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RY 100-39 742 REFERENCES: Letters from the Bureau dated dums 6, 1042, and October &, 142, # Letter fron Bureau tf Chicago, oc to New York, dated Fobrus ary 8, 1942. DETAILS: 494910 7) a rhe Headquartere of ‘the WOORISH SCIENCE TEEPLE OF AMER ICA, IRC. és kituated at Chicago, Tllincis, under the leadersh: p of CAPRIRENA: Supreme Grand Adviser and Moderator", who also edits or eauses to be published a pamphlet entitled woorish VOICE"s The HOORISH SCIENCE TEMPLE wee organized in 191% by HOS. who headed the Group until his death in 1929, being sucerseded by C. WIRKMAT: BEY, Thies organization proposed to recover the birthright of the Moors which they alleged wes taken from then to enable them to grvern their own country ~ Morocco. The organization identifies the negroes as Asiatica and a strong pro~Japanese sympathy has beer. found in severed of the branches. » Yt appears che tcearal NARANE an alien Japanese under the alias of CKATA-MAKAHASHT, and clainin, ‘that he was @ Major in the Japanese Army, was suet runental in the promotion of a branch of thie group in Detroit, Michigan. . ity first became known at on Jaly $0, 1942, FIC HOVERENT oF ieations which had resulted in the propagendizing of ‘the negroes for ‘the dapanene CLE Gy . % At that tine, he stated there was in Cleveland an organization known ac the MOORISH SCIENCE TEMPLE Church whose purpose was identical with that of the PACIFIC NOVEMENT, He further stated thet there was a group of this nature . &iso in Brooklyn, New York, and thet he had attended one of their open meetings, but that ae a rule these groups did mot admit outsiders and that their masber~ ship was almoat entirely made up ef people of african and Asiatic deacent. In order that the pro-,Japanese aympathy among. the followers ef the wubject organization might be more cleriy undereteod the followigg information is wet Forth as furnished b: jat the tire of his arregt: