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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 known as the "Five Percenters"(\W) On October 15, 1965, a confidential source who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised that the ‘pave 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 | 4n the Fort Greene area of Brooklyn and the Saint Mary's Park , | section of the Bronx.(u.) py apm fd + the “Pive Percenters\ was one Clarence SmithYJowars, a1so known as (aka) Clarenceyi13%)Qmith "puddin", who Was a. fortier member — j of the Nation of Tslam (NOI). Jowars is a 36 year old.Negro i male who was known to the "Five Percenters" as "Allah" ‘and long 4 oe with his associate Jamed\fowell, a 37 year old Negro male, &. Lt indoctrinated these youths~in the perverted NOI form of Muslin ideology with anti-white overtones. Jowars and Howell were arrested for felonious essault with four youthful "“Pive Percenters" dn New York City on May 31, 1965, and both are still incarcerated awaiting trial which has been ou due to a court ordered Pp ~ This same source advised that miehionars, leader of psychiatric examination of ars. Following the jailing of Jowars and Howell one Eugene{hite, aka "Hebeka", a Negro male age 22, assumed a leadership: 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 plealy) nari) (42 Fs “2-5