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On November 3, 1964, a source made av ilable a
document entitled "The Revolutionary Action Movement Manifesto,"
the document having been obtained by the source from an
individual kno to be a member of the Revolutionary Action
Movement (RAM) WX)
This document stated, in part, that RAM was officially
organized in the Winter of 1963 by Afro-Americans who support
the revolutionary objectives of ROBERT F. WILLIAMS, now
residing in Cuba, and nis concent of organized violence to
achieve the liberation of the Afro-American people in the
United States. This Manifesto disclosed that RAM had oriented
its program to one of education and political revolution and
the organization of a "tiack" political party with revolutionary
objectives, having recognized the need for a "Dlack revolution"
that could and would seize power. RAM philosophy is described
in this document as one of revolutionary nationalism, that is,
one involving the struggles of the nonwhite races of the world
against exploitation and enslavement by the white capitalist
and imperialist nations AW)
Regarding WILLIAMS, it should be noted that on
August 28, 1961, a Federal warrant was issued at Charlotte,
North Carolina, charging him with Unlawful Flight to Avoid
Prosecution for the crime of kidnapping. Subsequent to the
issuance of this warrant, WILLIAMS fled the United States to
Cuba, where he now publishes a monthly newsletter entitled
‘The Crusader" from Havana Ww)
This source in September, 1964, advised RAM is
dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist system in the
United States, by violence if necessary, and to its replacement
by a socialistic system oriented toward the Chinese communist
interpretation of Marxism-Leninism. RAM is entirely nonwhite
in membership, clandestine in nature, and owes its primary
allegiance to the "Bandung World," that is, the nonwhite-races
of the world rather than to any national entity, as such)
On November 16, 1964, a second source advised he
learned recently from an RAM member that the organization
began in Detroit, Michigan, largely under the impetus of
DON FREEMAN, described as the "Rather" of RAM and referred to
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