Nation of Islam Timeline and Fact Sheet
Nation of Islam Timeline and Fact Sheet (Brief)
Compiled by Leila Wills, February 17, 2013
FBI Memo
SAC, Chicago (157-2209) January 7, 1969
Director, FBI (100-448006)
COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM
BLACK NATIONALIST - HATE GROUPS
RACIAL INTELLIGENCE
(NATION OF ISLAM)
Although the Nation of Islam (NOI) does not presently advocate violence by its members, the group does preach hatred of the white race and racial separatism. The membership of the NOI is organized and poses a real racial threat. The NOI is responsible for the largest black nationalist newspaper, which has been used by other black extremists.
The NOI appears to be the personal fiefdom of Elijah Muhammad. When he dies a power struggle can be expected and the NOI could change direction. We should be prepared for this eventuality. We should plan how to change the philosophy of the NOI to one of the strictly religious and self-improvement orientation, deleting the race hatred and separate nationhood aspects.
In this connection Chicago should consider what counterintelligence action might be needed now or at the time of Elijah Muhammad's death to bring about such a change in NOI philosophy. Important considerations should include the identity, strengths, and weaknesses, of any contenders for NOI leadership. What are the positions of our [BUREAU DELETION] informants in regard to leadership? How could potential leaders be turned or neutralized?
The alternative to changing the philosophy of the NOI is the destruction of the organization. This might be accomplished through generating factionalism among the contenders for Elijah Muhammad's leadership or through legal action in probate court on his death. Chicago should consider the question of how to generate the factionalism necessary to destroy the NOI by splitting into several groups. [BUREAU
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Letter to SAC, Chicago
RE: COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM; (NATION OF ISLAM)
100-448006
Legal action against the NOI on the death of its leader depends on the answers to several questions:
1. Does Elijah Muhammad have a will?
2. Is the NOI incorporated?
3. In whose name and where are NOI bank accounts?
4. In whose name are other NOI assets, such as mosque buildings, school buildings, the newspaper, Elijah Muhammad's homes, and NOI businesses?
Depending on the answers to these questions, probate law in Illinois, and whether Chicago might have a confidential source in probate administration, tying up the NOI in probate administration might be possible.
Chicago should examine the NOI from the above counterintelligence angle and advise the Bureau. Consider the possibility of drawing up specific counterintelligence recommendations, to be acted upon when necessary, with various contingencies covered.
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1969
1. Wallace Muhammad is put out of NOI for “dissident views.”
2. Louis Farrakhan is Spokesman and National Representative in New York.
3. Clarence 13X known as Father Allah of the 5% Nation is murdered.
1971
1. Wallace Muhammad is again put out for dissident views.
1972
1. Elijah meets with reporters and is asked about the future of the NOI. Question: Will it be run by local mosques? Answer: No, no, no. After this, the entire Nation of Black people will be governed Divinely and the government will be a Divine government and not something that is governed locally, like we have today. We will have a divine government set up for us and it will stand forever. We will not need any change.
2. Harold Moore, later to be known as Khallid Muhammad, joins the NOI.
3. Clara Muhammad, wife of Elijah Muhammad, passes away. Elijah says, “According to scripture, after the death of the prophet’s wife, the end came in three years.”
4. Elijah Muhammad does the Theology of Time lecture series at newly purchased Temple 2 in Chicago.
5. Elijah Muhammad praises Louis Farrakhan. This praise becomes the anointing of Louis Farrakhan as “Father over the house.” (audio clip 1 and 2)
1973
1. Islamic Party’s publication, called Al Islam, denounces Elijah Muhammad and his teachings.
2. FBI files note that Elijah Muhammad appears infrequently at Temple 2 in Chicago and his articles in Muhammad Speaks are all reprints of past articles.
1974
1. Savior’s Day marks financial progress of NOI.
2. Major financial drive for Elijah Muhammad to build hospital.
3. NOI has $1 million in escrow for hospital.
4. John Calhoun represented President Nixon at fundraising dinner. Elijah Muhammad does not attend dinner.
5. Elijah Muhammad, with health declining, spends time in newly purchased home in Cuernava, Mexico.
6. Wallace returns to the NOI.
1975
1. Two daughters of Louis Farrakhan marry Elijah Muhammad’s son and nephew.
2. Elijah Muhammad passes away before Savior’s Day.
3. Wallace Muhammad calls the Chicago Defender and claims to have been groomed by Elijah Muhammad for leadership.
4. After seeing news article, the rest of Elijah’s family goes along with Wallace’s public claim.
5. Wallace immediately dismantles the teachings of NOI and pushes group to Orthodox Islam. (FBI Memo)
6. Wallace establishes relationships with Jim Jones and, reportedly, the Church of Scientology.
7. Louis Farrakhan becomes Spokesman and National Representative of the Honorable Wallace D. Muhammad.
8. Elijah’s estate enters Probate Court (FBI Memo)
1976
1. Wallace’s group because strictly religious. (FBI Memo)
2. Louis Farrakhan becomes Abdul Haleem Farrakhan.
3. Farrakhan meets with his former minister Ulysses from Boston who is now a Scientologist. (audio clip 3)
1977
1. Farrakhan meets with Bernard Cushmeer in Los Angeles.
1978
1. Farrakhan starts his own faction of NOI. (FBI Memo – divide into sects)
1981
1. Farrakhan begins teaching that Elijah escaped a death plot and would return in three years.
1985
1. Tony Muhammad joins Nation of Islam. He is later transferred to California.
1986
1. L. Ron Hubbard dies and the Scientologists are told he is alive on another planet. Six weeks later, Farrakhan says that he had vision of Elijah being alive on the Mother Plane.
2. Farrakhan puts his followers on a regimen of study under the umbrella of, “Self-Improvement as the Basis for Community Development.” (FBI Memo)
3. The Study Guides incorporate Scientology’s Study Tech such as word clearing.
1992
1. After sixteen years, Elijah Muhammad’s estate is finally settled in probate court.
2. Before 1992, Alfreddie Johnson had previously met Louis Farrakhan but is now a Scientologist. (audio clip 4)
3. A Scientology press release states, “Hubbard’s technology in treating inner city ills has been championed since 1992 by Johnson, whose Compton, California based center has been training personnel from the Nation of Islam and AME churches. Having utilized Hubbard’s works to turn around gangbangers, criminals, drug abusers and drug dealers in Compton, California, Johnson brought Hubbard’s technology to the attention of Farrakhan. Seeing its potential for changing conditions in the inner city, Farrakhan gave Johnson and his West coast chief Tony Muhammad a charge, “to create economically viable social betterment centers that will inspire and empower the believers to arrest the social, moral, economical, educational and spiritual decline of our people throughout the nation.” Believers are members of the Nation of Islam.
1993
1. Farrakhan holds a press conference and silences Khallid Muhammad.
Early Nineties (before Million Man March in 1995)
1. Farrakhan seeks alternative cancer treatment at the Church of Scientology’s Celebrity Center in Los Angeles.
2004
1. Farrakhan’s family member goes to Scientology’s Drug Rehab Narconon in Oklahoma.
2. Muslims in Farrakhan’s organization become graduates of Scientology courses.
2005
1. Farrakhan announces the City of Nine Ministries.
2. David Miscavige announces modeled Scientology’s Ideal Org.
2006
1. Farrakhan receives an award from the Church of Scientology and says, “The Honorable Elijah Muhammad taught me that you don’t get honor until the work is done. So I accept this award as encouragement to keep working until the job is done.”
2. Scientology issues a press release (referenced earlier) which states, “The plan is to establish centers in all Nation of Islam mosques around the country.”
2007
1. Farrakhan has a critical surgery and a memo is leaked from the Department of Homeland Security entitled, “Uncertain Leadership Succession Poses Risk.”
2. As soon as he is able to travel, Farrakhan spends an inordinate amount of time at the Celebrity Center.
2009
1. At a gala at the Celebrity Center, Farrakhan announces the “marriage” between the Church of Scientology and the Nation of Islam (Department of Homeland Security leaked memo)
2. Scientology becomes the heir of the Nation of Islam. (audio clip 5)
2011
1. Farrakhan incorporates L. Ron Hubbard into Saviours’ Day. (check YouTube)
2. Tony Muhammad reveals Farrakhan “knew” the two groups would come together. (audio clip 6)
2012
1. Nation of Islam members become engulfed with Scientology.
2013
1. All of Farrakhan’s study guides have been changed to incorporate Scientology.
2. Saviours’ Day features Dianetics Auditor Graduations for the third year.
FBI Memo
Change philosophy into strictly religious
Change philosophy into self-improvement
Delete race hatred
Delete separate nationhood
Destroy organization by creating factions
Tie up assets in probate court
Department of Homeland Security
Leadership Succession in Place