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a . OPTIONAL PO@m NO. 10 9010-106 A LE May 1992 EOhON . ey, GER, 8G. NO. 27 “w , UNITED STATES of bannent . , Memorandum 4 ye L TO : Mr e Belmont DATE: 10/ 24/ 63 Rose me | how / A, Ros om Viana OWN SUBJECTS; BOMBING OF16th STREET BAPTIST CHURCH __BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, 9/15/63 BOMBING MATTERS LI Stoner is himself presently under indictment in U. S, District Cour rmingham for obstruction of justice in connection with the desegregation of the Birmingham schools in . ; i@> Mae _ en = a + ¥'? Although worried about the indictment, Stoner has been spewing out brazen lies in a frantic effort to discredit the Bureau. In a news article in "The Birmingham News," 10/20/63, Stoner was quoted as "predicting" to the NSRP rally at Mount Olive, Alabama, that the NSRP would one day come to power and that all FBI Agents would be tried for treason, Stoner said he suspected the FBI instigated the bombing.of the 16th Street Baptist Church because the whites were winning the legal struggle before the blast, and accused the FBI of trying to spot all white resistance to let "the black mobs led by Martin Luther King and Fred I;,’ Shuttlesworth take over and drive the whites out. '’ Stoner charged the FBI was responsible for the Little Rock Bombings through efforts of an undercover agent, attacked the Director as a "black devil from Hell," and described FBI Agents as dirty, slim traitors, | _ . bo d 1- Mr. Mohr Sot ¢& 7K — 1-ME DeLoach (4 0 jase Geyer if 1- Mr. Evans 2° ad : g ocl 28 1963 a! HE Dede Uy 3.01963 - —- vA * f