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and asked him not to continue the questioning. Long became visibly angry and said "Who in the hell do you think you are?" Long was so uoset that he dropped some papers from his hands. Carter helped him pick them up and noticed that one paper had about 25 names on it, including his own and several other supporters of the Alabama New South Coalition. Carter asked him what the list was, and Agent Long said "It's none of your business." Long then insisted on going in to see Mr. Bullock and Carter refused to let him in the house. Long then said: "I'll get a subpoena and drag him to Birmingham to make him testify." He then jumped in his car and sped away. Bullock's wife began crying. The agent did not come back. Bullock died three months later.

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The follwing are incidents in which simply the visits of FBI agents led voters to say that they would not vote again. These incidents were reported to Spiver Gordon, a long-time voting rights organizer in Greene County. Gordon said some people who reported incidents were afraid to be quoted by name. In the incidents reported here, the people agreed to use their names.

1. Jeanie Cochran of Knoxville, AL, said that she did not vote in the June 2, 1998 primary and also did not help 12 people in her family and community who she had assisted with absentee ballots in the past because they either were incapacitated or worked outside the county. She said she would not vote anymore because of harassment by the FBI after the 1994 election. She said she does not want to talk to the FBI again.

2. Wilbert Archibald, Sr., of the Mantua community, who is in his late 80s and very sick, told Spiver Gordon before the June 2 election that he did not want to vote absentee because he was afraid of having to talk to the FBI. Gordon picked him up on election day and he went to the polls to vote in person, despite great physical difficulties.

3. Ms. Idelia Inghram of the Mantua community, who is in her 80s, left town a few days before the June 2 primary to visit her children because she "didn't want to be bothered with that voting mess." and having to answer questions of the FBI.

4. Jesse Davis' mother, Elton Davis'wife, who lives in the Sanders Black apartments in Eutaw was required by the FBI to go to Birmingham to give handwriting samples and questioned about her 1994 absentee ballot. She said that because of this she would not vote on June 2.

5. Ms. Jeanette Peebles of Eutaw said that the FBI came to her house several times to get a statement about her absentee vote. She said they kept taking down her statement wrong and would not put down what she said accurately. As a result, she decided not to vote on June 2.

6. Mariene Peebles of Eutaw, who has worked on getting absentee ballots with Spiver Gordon in the last few elections, refused to do so for the June 2 primary. She said she was scared to participate again because the FBI had questioned everything she has done in the past. She did serve as an appointed paid poll official but was not active at all in encouraging other people to vote either absentee or at the polls.

7. Ms. Gilda Flowers of Eutaw was at the Eutaw Activity Center a few days before the June 2 election, when she was approached by a TV crew for Station 33/40 in Birmingham. The crew asked her to make a statement about the election. She told them she was afraid to make a public statement because she needed a job and the FBi had questioned so many people she