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icosanieans _ ¢ - ‘} Vy UNITED STATES GOVERN Nt LTC Copies made oY ask Force J Memorandum ‘i for geview Tai |e pens VE pre i+ 2 Mr. Belmont te DATE: September 30, 1900S a \_/ FROM: Cc. A. Evans) f & Bos, oN te ition AT #e PUD bom Gr Gandy SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; BOMBING OF THE SIXTEENTH STREET uf” BAPTIST CHURCH, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, ae . SEPTEMBER 15, 1963 BOMBING MATTERS CC’ e? The Attorney Genera} called shortly after 8 oflock this morning and asked about developments in this case in Birmingham, particularly the reports that the State Police had arrested two individuals. He was informed that we had been keeping Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall of the Civil Rights Division informed during the night as to these developments. He was furnished the same information that had been given earlier to Mr. Marshall, which satisfied him, and he asked to be apprised as to any further information developed. After his arrival at the office, the Attorney General was contacted personally, He was informed that as a result of the constant complaining by the integration groups about our Agents working with the local authorities in the South, we have had to withdraw in this regard so / that we don't get information as to their plans as we have in the past; fo fe that there had been a time in the past when the local authorities did not trust or work with Federal Agencies, but that by concerted effort over the years we had overcome this insofar as the FBI is concerned, and had oe built up a close association, and we knew what action the local authorities a were taking. Because of the criticism that FBI Agents have been too close to the police in the South, we have had to back off, and as a result have Jost our contacts. Pod er ARR Pca | It was further brought to the Attorney General's attention 1 that we had been replacing southern-born Agents assigned to that area with Agents born and reared in the North. Now the Negro leaders have cast aspersions on these northern Agents because some of them have married southern girls and this allegedly brings the Agents too ee the PaaS ~ 7 “G4 1'- MEP Nine 20 4) @ i 1 - Mr. DeLeeeet bh ib} . S T, mee i - Mr. Rosen + wipe ar 1 - Mr. McGowan ad oT) Lae vot OCT 10 1963 can: oo fs “OPT AS MS $\ _ CG MP, ToESON