In April 1964, the New York Police Department, working closely with the FBI, infiltrated Malcolms new Muslim Mosque in Harlem with its elite intelligence unit the Bureau of Special Service and Investigation (BOSSI) BOSSIs commander for the deep cover operation against Malcolm was Tony Ulasewicz, who would later become infamous as President Richard Nixons private detective for covert dirty tricks that would then be exposed by the Senate Watergate Hearings -- James W. Douglass, Author JFK and the Unspeakable, [the most censored book in America] and an upcoming book on the MLK and Malcolm X Assassinations. On August 13, a New York Times correspondent reported from Washington on the State and Justice Departments interest in Malcolm Xs campaign to convince African states to raise the question of persecution of American Negroes at the United Nations... Before leaving for Cairo, Malcolm told friends in New York that it was his intention to add a new dimension to the Civil Rights Struggle in the United States. This he said, could be achieved by internationalizing the Negro question at the United Nations in the manner that South African apartheid was transferred into an international problem. [16] According to the Times article, [Washington] officials said that if Malcolm succeeded in convincing just one African Government to bring up the charge at the United Nations, the United States Government would be faced with a touchy problem. [17] --James W. Douglass Washington officials were warning Malcolm publicly to back off. The unmentioned agency responsible for dealing with such a touchy problem was the CIA. After consulting with President Johnson and FBI Director Hoover, the State Department told the CIAs director of covert action in a memorandum that Malcolm X has, for all practical purposes, renounced is U.S. Citizenship [18] Malcolm had never renounced his citizenship, but the State Department was now telling the CIAs director of covert action to deal with him as if he were a foreign adversary-- James W. Douglass
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