MUHAMMAD HERE-MALCOLM WHERE?

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP75-00149R000500140022-1
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 1, 2004
• Sequence Number: 22
• Publication Date: June 29, 1964
• Content Type: NSPR

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Muhammad HereHMakoIrn Where?
131aek Muslim leader Elijah Muha amad emerged dumped, cut and bruised against)
an iron fence
.
today as undisputed victor in his great power struggle
with rebel Black Nationalist Malcolm X. A solid: wall of Muslim
--guards linking arms in a square
So overwhelming was his,
triumph in Harlem yesterday
that within a few hours Mal
Icolm C. appearinr before a'
"Instead of the various blackaround the beseiged man pre-
groups showing how, militant'vented spectators and even
they are by fighting amongpolicemen from interrupting
themselves and cracking each the attack. The. victim, David
other heads, let them go down Whetstone, 21.,af 2467 Ma,.rionI
wn- e, almost disinterrsted,outh and crack a few of those ave., Bronx, was treated at
racist heads." Harlem Hospital. )audience, dishaorled-.0hiq ra.g-I All this led one of Malcolm'. He denied accusa th' ,a
organized Muslim Mosque 600 listeners in the half-filled Muslim guard officer ,that he
Jamd left the Muslim movement; Audubon Ballroom, 166th st. was a follower of Malcolm X.
with Its religious cnloration-:and Broadway to comment: The second incident Involved
:entirely to Muhammad. "Malcolm- as scared of Mu- Jesus Emanuel, of Philadelphia,
'xt>laining-"it was not 1iivhammad ? . I chink MalcolnmPa., Self-styled "blood son of
,in pose to herom_e involved In s finished as 1, leader of t}lethd original Mother and Father
i f igh.t with the Black Mus- Negro people. Heil; like a gen-:Devine," who was attacked by
,,~.s forming a new group to be
!?.nown as the Organization for
Olro-Arcinllcan Unity. His ap-
pr. of recruits drew little re-
knocked
out.
J at the 369th : Re
iment A
g
r-
The lack of enthusiasm aP- mory, 145th st. and 5th _kve.: Inside the Armory. FO1 rnem-
hers pal:roIed the aisles, using
peared to . stem from recogiii-, "L_.w ti
-
rion that. M.alcolm's tnrust for
militant Negro leadership had
'been all but tilled by Muham-
mad's visit here to stabilize um-
rival Black Nationalists.
The success of Muhamnia({_,s
that: I
'HE'S FINISHED'
not be too hard onother Afro- to show "proper identificdtion'that America's Negroes be platform was heavyweigiit? boz-
American leaders. Let's give while entering the Armors-. be' given a territory, or state, of ing eframpion Cassius clay.
them a little time to straighten was kicked, pummeled, pa.ssed'their own, Muhammad warned ham mad in the Muslims as Mu-
up. If they don't straighten up. hand - to - hand outside and "If this Is not done, you ca nlmad All, who occ ionall3'
wed that's another thing ... expect t r o u b I e and more "'' lied out "Teach usi"? and'
;,1 on h lc." Sir! ?
Ufi ,Inrl~ec'
Malcolm's failure was pro-leaflets near the Armory
claimed hours earlier when branding Muhammad "a mix
bred phony." His nose was
Muhammad told an. overflow ,-_ -_ -
,_ ,
of
wa1 e-1a
what I alri bu't dat person 1111es V) OOminrlnicaw is with each other. All persons
not 'ltble t11 be what I am." entern)Q were seRrehed by the
He'di i3"t`*von mention Mal FOI, which relieved them o`
Colin by riiti~ such items as matches or Poe-
if the 'fan `a ii'doubt that''ket kilivel as a security meas-!
sTnham d lower "ould belure.
backed up'by force, it was dis- AIRTIGHT GUARD
pelled by two incidents o l air?ti,ht guard was die-
violence. 'ta.ted by a report last week tlhai.
When the Muslims' speclaljMuhamined might be assassi ening with rapt al;cn-
elite guard, the Fruit of Islamq nated. ili4l,
intercepted a Negro who failed Reasserting his proposal lion in a front row seal on ;.ire
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