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APPENDIX CONFIDENTIAL BLACK PANTHER PARTY [mm ; eee + According to its official newspaper, the Black Panther Party (BPP) was started during December, 1966, in Oakland, California, to organize black people so thcy cin take control of the life, pelitics. and the destiny of the black community. It was organized by BOBBY GEORGE SEALE, BPP Chairman, and HUEY P, NEWTON, BPP Minister of Defense. NEWTON is presently serving a sentence of 2 to 15 years on a conviction of man- slaughter in connection with the killing of an Oakland police officer. re ee f The official newspaper, “The Black Panther," which “further describes itself as the “Black Community News Service," states that the BPP advocates the use of guns and guerrilla tactics in its revolutionary program to end oppression of the black people. Residents of the black community are urged to arm themselves against the police who are consistently referred to in the publication as “pigs" who should be killed. “The Black Panther" issue of Seprember 7, 1968, contains an cditorial by BPP Minister of Education, GEORGE MASON MURRAY, which ends with the following: "Black men. Black people, colored persons of America. revolt everywhere! Arm yourselves The only culture worth keeping is a revolutionary culture Change. Freedom everywhere. Dynamite! Black Power. Use the gun. Kill the pigs everywhere ." * ae -* Included in the introduction to an article appearing 1 in the October 5, 1968, edition of "The Black Panther" is ae AS the statement, "...we will not dissent from American Government. ieee We wili overthrow it." feud he Issues of "The Black Panther" regularly contain yas quotations {from the writings of Chairman MAO Tse-tung of the as People's Repubiic of China and feature MAO'S statement that AB: “political power grows out of the barrei of a gun." Te The national headquarters of the BPP is located at ae 3106 Shattuck Avenuc, Berkeley, California. Branches have been yee established at various locations throughout the United States. <3 aa = HTINe sf a 12 a &- >. yee z > BR oP woe tt 7 . ‘. ves. . . ae wk a a i os ge i “7s te Tee ek - - Term - ‘ -* = - wee . ee