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(BOSS) were present in the audience at the time of Malcolm's assassination
. Also, the second man caught by the audience at the time of the
assassination outside of the Audubon Ballroom and
turned over to police,
mysteriously disappeared . 24 Malcolm X's home had been firebombed a couple
of weeks before his assassination .
Since he was under constant surveil-
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lance and was on the FBI Security Index, where were the New York police
and FBI
Activities Against RAM
The Revolutionary Action Movement was active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
in
the summer of 1967 when the FBI's COINTELPRO campaign against
Black Nationalists went into full swing .
The SA (authors note : reference is unknown) contacting the Intelligence
Unit secured spot check coverage of Stanford by
Negro officers as a personal favor after explaining RAM and
Stanford's position in it to police officials .
When activity started with the appearance of known Negro extremists
native to Philadelphia at the Stanford residence, a
full-time surveillance by police went into effect . Police disruptive
action was also initiated .
Cars stopping at the Stanford residence were checked as to
license numbers . When they left the residence area they were
subject to car stops by uniformed police . The occupants were
identified . They then became targets for harassment . . .
. . . any excuse for arrest was promptly implemented by arrest
Any possibility of neutralizing a RAM activist was exercised
. . . . When surveillance reflected the arrival of a
new group in town, they were brought in for investigation and
their residence searched .
Certain addresses used by (name withheld by FBI) as mail drops
in Philadelphia had been determined to by addresses of known
extremists . When a young Negro was arrested for passing out
RAM printed flyers and was charged with inciting to riot,
these addresses appeared in his statements to the police .
24 George Breitman, Herman Porter and Baxter Smith, et al . The Assassination
of Malcolm X (New York : Pathfinder Press, Inc ., 1976), pp . 52-54 .