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APPENDIX -INVADERS, also knOwn as Black Organizing Project On May 7, l969, a first source adviscd that a militant blak nationalist group of young Memphis, Tennessee Negroes, now known as Invaders, was originally formed in the summer and fall of 1967 by three Memphis Negroes, Coby Vernon Smith, John Burrell Smith, and Charles Laverne Cabbage: During the fall of 1967 and spring of l968, it assumed the name of Black Organizing Project (hop), with subsidiary cells known as Afro-American Brotherhood (AAB) at Owen College; Black Student Associaticn (Bsa) at Memphis State University; LeMoyne Intercollegiate Chapter at the NAAcp (LIC, NAAcp) at LeMoyne College; Invaders, primarily .consisting of high school students and school dropouts; and City Organizers, consisting of young non-student adults, all having a combined average membership of about l00. The ostensible purpose was to create pride in black identity, to teach black culture and black history, and to obtain employment for young blacks. On May 7, l969, Source One and Source Two advised that Black.Organizing Project (Bop), beginning in the spring of 1968, degenerated into a group of approximately 30 to 35 young Memphis blacks, who increasingly adopted a philosophy of hatred of the white race, and hatred of the capitalistic system and all constituted legal authority, particularly law. enforcement agencies. Theirs is a philosophy of nihilism and anarchy.. Both sources added that beginning in the summer of 1968, the Invaders became a dominant group. LIC, NAAcp disbanded, AAB disbanded. BsA at Memphis Stat University relationship with the Invaders, and the City Organizers ceased to exist.. Since June, l968, approximately 30 Invaders have committed various local crimes, including arson, robbery, larceny, forgery prostitution, narcotics violations, and shooting of police officer, as well as inciting to riot in APPENDIX