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~ -OPTIONA FORM NO, fo . JULY 1973 EDITION ’ SSA CMR (41 CPR 101-118 eet UNITED STATES GO. ‘NMENT Memorandum Director - TO : Federal Bureau of Investigation DATE: HFC 3 1975 FROM Dx: Stanley Pottinger Y Assistant Attorney General JSP:WLG:ljr ivil Rights Division ; suRKG ; C oN DJ 144-1-906 7 ca rye At, *, known Subjects; To my ot Bombing of Sixteenth Street Ba Birmingham, Alabama, September BOMBING MATTERS a Yr ct Reference is made to a conversation between Special Gy Agent of your Bureau and William L. Gardner of this Division on December 1, 1975, concerning the renewed ra request made by Alabama State Attorney General Willian ame Ue a Ce ee os oe ewes 7 NR ke he oe LL on ae Baxley for access to certain statements and memoranda of / interview in your file on this matter. Reference is wif made to your memorandum of May 8, 1975, concerning the request which Mr. Baxley made of the SAC in Birmingham, Alabama some time prior to May 8&8. Your memorandum of May 8 was nuk subject of several Ad telephone conversations between and Mr. Gardner. ee —ae © Attached hereto is a Division file memorandum reflecting those conversations, which Mr. Gardner read t December 1 and in whic re-concurred. BN Tt ial This Division's position remains the same; we have no objection to release of any information from the Bureau's files to the Attorney General of Alabama. We are in no position to assess whether granting the request would jeopar- cize Bureau sources or whether the request is not made - in good faith. iene mgr SAC, BH, Adursed S be, eye = G2 perc 9 1975 mo Ste sac. BA els 723" (> A> a i SF be — _nrrosite f x al - “ putile IS 7-0rs BY 439/97 Ce 724 = Ji ‘a Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan