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FEDERAL CC--71500

Assistant Attorney General

Criminel Division

Attention:

Mr • Robert Le Keuch

Director, FBT

December 29, 1978

1 - Mr. Mintz

Attn:

Mr. Heller

1 - Mr. Aldhizer

1 - Mr.

Foster

HOUSE SELECE COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

U. S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (NSCA)

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MAILED

JAN 2

1979

Reference is

made to the letter to the Attorney

General from G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director,

ASCA, dated December 13,

1978, which, in

connection with

the USCA's investigation into the assassination of

Martin Luther King,

Ir., requested delivery of the remaining

portions of the FEI's investigative file pertaining to

the robbery of the Bank of Alton, Illinois.

Enclosed

are an original and

one copy of a memo

candum in response to referenced letter. It is requested

that you

furnish a copy of the enclosed

memorandum to

the

FISCA.

Enclosures (2)

NOTE:

James Earl Ray was a suspect in the Alton, Illinois,

bank robbery which occurred on 7/13/67. By request dated

8/9/77, the HSCA requested delivery of

all investigative

reports concerning this robbery in the files of FBI Head-

quarters.

Copies of these reports were delivered to the

HSCA on 9/19/77.

HSCA request of 12/13/78 asked for delivery

of the remainina portions of the file and that this material

be reviewed with the understanding that the HSCA intends

to enter the material as part of the Committee's public

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Material has been processed to protect informants

sources and was reviewed by SA Kurk I. Klossner, Projects

Unit, Document Classification and Review Section, who advised

the material contains no classified information.

Therefore,

into the committees public record.

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81E1 HOUSE OFFICE NUILDING, ANNEX 2

WASHINGTON, D.C, 20315

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December 13, 1978

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The Honorable Griffin B.. Bell

Attorney General of the

United States

Department of Justice

Washington, D.C.

20530

Attention:

DIV.

Te A Cris colde

REHER WCHM

12-29.78

57. vA

MI. Robert Keuch

Deputy Assistant Attorney General

Criminal Division, Room 2113

Dear MI. Attorney General:

By letter dated August 9, 1977 to the Attorney

General, the Select Committee on Assassinations re-

quested

delivery of certain reports pertaining to the

robbery of the Bank of Alton, Illinois. As this matter

is of extreme importance to the Committee's inquiry

into the circumstances surrounding the death of Dr.

Martin Luther King, JI., the Committee respectfully

requests delivery of the remaining portions of this

file on a priority basis.

Additonally, the Committee requests that the

Federal Bureau of Investigation review this file with

the understanding that the Committee intends to enter

these materials as a part of the Committee's public

record.

I sincerely thank you for your cooperation and

assistance extended to the Martin Luther King Task

Force over the course of this investigation.

Very truly yours,

12. A Blobsy

G. Robert Blakey

Chief Counsel and Director

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xc: Ron Heller

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1 - Mr. Mintz

Attn :

Mr. Heller

1 - Mr.

Aldhizer

1 - Mr. Foster

December 29, 1970

HOUSE

SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

$, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (HSCA)

Reference is made to the letter to the Attorney

General from G. Robert Blakey, Chief Counsel and Director,

ESCA, dated

December

13, 1978, which, in connection with

BISCA's investigation into

the assassination of

Martin Luther King,

dr., requested Celivery of the remaining

portions of the FBI's investigative file pertaining to

the robbery of the

Bank of Alton, Illinois.

This

memorandum is to confirm that on December 26,

1978, the remaining portions of the FBI Headquarters investi

gative file (91-27494, serials I through 32) concerning

the robbery of the Bank of Alton, Illinois, on July 13.

1967, was delivered to HSCA representative Allen Hausman.

It is

noted that in response to a previous ASCA request,

investigative reports in this file were delivered to the

ESCA.

The FBI has no objection to delivered material

being entered

into the HSCA public record.

Where information is not provided, it is either

not retrievable or is not being furnished pursuant to

Menorandum of Understanding.

ORIGINAL AND ONE SENT TO ASSISTANT ATTORNEY GENERAL,

CRIMINAL DIVISION, ATTENTION:

MR. ROBERT L. KEUCH.

NOTE:

See Director, FBI, letter to Assistant Attorney

General, Criminal Division,

Attention: Mr. Robert L.

Keuch, dated

December 29, 1978, captioned

as above.

22 64.38

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