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s a J. « Adams im Assistant Attorney General Civil Rights Division Te el od ok bt Director, FBI (157-1025) TINYNAG CITh Tree RMS OO re BOMBING OF THE 16TE STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, SEPTEMBER 15, 1963 BOMBING MATTERS OG. f Reference fs made to your files 144~-1-554, 144-1-906, and 144-2-310. This is to advise that by letter dated December 15, 1975, received by our Birmingham Office on December 17, 1975, Mayor David Vann, Birmingham, Alabama, requested that he be allowed to review FBI files containing the results of investigation in captioned case, as well as FBI files concerning any other. "race~related bombings" which occurred in Birmingham during the period 1961-63. In a second letter, dated December 17, 1975, he requested that he . also be allowed to review FBI files regarding the - beating of the Freedom Riders on May 14, 1961, at the (y Trailways ye, Station, Birmingham. nator Vann was contacted by the Special Agent in. Charge of our Birmingham Office on December 18, 1975, at which time he was advised that FBI files in their entirety could not be made available to him and that the “authority of the Department of Justice would be required prior to the furnishing to him of any information from such files. When asked to tops, mo specific about the information he was seek ol vas REC-5 _. wnable to elaborate. However, he requested tha 7 - -— necessary steps seeking approval of his request be/ 1 for - E im instituted. He stated that any files made available ER Come. St, would be reviewed by two officials of the Birmifighan”—— -Afairs__s BOlice Department under the direction of the Chief of Fee 8 Gon Police and that one of his legal aides would al@& Bet 301975 Ident. present. a . los pectian Intell l = 149-1684 ye roboretory k * ‘lan. & Eval, __ pec. Inv. roining SEE NOTE PAGE 2 yal Coun. ephone Re — stor See’y pie December 23, 1975 l7 TELETYPE UNIT [_]} OPO ee