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TIONALFORM NO.10 5010-107-02 AY12EDITION GSA GEN.REG.NO.27 UNITED STATES GOV RNMENT Memorandum DIRECTOR, FBI 6/2/70 TO DATE: b6 b7C SAC, CLEVELAND (157-1189) FROM COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM BJE BLACK NATIONALISTS - HATE GROUPS RACIAL INTELLIGENCE lnas advised that HARLLELXJoNEs, leader of. b7D NOI the Blaek Nationalist Party for Self~Defense~which is also known as the Afro Set,,is receiving a grant of $2o,o0o which 5 money is coming from the Councl Churches and Cleveland Now quasi municipal fund. According to records made public, this IEREIN I money is being given to the Black.Economic union, a .group 0t10 formed by former Cleveland Browns football team fullback. L JImlBRowN and is destined for use in the Hough area of Cleveland to fight drug abuse. Source advised that the actual recipient of this money is to be HARLLEL JONES and the reason it is being Union is because of the adverse publicity such an announcement would generate in the news media and public embarrassment it might cause the Council Churches and Cleveland Now along with Mayor CARL B. STOKES. Source stated that the committee given to dispanse these funds recalls the prior attacks made on Mayor CARL.B. SokEs because of the dispensing of Cleveland Now funds~ to black extremist leader AHMED EVANS. JoNes and his organization, according to source,. have enjoyed financial help from municipal, quasi municipal and private funds in the past and it is felt that if this information were linked bo an established source among the news media, that this might serve to .deter future funding of oi y1-9 this group. It is felt that this information can be linked to the news media without embarrassment to the Bureau and Cleveland recommends that this action be followed. Bureau (RM) 4800t 2 - Cleveland. CC PVD/jsj EX 105 (4) 8JUN 4 1970 ALL INFORIATION CONTAINED REC- HEREIN ISUNCLASSIFIED EXCEPT WHERE SHOWN Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings! M