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"NX 0-19 (Rev. 5-27-63) ,,{ that the ‘Mister {FBI Reportedly Knows | Birmingham Bomber’ NEW YORK, May 30 (AP).— The Saturday Evening Post Feported yesterday that FBI’ fficials know who planted the| explosive that killed four young] Negro girls in a Birmingham (Ala.) church last September, but don’t have enough evidence for a conviction. “Law enforcement officials know who the bomber and his accomplices are—have known for months,” the Post reported. “But they have not been able to put together the kind of an airtight case they need to take’ ‘Mister X’ to court.”” ,2 Birmingham, FBI Agent y Faisst said his office would have no comment on the article. Birmingham Police Chief Jamie! Moore could not be reached for comment. ~ Officials stated recently, however, that they were con- tinuing to check out all leads in what has been one of the most intensive investigations in Bir- mingham history. No Charges Made No one has been charged with possession of bul prosecution attempts to link them with bombings were futile. ‘The men have appealed their convictions. li The Post report said police} jand FBI officials, who have conducting an intensive! investigation since the Septem- ber 15, 1963, tragedy at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, have enough evidence to believe| who planted the bomb two nights before the bombing. “His car was parked two blocks away from the church on the Sunday morning the bomb went off.”” “Mister X” is under constant surveillance, the Post report, by George McMillan, quoted a police official as saying. Hates Police “Of course,” the official was quoted, “we can’t literally stay with him 2 hours a day... but we put him to bed every night and check him first thing every morning . . . he hates us, out he hates the FBI even jworse. Mr. Millan wrote that police told him “Mister X’" makes almost his entire living from doing jobs for hate move- ments, but has never been iguishing physical characteristic,” a detective was quoted as say- time and place that cannot x the cial lhe reveal |, @ group of men cluding the man who made bomb, the man who placed it. and everyone who knew the identities “ of those involved t| met,” . “If any one of you ever talks,” Mr. McMillan quoted the. leader of the meeting as saying, “it will be the kiss of death.for you. ... We join hands and now in swearing that each of us takes a vow to kill the man who gives anything away to the police.” “And they weren’t kidding, either,” a policeman was re- ~ ‘Planned the @ meeting in Bi weeks before it happened. 4 SWas at the house of the per ported tobave said. oss >-ee QCURE Cash | ‘\ The report said that “at a : Tolson Belmont Mohr Casper Callahan Conrad DeLoach Evans Gale Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy The Washington Post and Times Herald The Washington Datly ‘The Evening Star £-f New York Herald Tribune New York Journal-American New York Mirror New York Datly News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journat The National Observer People's World Date MAY 30 1964 -