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Re : MOTION PICTORE ENTITLED u HDIL d and current member of the Negro.Industrial Economic Union (NIeu). Brown wanted it made in Cleveland so as to provide part-time employment. for as.many Black Nationalist youth as possible. Since one of. the purposes of.making this.movie in Cleveland was to provide employment for as many Black Nationalists as possible, Dassin saw to it that as many Black Nationalist youth as possible were hired. These Black Nation- alist youth actually. worked as required, for their pay, and daay o? st os uaag Bugged Jo aaed. t aq o? anadde qou ptp sged peace, or paying for protection. Source further stated'that. he has no information indicating that this money received from Paramount was used to.purchase guns. This third source continued, saying that he subsequent- ly learned that when the trouble occurred on the night or. June 4, l968, it was caused by a rival Black Nationalist group which intended to boycott the making of. this film and threatened. trouble because they too wanted some or. this part-time work. This angered Dassin, since he .was doing what he could for the Negroes; also, the. cameramen threatened to walk -off.the job because they did not want. their cameras. damaged. Dassin there was no need for him to take any more pictures in this area, for he could finish the film in California. Source stated that actually Dassin did quit shooting film.in this area, but took a few additional.shots in other areas of Cleveland, still using the original Black Nationalist group as part of the cast. Dassin then left Cleveland to finish the film elsewhere. This third source stated that he would estimate that about 90 percent of those.involved in the production or this movie were opposed to it, for they felt that it would incite. back at the white people." Source noted that one of the Negroes. hired as an extra was Fred AhmedyEvans, a Black Nationalist who was arrested on July 24, 1968, in connection with rioting in Cleveland on July 23-24, l968, in which ten persons were killed. Jo uotssassod 'ouenftaew Jo uotssassod yatu pasaeys sen sueag firearms, and with the murder. of three Cleveland policenen killed that day..