Website Uncovers FBI Research Reports on the Nation of Islam

In "Selected Titles of FBI Research Reports, 1953-60," we listed several-dozen research reports that the FBI had written for internal use in the mid-1900s. The Memory Hole requested some of them under the Freedom of Information Act. Upon review, the FBI has released the two reports on the Nation of Islam. They're based on often obscure public-source documents, internal NOI literature, and confidential material, such as informants and FBI investigative files. Both reports were originally classified "Confidential" and were declassified in 1977, although they don't seem to have been publicly released until now. In the monographs, the FBI refers to the NOI as a "fanatical, all-Negro cult in the United States which is based on a distorted interpretation of the religious principles of Islam and is motivated by hatred of the white race."more