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ie uo ys Office Memorandum * UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT A DATE: Jan. 20, 195¢ tO & Mr. Tolson . : a ™ z dL. B. Nichols aon CIVIL RIGHTS oO LEANDER PEREZ: a | i | bc UP etal - VICTIMS | Congressman Hebert (D.; Louisiana) returned from New Orlean where he went for the elections on Tuesday. He told me on Thursday that he ‘had had a long talk with Perez and hae him quieted down. He does not think from what Perez has told him that Perez is involved in any of these civil rights . ional ingestigatimif, we woull interview Perez. 'T told him that we obviously would. He stated that he had told Perez himself that. if Perez-had not done anything improper a6 he claimed, that Perez should take \the initiative and call at the Bureau and offer his cooperation and furnish such information as be has. wou Eddie inquired if we made any addit Eddie Hebert told me that they have a run-off election February 21, which would include candidates for the state legislature, judge and other local offices and he obviously ia trying to avoid having any publicity stirred up. I told Eddie I had occasion to look into the matters we previously discussed and the situation was exactly as I told him I thought that it was; namely, that both ingtastes we had merely acknowledged we were making an inquiry. ‘With reference to the Jesuit Bend case, the first publicity started from an announcemen by the Department and then both the United States Attorney and the SAC confirmed we were making an inquiry. t “s - ce: Mr. Boardman te. anceren . f 7-6 . RECORUED.- 98 Mr. Rosen LBN , de, “ as “ . ee ren _, (seé addendum, pg. 2) Oe. na WAS} OGor ga. een a i et : POMBE: TEN Whe A cen TARR ar.