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‘\ \\ Pe ition among Negroes of Rous name is that site ymbers believe 85 per ciint Negroes are ‘“eattle.” ac cent are “Uncle Tortr and 5 per cent are the leadg¥s memberg of the group. An- other version {s that 85 per cent of all Negroes are ex- ploited. 10 per cent do the exploiting—and the Five Per- centers will destroy the ex- ploiters In those two versions. such Negro greats as Ralph Bunche, and Jackie Robinson are in-| cluded among the 10 per cent ‘However, memberg of the group said recentis that the 8 per cent are the “kindly. righteous people” who follow Allan. 10 per cent are the other followers of Islam and the 85 per cert are the rest of humanity . ALLAN A mar who calls him@i! “Allah.” the Moskin word pr God, is the leader. He is mol ffenerally known a5 Clarence Puddi Smith and hs Weer. in jallsince late May. - \ His teenage followers are jamed for numerous mur- gings. some fire-bombings and several other ects of } violence. They are believed to hhave been involved in at Jeast one homicide. Mr. Wingate’s statement yesterday was one of the first Public expressions of concern bout the group ard the first public statement that it has ‘weapons, Generally. the Police De- partment has attempted to, keep it secret. . But ranking police officers | in Harlem have been briefing leaders of civil rights and civic organizations on the group and have asked their co-operation in fighting what ther describe as @ very‘ dangerous group. . Two Harlem weekly news- papers. the New York Courfér _ and the Amsterdam Newer. qyesterday published storlus ~ bout the menace posed by fhe Five Percenters, reportedly \yat the request of police. PUBLICITY ( _ | jj The five Percenters froun ready ts widely knowh on le streets of Harlem, and apparently is equally feared. ‘The Negro ghetto is full of rumors about it, with some Harlemites comparing it to the Ku Klux Klan and other comparing it to the Hitler Youth organizatior. of the Nazis They also are com- pared to the “Blood Brothers,” publicized last year as e group ‘of 400 youths trained to kil! whites Police maintained there were only 25 in the aroun. One source has linked it to the Chinese and Cuban Communists and to the group convicted of attempting to dynamite the Statue of Liberty and other national jonuments, The only official ageficies chich have previously iad- itted knowledge of |the group's existence are “the Youth Board, which 1s charged with controling and breaking up youth gangs in New York City, and the Board of Education. which believes Pave Percenters were involved in two assaults. and one tele- phone threat of an assault, all involving teachers at Junior High School 120 in Harlem. Harrison Lightfoot, deputy executive director in charge of community services for the ‘Youth Board. said recently that the board's workers are not taking s direct interest in the Five Percenters, but are concentrating in keeping members of the supervised gangs from joining the group. “It’s something lke a secret society.” he said. “The Youth Division of the Police Depart- ment is working on it. how- ever, and we don’t want to get in the Police Department's School officials complain ot only of rowdyism by fhe ‘ive Percenters, but of thier istence that teachers ital: lem dy the Musilin names given them in the organi- zation. .. . However, Daniel Schreiber, intendent of District pur in Harlem, yesterddy dgnied published reports ths. Five Percenters bad caused a wave of transfer rd quests by teachers in Harlem schools. Sources in the Department said a special 21- man detail was assigned to investigate the Five Percent- ers last summer because of Police Commussioner Vincent Broderick’s concern about them. TRAINING fi fos detail also was dr Bigged wo St. Patrick's Cat: edral during the recent vitht of Pope Paul VI to New York City because of a rumor that the Five Percenters would make an attempt on his life at the Cathedral, the sources said. All sources agree that mem- bers. mostly youths from 13 years to 21 years of age, re- ive intensive training in Mugim theology, Black Net torplism. judo and karawd. Some add that they ate trained tr garroting. Only Ms te 60 far has main+ Police Veatned that they are armid ‘There is # general belle’ at their warlike training i< jimed at white people, este- Nally white policemen; bur lemites maintain tha: eir hate ts directed at both Whites and Negroes, includinc their parents and Negro lead- ers. One police source said there ' gre about 200 members, 75 of ‘ them in Harlem, 78 in the * Fort Greene section of Brook- lyn and « few dozen in the + Bronx and Queens; but Negro Jeaders have been told in . their briefings that there are 1,000 members organized into cells in every New York City Project with a sub- jsntial number of Negro re- lents. 4 source said the: Cifrence Smith formed the ip al ir ago, short~ Jy after the late Malcolm ix was dropped from Elijah Mu- hhammad's Black Muslin movement and set up his ows Black Nationalist group. The source said the Five Percenters threw Molot«.” - gocktails into three Protestant churches in Harlem Iast sum- mir, committed numerous muggings and assaults on both “ Negroes and whites, and at-) tacked several white policy n. J Proceeds of the muggings i pre turned over to their adtit j Idpders, the source said. =