BURNED CAR IS CLUE TO RIGHTS AIDES

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP73-00475R000200250001-8
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• Document Creation Date: December 27, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 18, 2013
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 24, 1964
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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TIMES HERALD
Burned Car
Is Clue to
ig is Aidesi
'
;Johnson Pledges
Help, Sends Dulles
To Mississippi
By William Chapman
Staff Reporter ?
JACKSON, Miss., June
123?The' car once . driven
by three missing civil rights
workers was found burned
in a Mississippi swamp' to-
day and President Johnson
announced that he was
ending former CIA Direc-
tor Allen Dulles into the
State.
? There was still no trace of
the men missing since Sunday
night.
' Dulles will leave Wednesday
to meet with Gov. Paul John-
? son, other Mississippi officials,
the FBI "and others Who have
NAACP ?protests disap-
pearance of three civil
rights workers. Page B9.
information on the law observ-
ance problems that exist there
and are a matter of such great
concern," a White House an-
nouncement said.
Gov. Johnson issued a state-
ment here ? saying he would he
"glad" to meet with Dulles.
"So long as Mr. Dulles is ob-
jective, I have no doubt he
will, find that law and order
prevail and will be maintained
by State and local authorities
. . . and that any incident Or
? strife or civil disorder comes
from the professional visiting
, 'troublemaker."
. ?
t ?? ?
FiVeTiour Meeting .
Mr. Johnson met for five
hours with 6.ttorney General
Robert F. Kennedy, who 'post-
poned a trip to West. Ger-
many, Deputy Attorney' Gen-1
ei-al Nicholas de B. Katzen-:
, bath, and Assistant Attorney
General Burlo Mar9:.,11 to (IN-:
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?
JUN 24 1964
Marshall is head of the-Jus:.1
tice Department's civil .rights.
Earlier, the President and:
the Attorney General had met;
separately with Mr. and Mrs..,
Robert Goodman and Mr. and
Mrs. Nathan Schwerner of "New'
York, parents of two of the
missing men, and assured them
that the Federal Government.
was doing all it could to find
their sons., ? .
The White House statementl
reiterated the President's con-
cern as to ,the "whereabouts'
and physical safety" of the
missing men.
Pledge by Governor
It noted that Governor John-
son had promised that law en-
forcement facilities in Missis-?
sippi "will he utilized to their?
full extent to prevent acts of:
violence or public disorder,":
and Said that the ,President
"called for the cooperation and;
the restraint of all the citizens'
? ? ? -?
of this country in maintaining
a .society l'ree of anarchy, vio-
lence and disdain for the law."
The niissing men are An-
drew Goodman, 20, and Mich-
ael Sehwerner, 24, both , of
Ne W York, and James Cheney,
22, a Negro- from Meridian,
Miss.
Federal and State agents
identified a station wagon
found burned in a swamp near
Philadelphia, Miss., as the one
they had used.
Fears have risen for the
three men since they failed
to return to Meridian from
Philadelphia Sunday night.
Members of the "Mississippi
Summer Project" assigned to
civil rights work in Meridian,
they had gone to Philadelphia
to investigate reports of. a
burned Negro church.
The first report of a dis-
covery was made here this
afternoon by Gov. Johnson,
who had been called by a State
Highway Patrolman 40 min-
utes before the start of the
G9verm.W? pr@g? tohfeitnce.
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! Johnson said the burned-out,
.car was spotted in a swamp?
about 12 miles east of Phila-
delphia in Neshoba County.
At least le, patrolmen; two
special agents and an undis-
closed number of FBI agents
had been drawn to the area,
Gov. Johnson said. He was
.awaiting a later report tonight.
Asked if he feared ? for the
three men's lives, the Gover-
nor said:
"Offhand, I would say no.
But that's just something you
don't guess about. It's a big
state with a lot of territory.
You just can't watch every-
body."
! Spokesmen for the Council
of Federated Organizations,
the Combined civil rights or-
.
ganization, said here that the
three left Meridian Sunday
morning to investigate the re-
ported burning of a Negro
least 175 Negro and white St
church in Philadelphia a week
, dents have come into the State
ago.
in the last few days to begin
voter registration projects and:
another 300 are expected this
weekend.
Lewis said, "We'd like to.
see (Federal) marshals all
across this State." The Coun-
cil of Federated Organizations
expects "harassment, intimida-
tion and outright violence,"
Lewis said.
He also referred to explo-
sions which shook the homes
of two Negro families Monday
night :in McComb, deep in
southwestern Mississippi
where a strong resurgence of
the Ku Klux Klan has been
. observed.
I Meanwhile, Governor John-
, son put before the Mississippi
'legislature today his tuition-
three had been questioned he-11 grant proposal designed to
lore being released
deal with school desegrega-
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Neshoba County, hi-the -mid-
eastern section of the State, is
not regarded as one of the
most dangerous counties in
Mississippi f o r integration',
work. It has a population of
about 15,000 whites, 4600 Neg-
roes a n d 1200 Choctaw In-
dians.
Before discovery of the car,
John Lewis, chairman of the
Student Non-Violent Coordi-
nating Committee, issued a de-
mand here for "presidential
protection" of civil rights
workers in Mississippi. At
Neshoba County Sheriff
Lawrence Rainey said Cheney
had been arrested for speed-
ing and fined $20 and that all
United Press International
Goodman Schwerner
. New York men missing