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Memorandum to rile Re: ATLANTA DEATHS & MISSING PERSONS ~. demanding more Agents — to assist the investigation. A similar article appeared in the Atlanta Journal. This morning I met with Deputy Attorney General Renfrew, Assistant Attorney General Drew Days and his staff to discuss the status of the Klan investigations, both by the FBI and ATF. The Atlanta situation was reviewed and Assistant Attorney General Days agreed to call Mayor Jackson. He later advised that Mayor , Jackson was contrite about having been critical of the Bureau but stressed the urgent need for assistance. I then called Mayor Jackgon and went over the misstate- ments in the newspaper and also in the teletypes. He clarified his own statements and again repggrated that they are most appreciative or wnat the Bureau ne,, but simply need more assistance. I then explained what we were going to do in terms of moving in under the kidnap statute as authorized by the Attorney General, but not to take over or supplant the Atlanta investigation. Mayor Jackson stated that he understood this and askec if I could tell him how many more Agents we were sending hin. I told him that it was not our intention to simply put Agents in the street repeating or duplicating work already done, unless we found indications that such work could profitably be redone; that we would be. reviewing much of the investigative work to identify new leads md opportunities for further investiga- tion; that we would continus to supply laboratory and behavioral science assistance, and that wherever we established an appropriate avenue of assis*ance for the Bureau in these areas su€ficient resources would be dedicated for those purposes. I believe that we left on a positive, cooperative note. I did explain to him the problem of having inflamatory statements made from time to time by those who were not professionally engaged in the investigation and he volunteered that it would be better to keep the politicians out of it. I explained that I understood his responsibility as chief executive officer; that we would be working primarily with the Police Department, but that if he had any questions about the work we were doing or the sufficiency of our effert I wovld appreciate his calling me personally. He agreed to do so. William H. Webster Director