WILLIAMS MAY TAKE U. S. SPEAKING TOUR

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88-01314R000100410004-6
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 16, 2016
• Document Release Date: October 14, 2004
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 14, 1969
• Content Type: NSPR

CF! n tij nr ; h. ;~ Approved For Release 2004/10/28: CIA7RD.P88-0
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By JOHN ASKINS lVlliiains will probably go on a Police found miniature Cuban ;
Knight Newspapers writer speaking tour between now and flans and an autographed plc-!
DETROIT - Black revolu- Nov., 11, when a hearing has 'tune of, Fidel Castro, memen-
iionary leader Robert F. Wil? been set in Detroit on a North toes of two earlier 'trips to
liams spent his first weekend Carolina extradition request,
home from exile "taking care' regarding the kidnap charge. Cuba, but no sign of Williams.'.
.of "family matters" at a .''Shortly before midnight, the,
relative's home guarded round Durley said the speaking FBI obtained a warrant farI
by armed Green Berets. I tour would be for the purpose, Williani_on charges of unlav/-'
f black people be- .. .,.
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o
lie of New Africa (RNA) said:, """" ""
Saturday the RNA president; to acquire five southern states in a pattern since followed by` it~
own
Black Panther Eldridge Cleat/-.
10 r c t~
t (
b lftl so
had asked toee aone ; Thekidna charge grewou er
Williams next turned up in
e time with
d
,
som
he could spen
Cuba.
1 of a 1961 incident involving a his wife, children, brothers and ,middle aged white couple and.
sisters. a band of more than 100 angry: in Cuba he broadcast on
ar. blacks and a few whites in ,Radio Free Dixie" . urging'
arrested
li
,
ams was
Wil
raigned and released on $10,000 Monroe, N.C. .Southern blacks to arm then-
,
on a 8 ? year - old selves and meet violence with
id
d F
ay
r
bon
kidnapping charge and a federal The couple, Mr. and Mrs. violence, Inc 'wrote a book,
fugitive warrant. Ile returned G. Bruce Stegall of Marsbville, ?Negroes With Guns," and
ot lost driving around
n and
C
N
hi
ng a
.
.1 g
d publis
voluntarily to the United
;continue States and gave himself up, ?IMoln?oo. in an attempt to letter he bad started in tile.racial calling the charges false, after demonstrailonownton d ~' foundiU?S" "The Crusader,". both 'living In Cuba, China and a
'simffar in tone to his Cuban
rounded by the
the'nselvoa pur
ts
d
.
cas
, radio broa
ganzania for several years.
mob.... G?, ., p:
RNA deputy minister of In 1965 Williams became.
'information Lcito Durley said Mrs. Stegall. said they were disgruntled with Cuban offs
although not with Castro,
the organization is convinced removed from their car and disgruntled
ih t attempts will be made in taken to' Williams' h o m c;and moved to Communist
-lliams' life by "the right nearby, where they were China, where he continued pubs
.firing, including the CIA and' bound with, tape from vene?'lisliung "The Crusader," iwhils-
was banned from
FBI.,. Hence the happe ed t
Iflan blinds.
"Look what happened to lie was elected president of the
i ^sn 1368 founding; .
Cho," Durley said, referring to -She told reporters she heard RNAat?
,Cie Guevara.
,.1 and threaten to "sacrifice" ilia IIe decided to return home
_..I this year in order to become
.:Rests With Family home.
i more utrucwy. ... ...
demonstrators who had been black liberation movement' and
an attempt
nd
d
during
t" u
a,wsLe
''"blacks are :through: wltll;'
b,ti
pu
c
However, the RNA ' says it
has a tape recording of Mrs.
Stegall telling a BBC Inter.
viewer that she did not actually
consider herself kidnaped it
the time.
In any case, Williams' volun?
:tarily freed the couple a few ;
white grand Jury had indicted:.