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OPNOMAL FORA HO. 10 wren tes ) < ™ cu on wor UNITED STATE. .* -JERNMENT hrs Awe Bin —, ©: Memora:dum Giza TO : Mr. Gebhard DATE: 11/15/73 Wg i - Mr. Gebhardt . ind . 1 - Mr. McGowan FROM : C. L. McGowan ne 1 - Mr. Hines : ? Mr. McDoncugh Mr. Callahan Mr. Franck rete i wu SUBJECT: (DIRECTOR'S MEETING 11/14/73 WITH 1 ’ ASSISTANT ATQORNEY GENERAL ps 3. STANLEY {POTTINGER ” 4 CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION REGARDING SIX CIVIL RIGHTS MATTERS : J. Stanley Pottinger, Assistant Attorney General . (AAG) of the Civil Rights Division (CRD) of the Department met with the Director in the Director's Office late on the afternoon of 11/14/73. In attendance were Assistant Director Robert E. Gebhardt of the General Investigative Division and . v} : Acting Section Chief Joseph G. Kelly of the General Investigative ( Division's Civil Rights Section. wa \s Pottinger stated he had primarily requested to te: see the Director as a matter of courtesy but in addition Jy « desired to furnish the Director with pertinent background information relating to certain requests he hac made for investigation since he anticipated the Director might well receive inguiries from the White House and other sources — . concerning them. . —He added that he had recently found it necessary to request Bureau investigations into a number of highly sensitive and delicate matters and he personally wanted to thank.the Director for the outstanding cooperation which the FBI had extended to him and for the exceptional manner in which ‘the Bureau had handled the investigations involved. ‘ ven cpottinger then proceeded to discuss the delicate aud sensitive investigations referred to above as follows: MA 2 ds iO 1. The Pekin, Illinois, case < a 197, ‘ UGE/pul (7)