Agency: HSCA
Originator: HSCA
From: THOMAS, RAY WILLIAM
Document date: 6/12/78
Document type: SUMMARY

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JFK Assassination System

Identification Form

Agency Information

Date:

10/14/20

AGENCY :

RECORD NUMBER :

RECORD SERIES:

HSCA

180-10078-10369

NUMBERED FILES

AGENCY FILE NUMBER: 009261

Released under the John

. Kennedy

issassination Record

Collection Act of 1992

144 USC 2107 Notel.

Case#:NU 54756 Date:

10-31-2017

Document Information

ORIGINATOR :

FROM:

TO :

TITLE :

HSCA

THOMAS, RAY WILLIAM

DATE: 06/12/1978

PAGES:

16

SUBJECTS :

...SUBVERSIVE ACTIVITIES

BANISTER, GUY

THOMAS, RAY

LOUISIANA STATE POLICE FILES

OSWALD, LEE; POST-RUSSIAN PERIOD; POLITICAL....

FAIR PLAY FOR CUBA COMMITTEE

DOCUMENT TYPE: SUMMARY

CLASSIFICATION: Unclassified

RESTRICTIONS: Open in Full

CURRENT STATUS: Redact

DATE OF LAST REVIEW: 07/22/1993

OPENING CRITERIA:

COMMENTS :

Box 169.

v9.1

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KENNEDY

INVESTIGATION INTERVIEW SCHEDULE

Identifying Information:

Name Ray William Thomas

Address

2144 East Contour Dr.

City/State Baton Rouge, La.

Date of Birth 1-19-13

Social Security 439-07-0307

• Physical Description:

Height

Weight

Ethnic Group

Date

6-12-78

phone

Place

504-924-2851

Telephone

MOr S

Spouse

Children

Color Eyes

Hair_

Special Characteristics

009261

Personal History:

a.

Present Employment:

Tide States Investigating Agency

Address

2138 Wood Dale Blvd.

Telephone

1504-927-1649

b. Criminal Record

1. Arrests

2.

Convictions

Additional Personal Information:

a.

Relative (s) : Name

Address

b. Area frequented:

c. Remarks: Witnessed burning files of Guy Banister and other

files of State Police Intelligence 1970-1

Investigator

Kobert urar

Robert Buras

Date

6-12-78

Form #4-B

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KENNEDY

OUTSIDE CONTACT REPORT

DATE -12-78

11AM

TIME

I..

Identifying Information:

Name Ray William Thomas

Address

2144 East Contour Dr.

Baton Rouge, La.

Type of Contact:

Telephone

Person

504-924-2851

Telephone

II.

Summary of Contact:

Investigator Robert Buras spoke with Mr. Thomas above time

and date relative to his witnessing the burning of files from

the Louisiana State Police Intelligence Section in 1970-1•

Mr. Stanley Betholot, then an Assistant District Attorney,

instructed the State Police to burn all files that were not

part of public records or part of criminal investigations.

Trustees carried the files to the rear of the Headquarters

Bldge and they were burned. Mr. Thomas remembers that the

files contained a Fair Play for Cuba Committee section but

he doesn't remember much detail about the file. He does not

recall Lee Harvey Oswald being named in the file but believes

that is due to bad memory. He recalls that Mr. Andy .Sciambra

an Assistant District Attorney for Jim Garrison came several

III.

Recommended Follow-up (if any):

Contact Jim Garrison and Andy Sciambre relative to this

file.

Signature:

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RoberT Barar

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Page two of interview with Ray William Thomas

different times and copied information from the files and

the index system of Guy Banister.

Mr. Thomas was assigned to the Louisiana State Sovereign-

ty Commission in 1960-1.

The head of the Commission at that

time was Mr. John Deer who has since died.

Mr. Thomas stated

that the Sovereignty was invovled in checking people that

might cause violence during the period of intergration in

the state.

They were interested in subversive elements of

the so called left and right.

This was the reason for gett-

ing Mr. Banister's files.

Mr. Thomas does not know what

happened to the Commission files but believes that they were

destroyed or just misplaced somewhere in the State System.

'He stated that he could not remember too much about the

files contents but would call back if naything came to mind.

Mr. Thomas stated that Billy Joe Booth, an instructor, at

Louisiana State University would remember the diles being

destroyed but since it has been such a long time he would not,

in all probability, remember their contents.

End

Memo

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11AM•

6-12-78

504-924-2851

Ray William Thomas

2144 East Contour Dr:

Baton Rouge, La.

Investigator Robert Buras spoke with Mr. Thomas above time

and date relative to his witnessing the burning of files from

the Loulsiana State Police Intelligence Section in 1970-1 •

Mr. Stanley Betholot, then an Assistant District Attorney,

instructed the State Police to burn all files that were not

part of public records or post of criminal investigations.

Trustees carried the files to the rear of the Headquarters

Bldg. and

they were burned.

Mir. Thomas remembers that the

files contained a Fair Play for Cuba Committee section but

he doesn't remember much detail about the file. He does not

recall Lee Harvey Oswald being named in the file but believes

that is due to bad memory He recalls that Mr. Andy Sciambra

an Assistant District Attorney for Jim Garrison came several

Contact Jim Garrison and Andy Sciambre relative to this

file.

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Page

two of interview with Ray William Thomas

different times and copied information from the files and

the index system of Guy Banister.

Mr. Thomas was assigned to the Louisiana State Sovereign-

ty Cormission in 1960-1.

The head of the Commission at that

time was Mr. John Deer who has since died. Mr.. Thomas stated

that the Sovereignty was invovled in checking people that

might cause violence during the period of intergration in

the state.

They were

interested in subversive elements of

the so called left and right. This was the reason for gette

ing Mr. Banister's files.

Mr. Thomas does not know what

happened to the Commission files but believes that they were

destroyed or just misplaced somewhere in the State System.

He stated that he could not remember too much about the

files contents but would call back if naything came to mind.

Mr. Thomas stated that Billy Joe Booth, an instructor, at

ted that Bi

Louisiana State University would remember the files being

destroyed but since it has been such a long time he would not,

in all probability, remember their contents.

End

Memo

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Ray William Thomas

2144 East Contour Dr.

Baton Rouge, La.

1-19-13

439-07-0307

6-12-78

phone

504-924-2851

Tide States Investigating Agency

2138 Wood Dale Blvd.

504-927-1649

Witnessed burning files of Guy Banister and other

files of State Police Intelligence 1970-1

Robert Buras

6-12-78

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