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2 Nance Ie SLAM mn + & E RAL ale pp Sener gansta! RA Be A ES WINSTON-SALEM POLICE INFORMER CONFESSES CONCLUSION (Winston-Salem, N.C.) - Last week THE BLACK PANTHER printed the first part of an interview witha police informer here, Wilbert Allen. He pub- licly confessed his involvement before a crowd at a community meeting held to air protests over a recent attack by police on more than 300 brothers and sisters gathered on North Liberty Street in the heart of the Black com- munity, Part I concerned Allen's assignment to spy on several com- munity leaders, including Larry Lit- tle, coordinator of the Winston-Salem Branch of the Black Panther Party, Part if deals with the racism and bru- tality Allen witnessed while working for the police and his reasons for publicly exposing himself, THE BLACK PANTHER: Whatevents or emotions led you to make your statement last night? Why did you choose to expose yourself as an in- former at that public meeting? ALLFN:; In my undercover dealings with the Winston-Salem Police De- partment, 1 found that a lot of infor- mation they received was misinter- preted through other informers, This led to a lot of harassment of individ- uals who the police had under surveil- lance and were spying on. Anything that was loose talk was taken to be fact,Information I gave was often mi- sused through theirown department, At the time of the meeting I felt that City Hall did not have an open ear to Blacks’ complaints, I felt that it was time that this thing needed to be exposed, It meant putting my life, my welfare, and my job on the line, but at that moment I just didn’t care because the truth had to be told, THE BLACK PANTHER: Doyou think that the police are capable of any re- prisals against you? CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 - 4 XbKON 5 1973_ ype, eh oct 1 Wo-bo. Beek UsCLOSURE ) La a co ef ' /