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U FED STATES DEPARTMENT OF | 3TICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Charlotte, North Carolina In Reply, Please Refer to January 15, 1973 File No. BLACK PANTHER PARTY (BPP) EXTREMIST MATTERS BI.ACK PANTHER PARTY = CLEAVER FACTION EXTRENIST MATTERS On TS » eonfidential source, who has vravided reltohle information in the vast, advised thot TseyLlittle, heed of the Winston-Salem, North Caroline chanter of the Black “anther Party, stated thet the BPP was going to sunnort Eldridge Cleaver. Little ~ indicrted thet he considered Cleaver -n onnressed nerson. Little further stated that Huey Newton, whose BPP rhilosonhy the Winston-Salem group follows, and others have discussed Clesver end his faction of the BPP and are now willing to back Cleaver even thouth he had earlier defected from the Party. Accordinz to Little, Cleaver's defection sunnasedly wes promnted because he would nat be intimidated ond harassed. Jittle stated that he would back Clecver with pny meens, whether it meant puns ar Survival Day Pronrams. Source stoted that Little's remarks regarding Cleaver vere not favorably received by the Winston-Salem Panthers who overheard him make the comments. The Black Panther Party (BPP) is > biack extremist oreontizction started in NakIond, Californic, in December, 1966, Tt advocstes the use of enns and euerrills tactien to bring shout tha overthrow of the United Stotes Government. . THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS NEITHER RECOMMENDATIONS NOR CONCLUSIONS OF THE FBI. IT IS THE PROPERTY OF THE FBI AND IS LOANED TO YOUR AGFICY; IT_AUD ITS CONTENTS ARE NOT TO BR DISTRIBUTED NUTSInNs Your AGSHCY. _— ——— XERox ‘ i © AN 29 1973 rn