Malcolm X
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Malcolm later points up the need of his people to “start learning a new language”—a language that the Ku Klux Klan, “a cowardly outfit,” can understand. It is the duty of blacks themselves to stop the crimes being committed against them and assert the human rights the federal government, for all its talk, has continually failed to grant them.
After commenting on the role of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in the struggle for human rights at an international level, Malcolm speaks of the organization’s need nationally for involvement in voter registration—but not without voter education. He would not, however, send any civil rights workers to states like Mississippi and Alabama “without some kind of protection “ and without training in the arts of self-defense.
Malcolm concludes by stating “again that I am not a racist; I do not believe in any form of segregation or anything like that; I am for the brotherhood of everybody, but I do not believe in forcing brotherhood upon people who do not want it.”
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION
New York, New York
February 16, 1965
Organization of Afro-American Unity
Internal Security—Miscellaneous
[BUREAU DELETION] OAAU held a public rally from 8:15 P.M. to 10:15 P.M., February 15, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom, Broadway and 166th Street, New York City. Approximately six hundred persons were in attendance. There was extensive press coverage of the rally.
The meeting was opened by MMI Assistant Minister Benjamin X Goodman who made a few introductory remarks and then introduced the featured speaker, OAAU and MMI leader, Malcolm X Little.
Malcolm X talked at length on the firebombs which were thrown into his house in the early morning of February 14, 1965, destroying the house. He was quite angry and upset that the incident had placed his wife and daughters in danger and he angrily accused the NOI of doing it on the direct orders of NOI leader, Elijah Muhammad. He ridiculed the suggestion by the NOI that he set the fire himself and claimed that he knew absolutely nothing about his being evicted from the house on February 15, 1965, based on a court action by the NOI, until he heard it on the radio on February 15, 1965.
Malcolm X then claimed that a conspiracy exists between the NOI and the Ku Klux Klan that is not in the best interest of the black people. He alleged that both the NOI and the Klan have agreed to leave each other alone and that the Klan has offered land in North Carolina to the NOI for the latter’s “separate state” for Negroes plan. Malcolm X also implied that Elijah Muhammad and his NOI are sympathetically linked with George Lincoln Rockwell and his American Nazi Party.
[An article in the February 16, 1965, edition of the New York Times] explained that the house of Malcolm X at 23-11 97th Street, East Elmhurst, Queens, New York, was set aflame by firebombs thrown into it on February 14, 1965, and a NOI official had previously indicated that he believed that Malcolm X had set off the firebombs himself to get publicity. This article further indicated that the NOI held title to the house and had obtained a court order in June, 1964, calling for Malcolm X to vacate the house, an order he had appealed to the New York Appellate Division. However, Malcolm X was evicted from the ruined house on February 15, 1965, when the (Queens County) Civil Court refused Malcolm X a further stay of the eviction.
This article went on to state that at the OAAU Rally on February 15, 1965, Malcolm X stated that in the racial situation he has switched his attack to the (Ku Klux) Klan and (George Lincoln) Rockwell, leader of the American Nazi Party. Malcolm X indicated that he was doing this because he had seen NOI leader Elijah Muhammad make agreements with Rockwell and the Klan that were not in the interests of Negroes.
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IS—NOI
Re Philadelphia teletype to Director, Chicago and New York dated 2/16/65, entitled “Organization of Afro-American Unity, IS—MISCELLANEOUS,”
Referenced teletype reflected a meeting of the OAAU was held on 2/15/65, at Audubon Ballroom, in New York City; that MALCOLM LITTLE was the main speaker and alleged that while he was active in the NOI in 12/60, he attended a meeting with [BUREAU DELETION] of ELIJAH MUHAMMAD’s Mosque [BUREAU DELETION] and KKK officials at [BUREAU DELETION] home in Atlanta for the purpose of negotiating for land for ELIJAH MUHAMMAD to set up a separate state in Georgia or in South Carolina. LITTLE further alleged that GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL and his American Nazi Party and KKK and ELIJAH MUHAMMAD were connected.
Regarding MALCOLM’s allegations concerning the meeting with officials of the KKK in Atlanta in 1960, attention is directed to report of SA [BUREAU DELETION] dated 4/14/61. Pages 44 and 45 carry information reflecting ELIJAH MUHAMMAD spoke at Magnolia Ballroom in Atlanta, Georgia, on 9/11/60. Pages 96 and 97 set forth information regarding a meeting between MALCOLM LITTLE and [BUREAU DELETION] with KKK leaders at Atlanta in late [BUREAU DELETION] This is apparently the meeting LITTLE was referring to.
Regarding LITTLE’s allegations that MUHAMMAD is connected with the American Nazi Party, attention is directed to report of SA [BUREAU DELETION] dated 4/24/62. Pages 122 through 125 set forth information regarding an appearance by GEORGE LINCOLN ROCKWELL at the Annual Muslim Convention held at Chicago, Illinois, on 2/25/62, and also sets forth information regarding MUHAMMAD’s comments regarding ROCKWELL and his associates. Attention is also directed to report of SA [BUREAU DELETION] dated 10/24/62. Page 132 sets forth information regarding alleged cooperation between the American Nazi Party and the NOI.
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
FEBRUARY 18, 1965
TELETYPE
SENT BY CODED TELETYPE
FBI NEW YORK
7-16 PM URGENT 2-18-65 DAE
TO DIRECTOR -10- 100-399321
FROM NEW YORK 105-8999
MALCOLM K. LITTLE, AKA IS-MMI.
RENYAIRTELS AND LHM-S DATED FEB. SIXTEEN, SIXTY FIVE CAPTIONED AS ABOVE AND OTHER CAPTIONED OAAU, IS-MISC.
AT NINE AM FEB. EIGHTEEN, SIXTY FIVE MALCOLM X OFFICIALLY EVICTED FROM HIS RESIDENCE TWENTY THREE-ELEVEN NINETY SEVENTH ST., EAST ELMHURST, QUEENS, NY, AT WHICH TIME REGINALD THORPE, MARSHAL OF CITY OF NEW YORK TURNED RESIDENCE OVER TO [BUREAU DELETION] NOI MOSQUE NUMBER SEVEN, NYC. MALCOLM X MOVED BELONGINGS FROM RESIDENCE AT ONE AM FEB. EIGHTEEN, SIXTY FIVE. [BUREAU DELETION] ADVISED FEB. EIGHTEEN, SIXTY FIVE MALCOLM X NOW RESIDING AT THIRTY FOUR-FIFTY ONE HUNDRED TENTH ST., EAST ELMHURST, QUEENS, NY WITH MMI MEMBER.
SND AND PLS HOLD............
FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
FEBRUARY 22, 1965
TELETYPE
FBI PHILA
1-58 PM URGENT 2-22-65 RM
TO DIRECTOR /100-399321/ AND NEW YORK /105-8999/
NEW YORK VIA WASH
FROM PHILADELPHIA /100-39918/
MALCOLM K. LITTLE, AKA IS-MMI.
RE NEW YORK TELETYPE 2-21-65.
[BUREAU DELETION] THEY POSSESSED NO INFO ON KILLING OF SUBJECT OR ATTEMPT TO RETALIATE BY HIS FOLLOWERS. THEY WILL IMMEDIATELY ADVISE THIS OFFICE SHOULD THEY OBTAIN INFO CONCERNING ABOVE.
[BUREAU DELETION] WAS AT RALLY NEW YORK CITY WHEN MALCOLM X WAS KILLED. [BUREAU DELETION] BALLROOM BENJAMIN X WAS SPEAKING. MALCOLM WAS NOT IN SIGHT. ABOUT THREE PM MALCOLM APPEARED ON STAGE RIGHT AND WALKED TO LECTERN. BENJAMIN THEN LEFT STAGE. MALCOLM GAVE MUSLIM GREETING AND THEN SAID QUOTE BROTHERS AND SISTERS UNQUOTE. AT THIS POINT A NEGRO MALE, WEARING THREE QUARTER LENGTH BLACK LEATHER JACKET, PUSHED HIS CHAIR BACK STOOD UP AND ACCUSED NEGRO MALE SITTING ON HIS LEFT OF HAVING HIS HAND IN HIS POCKET. THE NEGRO MALE WHO STOOD UP WAS VERY DARK COMPLEXED [sic], SLENDER BUILD, ABOUT FIVE FEET TEN INCHES TALL, WEIGHT ONE HUNDRED SIXTY POUNDS, AGE IN LATE TWENTIES, LEAN FACE MEDIUM LENGTH ST
RAIGHT HAIR.
THIS MAN PUSHED HIS COAT BACK AND PRODUCED AN OBJECT WHICH LOOKED TO BE METALLIC AND RAISED HIS ARM. PEOPLE FROM THE AUDIENCE OF ABOUT FOUR HUNDRED PERSONS BEGAN JUMPING TO THEIR FEET. MALCOLM TOLD EVERYONE TO QUOTE TAKE IT EASY UNQUOTE. THE NEXT THING [BUREAU DELETION] RECALLS WAS THAT THEY HEARD ABOUT FOUR GUNSHOTS WHICH WERE RAPID, SOUNDING LIKE THEY CAME FROM A SEMIAUTOMATIC PISTOL. [BUREAU DELETION] THEN FELL TO THE FLOOR AND BELIEVED HE SAW BLOOD ON MALCOLMS FACE.
WHILE LYING ON THE FLOOR ABOUT FOUR MINUTES LATER [BUREAU DELETION] AT LEAST TEN OR ELEVEN MORE SHOTS WHICH SOUNDED LIKE THEY CAME FROM THE SAME TYPE GUN MENTIONED ABOVE AND FROM SAME LOCATION. WHILE STILL LYING ON THE FLOOR AND IMMEDIATELY AFTER LAST BURST OF GUNFIRE, [BUREAU DELETION] OBSERVED A MAN FROM THE WAIST DOWN PAST HIM, LOADING A GUN CLIP. [BUREAU DELETION] BELIEVED THIS CLIP TO BE SMALLER THAN A FORTY-FIVE CALIBER CLIP BUT COULD NOT BE MORE SPECIFIC. [BUREAU DELETION] DID NOT BELIEVE THIS MAN TO BE THE ONE WEARING THE BLACK LEATHER JACKET AS HIS HANDS APPEARED TO BE THAT OF A LIGHT NEGRO. THIS MAN WORE BROWN OR CORDOVAN COLORED SHOES WITH MEDIUM SIZE FEET. SOURCE COULD FURNISH NO FURTHER INFO AS SCENE WAS NOW IN UTTER CONFUSION.
[BUREAU DELETION] COULD FURNISH NO INFO CONCERNING ANY PLANS OF RETALIATION BY MALCOLM X FOLLOWERS. [BUREAU DELETION]
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[BUREAU DELETION] WAS AT BALLROOM WHEN MALCOLM KILLED AND MAY POSSIBLY COME TO PHILA. [BUREAU DELETION]
[BUREAU DELETION] AND BUREAU AND NEW YORK WILL BE KEPT IMMEDIATELY ADVISED OF ANY PERTINENT DEVELOPMENTS.
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FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION U. S. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
COMMUNICATIONS SECTION
FEBRUARY 23, 1965
TELETYPE
SENT BY CODED TELETYPE
FBI NEW YORK
5-58 AM URGENT 2-22-65 RDB
TO DIRECTOR /100-399321/ -01- AND SACS, CHICAGO
AND PHILADELPHIA
FROM NEW YORK /105-8999/ 12 PAGES
MALCOLM K. LITTLE, AKA IS-MMI.
RE NEW YORK TELEPHONE CALLS TO AND FROM THE BUREAU AND TO CHICAGO, FEBRUARY TWENTY ONE AND TWENTY TWO, NINETEEN SIXTY FIVE.
[BUREAU DELETION] MALCOLM X WAS JUST SHOT AT THE AUDUBON BALLROOM, NEW YORK CITY, WHILE ADDRESSING AN ORGANIZATION OF AFRO DASH AMERICAN UNITY RALLY. AT THE TIME MALCOLM WAS SHOT AN EXCHANGE OF GUNFIRE FROM THE SPEAKING PLATFORM WAS OBSERVED. REUBEN X FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS AT THE ASSASSINS. NYCPD CAPTURED ONE PERSON OUTSIDE OF AUDUBON BALLROOM WHO WAS LATER IDENTIFIED AS THOMAS HAGAN NEGRO MALE AGE TWENTY TWO. HAGAN HAD IN HIS POSSESSION AT THIS TIME A FORTY FIVE AUTOMATIC CLIP CONTAINING FOUR ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION. HAGAN WAS SHOT IN THE LEFT THIGH AND WAS ADMITTED TO JEWISH MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOR TREATMENT, AND AT FIVE THIRTY PM, FEBRUARY TWENTY ONE, NINETEEN SIXTY FIVE, WAS TRANSFERRED TO BELLEVUE HOSPITAL, NYC [BUREAU DELETION] WAS ADVISED THAT A SAWED OFF, DOUBLE BARREL SHOTGUN WAS FOUND ON THE STAGE OF THE BALLROOM WRAPPED IN A GREEN SUIT COAT, CONTAINING A KEY FOR YALE LOCK, PACK OF CAMEL CIGARETTES, EMPTY GLASS CASE BEARING OPTOMETRIST-S NAME, M.M. PINE, MAIN STREET, FLUSHING NY. SHOTGUN CONTAINED TWO DISCHARGED REMINGTON EXPRESS SHELLS, SINGLE O BUCKSHOT SHELLS AND INDICATIONS THAT GUN WAS RECENTLY USED. ALSO LOCATED IN THE HALL WERE THREE FORTY FIVE CALIBER SHELLS AND SLUGS, SIX NINE MILLIMETER SHELLS AND TWO SLUGS AND THREE THIRTY TWO CALIBER SLUGS AND TEN PIECES OF LEAD, PRESUMABLY FIRED FROM A SHOTGUN.
[BUREAU DELETION] MALCOLM WAS PRESENTED TO THE AUDIENCE AT APPROXIMATELY THREE TWO PM AND HAD MOVED TO A POSITION BEHIND THE PODIUM. AS HE ROSE FROM BEHIND THE PODIUM AND WALKED TO THE SPEAKER-S POSITION TO GREET THE AUDIENCE SOMEONE FROM THE LEFT SIDE OF THE HALL, APPROXIMATELY FOUR ROWS FROM THE FRONT, DESCRIBED AS A NEGRO MALE, YELLED QUOTE GET YOUR HANDS OUT OF MY POCKET UNQUOTE. AS THIS WAS DONE, MALCOLM-S BODY GUARDS MOVED IN THE DIRECTION OF THIS INDIVIDUAL AND ATTEMPTED TO SUBDUE HIM, WHEREUPON MALCOLM X SAID QUOTE HOLD IT UNQUOTE. [BUREAU DELETION] WALKING TOWARD THIS MAN IN FRONT OF THE AUDIENCE [BUREAU DELETION] AS A RESULT OF MALCOLM-S COMMAND TO QUOTE HOLD IT UNQUOTE. WITHOUT HESITATION, TWO MEN, OCCUPYING FRONT SEATS, LEFT SIDE OF MIDDLE AISLE, APPROXIMATELY EIGHTEEN FEET FROM MALCOLM X GOT INTO A CROUCHED POSITION AND FIRED SEVERAL SHOTS IN THE DIRECTION OF MALCOLM X. THESE MEN WERE DRESSED IN DARK CLOTHES. STILL IN A CROUCHED POSITION THE GUNMEN HASTILY MOVED TOWARD THE EXIT AND SEEMED TO BE STILL FIRING. [BUREAU DELETION] REUBEN FRANCIS, MEMBER OF MALCOLM-S GROUP, HAD SHOT ONE OF THE QUOTE DECOYS UNQUOTE AND THAT ONE OF THE GUNMEN WAS CAUGHT BY SEVERAL OF THE MMI MEMBERS.
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[BUREAU DELETION] IN ADDITION TO MALCOLM AND HAGAN, THE SUSPECT, BEING SHOT, TWO PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE WERE STRUCK BY FLYING BULLETS. ONE [BUREAU DELETION] A MEMBER OF MALCOLM-S ORGANIZATION, WAS SHOT IN THE RIGHT SIDE AND [BUREAU DELETION] WAS WOUNDED IN THE LEFT FOOT. BOTH WERE TAKEN TO COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL AND THEIR CONDITIONS ARE CONSIDERED GOOD. POLICE CONSIDER BOTH [BUREAU DELETION] AND [BUREAU DELETION] TO BE MERELY ONLOOKERS AND NOT TO HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE SHOOTING. AUTOPSY ON MALCOLM X REFLECTED THAT HE HAD TEN BULLET WOUNDS IN HIS CHEST, THIGH AND ANKLE, PLUS FOUR BULLET CREASES IN THE CHEST AND THIGH. THIS AUTOPSY LOCATED ONE NINE MILLIMETER SLUG, ONE FORTY FIVE CALIBER SLUG AND SEVERAL SHOTGUN PELLETS IN HIS BODY. THE POLICE HAVE CHARGED HAGAN WITH HOMICIDE ON MALCOLM X AND HAVE CHARGED REUBEN X FRANCIS WITH FELONIOUS ASSAULT AND POSSESSION OF A DEADLY WEAPON. THE POLICE SAY THAT IN VIEW OF THE NATURE OF HAGAN-S INJURY HE BE HOSPITALIZED FOR UP TO SIX WEEKS. [BUREAU DELETION] HAVE A WITNESS WHO HAS IDENTIFIED FRANCIS AS FIRING BACK AT ASSAILANTS OF MALCOLM X. FRANCIS IS PRESUMED TO HAVE FIRED SHOT WHICH STRUCK HAGAN. POLICE ALSO SUSPECT FRANCIS SHOT THE THIRTY TWO CALIBER REVOLVER USED IN THESE SHOOTINGS, THOUGH THE GUN HAS NOT BEEN LOCATED. [BUREAU DELETION] NOW ESTIMATE THAT THE NUMBER OF MALCOLM-S ASSAILANTS NUMBER FROM TWO TO FOUR INCLUDING THE CAPTURED HAGAN. FBI IDENTIFICATION DIVISION IDENTIFIED FINGERPRINTS OF HAGAN AS IDENTICAL TO TALMADGE HAYER, ALSO KNOWN AS THOMAS HAYER, FBI NUMBER ONE FOUR TWO FOUR NINE SIX F, NEGRO MALE, BORN MARCH SIXTEEN, NINETEEN FORTY TWO AT HACKENSACK, NEW JERSEY, RESIDES THREE FOUR SEVEN MARSHALL STREET, PATTERSON, NEW JERSEY, [BUREAU DELETION].
[BUREAU DELETION] NYO AND NEWARK INDICIES NEGATIVE ON HAYER. DESCRIPTION OF ONLY ONE OTHER ASSAILANT HAS BEEN DETERMINED. HE IS A NEGRO MALE, AGE TWENTY EIGHT, SIX FEET TWO INCHES, TWO HUNDRED POUNDS, HEAVY BUILD, DARK COMPLEXION, WEARING GRAY COAT AND BELIEVED TO BE ASSAILANT WHO USED SHOTGUN. HAGAN HAS REFUSED TO FURNISH ANY INFORMATION OTHER THAN HIS NAME AND AGE, WHICH IS TWENTY TWO YEARS. NYO INDICIES ON HAGAN NEGATIVE.
[BUREAU DELETION] SELF-ADMITTED OAAU MEMBER, [BUREAU DELETION]TELEPHONICALLY CONTACTED NYO AND ADVISED HE HAS ONE OF THE GUNS USED TO KILL MALCOLM X. CONTACTED BY BUREAU AGENTS, [BUREAU DELETION] TURNED OVER TO THEM A UNITED STATES ARMY COLT FORTY FIVE, MODEL ONE NINE ONE ONE, SERIAL NUMBER THREE THREE FIVE ZERO FIVE FIVE, WITH CLIP CONTAINING THREE ROUNDS OF AMMUNITION. DURING INTERVIEW, [BUREAU DELETION] HE WITNESSED THE SHOOTING FROM THE REAR OF THE AUDUBON BALLROOM AND BELIEVED FOUR TO FIVE NEGRO MALES PARTICIPATED IN THE SHOOTING. [BUREAU DELETION] STATED THAT TWO MEN PASSED HIM WHEN LEAVING THE BALLROOM. TWO OTHERS WERE RUNNING OUT OF THE BALLROOM, ONE TURNED TO RETURN THE FIRE AT MALCOLM-S MEN. AS THIS MAN TURNED TO RUN OUT THE DOOR, HE [BUREAU DELETION] THREW A BODY BLOCK AT HIM, AND THIS PERSON FELL ON THE STEPS DROPPING THE GUN. THE LAST MAN RUNNING OUT OF THE BUILDING JUMPED OVER THE PERSON HE STRUCK AND WAS APPARENTLY ARRESTED WHEN HE LEFT THE BUILDING. THE PERSON WHO WAS STRUCK DOWN FELL DOWN THE STAIRS, SCRAMBLED TO HIS FEET, AND BEGAN RUNNING OUT OF THE BUILDING. [BUREAU DELETION] STATED HE PICKED UP THE GUN AND TRIED TO SHOOT HIM BUT THE GUN JAMMED. ABOUT THIS TIME, SOME OF MALCOLM-S MEN PUSHED HIM BACK INSIDE THE BUILDING WHERE HE THEN PUT THE GUN IN HIS POCKET AND WAITED UNTIL MALCOLM WAS TAKEN AWAY, AND LEFT THE BALLROOM. [BUREAU DELETION] THE MAN WITH THE GUN AS BEING MALE NEGRO, AGE TWENTY, FIVE FEET SEVEN INCHES, MEDIUM BUILD, SHORT BLACK HAIR, BROWN SKIN, WEARING A DARK BROWN, DIRTY SUEDE JACKET. THE LAST MAN LEAVING THE BUILDING WAS DESCRIBE
D AS MALE, NEGRO, THIRTY YEARS OF AGE, SIX FEET TALL, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY POUNDS, SHORT BLACK HAIR, MAY HAVE HAD A SMALL MUSTACHE, WORE DARK TROUSERS, MEDIUM GRAY TOP COAT AND NO HAT.
[BUREAU DELETION] CAME TO THE NYO AND PICKED UP THE FORTY FIVE CALIBER GUN MADE AVAILABLE BY [BUREAU DELETION] AND WERE ADVISED THAT THE INDIVIDUAL WHO GAVE AGENTS THIS GUN DESIRED HIS IDENTITY BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL AT THIS TIME, AND THAT THE FBI WOULD ATTEMPT TO PREVAIL UPON THIS SOURCE TO COOPERATE AND IDENTIFY HIMSELF TO THE POLICE. [BUREAU DELETION] ADVISED THAT HE DID NOT DESIRE THAT WE ATTEMPT TO APPROACH [BUREAU DELETION] AT THIS TIME AND PREFERRED THAT WE WAIT UNTIL THE FBI IS CONTACTED BY HIM AT A LATER DATE AS AN APPROACH AT THIS TIME MAY FRIGHTEN THIS POTENTIAL WITNESS, CAUSING HIM TO LEAVE THE NY AREA. NY WILL NOT RECONTACT [BUREAU DELETION] AT THIS TIME PURSUANT TO [BUREAU DELETION] REQUEST.
POLICE INDICATE THEY HAVE THE FOLLOWING WITNESSES TO THIS SHOOTING. [BUREAU DELETION] MALE, AGE SIXTY NINE.
[BUREAU DELETION] CITY DESK, ASSOCIATED PRESS, FIFTY ROCKEFELLER PLAZA, NYC, ADVISED FEBRUARY TWENTY ONE, SIXTY FIVE, THAT ONE OF THEIR SOURCES WHOSE RELIABILITY IS UNKNOWN BY THIS OFFICE, HAD STATED THAT SOME MEN, INCLUDING [BUREAU DELETION] /KNOWN OAAU MEMBERS IN NYC/, WERE GOING TO CHICAGO EITHER BY PLANE OR CAR FOR THE PURPOSE OF KILLING ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, NOI NATIONAL LEADER. AP SOURCE ALSO ADVISED THAT PLANS HAVE BEEN MADE TO KILL [BUREAU DELETION] AND MARTIN LUTHER KING. AP SOURCE INDICATED THAT KING WAS TO HAVE BEEN KILLED WHEN THE STATUE OF LIBERTY WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN DESTROYED. HE ALSO STATED THAT MALCOLM X WAS NOT DUE TO BE ASSASSINATED UNTIL TWO WEEKS FROM TODAY /FEBRUARY TWENTY ONE SIXTY FIVE/ BUT THAT THE SCHEDULE HAD BEEN MOVED AHEAD.
IT IS TO BE NOTED IN REFERENCE TO [BUREAU DELETION] THAT [BUREAU DELETION] IS DESCRIBED AS NEGRO, MALE, AMERICAN, LATE TWENTIES, FIVE FOOT NINE INCHES, ONE SEVENTY FIVE POUNDS, MEDIUM BUILD, BROWN EYES, BLACK HAIR, SMALL MUSTACHE, SMALL BEARD, VERY PRONOUNCED HOOK NOSE, COFFEE BEAN COMPLEXION, VERY NERVOUS, EXCITABLE MANNER. WEARS PAKISTANIAN TYPE GINNAHA CAP. [BUREAU DELETION] WAS DESCRIBED BY [BUREAU DELETION] AS FOLLOWS . . . NEGRO, MALE, AMERICAN, THIRTY ONE YEARS OF AGE, SIX FEET TWO OR THREE INCHES TALL ONE SEVENTY FIVE TO ONE EIGHTY POUNDS, WELL KNIT BUILD, SHAVED HEAD, THIN MUSTACHE, VERY DARK COMPLEXION, DARK EYES, FALSE TEETH IN FRONT OF MOUTH, WEARS GINNAHA TYPE CAP AND A BLACK COAT.