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...forum sponsored by the NCLC to charge that Imamu Amin Baraka (Leroi Jones) is an agent of the CIA, a fight broke out at 9:40 p.m. Seven people were stabbed, none seriously...
...stage was set by tense pre-meeting procedures as NCLC guards attempted to search all comers. And later, when NCLC speaker Isaiah Scott spoke of slave labor and Baraka, the audience of 80 was quiet, if uneasy...
...stabbings occurred during the forum when fighting broke out between NCLC members and people identified by the Cambridge Police as members of De Mau Mau, a black Vietnam veterans group. The NCLC has called the forum to present what it claimed was evidence that Imamu Amiri Baraka, the black poet and political leader who is also known as Leroi Jones, was an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency...
...Labor Party contends that Henry wanted to break up the forum because of his allegiance to Baraka. Henry is a former chairman of the Congress of African People, which Baraka founded in 1970, and is currently a member of the group's executive committee...
...meeting had been called Monday night by the NCLC to discuss what they claim are connections between Imamu Baraka (Le Roi Jones) and the CIA. The NCLC says that Baraka is a paid agent...