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UNZTED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ¥UJSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to New York, Now York File No, November 4, i905 Five Percenters. Racial Matters &) The October 15, 1965 edition of "The New York Times" and the "New York Herald Tribune", daily New York City newspaper, both contained articles on page one dealing w: @ speech and impromptu press conference given by LivingstorXWingate on October 14, 1965, before the eastern regional ‘cgnference of the Urban League at the Belmont Plaza Hotel, City. The two articles were respectively captioned “Wingate Warns of Negro Revolt If Haryou's Program Is Curbed" and “Harlem '5 Percenters'- Terror Group Revealed". Wingate is the Executive Director of the Harlem anti-poverty program tmawn as” em voubn.Opportunities. Unlimited-Assoclated Community Teams (HARYOU-ACT). Both articles point out that Wingate has been criticized for his handling of the program and that he is currently under investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office and the Federal authorities following charges of fiscal mismanagement (3) According to these articles Wingate, in his speech and press conference, denied any fiscal wrongdoing and claimed that the spending of certain monies on his part was necessary to avert racial violence in Harlem during the past summer. Wingate'’s main theme was that if anything happened to HARYOU-ACT there would definitely be racial violence. On this latter point, he referred to a mysterious "armed" group of Negro youth who are "prepared to die" in a struggle against white people. Wingate refused to identify this group by name stating he feared for his life if he talked too much. He further implied that only HARYOU-ACT was stopping this group from acting {ul) . ALL INFORMAT'ON CONTAINED HERERN {S EXCLASSIFIED DATE2-/2.0_BY. G/T Avy jencosee™ This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). It is the property of . the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. gq 3,