CITE CABLE ON RAY'S TRAVEL IN EUROPE AND ARREST IN LONDON
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 6/8/68
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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1. WE INFORMALLY AWARE AS OF LATE & JUNE GONE 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, INFORMALLY

PASSED STATION BY LONDON FBI' REPS 2000 HOURS (LONDON TIMÉ) & JUNE:

RAY, TRAVELLING UNDER NAME RAMON GEORGE SNEYD WITH CANADIAN. PASSPORTS

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

FOR LONDON LISBON TICKEI. LEFT LONDON FOR LISSON 7 MAY €15 HOURS LATER),

4 JUNE SCOTLAND YARD ISSUED ALL PORTS ALERT ON FBI SUGGESTION. S JUNE

FBI LEARNED OF FOREGOING MOVEMENTS FROM SCOTLAND YARD BUT AS

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

2 REPS THERE.

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

JUNE

HOURS (LONDON TIME: 3 LAT 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 CRECIEVED

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

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

CONFIRMED AND CERTAIN.

130 RAY NOW CHARGED UNDER U. X. ALIENS OFFENSE, ENTERING WITH

FRAUDULENI DOCUMENTS, AND CARRYING FULLY LOADED PISTOL (POSSESSION

ARMS KITHOUT AUTHORITYS• WILL APPEAR IN LONDON COURT 10 JUNE TO

ANSWER THOSE CHARGES. MEANWHILE, TENNESSEE AUTHORITIES PREPARING

EXTRADITION REQUEST, PER FIRST DEGREE MURDER INDICIMENT RET-

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

• 4• ALL ABOVE AVAILABLE FBI HQS WASH.

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*Hqs. lourned from Reuters that Scotland Yard had arrested James Earl Ray.

Querier it Station had no notice of this.

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