JOHNSON , AIDES THREATENED BY CARMICHAEL

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000100660013-8
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 31, 2000
• Sequence Number: 13
• Publication Date: August 2, 1967
• Content Type: NSPR

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Carmichael
;Johnson, Aides
Threatened by
R41VANA (AP) - Stokely
Carmichael called yesterday for
Negro guerrilla uprisings in U.S.
cities and made threats against
~_, President Johnson, British
,Prime Minister Harold Wilson
and other high U.S. officials.
DeclaririgThat black power
,advocates "are moving Into
urban guerrilla warfare in the
41nited. States'" the militant'
Negro agitator told a three-hour
news col?ferencQ:
"We have no alternative but to
use aggressive armed violence
earg. ,in order to own the land, houses
-?_jand stores inside our communi-
ties, and'to control the politics of
those communities."
U.S. Reporters Barred
U.S. reporters were barred
,.from the news conference, but'
Carmichael's remarks were
Carmichael declared that
Negro guerrillas"mdst develop
a consciousness so that when
people who are struggling get
killed, the retaliation will be
against the leaders of the West."
"Let us develop a conscious-
ness that when they touch one
guerrilla, Lyndon Johnson, Dean
Rusk, Robert McNamara and
Harold Wilson must pay the
price," he said. - `We. are not
waiting for them to kill us. We
will move. to kill; them.' first; or
rather, we Are workipg towards
British citizen reporting for the
San Francisco Chronicle.
Banned From Britain
He presumably, included
Wilson because the Home Office
last week banned him 'from
Britain.
"One good thing. about the
Vietnam war is that the United
States has taught us how to
ki:ll," Carmichael declared later.
"Our brothers returning from
Vietnam are going. to use that
training well in the cities of the
United States."
Asked about the role of white
people in, the Negro struggle,
Carmichael replied: "The only
whites we can use in our strug,
gle are those who are ready to
pick up guns with us to destroy
the eapitalit 5yat~T(l
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Asked about the possibility 1,
that he might be assassinated,
Carmichael said the U.S. Central
Intelligence Agency has interna-
tional license to kill and if the
CIA . continues to assassinate t
fighters and guerrillas, ven-
geance mVst be taken against
Western leaders.
'Sonic Will Be Killed'
quoted by Havana Radio, rational structure to combat the
George Ware of the Student CIA," he said. "While develop-
Nonviolent Coordinating Com Ing that s,;ructure, some of us
?'mittee,r and Felix Greene, aj will be killed. It is important for
. our people around the world to
know that if we are killed, no
matter what type of death, the
CIA has committed it, that the
CIA is responsible."
The,, State Department is
making preparations to revoke
the passport of Carmichael, who
came to Havan for the Commu-
nist-dominated congress of the
Organization of Latin American
Solidarity. The Justice Depart-
ment is also investigating the
activivies of the 26-year-old
militant, a native of Trinidad
who was raised in New York's
F arlesu and the Bronx and is a
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