Poison Plot By Negroes Alleged

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31498, 12 October 1967, Page 13

Poison Plot By Negroes Alleged

(N Z P.A -Reuter—Copyright) PHILADELPHIA, October 11. Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation testified in Philadelphia that Black Power advocates plotted last summer to invade a New Jersey army post to steal uniforms and weapons.

The agents also said the militant Negroes, members of the Revolutionary Action Movement (R.A.M.), had secreted enough potassium cyanide to kill 1500 persons and planned to put it into the coffee and sandwiches of police and firemen on duty at racial disturbances.

The testimony came at a hearing for three R.A.M members who are charged with conspiring to poison local and national figures, including the Mayor. Mr James Tate, and President Johnson A 17-page confession of one of the defendants. Edward M StJyer, jun., aged 24, was read

in Court and said that R.A.M members threw fire bombs during racial tension in Philadelphia this summer in an attempt to trigger off largescale riots.

The F. 8.1. agents testified that R.A.M. members plotted to invade Fort Dix, New Jersey, and steal a quantity of weapons and free a Black Moslem-held prisoner in the stockade.

According to Super’s confession, he and another R.A.M. member threw firebombs last July during racial outbreaks which resulted in Philadelphia being put on a limited emergency status.