and ‘Harlem '5 Percenters'- Terror Group Revealed", Wingate is the Executive Director of the: Harlem anti-poverty program known as Harlem youth Opportunities Unlimited-Associated Community Teams (HARYOU-ACT). Both articles point out that Wingate has been criticized for his handling of According to these articles Wingate, in his speech and press conference, denied any fiscal wrongdoing and claimed that. the spending of certain monies on his part was necessary to avert racial violence in Harlem during the past summer. Wingate's main theme was that if anything happened to HARYOU-ACT there’ would aefinitely be racial violence. On this latter point, he referred to a mysterious "armed" group of Negro youth who are "prepared to die" in a struggle against white people. Wingate refused to 4dentify this group by name stating he feared for his life if he talked too much. He further implied that only HARYOU-ACT was stopping this group from acting (uc) ALL INFOREATON CONTAINED HENERC IS GACLASSIFIED DATE2 72 £0 BY sos /RbG [TL - “ ra a ’ “iT i? / a Z ° This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency.