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se o-!9 (Rev. 12-14-64) in him so suddenly, at a time that or cause other damage, in addi- it vVaagedétting its pages with wli-—tien to merely “reportin kinds of material about the mur- der, including the silliest triviali- ties and wildest rumors? Was it because the police “advised” them to? Why did Patrolman Hoy deem the “second” man to be a suspect? What was he doing at the time Hoy grabbed him? Why did the crowd deem him ta be a suspect? What had they seen him doing before Hoy bbed him? y did the city’s “top police- men” surround him with a wall of silence that has not been pierced for 444 months? If they decided he was innocent, why didn’t they say so publicly? That is the usual] practice, Why didn’t they at least an- nounce his name? That jis also usually done. Whe Was He? What did the “second” man kmow about the murder plot and the identity of the killers? tis extremely difficult to figure out why the police (and the press) maved in this way. It leads to ther question: Could the “second” man have been a police agent? Fantastic? Only if you don’t know anything about the police, FHI, CIA, ete. wo It is standard procedure for them to infiltrate radical, black nationalist and just militant or- gabizations, Sometimes, ag the re- “Statue of Liberty” case shcdwed, these police agents worm their way into positions where th ean carry out provocations happens inside the organizations infiltrated, We do not have to speculate about whether or not the police infiltrated the Organization of Afro-American Unity and whether or not such police agents were present at the Audubon Ballroom at the time of the assassination. The answer is yes, without ¥ speculation. A “high police official” said, fs reported in the Herald Trib Feb, 23, that “several” members of the highly secretive Bureau of Special Services (BOSS) were present in the audience at the time of the Killing. (BOSS is the police agency involved in the Statue of Liberty provocation.) After talking to this high police official, Herald Tribune sta member Milton Lewis wrote: r “Tt is no secret that BOSS polife ~~ who never wear uniforms 4 have credentials to cover almost any situation, so that if they were required to have a card or em- blem of the Black Nationalist sect it is a safe bet that they had them.” So perhaps the “second” mai was a police agent, and perhatis the strange behavior of the tq police results from their desire to protect one of their own “sev- eral” men present at the Audubon. But in that case, the question must be asked again, and such questions will keep on being esk until the whole story is told: Wh was the crowd convinced that thd “second” man was one of th killers? r Tolson Belmont Mohr ——___ -__- DeLoach Casper —____-___- Callahan Conrad —_—_____.. Felt Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy MALCOLM X'S MURDER AND T NY POLICE 38 CONTINUED The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Datly News The Evening Star —.._____— New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American —_.__ New York Dally News New York Post _.____ The New York Times The Baltimore Sun —_ The Worker _...__ The New Leader _ —.... ee The Wall Street Journal The Natlonal Observer Feople's World Date 7/12/65 THE MILITANT PAGE 3