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a Assistant Attorney General Civil Rights Division Director, FBI (157-1025) UNKNOWN SUBJECTS BOMBING OF THE 16TH STREET BAPTIST CHURCH, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, SEPTEMBER 15, 1963, BOMBING MATTERS 144-1-906, and 144-2-310. information from such files. unable to elaborate. instituted. present, 1 - 149-1684 j - ephone Rm ee MAIL ROOM TELETYPE UNIT (_} stor See"y Geperrl) Reference {s made to your files 144-1-554, specific about the information he was seeki However, he requested #] necessary steps seeking approval of his request He stated that any files made available would be reviewed by two officials of the Birmiigtan——— —™ Police Department under the direction of the Chief of Police and that one of his legal aides would N.P C PRR EER, titoure ee ™ When asked rine SEE NOTE PAGE 2 al@ Se 301975 «ahan December 23, 1975 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. : 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 Trailways neat) Station, Birminghan. In a second e al uator 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 theYauthority of the Department of Justice would be required prior to the furnishing to him of any ie eas RECS pe/S7- fas - NF