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“Toe. or oa ee ii Sa: mend ot De wee ey ere ACT bp 2 RR aie © a vate ohana . sale Be 7 a 1 . SOM! hee APPENDIX ACK PANTHER PARTY B FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE BLACK PANTHER PARTY FOR SELF-DEFENSE The Black Panther Party (BPP), organized in December, 1966, at Oakland, California, by Huey P. Newton and Bobby George Seale, has the publicly stated purpose of organizing black people to take control of the life, politics, and destiny of the black communi ity. The Party, operating the Rilack Panther Se Se ee ee ee Intercommunal News Service, publishes a newspaper called "The Black Panther," which at one time openly advocated the use of guns and guerrilla tactics in a revolutionary program to end the, oppression of the black people but since early 1971 has spoken ' for a survival program pending revolution. - While openly advocating direct overthrow of the U. S. ~- Government by force and violence until 1971, leaders have since sAaA vty etata mete atin. of erattin 1 1 aAvoi1aead eXtreme starcemencs in favor cf callir 1g for action within. the established order. Newton, in an interview appearing in the May, 1973, issue of “Playboy” magazine, stated the Panthers‘ chief ambition is to change the American Government by any means necessary but that ultimately such change will be through armed violence. BPP national headquarters, also known as Black Panther Intercommunal Headquarters, as of May, 1974, continued to be located in Oakland, California, with bran throughout the country. ¢ ad haa LOCAL ncnes APPENDIX 3% me te REE gee RE TEED RR RE a ea Rat tee