MOLOTOV BOMBS FIRE HOME OF MALCOM X

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500140014-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 14
• Publication Date: February 15, 1965
• Content Type: NSPR

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The home of Malcolm X. the black'ha
tionalist leader, was seriously damaged own lhi house in which Mal 61n-Is living,
early yesterday by a fire - that apparently;. and tho.y want hira to get out of 'it. He,'
was started by two Molotov cocktails. has refused, to move, so far.
Malcolm, his wife and his four yozmg ,;. When' the Muslims secured a, court evic .
daughters all were in the house at the tim3j lions c:,rder, Malcolm claimed that the
of the fire but escaped uninjured. The house had hee.ii given to, hizit;, and begafi'
house is at 23-11 97th St. in 9ast Elm-' i iion that rbStponed the carrying out
hurst, Queens. of f the order.
Police and Fire Department Investiga- Jose h X who, described' 1.liself as' a
tors thought that the fire was' blurted in busines,; th,nager for the Muslims, ap-?
the living room. by Molotov cocktails- geared at'the :house after the Are
yest~r-'
bottles of burnin day and told reporters:
g gasoline--that were
thrown through a front window. Along( "We" owh this place, man. He was going.
with other glass fragments, they - foundt to be evicted tomorrow. We have money.'
an ,intact bottle neck containing a rag ; 'tied up here. We have to hear about it o}t,
and bearing drops of a liquid thought, to the radio. He didn't even give us the tour-.'
be gasoline. tesy of a phone call."
ened by a noise, probably shattering glass,: pearede to the exterior of the building ap
at about 2:30 a, M. He awakened his wife: . peared'to be slight, but several :rooms were
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and children and led them to safety, out; 'fire, s ci moke an iesnd oat there ete hefur-
the back of the house, he said, fire, s water damage t; the fur=
nishings. The. fire was thought to have
NMalcolm' nor the police would,,' started about 2:30 a. m. It was out by 3:05.
spee Neither he yesterday about who .threw the ' The alarm was turned in at 2c46 by a cab'
1`lire bombs, but Malcolm said. "I' intend . driver who noticed the flames as he passed
?:to point out to the people,of New York by,
r' who I think is behind this and, what will The ]louse is located in a middle-class,
,develop from. it; if something is not done` neighborhood that has both white' and
about It," -he said.
Negro residents,' .. ,,.
Malcolm is a defector. from the Black Malcolm had returned from a trip to
Muslims, and has been,at'odds with them, F England just hours before the'fire,'and he
for months. Aside from .their doctrinal Lturajo, left again yesterdaymornh}g iora :speak
differences, . the Muslim:; Claim that they ing engagbinent in Detroit, He was to re=
Z ew, York last night
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