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UN £ED STATES DEPARTMENT O} 4USTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION -” Rew Orleans, Louisiana August 27, 1965 KNIGHTS, EY AL, SUBJECT; ET AL - VICTIMS CIVIL RIGHTS ELECTION LAWS bic Kennéth Mc Intyre, DepartmentalAttorney, on behalf of John Doar, Assistant Attorney General, Civil Rights Division, requested that investigation be conducted to determine the + names of men seen in the vicinity of Washington Parish Court House, Franklinton, Louisiana, on July 13, 1965, at the time that a group of Negroes were scheduled to arrive to register to vote. Mr. Me Intyre requested that investigation be conducted to determine whether the officers who had identified these men would furnish the basis of their statements that the men seen talking with Saxon Farmer were Klansmen. Attached are the results of this investigation. This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FRI. It is the property of the FEI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. “ENCLOSURE