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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Cleveland, Ohio in Reply, Please Refer to FileNo March 1, 1968 / RUMORS OF RACTAL VIOLENCE GROWING OUT OF DOUBLE HOMICIDE INVOLVING RIVAL MOTORCYCLE GROUPS, CLEVELAND, OHIO, FEBRUARY 28, 1968 D The Cleveland "Plain Dealer", February 29, 1968, edition, carried an article captioned, "Cycle Gang War Ends in Deat!: of Innocent Victims". This article stated that ROOSEVE’2BROWN, age 38, @ Negro, and JAMES 0. TILLETT, age a, APPROX 38, @ white, were shot down in the early morning hours of ! Februery 28, 1968, at Barto's Cafe, 3344 East 93rd Street, Cleveland, Ohio. The article stated that they were innocent rrrmee “victims of a blossoming gang war between members of the Hellts Angels and God's Children. The article went on to say that the two victims were shot by members of the Heli's Angels gang who were out ‘cing for members of the local chapter of God's Children. According to the article the cause of the gang wear was the effort of the Hell's Angeles to organize a Cleveland Chapter of the gang, which is headquartered in California, and is supposedly militantly anti-Negro. The God's Children gang, an interracial gang which supposedly claims the Eastern United States as its territory, is violently opposed to the organizing efforts of the Hell's Angels in Cleveland. B, APPROX The article stated that the Hell's Angels chapter was organized in Cleveland about two or three months ago and they have been attempting to recruit additional local members. re Conflict between the Hell's Angels and God's Children reached ar the boiling point after a fist fight between two representatives of the gangs after a cycle show on Februery 18, 1968. The Hellts Angels man lost the fight and talk of retribution began immediately, adding fuel to the territorial fight. Both gangs ws