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16th Street Church Bombing — Part 4

105 pages · May 08, 2026 · Broad topic: Terrorism · Topic: 16th Street Church Bombing · 104 pages OCR'd
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a . ne ake A a are, fm ee ie —_ ' yy anasey . 7 FBI - . i - ~ "Date: 9/20/63 | . . { { or A Transmit the following in AIRTEL AIRMAIL | : ee (Priority or Method of Mailing} 1 TO: DIRECTOR, FBI (157-1025) FROM: SAC, MOBILE (157-416) SUBJECT: €84PBOMB Re Bureau tel to Birmingham and Mobile, 9/15/63. ; 4 A pretext telephone | call was made on 9/19/63 a a wee + 2 " rice = * 5 . 3 Meee “hes . ee ® 3 Fe gh Pe ee ee to ari unidentified SMmpLoyee who answered the telephone at National Services, Inc., 736 Adams Ave., Montgomery, Ala. This person, who referred to ASA EARL CARTER as "ACE", stated that CARTER is employed at this company, which is an advertising and printing company, and said that CARTER resides at Oxford, near Anniston, Ala. She said that CARTER does not maintain a local residence at Montgomery, although he does sometimes stay overnight at Montgomery during the work week, staying in different motels and sometimes staying at the residence of Mr. OSCAR HARPER, owner of this agency. The inquiring agent told the employee that he would be out of town until Saturday, and asked where CARTER would most oS likely be on weekends. The employee indicated that : CARTER would undoubtedly be at his residence at Oxford on : weekends. Le Le : In view of the inter-division traveling customs of “| o amty CARTER, it appears most reasonable that when a bombing * occurs during the week that Mobile be responsible to ascertain “ i his whereabouts, but that when it occurs on weekends» that . : rmingham have that responsibility. - It being that captioned bombing! occurred on Sunday morning, Birmingham should handle in this instance. Bureau = ~ ‘2-Birmingham (157-352) AEC. 12 ; - dL- 2-Mobile {3° 157-416 i} “4 cpp ae FY oa Approved; = : m OPE Special y gent in Charge - oo ‘ oOo
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