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Malcolm X's break from the nation of Islam caused great alarm in the
'invisible government' which was the intelligence community . Malcolm's
organizations, the Muslim Mosque, Inc . and the Organization of Afro-American
Unity, (OAAU) were infiltrated by various intelligence and police agencies
. The infamous highly secretive NY Bureau of Special Services (BOSS),
which was responsible for the Statue of Liberty bomb plot (1965), Roy
Wilkins/Whitney Young Assassination plot (1967), and the Panther 21 plot
(1969), had infiltrated Malcolm's organizations .
Malcolm had also been a victim of poisoning while in the middle east,
possibly at the hand of the CIA . The State Department issued a memo on
Malcolm in 1965 stating that he was detrimental to U .S . Foreign Policy .
Malcolm remembered a tall thin dark, olive skinned man following him in his
world travels . This man returned to the United States when Malcolm returned
. 22
Gene Roberts, a body guard for Malcolm, later turned up in the Panther
21 case as a police agent . McKinley Welch, an Afor-Puerto Rican, a BOSS
agent in the New York Black Panther Party, stated to Max Stanford in 1967
that he had infiltrated, Mosque (NOI) Number Seven in New York and had become
secretary .
When Malcolm left the Nation of Islam, Welch was ordered
by his superiors to infiltrate the OAAU . Welch confessed to Stanford because
of his increased political awareness and becasue the New York Black
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Panther intelligence had already identified him as a police agent . He
said agents from every agency were in the OAAU .
From recorded reports of
accounts given to the Herald Tribune , February 23 that several members of
22 Malcolm X, Autobiography of Malcolm X (New York : Grove Press,
1965) .
23 Confession of McKinley Welch, May 1967, Philadelphia, Penn .