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a Honorable A, Willis Robertson The facts of each bombing incident have been presented Immediately to the Department, and the FEI has been | requested to investigate five bombing cases in Alabaira, including the one on September 15th in which four children were killed. Due to the nature of the September 15th bombing, the FBI began an- imxuedlate investigation and advised the Department of the actions being taken.’ Although the FBI does not actively investigate all bombing cases, it does cooperate in every way possible with state and local authorities, The full facilities of the FEI Laboratory and Identification Civision are available to render any assistance. The FE!'s actions in the civil rights field are governed by laws as they are in all fields, V’e cannot exceed our authority nor will we attexipt to do so, Hf a Federal law within our jurisdiction is violated, FEI Agents will conduct a prompt, thorough and objective investigation. If no Federal law is involved, we will not--cannot-- investigate, In spite of these facts, we are accused of both exceeding and shirxing our duties. Sone of these charges eterna froni a lack of unserstanding, but many of thei come from persons who have a personal interest and distort the truth to suit their own purposes. Acting within the law, the FEI hes recorded a number of accomplishments in the civil rights field. For example, FBI investizgetions have enabled the Department of Justice to file more than forty cuite {n five states to end racial discrimination in voting. FEI Ageats solved the case involving the burning of a Greyhound bus transporting "Freedom Ridera" through Alabara in 1961, Six persons have been convicted for their part in this crime, Aa FBI investization in September, 19€2, led to the arrest and conviction in state court of four persons for burning a Regro church in Terrell County, Georgia, FEI Agents also arrested Byron De La Becixwith, the man charzed with the murder of ledgar Evers, the Miesiscippt leader of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, -2-