RAY ARREST DETAILS: REFUSES TO ADMIT ANYTHING.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: CIA, DIRECTOR
Document date: 6/8/68
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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REF: LONDON 5061(14 27 362) * Jitial details of Ray's arrest.

1. FURTHER ON REF, UNDERSTAND FROM LOCAL FBI REPS RAY REF-

USES ADMIT ANYTHING, AS OF 2000 HOURS & JUNE LOCAL FBI HAD NOT

INTERVIEVED RAY, HAD NO IMMEDIATE PLANS DO SO. HOWEVER, EVENING

§JUNE FBI REPS PLAN GO SCOTLAND YARD TO EXAMINE RAY'S PERSONAL

EFFECTS•

2• BELIEVE BRITISH SPECIAL BRANCH OFFICER AT AIRPORT

EUNE RECOGNIZED RAY FROM PHOTOS FBI HAD FURNISHED...

.3.. FBI HERE APPARENTLY BELIEVES RAY HAS BEEN "FLOATING

AROUND EUROPE®

'SINCE ARRIVAL FROM TORONTO 7 MAY. FBI HAD BEEN

TRYING FOLLOW UP EARLIER LEAD RAY HAD BEEN TRYING ARRANGE GET

TO RHODESIA IN HOPES SMITH REGIME WOULD NOT LOOK ANGRILY AT MAN

WHO SHOT NEGRO.

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