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Fe: MOTION PICTURE ENTITLED yLHOIL_dNy under the budget item of "location rentals." Source estimated as much as $5o,ooo may have been paid, and expressed the opinion that some of this money was being used to buy guns. Source did not detail the basis for his opinion. This second'. source identified as being a Black Nationalist. b6 b7C An article in the June 5, l968, issue of "The Cleveland. Press," a daily newspaper circulated in the Cleveland, Ohio, ruption in the filming of a motion picture by a group of Negro Militants..." A spokesman for Paramount said the nilitants were "kids" who got in the way of the camera and halted pro- duction. He described the incident as. ninor. "The Blaek "and there had been no trouble from any organization.". A third source, who has furnished reliable infornation in the paat, advised on June 5, l968, that he learned that Paramount Pictures had been shooting scenes during the night and early morning hours of a movie entitled, "yp Tight." This was in the East 86 street and Wade Park area, a Negro section of Cleveland, and at 9:0o pM onthe evening or June 4, 1968, a group.of 18 Black Nationalists marched dowm Wade Park Avenue carrying a Black Nationalist flag. They approached the film crew, denanded that production be stopped, and also denanded that a Cleveland policeman who had a "moonlight" job with this film crew, be fired. Film Director Jules Dassin stopped. production, took down the sets, and quit,for the night. The next day Dassin went to City Hall and demanded additional. protection Iron Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes. This third source stated that he did not know why the Blaek Nationalists number of then as extras in the group seenes.. This third source sdvised additionally as follows on July 30, 1968: . This movie was made in Cleveland' largely through the influence of Jim Browm, former Cleveland Browns football player, JERiBER sF NICRO INDuSTRIAl E'eACiM