FBI HAD LEAD RAY MIGHT BE IN EUROPE, POSSIBLY ENGLAND.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 6/8/68
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. HE INFORMALLY AWARE AS OF LATE & JUNE SEE, FBI REP"S LEAVE

POSTPONED AS FBI HAD LEAD RAY MIGHT

BE IN EUROPE, POSSIBLY

ENGLAND.

20 FOLLWING INFO, AMPLIFYING PRESS RELEASE ISSUED WASHINGTON

AROUND 1615 HOURS (LONDON TIME) BY ATTORNEY GENERAL CLARK, INFORMALL!

PASSED (STATION BY LONDON FBI REPS EDDO HOURS (LONDON TIME) 8 JUNE:

RAY, TRAVELLING UNDER NAME RAMON GEORGE SNEYD WITH CANADIAN PASSPOR: -

ARRIVED LONDON FROM TORONTO 7 MAY. CASHED RETURN AIR TICKET STO TOROI::

FOR LONDON LISBON TICKET. LEFT LONDON FOR LISBON 7 MAY 615 HOURS LATER.

A JUNE SCOTLAND YARD ISSUED ALL PORTS ALERT ON FBI SUGGESTION. 6 JUNE

FBI LEARNED OF FOREGOING MOVEMENTS FROM SCOTLAND YARD BUT AS

OF EARLY 8 JUNE LOCAL FBI BELIEVED SNEYD IN LISBON; FBI SENT

2 REPS THERE.

SNEYD RE-ENTERED U. K. UNNOTICED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES. AT 1115

JUNE

HOURS (LONDON TIME> 8 MAT SNEYD NOTICED BY BRITISH SPECIAL BRANCH

OFFICER PASSING THROUGH BRITISH IMMIGRATION LINE AT AIRPORT

PREPARETORY TAKING FLIGHT TO BRUSSELS.

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SNEYD PULLED OUT OF LINE AND FINGER PRINTED. RAY FRINTS (RECIEVED

SOME TIME AGO FROM FBI BROUGHT TO AIRPORT FROM SCOTLAND YARD.

RAY'S PRINTS MATCHED SNEYD'S. LOCAL FBI CLAIM IDENTIFICATION

CONFIRMED AND CERTAIN.

3. RAY NOW CHARGED UNDER U. K. ALIENS OFFENSE, ENTERING WITH

FRAUDULENI DOCUMENTS, AND CARRYING FULLY LOADED PISTOL (POSSESSION

ARMS WITHOUT AUTHORITY. WILL APPEAR IN LONDON COURT 10 JUNE TO

ANSWER THOSE CHARGES. MEANWHILE, TENNESSEE AUTHORITIES PREPARING

EXTRADITION REQUEST, PER FIRST DEGREE MURDER INDICTMENT RET-

URNED BY SHELBY COUNTY GRAND JURY AT MEMPHIS, T MAY 1968.

40 ALL ABOVE AVAILABLE FBI HQS WASH.

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* Hgs, learned from Reuters that Scotland Yard had arrested James Earl Ray.

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