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E By WAYNE Spel to The New York - MONTGOMERY, Als., te —@The Federal Burgau of| Investigation withheld re ‘sults of {ts inquiry into the ‘1963 bombing of a Birmingham ‘church from the Alabama At- jtorney General for more than ; four years despite repeated re- Quests for the data, - “The state's Attorney General, [William Baxley, confirmed that. “the bureau had withheld its ex-! tensive inforomation — which’ other sources said included the incriminating results of a poly-' graph test given to a man sus- pected of making the bomh»— _ from the time of his initial | Quest in 1971 until last Hl P " cember. Mr. Baxley’s office has ' “ been conducting its own in- , Vgstgiation into the bombing, i ich killed four black chi en, since he took office in: The F.B.1, information was given to Mr. Baxley only after. a. newsman learned of the : bureau’s refusal to cooperate; “with the Baxley investigation ahd inquired about it in Wash- ‘ington, @An_ FBI spokesman in Washington said that when the! request for the information| [was received in 1971, it was; ‘gent e the Civil Rights Division ; ‘of the Justice Dey ent, | :‘which had control of the in- ; formation, the spokesman said.’ ‘ Four years later, he said, the ; Justice artment got around _ to: respondi { * No Reason Offered. 3 The esman had no ex- ‘plantion of why the informa- ‘tion was held up, Local law yenforcement officials, particu- Marly in in racially troubled South: y2m_ areas, often have com- lained of difficulty in obtain- ig such F.B.I. data, A Justice Department official, ge in response to the state- lent from the F.BI. spokes- mn, that no one in the Civil its Division could be found bered the pbureau sing ‘on Mr. Baxley’ st i Mr, Baxley sald, thal his in- ‘vestigation of the bomiing was feont if ding, “We're con- “There were a whole seitea . of bombings — two ~~ "SS BOMBING DATA fu re ‘ook office in 197} nee Baxley, asked alfout the| in’ getting FBL iforaaon, said that he under- stood the bureau's reluctance to’ release such information during the early 1960's, when ‘there was some fear on the part! of the bureau that it’s informa- tion might be leaked by un- ‘sympathetic law enforcement officers in the South. But he he considered such fears undless today. ' IT Investigation Hindered he refusal of the bureau to provide the information meant that state investigators were unable to develop leads turned the bureau at the tim and it also entirely forestall ithe questioning of certain in- idividuals since it was felt that jthere should not be any con- [in what oy igh hans own might have Id the F.BT. ® Among the withheld informa- tlon, the Times has fearned, was he report of He detector test administered to a suspect believed to have made the bomb used in the explosion, and be- jieved placed by another party, prime target of the Baxley inquiry, The test showed that the suspect lied when he denied Reeth core me workshop. Poly; test results are not admissible in ‘court as evidence in such cases, but they do provide important corroboration to investigators. The man is now dead, As a result of the renewed (state inquiry into the church bombing, Mr. Baxley, offige has ready brought unrelated mur- ; indictments against }three er Ku Klux Kian: ace | sed of forcing a black man j jmp, to his death from a ies ige outside Montgomery 1g ago. FRY uu de. meet previously unsolved — that could make a gare oa rt now,” Mr. Baxley t the statute [of ieitances] has Tun out.” Mr, Baxley said those bomb- ings were related to the church dombing in Birmingham. $ “We're about a smidgen of an inch away from solving one that occurred nea an cecupied +] dwelling — and there fs imitation on that,” Mr, Baxley| Motivated by Hatred Asked about the relationship between the Birmingham bomb- and those in Montgom and elsewhere in the South, rid Baxley said, “The relationship is haphazard. Some were re-' lated, some were not.” “All were motivated by in- tense hatred. Another relation- ip is that they were all done’ the scum of the earth. Mr, Baxley said that sojhe of individuals implicated in the fatal | Birmingham jurch , bomb) sing referred to th Ives; as “the missionaries” or “the mi sionary group.” ~ Dep. AD we Asst. Dir: Admin. Comp. Syst, —__ Ext, Affairs Files & C Gen, Iny, Inspection Int Laboratory Legal Coun. __ Plan. & Eval. Spec. Inv, Training Telephone Rm. — Director Sec’y —_ The Washington Post Ws G2,” ? i) APRS ‘976 £7 EC-36 ington Star-News nly News (New York) ‘he New York Times The Wall Street Journal 7 The National Observer The Los Angeles Times MAR 20 1976 —at Senes seems 7