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The National States Rights Party (usep) “formed in July, 1958, in Knoxville, Tennesse, of segregationist and ‘anti-Semitic elepents, has a current weubership of about 150 active mewbers located in approximately a dozen etates, ‘ts mational headquarters is iam Savannah, Georgia. The KSEP is based on racism apd bigotry, with blacks and Jews as its main hate targets. Blacks are regarded as inferior and polluting the white race, while Jews are equated with coagsunists, subverting the Government and aiding the blacks, Law enforcement bodies, especially the FBI, are viewed with great hostility by the NSRP, Members are urged to acquire firearus and becone proficient in their use in order to protect theaselves against the blacks, Consonant with a policy of violence advocated by the RSEP, its leaders have helped to trigger outbreaks of violence, most recently in Septeuder, 1968, in Berea, Kentucky, where one white and one biack were slain during an arsed confrontation between NSRP wonders and local blacks, Tho dominant figures in the WSRP curing its entire existence have been Edward Reed Fields, its National Director, and Jesse Benjamin Stoner, its National Chairman, Both have lengthy backgrounds of batemongering, KSRP public activities include rallies, demonstrations, counterdemonstrations, and political campaigns, It publishes scurrilously antiblack, anti-Jewisb, ani anti-Aduinistration literature, chiefly in its monthly mouthpiece, “fhe. Thunderbolt.” Close relations exist between the NSRP and other white extremist groups, particularly Klan organizations, A nuaber - of individuals hold meabership in both the NSRP and Klan groups.