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UN.fED STATES DEPARTMENT OF /AISTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply, Please Refer to New York. Now York File No. November 4, 2905 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, poth contained articles on page one dealing with a speech and impromptu press conference given by Livingsto: ‘Wingate on October 14, 1965, before the eastern regional nference of the Urban League at the Belmont Plaza Hotel, New York City. The two articles were respectively captioned "Wingate Warns of Negro Revolt If Haryou's Program Is Curbed" and ‘Harlem 15 Percenters!- ferror Group Revealed", Wingate is the Executive Director of the Harlem anti-poverty program known as Harlem Youth Opportunities Unlimited-Associated 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 ts 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) ALLINFOR ATION CONTAINED HERERC IS EACLASSIFIED DATES 72 £0 BY sas /RBG TW : cLosuRe ; . Z 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.