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-é ! CONFESSES (Winston-Salem, N.C.) - Last week THE BLACK PANTHER printed are- & port on the angry response of the Win- . Ston-Salem Black community to the Zz. recent attack upon over 300 Black brothers and sisters assembled on 2 North Liberty Street, between two : local night clubs. A community meet- - ing was held by members of the city’s Board of Aldermen (city council) to hear protests from the community &. concerning the continuing threat ofan- f other attack on youths gathered on © North Liberty Street, Policeareus- - ing minor traffic and sidewalk block- ing violations to spark trouble, At the meeting, a local Black com- munity activist, Wilbert Allen, con- fessed publicly, to a packed audience, that he had been a undercover police informer for the past six years and had been recently assigned to investi- gate Lee Faye Mack, a local Black : activist, Rodney Sumler, president of _. the Dungeon Club on North Liberty i. Street, also very active politically, and Larry Little, the coordinator of .: the Black Panther Party Chapter i. here. - {A reporter from the central office eof THE BLACK PANTHER in Oakland ce NERS TN yy MER BIER mean RA Re (casaeencartarreemeattiniinaseniaemets was in Winston-Salem atthe time, and obtained an exclusive interview with the admitted informer. PartI con- cerns Allen’s involvement in local “2 political’ espionage, “ty In next week’s issue Allen tells of 34 bis dramatic decision to confess pub- ; licly and of the racism and brutality he witnessed while working for the thea ‘si bid deans F hg ee j Winston-Salem police and the FBI. THE BLACK Pani. {WINSTON-SALEM POLICE INFORMre feesed that he was an FBI in- former who infiltrated Black organizations in Wineton-Salem. if Rodney Sumler, Larry Little and Lee Faye Mack were putting this thing together, He wanted to connect them with the drug ring. He felt that there were close connections between Everybody is a Star, The Dungeon, and the Black Panther Party. THE BLACK PANTHER: Does the police department use informers to lie in order to frame persons? ALLEN: Yes, this happens often, ! could have done it many times, Once an informant feels he’s going to get @ dollar or two for dropping a dime and informing on a fellow human being he won't hesitate to lie. They cooperate fully with the police. THE BLACK PANTHER: Doyou know of any efforts the police made to ge: to informers to try to infiltrate the Black Panther Party Chapter here? yon 8