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oY x "OPTIONAL FeRM No. fo 4ULY 1N73 EDITION 4 SSA FPMR (40 CPD 101-116 t UNITED STATES GO| ‘NMENT + Memorandum Director , : Federal Bureau of Investigation DATE: DEC 3 1975 FROM Ox Stanley Pottinger suas fort sol Assistant Attorney General JSP:WLG:1ljr ivil Rights Division cy ~ DJ 144-1-906 known Subjects; 6 2 1.4, Bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church Birmingham, Alabama, September 15, 1963; BOMBING MATTERS Reference is made to a conversation between Special Agent QM of your Bureau and William L. Gardner of } this Division on December 1, 1975, concerning the renewed L vA request made by Alabama State Attorney General William kde Baxley for access to certain statements and memoranda of interview in your file on this matter. Reference is also 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. Your memorandum of May 8 was the subject of several telephone conversations between Silas 23 Mr. Gardner. Attached hereto is a Division file memorandum reflecting those conversations, which Mr. Gardner read TEPC December 1 and in whichd@@Pxe-concurred. 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 9 > } good faith. | wu a Ee ee sae, BA, Advised She, nips BE pec 91975 -_ ee BD Sdc, BW yess j A>. — ° ra ber, bec | _urrnsute AS pa file yours : / a Buy U.S. Savings Bonds Regularly on the Payroll Savings Plan