FBI HAS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED ACCUSED ASSASSIN
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: PRIORITY NO NIGHT ACTION
Document date: 04/19/1968
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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Released under the John

Assassination Records

Collection act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

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FBI HAS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED ACCUSED ASSASSIN

04/19/68

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HAS POSITIVELY IDENTIFIED ACCUSED ASSASSIN

AS JAMES EARL RAI, BORN 10 MARCH 1928 IN ILLINOIS; HEIGHT SODINKY

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FIVE FEET TEN INCHES; WEIGHT 163-174 POUNDS; BLUE EYES;

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93/62

BROWN HAIR, SMALL SCAR ON CENTER OF FOREHEAD AND SCAR ON

PALM OF RIGHT HAND. IN ADDITION TO ALIASES CITED REF HAS ALSO

USED NAMES JAMES MCBRIDE, JAMES WALTON, W.C. HERRON, AND

JAMES O'CONNOR. SERVED IN U.S. ARMY FROM FEBRUARY 1946 TO

DECEMBER 1948; DISCHARGED AS INEPI AND UNABLE TO ADJUST.

ONCE CONFINED TO MENTAL HOSPITAL. HAS BEEN EMPLOYED AS

•MATEHER"

BAKER, LABORER, AND "COLOR KAFERA. A DRIFTER WITH LONG

CRIMINAL RECORD FOR BURGLARY, ARMED ROBBERY, AND FORGERY.

HAS BEEN MISSING FROM MISSOURI STATE PENITENTIARY SINCE 23 APRIL

1967. CONSIDERED ARMED AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS.

CURRENT

WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN.

2. PHOTOS OF RAY (LABELED GALT PRIOR TO IDENTIFICATION)

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