LORDS EXPOSE AGENT

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-01601R001100190001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: November 14, 2000
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: February 20, 1971
• Content Type: NSPR

Approved" For Release ' th '/o'i([4-:" A-RDP80-016
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1971
1.0RDS EXP 03E AGC_N1.
Police? and possibly CIA infiltration of the Young
Lords party in New York City, coupled with a grad
jury investigation of the party now in progress, were
revealed Iast weak by Young Lords Minister of Infornia-
tion Pablo "Yoruba" Gutman. He warned the party now
fears a conspiracy indictment against the six members of
its central committee.
The Lords expelled Carlo.; Aponte Feb. 7 and
denounced hire as a police agent. A statement released
by the party, said that Aponte, an education lieutenant
in the New York city branch, was believed to be an
agent either for the CIA or the. CIC, the police
intelligence arm of the Puerto Rican government. He was
identified as a police agent by "friends in the police
department." At the same time it was announced that
five other agents had also infiltrated the party, but had
since been expelled.
The grand jury investigation also coincides with the
mysterious burglarizing of apartments belonging to
Young Lords. rnembers in which party papers and
documents have been stolen, an increase in arrests and
.police surveillance. The party has also continued to grow
and is opening a branch off ice in Puerto Rico.
STATI NT?L.
Approved For Release 2001/03/04: CIA-_RDP80-01601 R001100190001-2