CABLE ON INITIAL DETAILS OF ARREST OF RAY.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
From: WITHHELD
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 6/8/68
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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SECRET 882118Z JUN 58 CITE LONDON 5862

IMMEDIATE DIRECTOR

8 JUN 68 IN 27 367

REF: LONDON 5861(14217362

* Initial details of Ray's arrest.

1. FURTHER ON REF, UNDERSTAND FROM LOCAL FBI REPS RAY REF

USES ADMIT ANYTHING, AS OF 200D HOURS & JUNE LOCAL FBI HAD NOT

INTERVIEWED RAY, HAD NO IMMEDIATE PLANS DO SO. HOWEVER, EVENING

SJUNE FBI REPS PLAN GO SCOTLAND YARD TO EXAMINE RAY'S PERSONAL

EFFECTS.

2• BELIEVE BRITISH SPECIAL BRANCH OFFICER AT AIRPORT

STUNE RECOGNIZED RAY FROM PHOTOS FBI HAD FURNISHED..

3. FBI HERE APPARENTLY BELIEVES RAY HAS BEEN "FLOATING

AROUND EUROPE® SINCE ARRIVAL FROM TORONTO T MAY. FBI HAD BEEN

TRYING FOLLOW UP EARLIER LEAD RAY HAD BEEN TRYING ARRANGE GET

TO RHODESIA IN HOPES SMITH REGIME WOULD NOT LOOK ANGRILY AT MAN

WHO SHOT NEGRO.

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