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CONFIDENTIAL Black Panther Party -- Cleaver Faction On Page 2 of the February 15, l972 issue of "Right On," the Bpp - Cleaver Faction newspaper, an adver. tisement captioned, "Benefit for P.o.W.s" (Psisoners of War). stated that~on February 18, 1972, at 12:00 midnight the National Committee for the Defense of PoliticalPrisoners (Ncppp) will sponsor a benefit featuring Archie(Shepp, SoniaXSanchez, Cal Massey, Beaver Harris, Rene Meclean and Underground Expressway, Gracion Moincur IIl and The Space Station, Yusef Imam and Weusi Kuumba, Louise(Jeffers, Frank Mitchell and Underground Railroad, Determination and. Moderation, with special attraction Melvin Van Peebles,. a Broadway play in New York city. According to an article entitled, "Help Defend and Support Prisoners of War," which appeared on Page 18 of the August 3, 1971 issue of "Right On," the NcDpP is a committee established in New York City to encourage interested persons and groups across the country to set up solidarity and defense committees and to forward any information of political prisoners to the New York committee so it can be distributed nationally. On May 22, 1967, New York, New York, appeared at the New York Office of the Federal Bureau of b6 Investigation (FBl) and advised Special b7C Agents that he'attended his first Communist Party meeting in 1962. further advised that he attended meetings of his group, a youth group without a name, for approximately one year in different apart- ments in the Lower Manhattan area of New York City. He disclosed that several of these meetings were held in the apartment of with present. CONFTDENTIAL -2-