April 29, 1969–June 20, 1980 plus Recordings and Appendix
This final section offers book reviews, information regarding celebrations of Malcolm’s birthday in 1972, a request from New Jersey Congressman Hughes to reopen the case against Butler and Johnson, and telephone surveillance recordings from 1964. An appendix then offers reference assistance for the entire FBI file.
The book reviews are submitted in the form of memos written by b7C informants to agents with a summary of the publication followed by a reference as to whether or not the FBI is mentioned in the book. During 1972, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover died, so some memos from that year are addressed to “Acting Director.”
The telephone recordings from 1964 were useful to the FBI because they could supply immediate information regarding Malcolm’s activities and could confirm informant reports as well. No reason is listed as to why they were discontinued after exactly four months.
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This memorandum presents a review of captioned book published in 1965 by Merit Publishers, which is being placed in the Bureau Library.
The author is [BUREAU DELETION] former editor of The Militant a publication of that organization [BUREAU DELETION].
The author describes the life of Malcolm X from his childhood to his assassination in February of 1965. After the death of his parents, he lived at state institutions and boarding homes until the age of fifteen when he went to live with his sister in Boston, Massachusetts, and drifted into a life of crime including gambling, drugs, hustling, and burglary. In 1946 at the age of twenty, he was convicted of burglary and sentenced to ten years in prison.
During his incarceration, which continued for six years, he was introduced to the Nation of Islam headed by Elijah Muhammad. During this period he educated himself and learned to speak and debate. The author described him as the most respected debater in the country. After parole, he traveled to Chicago, Illinois; met Elijah Muhammad; was accepted into the Nation of Islam; and in a few short years his work, through his plain direct speaking style, helped transform the Black Muslims from a virtually unnoticed to a well-known organization.
While in the Black Muslims, Malcolm X traveled throughout the country as Muhammad’s troubleshooter and came to know the ghetto areas nationally. According to the author, Malcolm X became attuned to the needs and wants of a growing multitude of black people looking for a new road. In 1964 he decided his place was with the Negro masses rather than with Muhammad’s organization.
He split with Muhammed’s organization and undertook the difficult task of building a new movement based on the black unity of all Negroes regardless of their religion and philosophies as long as they were ready to fight for freedom. His new organization was known as Muslim Mosque, Incorporated. He traveled to Africa and the Middle East to mobilize African support behind a project to put the United States government on trial in the United Nations for continued oppression of the American Negroes. He favored Negroes organizing politically, electing their own candidates, and driving “black stooges” from office in the major political parties. Malcolm X was revolutionary and became increasingly more anticapitalist and prosocialist. He read the Socialist Workers Party publication, “The Militant,” and urged other Negroes to do likewise.
No mention is made of the FBI in the book.
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This is a review of captioned book published in 1969 by Apollo Editions. The book is being placed in the Bureau Library.
[BUREAU DELETION] Epps is Assistant Dean of Harvard College. He is described as founder and advisor of “The Harvard Journal of Negro Affairs.”
Book, 191 pages, divided into two parts, latter part being verbatim texts of speeches by Malcolm X on 3/24/61, 3/18/64 and 12/16/64. First 112 pages are analysis by Epps of the speeches in effort to determine personal motivations and goals of Malcolm X (true name Malcolm Little). Epps noted first speech given at time when Malcolm X was deeply involved in Nation of Islam (NOI) and was dedicated follower of NOI head Elijah Muhammad. His remarks showed Black Muslim view of the white man as a lowly animal but freedom of the black man from yoke of white man was placed in terms of redemption by God. Shortly before second speech, Malcolm X resigned from the NOI because of disillusionment. In the second speech, he appeared no longer to believe to rely upon God to save the black man from the white man but presented the Negro people as both judge and executioner of the whites. The final speech was made shortly after he had returned from an extensive trip to Africa and just two months before his assassination. The author concludes that Malcolm X saw himself and the Negroes as exiles in a society which was a jungle for them, threatened by daily violence. He was a mixture of prophet, escapist and revolutionary.
No mention of the FBI is made in the book.
For information.
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This is a review of captioned booklet published in 1969 by Merit Publishers, which is being placed in the Bureau Library.
Breitman is [BUREAU DELETION] a former editor of The Militant, a publication of the SWP. Porter is [BUREAU DELETION] a writer for The Militant. [BUREAU DELETION]
This booklet consists of twelve articles which appeared in The Militant between July, 1965, and March, 1966. Of the three subjects arrested, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of Malcolm X the authors claim that one was undoubtedly guilty but he was not proved to be a member of the Black Muslims. The other two subjects who were Black Muslims were not a part of the assassination and were framed by the police in order to show Malcolm’s death was caused by the rival organization. Breitman writes in an introductory note, “Readers should also understand that if the New York police were involved in the assassination (and nothing said or done at the trial, or in the four years since the crime, has absolved them of this charge), that involvement could not have been on their own initiative, but must have resulted from the decision and direction of the Government in Washington, that is, the CIA.”
The FBI is mentioned on pages 5, 6, 9, 11, 22, and 29. On the first three listed pages, mention is made of the Bureau in connection with its investigations and development of informants in extremist groups. On the last three mentioned pages the FBI is referred to as to testimony given during the trial and evidence obtained.
For information.
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This is a review of captioned book, published in 1971 by Merlin House, Inc. The book is being placed in the Bureau Library.
Malcolm X (true name Malcolm Little) was Harlem hoodlum and ex-convict who became Muslim while imprisoned. He rapidly rose to become Nation of Islam (NOI) minister and major spokesman until split with NOI in March, 1964, and formed Muslim Mosque, Inc. (a quasi-religious, politically oriented black nationalist group), and Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), (a militant civil rights action group aligned with all African descendants). He was assassinated, at age 39, by three Muslims 2/21/65 while addressing four hundred OAAU followers in New York City (NYC). He has since been considered hero and martyr by many revolutionaries.
Editor Benjamin Goodman (true name Augustus Benjamin Goodman) is Negro, aged 40, former NOI Assistant Minister, who defected from NOI with Malcolm X and was his primary assistant.
This book is collection of four speeches by Malcolm X introduced by Goodman, who relates background of this “impassioned and inspired” black nationalist and describes setting for each speech.
These speeches were delivered during period 12/62-12/63, the final year of Malcolm X’s NOI affiliation, and all except one were presented in NYC.
The first and longest speech entitled “Black Man’s History” was presented at Malcolm X’s NOI Mosque No. 7 in Harlem 12/23/62. It includes rambling, grossly distorted anti-white view of history emphasizing blacks’ oppression by “white devils.”
“The Black Revolution,” the second speech, was delivered at Adam Clayton Powell’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, NYC. Text relates view only lasting solution to race problem is complete racial separation. Malcolm X proposed that U. S. should give blacks land in proportion to population ratio or send blacks back to Africa and provide their subsistence there for twenty-five years.
“The Old Negro and the New Negro,” the third speech, is actually Malcolm X’s comments during appearance on Philadelphia radio station, Fall 1963, following address at University of Pennsylvania. Comments include his views on decline of European colonialism, awakening of “dark” world, and development of black pride and self-reliance.
The last speech, “God’s Judgement [sic] of White America,” (subtitled “The Chickens are Coming Home to Roost”), was delivered at Manhattan Center, NYC, on 12/3/63. He declares that decline of U. S. as world power is God’s punishment for enslavement of 22 million blacks and, unless whites “repent,” further retribution will occur.
FBI is not mentioned in book.
For information.
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Director, FBI BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY—MALCOLM X MAY 19, 1972 EXTREMIST MATTERS |
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Malcolm K. Little, better known as Malcolm X, a black militant leader, was born 5/19/25. He was killed in New York City (NYC) 2/21/65.
Because many of today’s black revolutionaries regard Malcolm X as a hero and a martyr, the possibility exists that the anniversary of his birthday may be marked by them with acts of violence. As an example, last year two NYC police officers were seriously wounded in a machine gun attack by black assailants the night of 5/19. Anonymous letters claiming credit for the attack linked the shooting to “Malcolm’s Birthday.”
Bring this to the attention of all Agents handling black extremist matters so that they may be alert for any information concerning possible violence in connection with Malcolm X’s birthday. Instruct black extremist informants to be particularly alert to obtain and report such information.
If any such information developed, promptly advise Bureau under appropriate caption and handle in accordance with existing instructions.
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HEH:aso (124)
NOTE: See memorandum [BUREAU DELETION] to Mr. E. S. Miller, dated 4/18/72, captioned as above, prepared by HEH;aso.
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TO BUREAU (ATTENTION D I D)
FROM SAN DIEGO (157-3191) (P) 4P
BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY—MALCOLM X, MAY NINETEEN NEXT, EXTREMIST MATTERS.
TWO SAN DIEGO SOURCES ADVISED SUBSTANTIALLY AS FOLLOWS ON MAY TWELVE LAST:
THE BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF THE LATE MALCOLM X, EARLY LEADER IN THE BLACK NATIONIST MOVEMENT, WILL BE OBSERVED WITH FESTIVITIES MAY NINETEEN AND TWENTY NEXT AT SOUTH-CREST PARK, FORTIETH AND KEELER STREETS, AND AT RUSS AUDITORIUM AT SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA.
FESTIVITIES AT SOUTHCREST PARK WILL START ELEVEN THIRTY AM MAY NINETEEN AND WILL FEATURE SONGS, DANCES AND POETRY READING, AS WELL AS TALKS BY COMMUNITY LEADERS. LAST YEAR’S MALCOLM X CELEBRATION AT THE PARK WAS ATTENDED BY AN ESTIMATED FIVE THOUSAND PERSONS.
AMONG THOSE SCHEDULE TO ATTEND AND ENTERTAIN THE GUESTS WILL BE LE ROI JONES, REFERRED TO AS IMAMU BARAKA, POET AND BLACK POLITICAL ACTIVIST; CAIPHUS SEMANYAN, LEADER OF A MUSICAL GROUP CALLED THE UNION OF SOUTH AFRICA; LETTA MBULU, AN ENTERTAINER FROM AFRICA; DAVID NELSON OF THE LAST POETS, A POETRY READING GROUP, AND RUPERT CROSSE AND TATANISHA, STARS OF THE TELEVISION PROGRAM “ROOM TWO TWENTY TWO.”
HIGHLIGHT OF THE CELEBRATION WILL BE THE FIFTH ANNUAL MISS AFROAMERICA SAN DIEGO PAGEANT AT EIGHT PM MAY TWENTY NEXT AT RUSS AUDITORIUM. THE THEME OF THE PAGEANT IS “BLACK WOMEN DASH AFRICAN ESSENCE REBORN.” MASTER OF CEREMONIES DURING THE PAGEANT WILL BE BLACK ACTOR RICHARD ROUNDTREE CURRENTLY STARRING IN A MOTION PICTURE TITLED “SHAFT.”
THE TWO DAY CELEBRATION IS BEING SPONSORED BY THE CONGRESS OF AFRICAN PEOPLE (CAP), THE NATIONAL INVOLVEMENT ASSOCIATION (NIA), THE BLACK STUDENT UNIONS (BSU) IN VARIOUS LOCAL SAN DIEGO COLLEGES AND HIGH SCHOOL CAMPUSES, AND OTHER COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS.
CAP’S BASIC GOAL IS THE GLOBAL EXPRESSION OF BLACK NATIONALISM.
NIA IS A LOCAL SAN DIEGO BLACK ORGANIZATION SELF DESCRIBED AS A MOVEMENT FOR REVOLUTIONARY BLACK NATIONALISM AND IS DIRECTLY AFFILIATED WITH CAP.
THE BSU IS A STUDENT DASH BASED BLACK MILITANT ORGANIZATION.
VERNON JOHN FONTENETTE, JR., REFERRED TO AS IMAMU SUKUMU, WESTERN REGIONAL COORDINATOR FOR CAP, WILL BE THE OFFICIAL HOST OF THE EVENT.
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Re Bureau letter to Albany, 4/19/72.
During May, 1972, Seattle sources and informants familiar with black extremist activity were contacted and advised they did not have any information relating to any possible violence in connection with MALCOLM X’s birthday.
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BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY—MALCOLM X
MAY NINETEEN, NEXT
EXTREMIST MATTERS
RE NEW YORK LETTER TO BUREAU, MAY NINE, INSTANT.
ON MAY EIGHTEEN, INSTANT, A CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE, WHO HAS FURNISHED RELIABLE INFORMATION IN PAST, ADVISED FOLLOWING DEMONSTRATIONS AND ASSEMBLIES ARE TO TAKE PLACE ON MAY NINETEEN, NEXT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BIRTHDAY ANNIVERSARY OF MALCOLM X:
ELEVEN O’CLOCK AM—PILGRIMAGE TO FERN-CLIFF CEMETERY HARTSDALE, WESTCHESTER, NEW YORK, BURIAL SITE OF MALCOLM X, AND SPONSORED BY ORGANIZATION OF AFRO-AMERICAN UNITY (OAAU), TWO TWO FOUR WEST ONE THIRTY NINTH STREET, NYC.
TWELVE TO SEVEN O’CLOCK PM—MALCOLM X MEMORIAL ASSEMBLY AT FULTON STREET BETWEEN LEWIS AND SCHENECTADY AVENUE, BROOKLYN. UN-SPONSORED.
TWO O’CLOCK PM—BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION AT SEVENTH AVENUE AND ONE HUNDRED TWENTY FIFTH STREET, KNOWN IN BLACK COMMUNITY AS MALCOLM X SQUARE, WITH NO SPECIFIC SPONSOR INDICATED.
THREE O’CLOCK PM—DEMONSTRATION AT UNITED NATIONS BUILDING, FORTY SECOND STREET AND FIRST AVENUE, NYC, SPONSORED BY SEVERAL BLACK ORGANIZATIONS FOR PURPOSE OF DISCUSSING PLIGHT OF UNITED STATES POLITICAL PRISONERS ALSO TRIBUTES MAY BE GIVEN TO MALCOLM X.
ABOVE CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE ADVISED NO ACTS OF VIOLENCE TO HIS KNOWLEDGE ARE BEING PLANNED, AND ABOVE ASSEMBLIES ARE TO BE MEMORIAL TRIBUTES. NEW YORK CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES WERE RECONTACTED REGARDING ABOVE AND NONE WERE ABLE TO FURNISH ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
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ALL SOURCES MENTIONED HEREIN HAVE FURNISHED RELIABLE INFORMATION IN THE PAST.
MALCOLM X (LITTLE) WAS A MILITANT CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST WHO WAS ASSASSINATED IN FEBRUARY NINETEEN SIXTY FIVE IN NEW YORK CITY.
THE UNITED STATES PARK POLICE, WASHINGTON, D.C., ADVISED ON MAY TWELVE, SEVENTY TWO THAT A DEMONSTRATION WAS SCHEDULED TO BE HELD IN MERIDIAN HILL PARK, SIXTEENTH AND EUCLID STREETS, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C., ON MAY NINETEEN SEVENTY TWO TO COMMEMORATE MALCOLM X (MX). AN ESTIMATED THREE HUNDRED PARTICIPANTS WERE ANTICIPATED.
ON MAY SIXTEEN, SEVENTY TWO SOURCE ONE ADVISED A FLIER HAD BEEN PREPARED FOR PUBLIC DISTRIBUTION ANNOUNCING A BLACK ARTS FESTIVAL TO BE HELD IN HONOR OF MX ON MAY NINETEEN, SEVENTY TWO AT MX PARK, SIXTEENTH AND EUCLID STREETS, N.W., WASHINGTON, D.C., FROM SIX O’CLOCK A.M. TO NINE O’CLOCK P.M. INCLUDING A SUNRISE SERVICE, AFRICAN DANCING AND DRUMMING, AND ARTS AND CRAFTS EXHIBITS. ATTACHED TO THE FLIER WAS A POSITION PAPER OF THE MX MEMORIAL COMMITTEE WHICH EXTOLS THE VIRTUES OF MX, STRESSES THE UNITY OF BLACK PEOPLE EVERYWHERE AND URGING BLACK PEOPLE TO BECOME TOTALLY INVOLVED IN THE STRUGGLE FOR BLACK SURVIVAL.
SOURCE TWO ADVISED THAT ON FRIDAY MORNING, MAY NINETEEN, SEVENTY TWO, AT APPROXIMATELY SIX THIRTY A.M., NINE MALE NEGRO INDIVIDUALS DRESSED IN DASHIKIS AND AFRICAN-TYPE GARB WERE OBSERVED AT THE SPEAKER’S STAND IN MERIDIAN HILL PARK (MX PARK). THEY STOOD ABOUT FOR A BRIEF PERIOD OF TIME, SOME WITH HEADS BOWED, AND DEPARTED FROM THE PARK. BETWEEN SIX THIRTY A.M. AND SEVEN FORTY A.M. ON THAT DATE, NO OTHER ACTIVITY IN THE PARK WAS NOTED. BETWEEN THE HOURS OF FOUR O’CLOCK P.M. AND SIX O’CLOCK P.M. ON MAY NINETEEN, SEVENTY TWO, MUSIC AND BONGO DRUMMING ENTERTAINMENT WAS FURNISHED AND ABOUT SEVEN TABLES HAD BEEN SET UP IN THE PARK DISPLAYING AFRICAN TRINKETS, SOUVENIRS, AFRICAN ART AND CRAFTWORK. APPROXIMATELY TWO HUNDRED PERSONS, ADULTS AND CHILDREN, WERE MOVING ABOUT IN THE PARK. THERE WERE NO SPEECHES DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME AND NO INCIDENTS WERE OBSERVED. A HEAVY RAIN BEGAN FALLING SHORTLY AFTER FIVE THIRTY P.M. THE EXHIBITS WERE TAKEN UP AND THE CROWD BEGAN TO DISPERSE.
SOURCE THREE ADVISED THAT A LOCAL RADIO STATION HAD ANNOUNCED ON LATE FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY NINETEEN, SEVENTY TWO, THAT THE EVENING ACTIVITY AT MX PARK HAD BEEN CANCELED BECAUSE OF RAIN.
IN VIEW OF ABSENCE OF EXTREMIST ACTIVITY, NO DISSEMINATION BEING MADE LOCALLY. CASE CLOSED, NO LHM BEING SUBMITTED. C.
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FROM CINCINNATI (157-403) C 2P
RALLY AND MARCH IN HONOR OF MALCOLM X,
FRANKLIN PARK, COLUMBUS, OHIO
MAY NINETEEN, NINETEEN SEVENTY TWO
ON MAY NINETEEN LAST, A RELIABLE CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE ADVISED THAT A RALLY CONSISTING OF APPROXIMATELY ONE THOUSAND NEGROES WAS HELD IN FRANKLIN PARK, COLUMBUS, ON MAY NINETEEN LAST IN HONOR OF MALCOLM X. SOURCE ADVISED HOWARD FULLER, PRESIDENT OF MALCOLM X UNIVERSITY, GREENBOROUGH, N.C. TOLD THE RALLY HE RECENTLY SPENT EIGHT WEEKS WITH RHODESIAN FREEDOM FIGHTERS AND THAT THEY MUST UNITE BEHIND THEIR AFRICAN BROTHERS. FULLER CLAIMED POLICE IN THE U.S. ARE IN COLLUSION WITH BLACK DRUG PUSHERS TO PREVENT BLACKS FROM BEING INVOLVED IN REVOLUTIONARY ACTIVITIES. FULLER URGED CROWD TO TRAVEL TO W DC FOR AFRICAN LIBERATION DAY, MAY TWENTY SEVEN NEXT.
SOURCE ADVISED CROWD MARCHED FROM PARK THROUGH EAST SIDE OF COLUMBUS RETURNING TO PARK AND DISPERSING AT TEN PM MAY NINETEEN LAST ALL WITHOUT INCIDENT.
Jackson, Mississippi
May 31, 1972
On May 23, 1972, a confidential source, who has furnished reliable information in the past, advised that The Black Unity Coordinating Committee and the Social Science Division of Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Mississippi, furnished a program in connection with Malcolm X’s birthday of May 19, 1972.
Source stated this meeting was held on May 17, 1972, and that the principal speaker, Norman Hodges, was invited to speak by Roy Walker, senior student at Tougaloo College and president of The Black Unity Coordinating Committee, Tougaloo College.
Source stated that during the afternoon and evening sessions actual attendance was only sixty to seventy persons, primarily students.
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RE: Bureau Letter to Albany, 4/19/72.
No information concerning above captioned matter has come to the attention of agents of the New Haven Office handling extremist matters.
UACB, no further investigation being conducted by New Haven in this matter.
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ReBulet dated 4/19/72.
All appropriate sources of the Miami Office were alerted for any information concerning possible violence in connection with MALCOLM X’s birthday.
The date of his birthday has passed and no information was received that any individual or organization planned violence in connection with his birthday.
Also, no violence took place in the Miami area concerning MALCOLM X’s birthday.
Baltimore, Maryland
June 21, 1972
On May 21, 1972, [BUREAU DELETION] advised that the members of the Ujamma Shop, Soul School, Black United Front, and Black Student Union, all from Baltimore, Maryland presented a Malcolm X festival at old Polytech, located at North Avenue and Calvert Streets on May 19, 1972. The admission fee was $1.50 for students, $2.00 for adults. About five hundred people attended in spite of the rain. The affair was given to help raise money for the expenses of the African Liberation Demonstration Day march in Washington, D.C.
[BUREAU DELETION] advised that members of the Ujamma Shop, Soul School, and other brothers presented a play showing how the black man was exploited by the white slavemaster throughout civilization. The white man came to Africa, killed, raped, and robbed the black man of his land and possessions. He then brought them into bondage to America. These same problems went on until the black man was so called “freed” after the Civil War. This so-called freedom turned into a political and economical stage where the white man still controlled the life of the black brother. Next the black man is forced to go to war to fight a man who has done him no harm. When the black brother reaches the war zone he finds that the man who he has been told to fight calls him brother. Then the black brother returns home to find out that the white man has enslaved his brothers and sisters by filling the community with dope. The black brothers should form a force and kill the white dope peddler and clean up [their] community.
There was a group of singers call the “Vandals” who the audience liked very much. The Super Simba Boot dancers of New Jersey performed African military marches directed by a leader, who spoke Swahili.
The main speaker was OWUSU SADAUKAI (master teacher) from Malcolm X University. He informed the audience it was “nation” time and all black brothers must march in the African Liberation Demonstration in Washington, D.C. The purpose of the march is to protest the exploitation of the blacks by white nations. SADAUKAI stated that he fought . . . with black brothers and sisters and saw that most of the military equipment came from America. America has raised corporations and has billions of dollars invested in the lands of Africa and do[es] not wish to see the black man free to own his own land because it would bankrupt [its] holdings. All of the persons attending the festival were invited to attend the celebration of Malcolm X’s birthday to be held at Druid Hill Park, Sunday, May 21, 1972.
On May 22, 1972, [BUREAU DELETION] advised that no information came to the attention of [BUREAU DELETION] concerning any incidents which arose out of the Malcolm X festival which was held in Baltimore on May 19-21, 1972.
May 29, 1980
Mr. William H. Webster
Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
J. Edgar Hoover Building
10th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D. C. 20535
Dear Mr. Webster:
I have recently received a petition signed by many of my constituents who are urging a new investigation into the assassination of Al-Hajji [sic] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X). A copy of the petition is enclosed.
According to the petition, new evidence has come to light which identifies all of the persons involved in the assassination and exonerates two of the three men convicted of the crime. In consequence, my constituents urge a new investigation of the assassination.
I would respectfully request that the FBI look into the statements made in the petition and inform me of its findings. I also would like to know if the FBI is currently conducting, or planning to conduct, a new investigation in the assassination of Al-Hajji [sic] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X).
In advance, I appreciate your attention to this matter.
With kind personal regards.
Sincerely,
(signed)
William J. Hughes
Member of Congress
WJH:emr
Enclosure
The undersigned citizens of the United States respectfully request that you use your best efforts to have the Congress investigate the assassination of Al-Hajji [sic] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) on February 21, 1965. We understand that there is new evidence identifying all of the persons involved in the assassination and exonerating two of the three men convicted of the crime, namely Muhammad Abdel Aziz (Norman 3X Butler), and Khalil Islam (Thomas 15X Johnson), and that this material has already been furnished to you. The House Committee on Assassinations investigated only the deaths of John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr. In view of the new evidence relating to the killing of Al-Hajji [sic] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X), it is high time that a thorough investigation of his death took place so that two innocent men, who have already spent more than fourteen (14) years in jail, can win their freedom.
Name and Address
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June 20, 1980
Honorable William J. Hughes
House of Representatives
Washington, D. C. 20515
This is to acknowledge receipt of your communication dated May 29, 1980, with its enclosure on behalf of your constituents.
For your information, the complaint regarding Al-Hajji [sic] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X) is being furnished to the Civil Rights Division (CRD), U. S. Department of Justice (USDJ).
A review of records of the FBI and CRD, USDJ, fails to reveal any information that the FBI has investigated, or been requested to investigate, the assassination of Al-Hajji [sic] Malik Shabazz (Malcolm X).
A copy of your communication and its enclosure have been furnished to the CRD, USDJ, for its review as to whether any Federal investigation is warranted.
If you have any further questions regarding this matter, you may wish to write directly to the Assistant Attorney General, CRD, USDJ, Washington, D. C. 20530.
Sincerely yours,
(signed)
Oliver B. Revell
Assistant Director
Criminal Investigative Division