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FY $ NY 100-150520 CONFIDAVTIAL advised that the "Five Percenters", ( wrerred to as ‘the "Brotherhood of Blackmen" . or the “Brotherhood of eh”, 18 @ loosely knit group of aale, Negro youth gangs in the Marlem spction ef New York City. He 1° informed’these youths are typisal of the mumerous street type _ angs that exist in Nerlem except that they have been influenced dy CLARENCE 13X SMITH who refers ‘to himshi? as "%l1ah" and who has indoctrinated these youths in the distorted Maslin teachings of MOI leader ELIJAH MUHAMMAD. uy ; He informed that ‘because of SMITH's influence over these youths, they like to eamsider themselves "Buslins” and many of them shave their heads and take Arabic soutiding nanes, However, none of these youths follow the tenets of the orthodox Islamic religdonon mor do they actually belong to or follow the teachings of the NOI. These youths do, however, claim to be the "five per cent" of the followers of ELIJAH MUHAMMAD who believe in smoking and drinking. u ae Larne, . EE that investigation by the b NYCPD has dete e he "Five Percenters" do not have any @@atral meeting place or headquarters. Although each of the individual youth gangs formed from their respective neigh- borhoods has its own leader, they do not have an overall organizational setup other than to look up to SMITH as their teacher and “Allah".y IV. MISCELLANEOUS The July ‘30, 1965, edition of the “New York World Telegram", a daily newspaper published in New York City, contained an article entitled "Harlem Knows ‘Allah' as Puddin". his article read as follows: "Allah claims he is God--but other Harlemites have different ideas*%, "God? a barmaid once exclaimed," “That ain't God. That's Puddin. That's what we always calied bhim--Puddin," “Allah is Clarence 13X Smith, 35, leader of @ group of youths called the Five Percenters, 17 of u whom were arrested last night." / wot ~19- reine