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UNITED STATES COWERNMENT f Assoc. Dir. . Dep, AD Adm 1 y Memorandum | 1 - on ro” Mr . ¥. Mr. WR, Wanna ye waka i q Q bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Alabama, on 9/16/63. Purpose of this memorandum is to obtain approval of attached letter to the Civil Rights Division (CRD) forwarding request of David Vann, Mayor of Birmingham, for review of FBI files regarding twelve bombing incidents which occurred in _. Birmingham during the period 1956-1965. My memorandum of 1/28/76 advised of receipt of above request from Mayor Vann, which request was precedédi by an earlier request. The earlier request was forwarded to the CRD: of the Department and the Department subsequently deferred to the Bureau. It was recommended and approved that Mayor Vann be advised his request would be more appropriately directed to William Baxley, Attorney General of Alabama, to whom informatdop regarding captioned matter is being furnished in connection investigation being conducted by Mr. Baxley. By above~menti inéd menorandum of 1/28/76 it was recommended and approved that the Department of the manner of disposition of the Mayor's request and requesting concurrence in responding in l to his current request. Extensivé file review to locate necessary information so at the Department could he appropriately referred toe the incidents t in question has been completed. | REC-48 ACTION: /S 7 Det AL a Attached for approver Wb a letter to the CRD forward Mayor Vann's request, advising CRD of the manner of disposition of Mayor Vann's prior request and requesting concurrence in similar handling of his current request. — e Enclosure j4..<7 of 9/2 FEB 43° 1976 Vv h n =1025 _—ie Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan s010—108