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URED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JSTICE
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
In Roly, Please Refer to New York, New York
ile No. June 2, 1965
Disturbance By Group Called "Five Percenters",
Harlem, New York City, May 31, 1965
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on June 1, 1965, Bureau of
Special Services (BSS), New | y rolice Department.
(N¥CPD) advised that at 9:15 p.m., six Negro males were
plocking the sidewalk and interfering with street traffic
in front of the Hotel Theresa, 2090 7th Avenue, New York
City. When told to move on by two police officers they
turned on the officers, called on bystanders to attack the
officers and shouted anti-white and anti-police invectives.
Additional police assistance was necessary to arrest the
six and two of the officers were bitten. Previously a
bar window had been broken by the group and a Negro male
named Wilbert Lee had been struck on the head with a stick
wielded by one of the six arrested. Approximately 90
minutes before this incident these same six individuals
had caused a disturbance at the corner of Lenox Avenue
and 116th Street in Harlem, When told to move on by 4
police officer they complied but cursed and berated the
patrolman as they left(w.y
! advised that the six alt haa C7
Muslim names or aliases but all had denied being
member of the Nation of Islam (NOL) or the Muslim Mosque,
Incorporated (MMI). However, some of them appeayed to
have some Imowledge of the NOI. They did claim to be
members of the "Five Percenters", which they claim means
th Muslims who smoke and drink. According
to they have no headquarters and appear to
be. up that “hangs ow’ we Harlem street
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It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency;
it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your
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