REPORT RE POLITICAL AND GUERRILLA TRAINING OF BLACK MILITANTS
Originator: CIA
From: CIA, ANGLETON, JAMES
To: U.S. SECRET SERVICE, DIRECTOR
Document date: 06/26/1973
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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226 JUN 1973

MEMORANDUM FOR:

Ditector

United States Secret Service

SUBJECT

Political and Guerrilla Training of

Black Militants

1.

A highly sensitive and reliablo source has

reported the following:

8.

Since early March 1973 the Curiel Apparatus,

a Paris based revolutionary support group for third world

revolutionary novenents, has been supporting seven

American black militant/hijackers (not further identifled)

who wero formerly in Algiers.

This group has been given

the code name "BAKER".

The black activists have been

living clandestinaly with Apparatus collaborators in

tho suburbs of Paris under instructions to stay close to

the hones where they are lodged in order to avoid coming

to the attention of the French authorities.

b. At the 2 June 1973 Paris meeting of the

Curiol Apparatus Diroction Committee, Henri CURIEL,

foundor and leader of the Apparatus, stated that seven

nonbars of the "BAKER" grOup uill recoive political

and guerrilla technique training in France, which will

last the entire month of August.

According to CURIEL,

this group will return to the United States in September.

The importance attached by CURIEL to the

"BAKER" group was challenged by a leading Apparatus activist

who complained that the "BAKERS" do not meet the criteria

of the national liberation programs established by the

Apparatus, since there is no objective possibility that

the "BAKERS" will be able to change the structure or

affect the policies of the United States Government.

CURIEL responded that the "BAKERS" are a special case;

even though they are small in number, if they can creato

spectacular incidents in the United States with the help

of the training and support given by the Apparatus, they

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will be striking at the root of the imperialist repression

of the national liberation activity throughout the world.

Comnent: The following are American nilitants/

hijackers, who formerly were residing in Algiers and

some of whon may be the unidentified individuals dis-

cussed above:

a.

George Edward WRIGHT aka Larry BURGESS

b. Georga BROWN aka Harold SINGLETON

c. Melvin MCNAIR

d. Jean Carol MCNAIR

•. Joyce Tillerson BURGESS

f. Nathaniel BURNS aka Sekou ODINGA

go LaTTy Neil MACK

h. Catherine KERKOW

3.

The above information has also been furnished

to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. It is provided

with the proviso that it will recoive no further dissemi-

nation other than to your appropriate field offices,

wizhout the prior approval of this Agency; and that any

reference to it in internal documents will state only

that it was obtained fron a confidential source, with

no mention of the Agency originating this report.

1s requested that no action 13 undertaden on the basis

of this information without prior coordination with this

Ageney.

We are particularly concerned for the security

1of our

sOurceS.

FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS:

James Angleton

CIR-316/01514-73

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