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#4 Cnn BH 157-352 be able to ask for approval to activate our coverage within the next week or perhaps sooner. The difficult portion of the surveys has been completed, our problems are fully technical, and we have been assured that these will be resolved. CONTACTS WITH NEGRO LEADERS In line with our research program, there is good reason to believe that members of the Negro community may be in a position to furnish background and perhaps evidence concerning some of the earlier racial crimes committed by members of the KKK, h> We are in the process of selecting a few prom Cc business men of the caliber of +4 with ghoamw to dieriesa this mattar raAantan ars THe wha WF BANS hd el he Oe whl Re see we Whe hi eHVvarty he SF kS Oe to aiwv encouraging we may gain sources among the Negroes which have not yet been exploited. CONCLUSIONS Based on my review of this investigation to date, I feel that a massive project has been dispatched, The quality of the supervision and investigation reflected in the Birmingham files is excellent. The present staff is well versed in the history of these cases. They have excellent grasp of the facts and they know our objectives. The staff is enthusiastic. As is reflected in the foregoing data, I feel that we have a very positive potential, on the basis of our investigative approach to this matter, to make our subjects answer substantively for at least some of the crimes of violence for which they have been responsible, and any prosecutive opening in this matter could very well lead to the successful resolution of the bombing of the Baptist Church, SEE ADDENDUM PAGE 6a