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orm rma so v0 wy . "UNITED STATES GOVERN wy = pies made OY roe Memorandum ‘ tt Rafat |e Z oe (4 a> DeLoach! Are : Mr. Belmont —_— = Trotter J wom : Cc. A. Evans) g , ao Helse Gandy SUBJECT: UNKNOWN SUBJECTS; . BOMBING OF THE SIXTEENTH STREET \ Ue BAPTIST CHURCH, BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA, We SEPTEMBER 15, 1963 BOMBING MATTERS Cc wa The Attorney General called shortly after 8 o'clock this morning and asked about developments in this case in Birmingham, particularly the reports that the State Police had arrested two individuals. He was informed that we had been keeping Assistant Attorney General Burke Marshall of the Civil Rights Division informed during the night as to these developments. He was furnished the same information that had been given earlier to Mr. Marshall, which satisfied him, and he asked to be apprised as to any further information developed. -v DaTE: September 30, 1000 25 Cc After his arrival at the office, the Attorney General was contacted personally. He was informed that as a result of the constant | complaining by the integration groups about our Agents working with the local authorities in the South, we have had to withdraw inthis regardso / that we don't get information as to their plans as we have in the past; fo oa that there had been a time in the past when the local authorities did not trust or work with Federal Agencies, but that by concerted effort over the years we had overcome this insofar as the FBI is concerned, and had built up a close association, and we knew what action the local authorities were taking. Because of the criticism that FBI Agents have been too close to the police in the South, we have had to back off, and as a result have -lost our contacts. It was further brought to the Attorney General's attention that we had been replacing southern-born Agents assigned to that area with Agents born and reared in the North. Now the Negro leaders have cast aspersions on these northern Agents because some of them have married southern girls and this allegedly brings the Agents 12 sony the PSS ane of ad 1 7 MAEM 22 1 99 & a 001 9-203 dc 1- Mr. tes y Sing —_— _—— SS 1 - Mr. _MeGoy ‘ v4 OCT 10 1363 CAE: - 4