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NY 105-8999 . ‘The May 1963 edition of the monthly magazine Playboy", contains an article beginning on page 53 which outlines an interview with the subject at MUHAMMAD's Mosque Number 7, New York City, exact date of interview and the interviewer are not shown. In response to questions some of the answerés furnished by subject which appear in this article are set forth below: Subject stated that the ambition and goal of the NOI is freedom, justice and equality under the teachings of ELIJAH MUHAMMAD who 1s teaching economic independence. In response to a question as to whether NOI teachings produced race hatred, subject answered that it is not a matter of thinking anti-white or anti- Christian but that the NOI is “anti-evil, anti-oppression, and anti-lynching, You can't be anti- those things without being anti-the oppressor and the lyncher! When asked if he admired or respected any American Negro leader he replied that "there 1s only one leader who has the qualifications necessary to unite ail elements of Black peopie in America, This is the honorable ELIJAH MUHAMMAD." In this article subject discussed his travels around the United States and mentioned that he used his "true name"MALIK SHABAZZ, when he travelled for registering in hotels et cetera. He advised that the use of this name enabled him to obtain better treatment and services in hotels, et cetera, than he would normally obtain, Also in the article, subject claimed that the white man is responsible for the miserable conditions of the Negro today and the time is coming when the white man will have to pay for the crimes conmitted by his grandfathers. He stated that the white man “can avert this fate" by allowing the black man to leave the United States and go to a land of his own or by giving several ~2he : : . . Pa + + wee woogte he ot oe * mom EG gl f get 8 to