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ee ke s eee y September 30, 1968 = MEMORANDUM FOR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL @ Se bh 03 With reference to the two arrests by the Alabama ; a Highway ; Patrol yesterday in alleged connection with the recent, bombing of the Negro ~~. church in Alabama, I wanted to bring to your attention certain Sbservations \ concerning this matter. ~ > < _ * . “The Alabama Highway Patrol arrested Robert EF. Chambliss ' and Charles Arnie Cagle. They have not filed any charges against them and they are being held for investigation. I am reliqbly infosme@that the Alabama Highway Patrol has very little substantial evidence against these two individuals. wie s m N C8 A Prom & | These two individuals have been among the principal suspects i a in the bombings which have occurred in Birmingham. We have interviewed ee them and their associates a number of times and have also given lie detector » tests,tothenr: They have admitted in our interrogations that tirgy had =f fl mo in poggession of dynamite but beyond that they would maké nb statement. ers cy By redson of our intensive investigation of Chambliss, Cagle arid their associates it has become generally known that the FBI was pressing vigorously its investigation of this particular group which has had active ‘eonnection with the United Americans for Conservative Government. : Chambliss himself in the past has been a member of the Ku Klux Klan. } The @iéstion naturally arises as to why this Bureau was not advised by the Alabame, Highway Patrol of the contemplated action in arresting Chambliss {and Caste. By: “doing so they have certainly "flushed" the case and I doubt that they will'bé able to hold these two men beyond the seventy-two hours ‘allowed for dgténtion for investigation. z.yearce / =e nea YS Fo sgeS "5 b q +, AS has been indicated to me on a@ r x2 nike ons, there ‘ “fais a strong feeling upon the part of the Negro einen She eogoath that a atio they cannot work w FBI maya ee ‘of our eration with nee Ei The Negro elements tive Telt"7 8 ‘am rs — I y . act 7 EEF Hone () MN 1EY14 xyn0x * ; —» * Jif! XERGE f° he me Ger 9 - _ PaiboRE LE a 5 cmc GO *k owe Gandy re*wan. ROOM!) TELETYPE UNIT me’ wont a EC.