The July 28, 1963, issue of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner contained an article by Ed Montgomery entitled, “Black Muslim Founder Exposed as a White,” which claimed that the Saviour Master Fard Muhammad is the same as one Wallace Dodd Ford, a convicted felon who did time at San Quentin Prison.

The article included a photo that was alleged to originate from the Detroit Police Department, where the Saviour was indeed temporarily jailed in 1933. Needless to say, this syndicated article was condemned by the Honorable Elijah Muhammad as a complete fabrication.

The Wallace Ford shown in the photo, supposed to be Master Fard Muhammad in Detroit police custody in 1933, is really a ‘phony,’ we are told. On July 29 the Honorable Elijah Muhammad sent some of his followers to the Hearst newspaper with a $100, 000.00 check. He offered to pay all expenses to bring Wallace Dodd to the US and air nationally a debate between him and the Messenger over his claim to be the ‘Fard’ that Muhammad was representing to the people. The offer was printed in the August 16, 1963, edition of the Muhammad Speaks newspaper in an ‘expose’ entitled “Beware of Phony Claims.”

Ed Montgomery’s infamous 1963 LA Herald-Examiner article alleging W.D. Fard is really Wallace Dodd Ford, ex-felon and drug dealer (Left) and Elijah Muhammad’s response in Muhammad Speaks newspaper decrying the charge a lie (Right). 

This Fard=Ford claim has become pretty much accepted in mainstream media today, due in no small measure to the writings of Karl Evanzz of The Washington Post.¹ Muslims vehemently deny it, charging the government with manipulating the evidence as part of a smear campaign.

What is the truth? Are Muslims simply in denial or is the Fard=Ford claim more in a long list of ‘misinformation’ spread by the government, through its ‘friends in the media’ to arrest the spread of Islam in Black America?

A close and careful reading of the 816 pages of the FBI Files on Fard Muhammad made available through the Freedom of Information Act (Wallace D. Fard) leave no room to doubt: Fard is not Ford, and the ‘Detroit Mug Shot’ displayed in Montgomery’s article, which Elijah Muhammad said was a ‘phony,’ is indeed just that: it is a 1926 San Quentin mug shot of Wallie D. Ford, not a 1933 Detroit mug shot of W.D. Fard.

FBI Launches Search For Fard

In 1939, the NOI became the subject of FBI counterintelligence. J. Edgar Hoover, FBI Director, linked the Muslims with the Japanese Black Dragon Society led by seventy-year-old Satahota Takahashi.  The group was thought to be a fifth column of Japan who was to eventually engage America in World War II. In 1940, after word got back that Elijah Muhammad urged his followers to oppose the war, Hoover initiated a covert operation against the movement.  He placed in charge of the operation Assistant FBI Director Percy J. Foxworth.  In March of 1942, the Alien Enemy Hearing Board recommended the custodial detention of Takahashi. Shortly thereafter, President Roosevelt issued an Executive Order to have Elijah Muhammad locked up and taken off the streets.  On May 8th, the FBI arrested Elijah Muhammad in Washington, DC. In his oral statement to special agents Muhammad mentioned that W.D. Fard, the founder of his movement, instructed his followers not to register for Selective Service. The Washington Field Office then contacted Detroit and suggested checking the Detroit Police Department records for a criminal record, photographs, or any information they might have on Fard and his whereabouts. The Detroit Field Office checked the records of the Identification Division of the DPD and discovered that a Wallace Fard was arrested in Detroit for "conversion." His number there was 45138. He was described as "White Male, 33, 127 lbs, 5'6", Slim build, black hair, maroon eyes, Arabian."  W.D. Fard was thus recognized by the DPD as a white skinned Arab (see below).

On May 16, the Detroit office raided Temple #1 located at 623 Medbury Street; agents confiscated a picture of the Flag of Islam and of Fard.² These would help, the Bureau hoped, to "positively identify Fard." On September 20, 1942 the FBI raided Elijah Muhammad’s Chicago home and confiscated two more images of Fard.  One was a steel cut photo. At that time, newspapers were printed by using heavy steel squares. Photos were processed on metal, pasted onto a piece of wood the size of the intended photo, and inserted into the metal frame for printing. When the FBI printed the confiscated steel cut image it was a photo of “Prophet Fard addressing a congregation.”³ The other was a Pen and ink sketch entitled “Calling the Four Winds” which was a picture of a US map containing a figure in the center identified as Fard. Guns, bearing the name Asia on the barrels, pointed to the US from each side. The drawing bore the signature R. Sharreiff.⁴

These photos along with the authentic Detroit mug shot made available to the FBI on August 8, 1942 were displayed to individuals in hopes of making identifications and locating Fard. On February 9, 1943, the Chicago Field Office forwarded the following memo to Hoover:

Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Washington D.C.
Re: Allah Temple of Islam, wa, etal Sedition, Internal Security J
Selective Service

Dear Sir:

It is requested that a warning notice be placed in the files of the Identification Division against the record of the following individual:

Name: Wallace Don Fard
Aliases W.D. Fard, Allah

FBI number 56062 (or) Local Registry number
F.P.C.

The above individual is wanted for questioning. In the event of apprehension of this individual notify the Chicago Field Office.

The FBI thus initiated, in the words of Karl Evanzz, “one of the most exhaustive and expensive searches on a noncriminal matter in its history.⁵ On November 9, 1943 the Washington Office reported that: "Allah has proved to be very much of a human being since he has an arrest record in the Identification Division of the FBI."⁶ His FBI number was 56062, and the record goes back to the 1933 Detroit arrest.

This 1942-43 search turned up very little. In the files for this period no mention is made of Wallie D. Ford. The later wasn’t discovered until 1957.  After receiving reports of the continuous “explosion in the Nation of Islam membership,”⁷ the FBI's Chicago field office requested that Hoover renew the investigation on Fard. Based on a review of files on Fard conducted April/May 1957 the Chicago Office inspector noted:

From a review of instant file it does not appear that there has been a concerted effort to locate and fully identify W.D. Fard. In as much as Elijah Muhammad recognizes W.D. Fard as being Allah (God) and claims that Fard is the source of all his teachings, it is suggested that an exhaustive effort be made to fully identify and locate W.D. Fard and or/members of his family. It appears that Fard may have been of Arabian descent, rather than an American Negro, and may have spent some time in Arabia or the Middle East.⁸

Again, investigation of Fard initiated in 1942 suggested Fard was an Arabian, not a New Zealander. An October 3, 1957 memo stated,

For the information of the Honolulu, Portland, and Washington Field Offices [and] as a result of a recent inspection of the Chicago office, it was suggested that a concerted effort be made to determine the whereabouts of W.D. Fard, reportedly the founder of the Nation of Islam [NOI].

When the Bureau conducted a search on Fard’s various aliases, they submitted “Ford” based on the Erdmann D. Beynon article (“the Voodoo Cult”) that lists "Professor Ford" as an alias of Fard. Two “Wallace Fords” were discovered. After searching INS records in November of 1957, the FBI found a Wallace Ford born 2/12/98 at Bolton, England. He entered the US at San Pedro California 7/25/37 having resided in London. This was not their man, however, as a November 29 memo confirms: "It would appear the above individual is the former prominent movie actor."⁹

Another Wallace Ford of California came up. He is Wallie D. Ford, arrested by Los Angeles PD, #16448, as Wallie Ford on November 17, 1918 on a charge of ADW (assault with a deadly weapon); by the LAPD January 20, 1926 for violation of the California Wolverine Possession Act; LAPD, February 15, 1926 for violation of the State Poison Act. Wallie Ford was sentenced to six months to six years at San Quentin Penitentiary on June 12, 1926. The FBI concentrated its efforts for the next year on finding Wallie Ford.

Wallie Ford told the California State Parole Authorities that he was born in Portland Oregon on February 15, 1891 to Hawaiian parents. He had a common-law wife, Hazel Barton, with whom he had a son, Wallace Dodd Ford, born September 1, 1920. In the Los Angeles County Birth Index 1920 listing for the boy, however, his father is listed as having been born in New Zealand rather than Oregon. This Hawaiian/New Zealand ancestry is clearly the background of his description, given frequently, as “dark complected” (see below) .¹⁰

On October 14, 1957 three photos of Walli D. Ford SQ #42314 taken in June of 1926 were forwarded to the FBI.  At this time the Bureau would only say that "W. D. Fard may be identical with one Wallie Ford, FBI #56062, who was arrested on February 15, 1926, by the Los Angeles Police Department, their number 16448, for violation of the State Poison Act and subsequently received a sentence of one-half year to six years at San Quentin Prison, San Quentin, California, their number 42314."¹¹ After suggesting a search in Hawaii for Ford's family or Ford, the FBI says again, "If any relatives or if Wallie D. Ford are located, consideration should be given to interviewing them to determine if Wallie D. Ford is identical with W.D. Fard."

On October 17, 1957 the FBI located and interviewed Hazel Barton-Ford, Wallie Ford’s common-law wife, who described Wallie Ford as a New Zealander, 5'8", 140 lbs., slender build, black curly hair, black eyes, Caucasian features but "extremely swarthy complexion, (he) had the appearance of a very dark skinned Mexican."¹² Wallie Ford’s “dark-skinned Mexican” look and curly hair, his 5’8”, 140 lbs build contrasts markedly with that of Fard Muhammad, of whom Mother Clara Muhammad said: “He looked to me like a poor white man.”^{13 14} Warith Deen Muhammad also described Fard as having “straight hair and very light features.”  Nor do the builds of the two men agree, as Elijah Muhammad pointed out in the Muhammad Speaks article. While Ford was 5’8” 140 lbs, Fard was around 5’6”, 127 pounds. According to Jesus Muhammad-Ali, Elijah’s grandson, Fard Muhammad and Elijah Muhammad had the same height and build and were therefore able to where the same suits.¹⁵

In February 1958 Hoover forwarded to the Chicago SAC (Special Agent in Charge) a 52 page “Correlation Summary on Wallace Don Ford (Wallie D. Ford), summarizing the investigation and all of the evidence up to that point. The FBI admitted: “It was not definitely determined whether the individual referred to as W.D. Fard…was identical with the subject of this summary (i.e. Wallie Ford).”¹⁶ In April Hoover terminated the investigation.  On April 15, 1958, he sent a memo to Special Agent in Charge in Chicago stating:

The Bureau feels that continued expenditure of investigative time in this matter is not warranted. Therefore, this matter is being closed by the Bureau. You should take similar action in your office.

In a note added to this memo after the fact the FBI admits, after listing possible records of Fard:

Actually, since birth has not been verified, SUBJECT’S TRUE IDENTITY UNKNOWN (emphasis added – Dr. Wesley Muhammad).¹⁷

Thus, at the conclusion of the FBI’s year long investigation of Wallie Ford and its broader search for Fard the Bureau concedes that FARD’S TRUE IDENTITY REMAINED UNKNOWN! They were not able to identify Ford with Fard.

COINTELPRO Against W.D. Fard and the NOI

After the infamous documentary called The Hate That Hate Produced aired in 1959 the ranks of the NOI swelled with new recruits. Three weeks after the June 13^th broadcast, the Los Angeles mosque gained 500 new members. As a result, the FBI initiated its “second major counterintelligence offensive aimed at destroying the Nation of Islam.”¹⁸  Since “Fard’s true identity (is) unknown” the Bureau decided to discredit the movement by publishing a fabricated biography of its founder.  The FBI fabricated a fallacious biography according to which Fard was a Turkish born nazi agent for Hitler during World War II.  They reported that Fard and Elijah Muhammad had concocted the idea of the Nation of Islam while they both were in prison together in Milan, Michigan in 1943.  The FBI sent this slander to its “friends in the media.”  One of those friends was the New Crusader newspaper of Chicago.  On August 15, 1959, Mohd Yakub Khan published the slander under the title "White Man Is God For Cult of Islam."  Karl Evanzz, in his Judas Factor, says Khan

had gotten his information from a selection of the FBI's file on Wallace Fard, which it released in response to the surge in the NOI membership that had followed the television broadcast 'The Hate That Hate Produced.¹⁹

This first attempt at disinformation was very sloppy and backfired. The article was “riddled with demonstrable errors and obvious contradictions.” For example, this Nazi from Turkey supposedly met Elijah Muhammad while they were allegedly in prison together in 1943.  However, in another paragraph, the two are said to have met in 1934.  Such sloppiness allowed Elijah Muhammad and Malcolm X to successfully discredit the “white Nazi from Turkey” story with articles of their own in Muhammad Speaks and The Los Angeles Herald Dispatch. Notice that the FBI’s first attempt at discrediting the NOI through an ‘exposé’ on Fard did not use the Wallie D. Ford file. If the Bureau identified the two men, they would have used this file instead of spinning a biography from whole cloth. The FBI would, however, learn from this mistake and the failure of their counterintelligence offensive.

On August 14, 1962 South Carolina Congressman L. Mendel Rivers held a press conference on the steps of the Capital Building and promised to “open up the unsavory history of the Black Muslims for all America to see.”²⁰  On his urging the congressional House Rules Committee recommended a congressional investigation of the NOI. After gaining support for the probe by the House Un-American Activities Committee, hearings on the NOI were scheduled to begin in September. Subpoenas were issued to Elijah Muhammad, Malcolm X, and other top officials.  Congressman Rivers’ crusade was apparently inspired by a meeting he had weeks prior with top FBI officials, including Hoover. Congressman Rivers, having been supplied the Wallie Dodd Ford file by the Bureau, “contemplated building the hearing around Wallace Farad, aka Willie D.

Ford”.²¹ During the short (a couple hours) hearing, Rivers revealed what he received from the FBI.²²

What was the FBI’s intention in sharing the Ford file with the Congressman for presentation at the hearings? The Bureau closed the Ford file admitting being unable to identify him with W.D. Fard. We do not have to speculate on the Bureau’s motives, as they are laid out explicitly in a Chicago memo:

In connection with efforts to disrupt and curb growth of the NOI, extensive research has been conducted into various files maintained by this office (Chicago). Among the files reviewed was that of Wallace Dodd Ford…It is felt that if the whereabouts of Allah could be inconclusively determined, the impact on Elijah Muhammad and his followers would be tremendous and could well serve to make Muhammad appear ridiculous.²³

The release of the Ford file to Congressman Rivers was a part of the FBI’s counterintelligence offensive against the Nation of Islam designed to “make Muhammad look ridiculous” and thus curb the growth of the NOI. But feeding the file to the House Un-American Activities Committee was just the beginning of what will end up being, in the words of Karl Evanzz, “among the most successful COINTELPRO actions against the NOI.²⁴

In an effort to “inconclusively determine the whereabouts of Allah,” the FBI followed the leads suggesting that Ford was born in New Zealand and that, according to his common-law wife, he was returning to New Zealand. The Bureau traveled to New Zealand with photos of Fard. They had hoped to be able to finally identify Fard and Ford by tracking down the latter’s family.  On December 7, 1962 the Bureau received the answers to their queries in a letter from the Willington, New Zealand Chief Commissioner of State Police. The letter read in part:

In the course of these inquiries I spoke to a number of men in Willington [unintelligible] with Maori affairs and welfare. One such person –a Mr. Steve [unintelligible] informed me of the fact that it is most unusual to discover a Maori family named Ford, but he was able to recall that such a family lived in the Thomas District some years ago. He was also able to recall that a relative of this family had, many years ago, traveled to California in the United States of America. Further inquiries by the Thomas Police established that this person was Walter [D. Ford]. His brother – [unintelligible] is now residing at 843 Weeton Road...and when interviewed recently he gave the following particulars concerning his brother: Full name – Watana (?) [unintelligible] (usually known as Walter [Ford]) – born at Thomas in October, 1881 and went to America about 1912; that he joined the American Forces during the 1914-18 World War; that in 1957 he returned to New Zealand for about six months; that he returned to New Zealand for a further six months in 1959; that he married and is at present residing at 1103 Pacific Avenue, [unintelligible], California. From the photograph supplied, however, those persons who knew 'Walter [Ford]', say that he is not identical with Ford, alias Farad.²⁵

This is vitally important: The FBI tracked down Wallie Ford’s family in New Zealand, showed them the photo of Fard, AND THEY DENIED THAT HE IS WALLIE FORD!

Nonetheless, the FBI would move forward with its counterintelligence offensive against the NOI, hoping still to ‘make Elijah Muhammad look ridiculous.’ In February 1963 the Chicago field office learned that the Hon. Elijah Muhammad would not be speaking at the upcoming Saviour’s Day due to health complications. On February 19 Hoover sent a memo to the Chicago field officer stating "now [is] the time to use the dossier on Fard to neutralize the NOI.”²⁶  The FBI sent the Ford file to several large newspapers on July 4, 1963. On July 28, 1963 Ed Montgomery of the Los Angeles Evening Herald-Examiner printed the story under the title "Black Muslim Founder Exposed As White," as quoted above.  Through wiretaps and a system of informants the FBI closely monitored the reaction to these stories from Muslims. It was noted that during a conversation with John Ali about the article "Elijah was quite riled up about the story."²⁷ Informants were asked to update the Bureau on "discussions at the NOI Temple or by individual members."²⁸

FBI Docs Prove Hoax

The story was a hoax. In Bureau documents at the time the FBI confessed the spuriousness of the history written in Montgomery’s article. According to Ed Montgomery, Fard Muhammad’s “true name is Wallace Dodd. He was born in New Zealand, on February 26, 1891. His father was British – arriving in New Zealand via Australia on a sailing schooner. His mother was a Polynesian native.” But in a July 30, 1963 memo concerning the Montgomery article the Bureau admits: "We have not been able to verify his birth date or birth place nor identify his parents. W.D. Fard has not been seen or heard from since 1934.”²⁹ In an internal note appended to an August 6 letter Hoover sent to an inquirer regarding the article it was affirmed:

Farad has been reported to be both Negro and white; however, fingerprint cards and Identification Division records at time of arrests show his color was white and of Arabian descent.³⁰

The FBI knew Fard was a white skinned Arab, not a “dark, Mexican looking” New Zealander. These FBI confessions completely contradict not only Ed Montgomery but also Karl Evanzz who claimed in his book, The Messenger,

During the investigation, the FBI discovered that Master Fard Muhammad was actually Wallace Dodd Ford, a Californian with an extensive criminal record…Ford, as the FBI later learned, was born in 1891 in Hawaii on February 25.³¹

Remember, in the 1958 “Correlation Summary” on Wallie Dodd Ford the FBI admitted: “It was not definitely determined whether the individual referred to as W.D. Fard…was identical with the subject of this summary (i.e. Wallie Ford).”³² And in another memo that year the Bureau admits:

Actually, since birth has not been verified, SUBJECT’S TRUE IDENTITY UNKNOWN.³³

The Bureau thus admits that W.D. Fard’s “true identity” remained unknown. Later in 1974 in an August 12 memo from the Chicago SAC to the Director regarding Montgomery’s LA Herald-Examiner article, it is confessed:

As the Bureau (i.e. Director) is aware, efforts were made in 1963 to verify the birth and identity of Wallace Farad or Wallace Dodd, THESE ATTEMPTS MET WITH NEGATIVE RESULTS.³⁴

The Chicago SAC says also regarding the Montgomery article: “this document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI.”   The FBI is here admitting failure in their attempt to identify W.D. Fard. This too contradicts Evanzz’s claim that:

Though most Muslims have refused to look at the evidence, the Bureau correctly concluded that Wallace D. Fard and Wallace D. Ford were one in the same.³⁵

The Bureau in 1974, in fact, specifically noted that these were not its conclusions and in 1958 admitted that “It was not definitely determined” whether W.D. Fard and Wallace Ford were identical. In 1963, after tracking down Ford’s relatives in New Zealand and showing them a photo of Fard, the Bureau actually discovered that they were not identical. On December 5, 1963 the Bureau closed its file on Ford.

The Photo Hoax

Karl Evanzz, in his book, The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad, displays what he claims is the 1933 Detroit mug-shot of W.D. Fard (below). In a 1965 follow-up to his original article Ed Montgomery also presents this mug-shot as the 1933 Detroit photo.³⁶ Indeed, scribbled on the left-hand corner of the photo are the numbers “45138, 5-26-33.” This is the date Fard was arrested and booked in Detroit (May 26, 1933) and his identification number there (45138). But why is it scribbled on the photo as if an afterthought? Because it was an afterthought.  It was scribbled on the photo decades later. Why?

In Montgomery’s 1963 article the photo was not identified as Fard’s 1933 Detroit mug-shot. In fact, in Montgomery's Boston Record American article “Muslim Founder, White Masquerader” (July 28, 1963), he displays the photo without the scribble (below) and correctly identifies it:

Profile features of British father and dark eyes and complexion of Polynesian mother was evident in THESE LOS ANGELES POLICE SHOTS OF WALLACE DODD, ALIAS FARAD. PICTURES WERE TAKEN JUST PRIOR TO HIS CONFINEMENT IN SAN QUENTIN FOR THE SALE OF NARCOTICS.

These are thus not 1933 Detroit photos of W.D. Fard; they are 1926 LA photos of Wallie Ford. We have a good idea what inspired the hoax evident in the “scribble.” On July 30, 1963, 2 days after the Montgomery article appeared in the papers, Elijah Muhammad was interviewed concerning the story and the photo in particular by a Mrs. R. Simmons from the California Eagle. The following exchange took place:

E (Elijah Muhammad): It is not the picture of Mr. Farard Mohammed.

R (Mrs. Simmons): It is not?

E: It is not, I know the other person well, and it is not his age.

R: Not his age. How old is he?

1. It is not Farard Mohammed. He is 86 years old and he was born in the city of Mecca and he is an Arab. This is not an Arab and he speaks 16 different languages.

R: Then the whole story is false?

E: It is completely false…

R: Do you have a picture of (W.D. Fard)?

1. I certainly do. I have lots of them…

E: I know him perfectly well and we have pictures of him and if they want to prove this why don't they write and get his picture from the Detroit police Court there or send for it from Washington.³⁷

A photo was taken of W.D. Fard in Detroit during booking before his release from police custody on May 26, 1933.  Elijah Muhammad’s challenge here to prove their “Fard-is-Ford” claim by obtaining the Detroit mug shot clearly inspired the “scribble” on the 1926 LA mug shot of Ford identifying it with the Detroit arrest of Fard. What happened to the authentic Detroit mug shot?

When this author requested the W.D. Fard file from the Detroit Police Department in the summer of 2002 I received the same doctored 1926 LA mug shot. The answer to this mystery is likely provided in a June 2, 1971 memo to the Chicago SAC concerning a “Destruction Project” during which pre-1961 files and photos associated with the Wallace Fard investigation were destroyed. The memo notes: “In re 1-A file, only one photo and/or negative was retained of photos prior to 1961.” Thus photos from the Fard file were destroyed. According to an Indices Search Slip dated May 5, 1957 file 65-411-706 on Wallace D. Ford was destroyed on April 5, 1957. File 100-11506-531 on Wallace Fard was destroyed on the same day. Indices Search Slip October 20, 1957 notes that File 100-7006-979-24 on Wallace Ford destroyed. Thus files and photos of Fard and Ford were destroyed by the Bureau. The Destruction Project and the scribble on the LA mug shot are evidence of an FBI hoax and cover-up.

 

Footnotes

1 The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X; The Messenger: The Rise and Fall of Elijah Muhammad.

2 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, June 13, 1942, #100-6989.

3 FBI File of Wallace D. Fard, Correlation Summary February 15, 1958, #105-63642, page 32.

4 Ibid.

5 Messenger, 264.

6 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, Washington Office, Nov. 9, 1943: I.C. 100-6582.

7 Evanzz, Judas Factor, 141.

8 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, May 16, 1957, CG 25-20607.

9 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, November 29, 1957

10 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, March 8, 1965.

11 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, October 3, 1957 n.n.

12 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, October 18, 1957, LA 105-4805.

13 Muhammad-Ali (Grandson), Evolution of the Nation of Islam, 31.

14 As Light Shineth, 27.

15 Evolution of the Nation of Islam, 34.

16 FBI File of Wallace D. Fard, Correlation Summary February 15, 1958, #105-63642, page 37.

17 FBI File on Wallace Dodd Ford, April 15, 1958.

18 Evanzz, Judas Factor, 131.

19 Ibid.,145

20 “Black Muslim Inquiry Tentatively Approved,” The Washington Post, August 15, 1963 A03.

21 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, August 3, 1962; Evanzz, Messenger, 251.

22 Evanzz, Messenger, 251.

23 FBI File on Nation of Islam, February 19, 1963 CG 25-330971.

24 Evanzz, Messenger, 264.

25 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, LA 105-2604, August 29, 1963, page 13.

26 Evanzz, Judas Factor, 145

27 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, July 31, 1963.

28 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, July 30, 1963 CG 100-33683, page 6.

29 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, July 30, 1963.

30 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, letter to G. W. Jackson of Hollywood, California, August 2, 1963.

31 Evanzz, Messenger, 142.

32 FBI File of Wallace D. Fard, Correlation Summary February 15, 1958, #105-63642, page 37.

33 FBI File on Wallace Dodd Ford, April 15, 1958.

34 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, August 12, 1974.

35 Messenger, 399.

36 “Violence, Dissension Hit the Black Muslims,” San Francisco Examiner, February 28, 1965 A13. 

37 FBI File on Wallace D. Fard, July 30, 1963 CG 100-33683, pages 2, 4.