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ea (at BH 157-352 SUBSTANTIVE CASES The substantive situation having the greatest potential for development at this time concerns the bombing o we Po a 4 —F iw Birmiingoa fe faa fon of the Gaston Motel in Birmingham on Or auf ntion will to this matter, with the view to exploiting it fully. given rT aad The remainder of the substantive cases covered within the scope of present investigation are not being neglected, However, they do not have the immediate potential of the Gaston Motel Bombing on 5/11/63, RESEARCH PROGRAM Our investigation has pointed to the probability that a few oldtime Klansmen Rave been engaged in all of the racial violence which has occurred in Birmingham over a period of more than fifteen years. In connection with some of the earlier cases, sources indicate that the activity was fully tolerated, if not abetted, by the local enforcement authorities, There was really oniy minimal risk of detection involved in the use of force and violence in bombings, Discussion of this type of activity was more casual than it is at present. With this factual situation in mind, we have begun to look back into earlier bombings since the Alabama statute of limitation does not toll responsibility for the crime of this sort. An attemp