SUBJECT: INVESTIGATION OF DEATH OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: CI/OBER
To: FBI
Document date: 04/25/1968
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Based on: HMMA-34503

Project: LIONION

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25 APR 1968

SUBJECI: Investigation of Death of Martin Luther King, JI.

Reference is made to our memorandum of 18 april

1963 which advised that our representative in Mexico City

had passed copies of photographs of an unidentified merican

who visited the soviet inbassy in Mexico City.

forwarded herewith are copies of the photographs

passed to your Bureau representative. As noted to our 18

ipill meno, these photos were passed

to your sureau repre

sentative with the rotation that they did not appear to be

identical with the Bureau's suspect-

the subject of the

attached photos was described as 22-27 years of age, approxi-

mately 5 feet 9 Inches to 5 feet 11 inches in height, weight,

approximately 175 pounds, light brown hair, and slightly

ruddy complexton.

As soted in our 18 April memorandum the photographs

may be used in the course of an investigation so long

as it

is not connected in any way with this Office, and it is not

revealed that the photographs were made in Mexico.

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BASIC : HMMA 34503

PROJECT: LIONION

25 April

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171/1/ Charles M. Bounds; jb

Distribution:

Orig & 1 - Federal Bureau of Investigation

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- CI/OPS/DO

- C/WH/FI

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