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t 4 4 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Te cenls> Please Refer Charlotte, North Carolina . May 28, 1975 BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP) LUMBERTON, NORTIT CAROLINA (Bureau File: 157- ) (Charlotte File: 157-9763) CHARACTERIZATION OF SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATION EXTREMIST MATTER RUSSELL EDWARD McDONALD and his wife, MARY KATHERINE McDONALD, established an independent organization on February 20, 1974,.in Lumberton, North Carolina, known as the Black Panther Party (BPP). McDONALD and his wife are former members of the Winston-Salem, ilorth Carolina, Chapter of the BPP which has its National Headquarters in Oakland, California, but this BPP organization in Lumberton has no connection with that organization, nor with any other organization. 1) The purpose of this BPP is to enable Biacks to obtain greater economic leverare and more power in the Lumberton, North Carolina, area. This organization became defunct in the Summer of 1974. The BPP with headquarters in Oakland, California, has the publicly stated purpose of organizing hlack people to take control of the life, politics and destiny of the black community. In 1973, its leader publicly stated that the chief ambition of the BPP is to change the American Government by any means necessary but that ultimately such change will be through armed violence. 1? (Source is / oy ‘ (Source has furnished reliable information in the past.) ~ MATE OF ANG 251975 APPROVED, Date __ 22 ie G AUB 8 BJ 9 wot . ' 5