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Five Percenters Racial Matters Both of these articles further indicated that Wingate was apparently speaking of a Black Muslim-oriented extremist youth group Imown as the "Five Percenters"(W) On October 15, 1965, a confidential source who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised that the "Bive Percenters" is a particularly vicious type of a street gang in New York City composed of Negro youths who have found in their Muslim form of indoctrination a mysterious ideolosy that seems to unite and inspire them, The gang is composed of approximately 200 youths in New York City ranging in age from 12 to 21. Approximately 125 of- them are centered in the Harlem section of New York City around the 120 series of streets bounded by Seventh and Lenox Avenues. The remainder are scattered throughout the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens with concentrations in the Fort Greene area of Brooklyn and the Saint Mary's Park section of the Bronx, (W) a. aprsot,_[ f the the Eve pence sre. was one Clarence SmithXJowars, also known Clarence i3e eh "puddin", who a former member— “ag (ala) Clave of (Nor} .” JoWars is a 36 year old Negro male who was known to mS "Five Percenters” as "Allah" ant aTong 1k with his associate serif a 37 year old Negro male, : indoctrinated these youthssin the perverted NOT form of Muslim ideology with anti-white overtones. Jowars and Howell were arrested for felonious assault with four youthful "Five Percenters" in New York City on May 31, 1965, and both are still incarcerated awaiting trial which has been postponed due to a court ordered psychiatric examination. of ars. Following the jailing of Jowars and Howell one EugenefWhite, aka "Hebeka", a Negro male age 22, assumed a leadershi ition with the-"Five Percenters". However, on August 29, 1965, White was arrested for selling marijuarato one of the gang members and is currently awaiting sentencing after having entered a guilty plealyy a arpaon_} 42 This same source advised that mitiiovare, also i of ~2.