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sai ae Tt i ate x =" NY 157-1489 and LHM dated 7/31/65, captioned, "DISTURBANCE BY GROUP CALLED FIVE PERCENTERS', HARLEM, NYC, 1£29/65, RACIAL MATTERS“; NYairtel and LHM dated 8/26/65, above caption; Nyiet and LHM dated 9/20/65, above caption{w ) The two enclosed articles deal primarily with a speech and subsequent impromptu press conference given by LIVINGSTON WINGATE on 10/14/65, before the eastern regional conference of the Urban League at the Belmont Placa Hotel, New York city(uw ) WINGATE is the Executive Director of the Hariem anti-poverty program known as Harlem Youth Opportunities Uniimited - Associated Community Teams (HARYOU-ACT}. Both articles point out that WINGATE has been critieized for his handling of the program and that he 4s currentiy under investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the Federal authorities following charges of fiscal. mismanagement {u\ In his speech and press conference, according ~. to these articles, WINGATE denied eny fiscal wrongdoing * and claimed the spending of certain monies on his part was necessary to avert racial violence in Harlem during the past summer, His main theme was that if anything happened to HARYOU-ACT there would definitely pe racial violence. On this latter point, WINGATE referred to a mysterious “armed” group of Negro youth who are "prepared to die” in a struggle against white people. He refused to identify by name this group stating he feared for his life if he talked too much. He further implied that only HARYOU-ACT was stopping this group from acting Both articles indicated that WINGATE was apparently speaking of a Black Mualim-oriented extremist youth group lmown as the “Five Percenters," The "tr_bune" article then set forth observations on this group which this paper developed in an “independent investigation” during the past three weeks wy °