Alex Hailey

              Malcolm has been through a lot in his life and he has met a lot people. As he did all of this maybe his trust towards people began to thin out and he didn't trust people as easily as he used to in his younger days. For some reason though he called Alex Hailey and told him that he trusted him seventy percent and not another word. This could be interpreted in two different ways, this could mean that Alex could be of the few people that he can absolutely trust or that he is skeptical about Alex and needs to keep a closer eye on them. In the end Alex Hailey wrote the biography for Malcolm X so I believe that he trusted Alex Hailey.