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u FED STATES DEPARTMENT OF |. 5TICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Chartotte, North Carolina in Reply, Please Refer to January 15 + 1973 File No. BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP) EXTREMIST MATTERS BLACK PANTHER PARTY = CLEAVER FACTION EXTREMIST MATTERS 07 Ss - confidential source, who hes vrrovided Prelrsble information in the nast, advised thot Tewew Little, herd of the Winston-Salem, North Carolina chanter of the Black “anther Party, stated thet tlre BrP was ening, to sunnort Eldridge Cleaver. Little ~ indicsted that he considered Cleaver an orvressed nerson. Little further stated that Huey Newton, whose BPP nhilosonhy the Winston-Salem eproup follows, and others have discussed Cleaver end his faction of the BPP and are now willing to back Clenver even thouch he had earlier defected from the Party. Accordine tno Little, Cleaver's defection sunnasedly wes prompted because he vwoutd nat be intimidnted and harassed. Jittle stated that he would back Clecver with sny meens, whether it meant puns or Survival Day °rocrams. Source strted that Little's remarks regarding Cleaver vere not favorably received by the Winston-Salem Panthers who overhesrd him make the comments. The Blac: Panther Party (BPP) in - hicck extremist orponizction started in Nakiond, Ceolifernic, in December, 1966. It advocetes the use of eyne and cuerrill= tacticon to bring about tha averthrow of the United Strtes Government. =| i — ni a i kT Sees al if Pl RT a eee, we ™, Eo Tee ate PT PRE ed ee eee SO OTEY J / alia . a BE ORT Ma Avlglea atahtgbn a. re : fer v ro le rep Fey wu veh Tt cage “ Saye te! hea eon af THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS NEITHER RECOMMENDATIONS NOR CONCLUSIONS i ate oars ab Ee OF TIE FBI. IT IS THE PROPERTY OF THE FRI AND IS LOANED TO bse YOUR AGFICY: IT AWD ITS CONTENTS ARE NOT TO DBE DISTRIBUTED cake NUTSIDS Youk AGTICY. | ae ————. XERox fe jo fa ; / c 4 fe . . _ j f 5 JAN 29 1979 a wt :