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wee ( - cy) ON APPENDIX ee REVOLUTIONARY ACTION MOVEMENT oi REVOLUTIONAR? on November 3, 1964, a source made available & document entitled "fhe Revolutionary Action Movement Manifesto,” the document having been obtained by the source from an 4ndividual kno’ to be a member of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM).() This document gtated, in part, that RAM was officially organized in the Winter of 1963 by Afro-Americans who support the revolutionary objectives of ROBERT F. WILLIAMS, now residing in Cuba, and his concept of organized violence to achieve the liberation of the Afro-American people in the United States. This Manifesto disclosed that RAM had oriented ite program to one of education and political revolution and the organization of 8 ‘rsack" political party with revolutionary objectives, heving recopnized the need for @ “plack revolution” that could and would seize power. RAM philosophy 4s described 4n this document as one of revolutionary nationalism, that is, one involving tne struggles of the nonwhite races of the world against exploitation and enslavement by the white capitalist and imperialist nations RY Regarding WILLIAMS, 4t ghould be noted that on August 28, 1961, a Federal warrant wae issued at Charlotte, North Carolina, charging him with Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution for the crime of kidnapping. Subsequent to the issuance of this warrant, WILLIAMS fled the United States to Cuba, where he now publishes 2 monthly newsletter entitled ‘ithe Crusader" from Havana we \ {This source in September, 1964, advised RAM is dedicated to the overthrow of the capitalist system in the United States, by violence if necessary, and to its replacement by a socialistic system oriented toward the Chinese communist interpretation of Marxism-Leninism. RAM is entirely nonwhite in membership, clandestine in nature, and owes its primary allegiance to the "Bandung, World," that is, the nonwhite,-races of the world rather than to any national entity, a8 such! co) On November 16, 1964, a second source advised he learned recently from an RAM member that the organization began in Detroit, Michigan, largely under the impetus of DON FREEMAN, described as the "Father" of RAM and referred to alla HTTAL