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7 * - UNITED STATES Gover’ ENT . _ £). ‘ ) beyom fa : Casper" Memorandum | | nip To ?. Mr. Belmont" + DATE: May 12, 1964 iad . . . a Sullivan FROM ; Tele. Room Holmes Wa sugect: | MISSISSIPPI STATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE | 7 - U, S, COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS | . } z, - FALSE STATEMENT BY ROBERT MOSES, 5/6/64 Information has been received by our New Orleans Office ‘that during the course of hearings held by the Mississippi State Advisory Committee to the U, S.'Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) on 5/6/64 in Natchez, Mississippi, Robert Moses had made the statement that FBI had been slow in contacting members of the family of Louis‘Allen, a Negro who had been murdered near Liberty, Mississippi, NN ¥ Mr. William Taylor,,General Counsel, USCCR, prior to going to Natchez as an observer to the hearings, had been furnished the name, telephone number and address of both our Resident Agent in Natchez and also the SAC, New Orleans Office, and was requested to contact our representatives if any information of interest to the FBI was developed during the hearings in accordance with previous. understandings with the USCCR in order that any allegation could be refuted on the record, Mr, Taylor, although in contact with our New Orleans Office, did not advise us of the statement by Moses which is completely false, a BACKGROUND OF LOUIS ALLEN MATTER . In the late afternoon, Saturday, 2/1/64, St. John Barrett, an attorney in the Civil Rights Division, telephonically requested that we conduct limited inquiries into the shooting of Louis Allen — _ to ascertain if the shooting could have been based on his voter registration activities which was to include interview a : D- Sa my 20 me 2 MAY 19 1864 7 a a | RIGINALFLEDIN 6.9 .-/5-5,, . ¢ oe ’ etter