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Airtel to New York : “FIVE PEBCKNTERS,” AKA bib article ch appear lew Yor re ‘on 10/15/65, page 1, sets out that ranking police officers in Marlen have been briefing leaders of civil rights aad civic erganizatious regarding the “Five Percenters” and have asked their woperation in fighting what they described as a very dangerous group. This article also ts out that two Marlon weekly mewspapers, the “New York Courier” and the “gesterdan News" on 10/14/65 published stories regarding the menace posed by the "Five Percenters,” reportedly at the request ef the policeiv-\ The “New York Werald Tribune" article continued with a coment to the effect that one source linked the "Five Percenters" to the Chinese and Cuban Comsunists and to the group recently convicted of attempting to dynamite the Statue of Liberty and other mational monuments.(W\ As you are aware, the proper utilisation ef information received by the Bureau is foremost among our responsibilities as an investigative ageacy. Whenever information comes to the attention of the Bureau which appears to be of interest to another agency, that information should be forwarded to interested agencies b7/ unless there id Pabst for not doing so. é =) The Bureau agrees that the activities of the “Five _. Percenters" represent. a local police problem; however, in view of the allegations that the "Five Percenters” may be linked with certain subversive and racist elements, as indicated in newspaper articles, your continuing investigation of these subversive and racist elements whould specifically determine whether or mot the "Five Percenters" ‘are actually linked to these elonents(u\