CABLE RE LEADS ON JAMES EARL RAY.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 6/8/68
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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CITE LONDON 5061

IMMEDIATE DIACETOR

8 JUN 6B IN 27 362

REF: DIRECTOR 06658

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1. WE INFORMALLY AWARE AS OF LATE 6 JUNE

FBI REP'S LEAVE

POSTPONED AS FBI HAD LEAD RAY MIGHT BE IN EUROPE, POSSIBLY

ENGLAND.

2. FOLLWING INFO, AMPLIFYING PRESS RELEASE ISSUED WASHINGTON

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

PASSED STATION BY LONDON FBI' REPS 2000 HOURS (LONDON TIME> & JUNE:

RAY, TRAVELLING UNDER NAME:

RAMON GEORGE SNEYD WITH CANADIAN PASSPORTS

ARRIVED LONDON FROM TORONTO 7 MAY. CASHED RETURN AIR TICKET (TO TORONTO)

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

4 JUNE SCOTLAND YARD ISSUED ALL PORTS ALERT ON FBI SUGGESTION. & 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. KO _UNNOTICED BY LOCAL AUTHORITIES® AT 1115

JUNE

HOURS (LONDON TIME) 8 MAY 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 FRINIS (RECIEVED

SOME IIME 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. KO ALIENS OFFENSE, ENTERING WITH

FRAUDULENI DOCUMENIS, AND CARRYING FULLY LOADED PISTOL (POSSESSION

ARMS WITHOUT AUTHORITYS WILL APPEAR IN LONDON COURT 10 ¿UNE TO

ANSWER THOSE CHARGES. MEANWHILE, TENNESSEE AUTHORITIES PREPARING

EXTRADITION REQUEST, PER FIRST DEGREE MURDER INDICIMENI RET-

URNED BY SHELBY COUNTY GRAND JURY AT MEMPHIS, 7 MAY 1968.

4. ALL -ABOVE AVAILABLE FBI HQS WASH.

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#Hqs. learned from Reuters that Scotland Yard had arrested James Earl Ray.

Queried if Station had no notice of this.

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