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informants that from reliable sources we heard that Carmichael is a CIA
agent . It was proposed that the informants would spread the rumor throughout
the Black community nationwide . 42
Activities Against the RNA
An FBI memorandum stated in mid-September 1970 that the FBI upon learning
that Brother Imari Obadele of the RNA was going to purchase land
in
Hinds County, Mississippi, went to the owner of the land harassing him for
one and one-half hours . As a result, the memorandum said the owner said he
would not sell the RNA the land . 43
The FBI in Milwaukee infiltrated the RNA consulate there with a paid
informer named Thomas Spells .
Spells became a close friend of a brother
named Sylee who had committed a filling station robbery murder in Michigan .
Spells informed the FBI of Sylee's fugitive status in 1971 . Instead of
arresting Sylee, the FBI waited until Sylee went to an RNA Convention in
Jackson, Mississippi, on July 16, 1971 with informer Spells, instructing
Spells to contact the Jackson FBI when he got there and to tell him Sylee
had arrived . Sylee stayed in Jackson after the conference but was asked
to leave the RNA headquarters because of erratic behavior . The FBI raided
RNA headquarters in August, 1971 . 44
It becomes increasingly clear in studying U .S . government documents
presently being released by the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act,
that the FBI, Army and local police agencies saw themselves at war with
42Counter-Intelligence, Volume 1, p . 58 .
43 lbid ., p . 29 .
44 Ibid . . p . 29 .