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TO: All Employees

FOIPA Section

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RE: MATERIAL PROVIDED TO THE HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA) *

Reference is made to Numbered Memo 651, dated 3/9/82 concerning

the above.

The above reference meno advised, not to release any material relating

to the HSCA.. The litigation is continuing, however, Judge June Green has stated

that some of this material is not exempt from the FOIA. Judge Green has ordered

that the material not exempt be processed for release.

Any questions as to whether a document is releasable should be

referred to Willis Newton, extension 5767.

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No. 651

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TO: All Employees

FOIPA Section

3/9/82

62-5097

RE:

FILE 62-11.7290 PERTAINING TO THE HOUSE

SELECT COMMITTEE

. ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

Pursuant to letters from Congressman Louis Stokes and

the Clerk of the House of Representatives, any material relating

to the work of the HSCA should not be released.

The FBI is currently in litigation with a requester for

all material provided to the HSCA concerning its investigation

into the assassination of President Kennedy. The House of Rep-

resentatives is joining the litigation in an attempt to claim

Congressional privilege for all of the material connected to

the HSCA investigation.

This includes all correspondence be-

tween the FBI and the HSCA, as well as internal FBI communica-

tions.

The HSCA's position is that these materials, as well as

materials concerning its investigation of the assassination

of

Martin Luther King,

are congressional documents and not agency

records and therefore,

are excludable from release pursuant

to Title 5, United States Code, Section 552 (1) (A) , 1976.

is noted that the HSCA investigation of the assassination of Martin

Luther King is not in litigation.)

Therefore, any material contained in Bufile 62-117290,

or duplicative documents which. may be unrecorded in other Bufiles

should be denied.

Should you have any questions concerning this,

please contact Willis Newton on extension 5767.

J. K. Hall

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TO

FROM

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SUBJECT:

OPTIONAL FORM NO, 10

JULY 1973 EDITION

GSA FPMR (41 CFRY 101-11.6

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

Memorandum

SAC, ST. LOUIS (62-0)

DATE:

12/13/78

SAC, SPRINGFIELD (62-0)

6

PRESS MATTER

INQUIRY OF INVESTIGALIVE REPORTER

BILL FREYVOGEL

on 11/9/78 captioned individual telephonically

contacted the Springfield Division.

FREYVOGEL, who repre-

sented himself as a keporter for St Louis Post Dispatch,

St. Louis, Missouri, phone 314-621-1111, extension 696,

advised he was contacting FBI, Springfield, regarding an

article which he has allegedly been requested to write by

the Governor of the State of Missouri.

According to FREYVOGEL,

he is doing research concerning ERNEST TURLEY, convicted

of bank robbery in 1970, regarding an alleged

at Laddonia, Missouri.

to FREYVOGEL, TURLEY iS

bank robbery- 91-5/21

to be pardoned soon, possibly by the Governor of the State distu

of Missouri.

FREYVOGEL advised that he obtained information

from JAMES ROGERS and CLARENCE HAYNES, who purport to be

associates of JOHN LARRY RAY, brother to JAMES

EARL RAY.

FREYVOGEL contends that information from ROGERS and HAYNES

indicates that TURLEY did not commit the Laddonia, Missouri

bank robbery.

FREYVOGEL further indicated that he had infor-

mation that ROGERS, HAYNES and RAY were involved in the

Meredosia and Liberty bank robberies in 1969 or 1970, but

that no prosecution was ever instituted.

For information of st. Louis, SI file 91-4774

(destroyed) regarding the Farmers and Traders State Bank

of Meredosia, Illinois, was closed as a solved case. Further,

Springfield matter 91-4653 (destroyed)., the Farmers State

Bank at Liberty, Illinois, was closed

as a solved matter.

Both bank robberies occurred in 1969.

FREYVOGEL wanted information as to whether or not

ERNEST TURLEY was or was not an associates of ROGERS, HAYNES

and RAY. Springfield indices indicate CLARENCE EDGAR HAYNES

apparently identical to individual mentioned by FREYVOGEL.

Springfield file 76-3675 (closed) reviewed and no information

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obtained regarding an association of HAYNES with TUrLEY,

ROGERS OF RAY.

JAMES ROGERS.

References, reviewed with negative results

regarding association with JOHN LARRY RAY, CLARENCE EDGAR

HAYNES OF TURLEY.

This information being furnished to St. Louis Division

for informational purposes,

should FREyVOGEL contact St.

Louis Division regarding this matter.

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HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

AT 11:50 P.M. NOVEMBER 27, 1978 OFFICER WILLIUS HAGER, 6TH

DISTRICT, ST. LOUIS METROPOLITAN PD, TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED THE

ST. LOUIS FBI OFFICE AS FOLLOWS:

AT 8:30 P.M. NOVEMBER 27, 1978 JOHN I. RAY, BROTHER OF JAMES

EARI RAY, WAS ARRESTED BY OFFICERS OF THE ST. LOUIS METROPOLITAN PD

FOR ASSAULT WITH INTENT TO KILL AND BURGLARY. HE IS PRESENTLY IN

JAIL UNDER ARREST NUMBER 3-4736, POLICE DEPARTMENT COMPLAINT

NUMBER 181051.

OFFICER HAGER FURTHER ADVISED THAT HE HAD RECEIVED A TELEPHONE

CALL FROM AN UNNAMED INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFYING HIMSELF AS JOHN I.

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ATY MAY FORM NO. "

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SUBJECT: JOHN L. RAY, AKA

JACK; INFORMATION

CONCERNING

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DATE: 11/27/78

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Instant date, at 11:50 PM, this office was contacted by

Officer Willius Hager, DSN 8175, 6TH District SLPD.

Officer Hager advised that at approximately 8:30 PM, subject

John I. Ray, brother of James Earl Ray, was arrested

assault with intent to kill and burglary.

Subject described as John I. Ray, W/M, age 45, DOB 021433,

5'9"

, 215 lbs., grey hair, and residing at 3541 Haliday,

SLMO. Arrest number 3-4736. SLPD Complaint # 181051.

Officer Hager advised that he had received a telephone call

from Ray's

lawyer, believed to be calling from Washington,

D.C.. Ray's lawyer stated that Ray was suspose to testify

before the Senate Committee tomorrow.

Officer Hager lastly stated that there were numerous press

inquiries re

Ray.

Information purposes.

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' Editorials

The Role Of The FBI

It is not exactly & clean bill of health that the

House Assassinations Committee gives the Federal

•Bureau of Investigations in the murder of Dr.

..evidence otherwise.

idea of discrediting him as a civil rights leader.

T'his is beyond the role of any police organization

and should have been unworthy of contemplation

by the fBI. The many things that have been re-

vealed by the bureau that it did against Dr. King

have also been done against others in the civil

rights movement. Some St. Louisians were har-

rassed. The House Committse says now that it

has no evidence that an FBI assassinations squad

murdered the civil rights leader April 4, 1968.

But it says there is some evidence that the ha-

rassment of Dr. King may have been the under-.

lying reason he was in Memphis at all.

The committee did investigate the allegations.

made by Lawyer. Mark Lane, who turned up in

the middle of the tragedy in Guyana this week.

• According to Lane's story, Dr. King had spent a

night at white-owned Foliday Inn in Memphis.

The FBI, Lane said, tried to plant a false news

story that Dr. King was thus avoiding the black-

owned Lorraine Motel. It has not been substanti-

ated whether or not alleged FBI plant was ever

printed or if it existed in fact. Dr. King's follow-

ers say that he regularly stayed at the Lorraine

so that nis presence there was not out of the

ordinary.

• There were two other stories that the commit-

tee has investigated. One was that FBI agents

tried to engage a Louisville Ky., man to kill Di

King. The other story is that a Miami man over-

heard a conversation about an FBI plot to kill

Dr. King. Chief Counsel G. Robert Blakey said

ST. LOUIS

AMERICAN

ST. LOUIS, MO.

Date:

Edition:

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Weekly

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* "The committee found no evidence of direct FBI

involvement"' in Dr. King's murder. We would

be more comfortable with that statement if the

word "direct" were not there. We noticed the

other day that the black detective that had been

Di. King's body guard white he was in Memphis,

testified that there was nothing sinister in his

last-minute transfer to other duties only & short

while before Dr. king's murder

Although the committee has not found any

evidence of the FBI's direct involvement in Dr.

King's death, the committee is going to pursue

the Bureau's indirect involvement. This includes

trying to determine whether or not the FBI's

admitted campaign to harass and discredit Dr.

King as a civil rights leader didn't result in his

presence at that time.

The biggest tragedy being revealed by this

and other investigative efforts is the lack of con-

crete evidence to prove what the FBI did one way.

or another. This is a fear we should all have

whenever any one man undertakes to operate a

government department or bureau out of his hip

pocket. We are glad to see that the present direc

tor, Judge William H. Webster, has decentralized

the authority from Washington. This means that

responsible decisions can be made in the field.

Written reports will have to ba filed to substanti-

ate the field-directed actions. This will provide

Congressional oversight committees and other in-

vestigative bodies with some records to search. •

T'here have been too many instances'in the past

where FBI files have "disappeared" or been inad-

- vertently destroyed." We hope that Judge Web-

ler's agents are content to be policemen and not

sociologist or whatever. When its next civil right.

test presents itself, we hope the FBI will not res

peat its past performances.

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ST. LOUIS ARGUS

Panel Finds No Link.

Between FBI, King Death

By Karl Evanzz.

him dead, although her

dealer, Russell G. Beyers.

ARGUS Washington

never received it.

was told by a business

Correspondent

Arthur Murfaugh, now

man

(now dead) that

college

Washington - After a

professor,

testified that the fiEl con-

$50.000 was being offeredi

"for the head of Di.

¿surprise visit to the House

sidered the King investi-

Assassinations Committee

gation a routine one as

King."

hearings

by.

UN

soon as Ray was captured

Ambassador Andrew

because

Young, the committee.

its

smear

campaign against King

which has been conduct.

made it improper for the

ing an investigation into

FBI to conduct any further

the murders of the Rev.

investigation.

Di. Martin Luther King,

He also testified that

Jr.. and President John F.

the FBI's clectronic eaves-

Kennedy, last sock con-

dropping on Dr. King was *

cluded that there is no

so intense that it produced

direct evidence that the

40 to 50 cabinets of files

Ecderal Bureau of Investi-

gation was involved in the

on King's telephone cin-

versations.

murder of the civil rights

In an opening state.":

leader.

ment, one committeman

A former Atlanta FBI.

agent, however.

did

testify that the bureau

conducted

"a 10-jear

man" and denied Lane's

vendetta gainst Dr.

allegation that the panel

King and then botched its

had evidence that Dr.'

investigatión of

King was murdered by an

assassination by ignoring - FBI assassination squad.

the possibility of a con-

UN Ambassador Young

spiracy.

was called before the

The panel's findings

panel

as

surprise

came only days after the

witness to 'lestify that-

New York Times received

Delegate Walter Fauntroy

information that the com-

did not tell him of an.

mittee had already come

•alleged FBI assassination

lo the conclusion that

squad, as Lane had

James Earl Ray killed Dr.

charged.

King for monctary gain.

Committee officials re

Specifically, the panel is

fused to comment on tha

expected to find that Rav

killed

'New York Times stor,

Dr.King for a

although it admitted that

150.000 bounty offercci.bs

it had been investigating

a right wing St. louis

allegations that a former

businessman who wanted

St.

Louis anto parts i

(Indicate page, name of

newspaper, city and state.)

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I Panel May Conclude Ray

Murdered Dr. King

Expecting To Get

$50,000 From St. Louisan

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newspaper, city and state.

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ST. LOUIS

POST-DISPATCH

•By WENDELL RAWLSJR.

€1978, New York Times News Service

VASHINGTON - After all the witnesses have beeg

heard and all the evidence analyzed and digested, the

House Select Committee on Assassinations is expected

to conclude that James Earl Ray killed the Rev. Dr.

Martin Luther King for money - $50,000 that he never

collected from a right-wing St. Louis businessman who

wanted the civil rights leader slain.

And the committee is expected to decide that the

Federal Bureau of Investigation botched the case,

apparently ignoring the possiblity of conspiracy in the

assassination and concentrating on the identification

and apprehension of a fugitive. In the process, valuable

time and evidence was lost, important figures never

were interviewed and information was disregarded, if

not hidden.

Even though the committee is conducting hearings

to build the public record, its investigation is virtually

completed allowing it to arrive at several conclusions.

That picture can be drawn on the basis of interviews

with committee members, witnesses and congressional

staff officials.

According to the committee's investigation and a

separate investigation by The New York Times, the

presence of a standing $50,000 offer was well known in

the St. Louis area in 1967 and 1968 and probably had

been reported to federal authorities prior to King's

murder.

The two investigations have produced the following

scenario as the most likely way the lives of two men

collided in the cross-hairs of political assassination.

On July 13, 1967, about three months after Ray es-

caped from the Missouri State Penitentary, he and

perhaps his two brothers robbed a bank in Alton, Ill.,

and took $27,000:

Ray's split of the proceeds, and the money he accu,

mulated through odd jobs and other robberies he has

publicly acknowledged, would have been sufficient to

finance his adventures and expenditures from the time

pe leit prison until he was captured at London's He.lth-

NOW Airport on June 8, 1968.

From the prison escape on April 23, 1967, until the

bink robbery on July 13, Ray adhered pretty much to

his familiar lifestyle of rooming-house beds and beane-

ry bowis. There were stints as a dishwasher and food

_server

But the day after the bank robbery,

turned up in Montreal, signed a six-month lease on al

"apartment, bought $250 worth of new clothes and vaca-

toned at a fashionable Canadian ski resort.

* He later traveled to Mexico and California, revertin®

ito his old pattern by spending an average of $3 a day for

food and ¾ a day for lodging.

While Ray was on the run, a prominent patent attor-

ney in St. Louis was looking for someone to assassinate

King.

A former St. Louis auto parts dealer named Russell

G. Byers has sajd that he was approached sometime in

late 1966 or early 1967 by a business associate, John R.

Kauffmann, who invited him to a meeting with the pa-

tent attorney, John H. Sutherland.

Sutherland, a member of the conservative Southern

States Industrial Council and a leader of the White Citi-

zen's Council of St. Louis, told Byers that a group of

businessmen would pay $50,000 for the murder of King,

according to Byers.

Byers said that he declined the offer. The other two

men are now dead.

11/17/78

Both Kauffmann and Sutherland were members of n: *** Final

the American Independent Party and were active sup

forters of Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace whosl

campaign office in St., Louis in 1968 was located in i

house across the street from a tavern operated b

Ray's brother John. The license was held by Ray's sil

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16, Carole Pepper, from- November: 167 to December

sought them untiltoo late:

The committee also believes, that, from the time he

The Ray Brothers wereayid Wallace supporters and.

recent let in telephong cali Stinia, hip

the tavern became virtually. a wallace headquarters

was in pursuit of King, stalking him to Selma, Alay

annex, filled with buttons; bumper stickers, posters and

Atanta, and finally to memphis, lenn.

pictures.

After the murder, he fled to Canada, then to Londo,

Portugal and back:to: London. By the time he was ar

The tayern, named the Grapevine in reference to the

rested, he was so short of funds, the committee has

prison underground, had sleeping rooms upstairs. Men

determined, that he risked robbing-a bank in London

with criminal records joined Wallace campaign work-

ers from across: the street in bellying up to the bar to

for S144 The committee cites the act as being an indica-

tion, that Ray did' not receive the assassination bounty.

talk about politics: and crimes. Kauffmann was often

•There is' no evidence that anyone else collected, ei-

there, and the $50,000 offer for the murder of King. was

ther.

almost as much a fixture as the: picture of Clydesdale

When it became known that the FBF had a counterin,

horses representing the Anheuser-Busch brewery a few

telligence program to-harass the enemies of the late

blocks away. A patron down on his luck might be told;

director, J. Edgar Hoover, many black leaders and

mostly in jest, that he shouldisee John Kauffmann and

bureau critics suspected that the FBI had been involved

make a deal;

in'a conspiracy to assassinate King.

Ine upstairs: roomers and the campaign workers.

The committee is expected to report that the bu

were not enough to make, the tayern annancial success.

reau's role in the assassination was limited to its poorly

-In early 1968, the commission believes; money gained in

handled investigation into the death and to. the way

the Alton: bank robbery began to; run.low. for: all in-

Hoover's-feelings about King and the civil rights move.

volved; and there was some casting about for a new

ment generally. influenced the attitudes:of such groups

source of funds

as the Southern States Industrial Council and the White

James Earl Ray: had:said that he was in California

Citizen's Council.

when he received, a letter in March 1968, from the man

These groups: quoted liberally and published widely,

he has identified as the"'blond:Latin, Raoul, " instruct.

the FBI director's derogatory opinions and.remarks:

ing him to go to NewOrleans. Ray says he called Raoul:

It is: conjecture that Hoover's remarks could: have

from Los Angeles and discussed where he should go and

led: men like:Sutherland and Kauffmann to view their

what he should do:

$50,000 offer as being patriotic. Bütithe FBI did know of

the committee investigators believe that the tele

the offer and could have taken steps to investigate it.

phone conversation was with someone in:St. Louis;in-

Sources familiar: with the history of the bounty.offer

stead of Raoul in New Orleans. But telephone records of

to I calls between Ray and any members of his family,

contendthat: the.bureau_knew.of.its: existence:Shortl

from any numbers associated with their homes, the

tayern or wallace headquarters: across the street, were

can a ba ta an hit no to de and

maintaimed only for a few years; and the PBI never

about in 1967 and 1968:

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Panel Rejects Claim

FBI Killed Dr. King

WASHINGTON (AP) The House Assassinations.

Committee reported today that it had found no evidence-

to support a charge that a squad of off-duty FBI agents

assassinated the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King

And. Walter Fauntroy, the delegate in the House

from the District of Columbia, and-a member of the

committee, denounced lawyer Mark Laneras:a spiteful

"consummate pitchman."

Fauntroy denied Lane's allegation, that Fauntroÿ

had said the panel had./evidence-that King had been

murdered by an FBI assassination squad, U:N. Ambas

sador Andrew Young was called before the committee

as a surprise witness: to, testily that fauntroy.had. not

told him'of an alleged FBL assassination squad as Lane

charges.

However; a former FBI agent testified today that the

bureau had conducted' "a 10 year, vendtta"

King and then botched is inves gation or his " asons-

tion by ignoring the possibility of conspiracy.

'Arthur Murtaugh, a former agent in Atlanta and now

a college professor, testified that before King was as-

sassinated: the Atlanta FBlhad 15 agents-assigned to:

Telectronic.surveillance.of. the civil.rights leader. After

the murder, Murtaugh said; the investigation was as-

signed: to the Intelligence Division, the same agency

thạt nao nad king under survellance, and not the Crim-

inal Division.

he also said, the investigation was made routine as

soon as. James. Earl.Ray.wasridentified as the assassin

and as a fugitive to be caught.

As the panel: today began a four-day public inquiry.

on allegations against the FBI, chief coursel;G. Robert:

Blakey said,

"The. committee found.no evidence.of di-

rect. FBI involvement in King's murder.

But Blakey.said the:hearings would deal with ques

tions of "possible indirect involvement." He,said these

included questions of whether the FBy's admitted

campaign to harass, and discredit King as a civilrights.

leader resulted in King's presence. in Memphis, where

he was assassinated on April 4,1968:

Fauntroy in his remarks, denounced Lane as a man

who thrives on publicity- good or bad."

"Mr. Lane's repeated attempts to Spitefully use the

death of Dr. King and to spitefully use those who were

associated with him in life for his own purposes require

that I remain silent no more;" Fauntroy said.

Lane has written books on the murders.of both Dr

King and President John F. Kennedy:

Fauntroy,said Lane had turned over to the commit-

tee an affidayit by Danjel Ellsberg, the man who made

the Pentagon Papers public, quoting an aide to Ambas

sador Young as saying Fauntroy had toldithe ambassi

dor ot the EBT assassination squad. The committee then

called Young, who denied the report.

The committée called also Brady Tyson, the aideto

Young, and Tyson testified that he had told Ellsberg

only that the FBI assassination squad was his own"pet

theory.'

Twister, gay and of

and state.

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King into the Lorraine, Motel so he could be assassinat)

The committee has investigated also allegations by.a

Louisville, Ky, man' that FBL agents tried to hire him

ni to kill King and by?a Miami man that he overheard ari

gonversation about an FBI plọt tọ kill King:

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Experts Unable To Link Bullet

To Ray's Rifle

By Karl Evanzz

ARGUS Staff Writer

After 10

'ycars,

of

examination and reexami-

nation by ballistics experts

and medical experts, no

one has been able to

establish with any degrce

of certainty whether the

rifle found across the

street from the Lorraine

Motel with James Early

Ray's fingerprints on it is

the same one which fired

the bullet that took the life,

of the Rey. Dr. Martin

Luther King, Jr. .

• Even more disturbing,

since a man believed to be

Ray was spotted as he

peeied through an open

curfain in the window on

the second .flcor.of the

rooming house adjacent

to the Lorraine, is the lact

that nọ

one is abie to

determine

from

the

medical evidence that the

shot was fired from the

second-floor

bathroom

window

of from

the

shrubbery

below

. the

window.

The most that the FBI

and now.

the House

Assassination's Com-

mittee which resumed

hearings on the deaths of

King and President John

F. Kennedy last week, is,

that the fatal shot was

probably fired from the

direction of the rooming

shouse.

These

startling

revelations came last Fri-

Iday as a panci of ballistics

experts testified before

the committee on their

findings.

Each of the specialists

conducted their own tests

with Ray's Remington

rifle, and each found that

they could neither match

the test bullets with one

another nor with the

shallered remains of the

slug that killed King on

April 4. 1968.

The pancl of experts

said they could not even

make scientific matches of

the bullets fired from

Ray's rifle in a series of

tests because their is

always a variation in the

markings on hard-jacketgd

bullets.

The committee in •coer.

tinuing

its

investiga-

tion into the truth of Ray's

denial of assassinating the

civil rights leader.

While Ray and his

attorney insist Ray is

innocent, most of the

witnesses

who

have

testified have said that the

convicted Missourian is

the actual killer.

Mark

Lane,

Ray's

attorney, refutes those

witnesses and recently re-

portedly gave the com-

mitted evidence which

established' that off-duty

and former FBI agents

were directly involved in

the assassination and that

Ray was nothing more

than a "dupe.'

Shortly before Dr. Kig

was murdered, it was

revealed that his every

seei ran,

movement was scrutinized

and recorued br the FBl

and that practically every

phone conversation he had

gwas monitored.

When King was at the

summit of his poser, the

diate FBI Director J. Edgar

Hoover denounced him as

the most "vicious liar il

the countrs.

Documents recently

all-

lassificd-by the FBI alsof

Percaled that the domestic

intelligence agencyl

director had organized

program "to prevent the

rise of a Black Messiah."

The controversial program

was known within the

agcncy

as

"COIN-

TELPRO," meaning,

counter-intelligence pro

gram.

....

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newspaper, city and stato.)

ST. LOUIS ARGUS

ST. LOUIS, MO.

Date: Nov. 16, 1978

Edition: Weekly

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TO

FROM

SUEJECT:

DIRECTOR, FLI (62-117290)

(ATTA:

UNIT CHIEF DANTY O.

COULSON, ROOM 3658)

SAC, ST. LOUIS (62-5097)

HOUSE SELECT CO'ITTEE ON

ST. LQUIS DIVISION

Re SL teletype to Bureau, 10/18/78, captioned "BANK

ROBEERY MATTERS".

For the infornation of the Burcau, refcrenced teletype

telephone call on or about 10/18/78 concerning the

advised the Laddonia State bank, Laddonia, Missour bank robbery

it suffered 6/11/70. The caller identified himself as being

with the fol, lashington, I. Co,

and advised a survey was being

concucted and asked what time the bank had been robbed in

June, 1970.

FBIHQ telephonically responded to that teletype

advising that no such inquiry had been nade fron FBIHQ.

Additional inquiry after referenced St. Louis teletype

indicated that it was a phone call fron a member of the House

Sclcct Connittee on Assassinations Staff to the cmployec of

Laddonia State Eank asking what time the bank had been robbed.

The Laddonia State Dank was robbed at approximately

Lils ph., on o/11/l0, by two white males wearing nylon stockings

and what anpearcd to be bandaids under their eyes.

Unon arriving at the bank, the lO and description of

the gun used fit information previously received concorning JOHN

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LARRY RAY and his brother, JERRY WILTIAM RAY, Who were

suspects in robberies of the Farmers Bank of Liberty, Liberty.

I11., on 10/17/69 and Farmers and Traders Bank of Meredosia,

Meredosia, Ill., on 1/28/70. Photos of the group of RAY

associates were brought to the bank by Agents from St. Louis

and witnesses from outside the bank the day before the robbery

and witnesses involved in the robbery identified photographs

of TURLEY and HAYNES:

Federal process was obtained.

HAYNES

was arrested in St. Louis a day or so after the cobbery

and marked money from the robbery was recovered on his

person.

TURLEY was arrested in St. Louis a week or so later

and no money was recovered.

A showup was held at st. Louis

PD. for witnesses from all three robberies.

There witnesses

picked HAYNES as being the person who ran the bank robbery

but were not as positive on fUrLey.

One witness from the

Meredosia bank robbery picked the photograph of TURLEY as

being the tall bank robber and HAYNES as being the short

bank robber.

Both subjects TURLEY and HAYNES were being tried

In USDC, St. Louis, during November, 1970. Düring. the trzal

HAYNES

changed his plea from not guilty to guilty and

testified for the government. He testified TURLEY was with

him but he would not name the other participants until the

Judge directed him to.

He named his associates as JOHN

LARRY RAY, JAMES RUSSELI, TURLEY, JAMES RUSSELL ROGERS, and

ERNEST TURLEY. At the end of the trial TURLEY was acquitted.

Audrain County Sheriff HAROLD SULGROVE, now deceased,

had state robbery warrants for

both subjects with him.

the

warrants had been issued shortly after the bank robbery.

After the acquittal of TURLEY he called Irosecuting Attorney

THOMAS: I. OSBORN at Mexico and asked him if he could bring

TURIEY back for trial:

OSBORN told him to bring him back

but he would discuss the prosecution later.

TURLEY's lawyer called OSBORN and he also talked

to AUSÀ KENNETH R. HEINEMAN who tried TUrLY in USDC and

OSBORiT decided that he would tell the defense attorney that

if TURLEY would take a polygraph examination and pass he

would not try TUrLEY, however, if TURLEY would refuse to

take the examination he would

have to try him. OSBORN

advised the defense attorney that with TURIEY's record and the

eye witnesses he thought that he owed it to the state to

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try TURLEX.

TURLEY appealed the fact that he was being tried

after being acquitted in Federal court to the Missouri Court

of appeals, U. S. Court of Appeals, and the u. S. Supremo

Court. The Court of Apreals denied his appeal and the

Suprent Court would not hear the case. He was later ordered

for trial on a change of venue in Harren County Circuit

Court in Warrenton, Ho.

While out on bond and awaiting the court decisions

nudraIn County Sheriff SUlGROVE was in one of the St. Louis

City police precincts then TulLeY and his wife were brought

in for some violation. His wife said "I lied for you one

tine but I'm not going to lie for you again." During the

subsequent trial in Warren County Circuit Court SULGROVE

remembered this and got the detective to testify who had

this infornation.

TURLEY was tried, convicted and sentenced to 30

years in the state penitentiary.

While awaiting transportation

to the state penitentiary he escaped from the Warren County

Jail and was later apprehended on a UFAP warrant in Florida

by fBI Agents.

On 11/7/78 former Prosecuting Attorney THOMAS I.

OSBORN, Mexico, lo., advised that he got a telephone call

fron a reporter, BILL FREIGOVEL of the St. Louis Post Dispatch

nehspaper, saying he was doing a story on the bank robbery

at Laddonia In 1910. He advised that the house select

Committee on Assassinations investigators had infornation

fIOn JAMES RUSSELL ROGERS and CLARENCE EDGAR HAYNES

that ERNEST TURLEY was not involved in the robbery.

OSBORN was asked a number of questions about the case

and including why witnesses, when interviewed by

SA VILLINI R. DUNCAN, Resident Agent handling the investigation,

Here not too

also wanted to know if DUNCAN called OSBORN after TURLEY*s

acquittal in St. Louis and requested that he be brought back

for state prosecution

He also asked if it was not DUNCAN

who pushed the state prosecution.

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OSBORN told the reporter that the warrants for

TURLEY and HAYNES were outstanding since June, 1970, Shortly

after the bank robbery and that Sherifi HAROLD SULGROVE

called hin and told him he was bringing TURLEY back on the

warrant and that DUNCAN did not push TURLEY's investigation

and did not push for his trial in state court. OSBORN

said that he thought that the witnesses probably were not

too positive at the time of the banl robbery since the

subjects had on nylon stockings, but after seeing them in

person were positive. He asked the reporter if he had seen

the good showup photograph that was taken both with the

nylon stockings and without and the rcporter advised that he

had not.

OSBORN was asked by the reporter what he thought

about the House Select Cormittce on Assassinations petition

to the Governor of lissouri for a pardon for turder.

responded that he had not heard of any pardon motion.

On 11/7/78 Ars. RUBY MAY HAVLETT, Vice President,

Laddonia State Bank, Laddonia, No., advised that St. Louïs

Post Dispatch reporter, BILL FREIGOVEL called her saying

he was doing an article on the bank robbery of the Laddonia

State Bank in 1970.

Representative PAY HANETT, was running for re-election the

sane day, she asked if this was not political and he advised

that the story would not be released until after the election.

She

was asked by FREIGOVEL to comment on the fact

that when she was interviewed by SA DUNCAN the day: of the bank

robbery she said one thing about who took the money and then

when she testified in State court she said something else. She

advised that the reporter was to call her back but did not.

Both OSBORN and HALETT said that the reporter

was allegedly reading from the court transcript of the trial.

For infornation of the Bureau,

SA WILLIAM R. DUNCAN

was interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations

staff on 11/21/77 and 11/29/77 and testified before the

subcommittee on 11/30/77 concerning an incident alleged to

have happened at the Louisville, Kentucky PD during September,

1965.

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Further it is to be noted that the St. Louis

Division presently has a Federal parole violator warrant for

CLARENCE EDGAR HAYNES.

The above is being furnished to the Bureau for

information purposes.

The St. Louis file on the Laddonia bank robbery

has been destroyed under the Bureau's file destruction

policy and is therefore not available.

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* AIRTEL

11/9/78

TO

DIRECTOR, FBI (02-117290)

(ATTN: UNIT CHIEF DANNY O. COULSON, ROOM 3658)

FROM

SAC, ST. LOUIS (62-5097)

SUBJECT: HOUSE SELECT COLMITTED ON

ASSASSINATIONS, U. S. HOUSE

OF REPRESENTATIVES y

SPECIAL AGENT WILLIA R. DUNCAN

ST. LOUIS DIVISION

Re Si teletype to Bureau, 10/18/78, captioned "BANK

ROBBERY MATTERS".

For the information of the Bureau, referenced teletype

advised the Laddonia State Bank, Laddonia, Missouri, received a

telephone call on or about 10/18/78 concerning the bank robbery

it suffered 6/11/70. The caller identified himself as being

with the Fil, Washington, D. C., and advised a survey was being

conducted and asked what time the bank had been robbed in

June,

1970. FBIHQ telephonically responded to that teletype

advising that no such inquiry had been made from FBIHQ.

Additional inquiry after referenced St. Louis teletype

indicated that it was a phone call from a membor of the Housc

Select Committoe on Assassinations Start to the employec ot

Laddonia State Bank asking what time the bank had been robbed.

The Laddonia State Bank was robbed at approximately

1:15 p.n.y on 6/11/70, by two white males wearing nylon stockings

and what appeared to be bandaids under their eyes.

Upon arriving at the bank, the MO and description of

the gun used fit infornation proviously received concerning JOHN

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LARRY RAY and his brother, JERRY WILLIAM RAY, who were

suspects in robberies of the Farmers Bank of Liberty, Libertyr

Il1., On 10/17/69 and Farmers and Iraders Bank of Meredosia,

Meredosia, Ill.,

on 1/28/70.

Photos of the group of ray

associates were brought to the bank by Agents fron St. Louis

and witnesses from outside the bank the day before the robbery

and witnesses involved in the robbery identified photographs

ÖF TURLEY and HAYNES. Federal process was obtained. HAYNES

was arrested in St. Iouis à day or so after the robbery

and marked money from the robbery was recovered on his

person.

TURLEY was arrested in St. louis a weck or so later

and no money was récovered.

A showup was held at st. Louis

PD. for witnesses from all three robberies.

picked HAYNEs as being the person who ran the bank robbery

but were not as positive on TurteY.

Meredosia bank robbery picked

sit ve on soon rhoto

There witnesses

One witness from the

the photograph of Turuey as

being the tall bank robber and HaYNes as being the short

bank robber.

Both subjects TURLEY and HAYNES were being tried

in USDC, St. Louis, during. November, 1970. During the trial

SAYNES charged his plea from not guilty to guilty and

testified for the government. He testified TURIEY was with

him but he would not name the other participants until the

judge directed him to.

He named his associates as JOHN

LARRY RAY, JAMES RUSSELI TURLEY, JAMES RUSSELL ROGERS, and

ERNEST TURLEY. At the end of the trial TURLEY was acquitted.

warrants had been issued shortly after the bank robbery.

After the acquittal of TUrItY he called Prosecuting Attorney

THOMAS I. OSBORN at Mexico and asked him if he could bring

TURLEY back for trial.

OSBORN told him to bring him back

but he would discuss

the prosecution later.

TURLEY's lawyer called OSBORN and he also talked.

to AUSA KENNETH R. REINEMAN who tried TURLEY in USDC and

OSBORN decided that he would tell the defense attorney that

if TURLEY would take a polygraph examination and pass he

would not try TurLey,

however, if TUrLEy would refuse to

take the examination

he would have to try him.

OSBORN

advised the defense attorney that with TURLEY's record and the

eye witnesses he thought that he owed it to the state to

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try TURLEY.

TURLEY appealed the fact that he was being tried

after being acquitted in Federal court to the Hissouri Court

of Appeals,

U. Sa Court ot appeals

and the U. S. Suprene

Court.

The Court of Appeals denied his appeal and the

Supreme Court would not hear the case. He was later ordered

for trial on a change of venue in Warren County Circuit

Court in Harrenton, No.

While out on bond and awaiting the court decisions

Audrain County Sheriff SULGROVE was in one of the St. Louis

City police precincts when TURLEY and his wife were brought

in for some violation. His wife said "I lied for you one

time but I'm not joing to lie for you again." During the

subsequent trial in Warren County Circuit Court SULGROVE

renembered this and got the detective to testify who had

this infornation.

TURLEY was tried, convicted and sentenced to 30

years in the state penitentiary.

While awaiting transportation

to the state penitentiary he escaped from the Warren County

Jail and was later apprehended on a UFAP warrant in Florida

by FBI Agents.

On 11/7/78 former Frosecuting Attorney THOMAS I.

OSBORN, Mexico, Ho., advised that he got a telephone call

reporter, BILL FREICOVEL of the St. Louis Post Dispätch

newspaper, saying he was doing a story on the bank robbery

at Laddonia in 1970. He advised that the House Select

Committce on Assassinations investigators had information

fIOn JAITES RUSSELL ROGERS and CLARENCE EDGAR HAYNES

that ERNEST TURLEY was not involved in the robbery.

OSBORN was asked a nunber of questions about the case

and including why witnesses, when interviewed by

SA WILLIAT R. DUNCAN, Resident Agent handling the investigation,

were not too positive of an identification but when thee

went to trial their identification was very positive.

also wanted to know if DUNCAN called OSBORN after TURLEY'S

acquittal in St. Louis and requested that he be brought back

for state prosecution.

Ho also asked if it was not DUNCAN

who pushed the state prosecution.

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OSBORN told the reporter that the warrants for

TURLEY and HAYNES were outstanding since June,

1970, shortly

after the bank robbery and that Sheriff HAROLD

SULGROVE

called him and told him he was bringing TURLEY back on the

investigation

OSBORN

said that he thought that the witnesses probably were not

too positive at the time of the bank robbery since the

subjects had on nylon stockings, but after seeing them in

person were positive.

He asked the

reporter if he had seen

the good showup photograph that was taken both with the

nylon stockings and without and the reportet advised that he

had not.

OSBORN was asked by the reporter what he thought

• about the House Select Committee on Assassinations petition

to the Governor of Missouri for a pardon for TURLEY..

responded that he had not heard of any pardon motion.

Laddonia state l, L RELAX, AVE What Pretent,

Post Dispatch reporter, BILL FREIGOVEL Called her saying

he was doing an article on the bank robbery of the Laddonia

State Bank in 1970.

Since Mrs. HAMLETT's husband, State

Representative RAY

HAHLETT, was running for re-clection the

same day, she asked if this was not political and he advised

that the story would not be released until after the election;

She was asked by FREIGOVEL to connent on the fact

that when she was interviewed by SA DUNCAN the day pf the bank

robbery she said one thing about who took the money and then

when she testified in State court she said something else.

She

advised that the reporter was to call her back but did not.

Both OSBORN and HANLETT said that the reporter

was allegedly reading from the court transcript of the trial.

For information of the Bureau;

SA WILLIAM R. DUNCAN

was interviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations

staff on 11/21/77 and 11/29/77 and testified before thẹ

subcommittee on 11/30/77 concerning an incident alleged to

have happened at the louisville, Kentucky PD during September,

1965.

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lurther it is to be noted that the St. Louis

Division presently has a Federal parole violator warrant for

CLARENCE EDGAR HAYNES•

The above is being furnished to the Bureau for

information purposes.

The St. Louis file on the laddonia bank robbery

has been destroyed under the Bureau's file destruction

policy and is therefore not available.

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FD-350 (Rev. 10-19-77)

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Lawyer quits

over committee

decision on Ray

WASHINGION (AP) - A lawyer for the House

assassinations Committee has resigned, to show his

pissatisfaction" with the committee's decision notto

recall James Earl Ray.

ay has een scheduled. to testry before the corn:

mittee for a second time thursday, Ray confessed

ikhling: Dr. Martin Luther King.Jr. but later recantid.

the contession: He is serving a go year sentence for

murdering the civil rights leader in April 1968.

MICHAEL Eberhardt, the committee's assistant

chief deputy.counsel, said he resigned Friday, one; day,

aiter the committee decided not to recall Ray, The

committee, on a split vote, decided Ray. could not pro

vide enough -new evidence to

justity. the expenserof

bringing him back to Washington.

"?. Ebernardt-refused to.comment on his resignation or

the committee's decision except to say he was dissatis

"Sam constrained by the circumstarices and by. in

agreement I signed when L joined the Staff not to dis.

cuss the substance of the hearings,": Eberhardt said in,

a telephone interview.

ROBERT: Blakey, the committee's chiet counsel,

reused even to confirm that-Eberhardt had resigned:

yp Memphis,, Jenn,, Ray's attorney. Mark Lane

Charged: saturday. that undercover and off duty, FBI

agents reporting directly to the late FBI Director J

Edgar: Hoover "planned and carried, out" the King.

Lane. made. similar:charges;in:a:copyright-story in

Saturday editions of the Knoxville News Sentinel, an

said he did not know how many people were involved

the alleged plot or if anyone above Hoover was in

Mane said he, may ask accarly as next week. that a

Tennessee court grant his client a full thal.

Globe Democrat,

St. Louis, Missouri

Date:

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In Prison 7 Years

Panel's Evidence

}

May Clear Convict

By WILLIAM FREIVOGEr

nittee has found'new evidence strong!

Of the Post-DIspatch Staff

suggesting that he is innocent,

For seven years,

Ernest Turley dog.

In a July:19:letter to Gov. Joseph.P.

i gedy, maintained from nis' Missouri

Teasdale, the-committee said: that two.

f prison cell that he had not robbed the

men "have attested to the fact that they

"State Bank of Laddonia in 1970. But

were actually the two individuals, who

while his family disintegrated, Turley

entered and robbed the Laddonia bank."

ksaw his court appeals and parole appli-

Turley had not been involved; the two

cations fail again and again.

men sald in statements obtained' by the

Now, as Ture wally. is being pa-

committee, which was investigating the

Proled, the House Assassinations Com-

robbery because John Larry Ray was:a

suspect. Ray is the brother of James.

91-5/21

Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of the

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

One of the men, Clarence: Haynes,

told committee investigators that be-

ci use of a grudge, he lied when testify

in against Turley in a trial eight. years

ago: Haynes, who is in'prison' for anoth

er crime, ' said his accomplice was

James Rogers, Rogers, in jail for anoth

er. bank robbery, confirmed that he and

not Turley. was the robber.

Turley, who is in the Magdala balf-

way house here awaiting parole liter

this month, says he should be pardojed,

not paroled:

The American Civil Liberties Ulion-

says he deserves a pardon and is critica!

of of Teasdale for not acting more

comptly.in considering the case. Exec

itive: Director Joyce Armstrong of the

CLU says she also wonders why, Turley

Was kept in the state penitentiary for

two months: after state officials got the

noree's letter saying Turley was

A Teasdale spokesman said a gover-

nor's aide has investigated the case: But

consideration of a pardon must await a

formal application; he said. Turley's

attomey still'is fling out the extensive

Turleÿ's

case has some bizate

twists. A jury found him innocent of he

bjink robbery charge in federal coirt

shire in 1970s But as he was walking

diwn. the courthouse steps with his wite

and children, her was for, that he was

needed in the U.S. marshal's office .for

(Indicate page, name of

newspaper, city and state.)

PlA, St. Louis

Post Dispatch,

St. Louis, Missouri

Date:

11/12/78

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Title:

Character:

or

Classification:

Submitting Office:

SL

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one other matter.

who later made identifications were

There; the Audrain. County sheriff

uncertain about identifying @picture.of

arrested, Turley for the same robbery.

After. an almost identical trial: in state,

Turley right atter the incident.

court; he was found guilty and sentenced!

The witnesses wereishown eight pho

to 20 years in prison.

tographs and asked it the robbers were

among them. Three of the.witnesses.did

The ACLU argued that that was dou

be jeopardy. But the U:S. Supreme'

not pick out Turley's picture. The other

Court said "dual sovereignty." permits:

three. said the photo offurley was "sir.

ilar" to one of the robbers:

slate and federal authorities to indepen

"What 'I think happened is that they

dently prosecute the same man for the

kept seeing. Turley's picture and kept

same crime in the same way.

seeing him at these trials. until they.real

After eight years in prison, the world.

ly thought they could remember hin

•urley leit no longer exists. His wife,

there in the bank," Barnes: said in an

divorced him, became an alcoholic and

interview.

remarried: His stepdaughter, who says

Several of the witnesses, when told of

she depended on his guidance, left home

the Assassinations Committee letter,

at 34: and became, pregnant: at 15. His

stuck by, their testimony.,

stepson turned to drugs; and repeatedly:

: 'Thomas: I. Osborne, the former: Aud-

was arrested. - *

rain County prosecutor who tried Tur

_While in prison,

Turley contracted

- Ley, also said he still was, unconvinced of

rheumatoid arthritis; which weakened

Turley's: innocence. He questioned the

his joints and makes manual labor diffi

credibility of Haynes, who now says.he

cut, de; also lost about 20; pounds from

- lied at furley's trial.

his a ready, gaunt frame.

Osborne said he prosecuted Turley

Blit Turley insists.he is not bitter. He

after his acquittal in: federal-court le

still loves. his ex-wife. and wants to fe

cause the county sheriff then, Harild

marry her. Also, friends have offered,Sulgrove, and the FBlagent on the case,

tree cars, jobs and other aid. However,

William Duncan, were convinced of

Turley's letters from: prison are filled

Turley's guilt; Osborne: believes. that

with frustration: "If crying yould help, I

Turley. won acquittal in the first trial

could fill my room," he wrote to Mts.

because Haynes' testimony hurt the

Armstrong;

prosecution. Haynes, said there were

Early in his prison term; Turley es

three men involved in the crime; but

caped. "He was just frustrated that he

bank employees said there were two.

had: been found: innocent: and then had

Haynes originally was supposed to be

been jailed;" his attorney, Richard D;

tried with Turley. in federal.court. But

•Baron, said. "He said he had an opportu

shortly, aiter the trial began,

Haynes

nity to escape and make a life for him;

changed his, plea to guilty.and testined

"self. The waiting and the lack of quick

against Turley. Haynes did not testity in

action on his court appeals had him frus-

*the state case.

tratpd:"

Turley's innocence. was challenged on

The evidence against Turley, seemed

another point by. one knowledgeable in-

implessive. Four employees of the bank

vestigator who asked not to be named.

-posilively identified him, even though

Haynes may. have lied to the committee

the robbers.had women's stockings ovei

in saying he never had been involved

their faces, distorting their features.

with furley in a bank robbery, the inyes.

In addition, two Laddonia residents

tigator said. Prior to the: Laddonia job

said, they, saw Turley in Laddinia, in

bey turey, hay and. haynes yere

• Audrain County, in central Missouri,

the

suspected of robbing two Illinois banks;

day before the $13,000 höldup.

he said. But an Assassinations Commit-

But, Turley's attorney in the state

tee source said other evidence had ruled

case, Latney Barnes of Mexico, Mo,

Turley.out of those bank asbsence

Wrought out at the trial that six persons

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at the state trial was testimony by a St.

good in my life," he wrote. "It has been

Louis police detective,

which

under.

i a miserable wreck is until now and,

mined the credibility. of Turley's wife,

really, still is because I'm in here. I'm

• Pauline, a key, defense witness. The

still praying you will be able to do some

[defective said he overheard Turley's

thing for me on that pardon for the

wite say after the first trial that "she

latest news from here it's hell, a stab

has lied the last time she had testified

bing or killing every week. Had, onewe

for her husband, and that the next time.

erday. got hurt: and three today. I's.so

that she wasn't going to lie for him any:

overcrowded

more."

Turley's defense was:based on testi-

Those who knew Turley while he was

in prison said he showed no bitterness,

mony by his wife and others that he was

but never stopped: trying to convinces

in St. Louis on the day of the robbery

others; including penitentiary warden

working on his car with his stepson. He

Donald: Wyrick, that. he was innocent

even presented a receipt from.an auto

"It seemed like it was.very.important to

parts company dated.June 1l; the day. of

nim: that. "believe him," said Wyrick,

the robbery:

who knew him well.

During his prison term Turley fre-

Turley's stepdaughter,.

quently wrote to Mrs. Armstrong at.the

Deana, Agu-

lar, described, in an interview the devas.

ACLU.

tating impact: Turley'S confinement had

For 19: years:I have really worked

on his family.

hard and never stole, anything;"

wrote in 1975. (Turley served" prison;

"Ernie had raisedius since: we were

¡sentences in the i940s and 1950s for larce-

little. We loved him more than our real

ny and robbery, but häd a clean record

father,!" said Mrs. Agular, now 21 jind

living; in Houston.

after that.)

"My mother always.

drank a little. But after he was putsin

"Then I get in all this trouble: and

haven't did nothing. My mother was. a

jail, she stayed drunk all. the time. She

just gave up.

Christian, lady and I'll swear on her

"We didn't have school/clothes any

grave lam innocent of this charge. This

more. Tleft.home at 14 and was pregnant

is /enough to drive.a man nuts. I don't

think a lot of people could také: as much,

at. 15 and.again. at 16. I missed, school:

às I have.""

My brother; who was a year younger

ran: away from home: and started snif

A few days later, heiwrote: "I-sup

fing (drugs). He started getting arrest

pose 1 talk too much. I guess it's because

ed. We only made it through because he

Lhaven't had a real visit in such along

and I' stuck together."

time. No one comes upto see me...

Turley's release from prison was

really seems that 50 percent of the (pris;

ion population is animals."

delayed by another irony, says one ot hi

attorneys, Charles Werner. At one point

three months-later, he. wrote: "This

1 just, can't stand

it was held up several days only becanst

much more. I just can't stand another

all the halfway.houses.in this area were

full. John Larry, Ray, whose suspecter

involvement.in. the.robbery.led.the.as

In 1976, he joined church in Mober

sassinations Committee to the new evi

face, in, Furley's casa, haditaken, the

ye was about time I did something on last halfway house place, sor

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Airtel

11/9/78

TO:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-117290)

(ATTN:

CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT,

RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION)

SẠC, ST. LOUIS (62-5097).

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ÖN ASSASSINATIONS

BUDED: 11/13/78

Re Bureau teletype to Chicago and other offices

dated 11/8/78.

A)

Enclosed herewith are copies of the following.

communications concerning JAMES COOPER GREEN,

dob 1/7/47. •St. Louis indices contain no

reference to JIM GENOVESE.

FOR DRE ROSE 15-17 A17 sational sattorsat 1

FBI Identification Record for JAMES COOPER

GREEN, JR., FBI #432 338 E (Serial 63) in

SI file 15-17227, blockstamped and

serialized on reverse page;

St. Louis letter to Birmingham dated

3/30/78 from SI control file 87-24046

wherein the

name JAMES C. GREEN appears. in

the title:

Memo to SAC, St. Louis, from SA MARSHALL P.

GORHAM dated 11/8/78 captioned "Miscellaneous

- Bureau

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Information Concerning, JAMES COOPER

GREEN, JR." (SL file 62-0-19478).

The Bureau will note that attached to

this memo are xerox copies of indices

cards concerning JAMES COOPER GREEN, JR.

The following observations are furnished

concerning those indices cards:

Su file 44-700 was destroyed on

3/30/78. SI file 152-8 was destroyed on

2/18/78.

SL file 26-31372 was destroyed

approximately 5 to 8 years ago.

Enclosed herewith are copies of the following

communications concerning DALLAS BARR, aka

JERRY MILLER:

Letter dated 10/4/77 from H. EBERHARDT to

FBI, St. Louis, and Treasury Department,

Criminal Enforcement Division, St. Louis,

Missouri;

Letter to H. EBERHARDT dated 10/11/77 from

the SAC, St. Louis.

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identification Precord Roquost

+D-9 (Her, 1-28-65)

.

INSTRUCTIONS

1. This form may be submilled in le gible hand primirk.

5. Indicale office for seply in lower : ighi corrier

2. Use seperase furm fur each individual on whom

only. Alsu isse in lower right come all offices

which should receive comes of arcilable records.

recordies sequested.

Inchede carva: of FD-9 fa cach office receivirs

copies and forward with original to Bureau.

3. Make elfore to furnish FBI identification numbes,

Law enfacement dentification number, or

6. Do not fill in block in lower left corner.

millary service mumber.

1. Furish descriplive dala and fingerprint classification

only when FBI number not available.

TO: DIRECTOR, FBI

" JOE DEE

Ruse"

ETAL

TEiS

Attention: Identification Division

Date

10/29/74

00:JL

Field File No. SL 15-1722

Furnish The Known Identification Record of the Following:

LiCS FBINO. 432338E

JAMES COUPER GREEN

Other No.

Sex

Race

Holght

Weight

Fingerprint Classilicallon

Also Furnish:

Photo

_ Fingerprints

• Hondwriting Specimens

Birth Dato

Bulld

Birthplace

Hair

Eyes

Scars, marks and tattoos

Residence

Complozion

Age

Identification Division's Reply 11-14f--14

DJ On basis of information. furnished,

unable to identify:

Crimcial

Civil

Files

All

Files

I Record Attached

Phoio Atrocied

→ Photo Not Available

Fingerprints Attached

• Handwriting Specimen Attached

Return Reply to:

NUISAE, STiLOUIS

Send Copies To:

62-5097-180

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BAL BUREAU OF BRESTIGMI

WASHINOTO::. D.C. 20537

11-15-74

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IDESTIFICATIO: DiVIIC

The lolloring FBI record, NUMPER 152 338 F

• is furnished FOR OFFICIAL USE O'ZY.

NAME AND NUMDER

U971N

4888557400

RECEIVLO

CHARGE

DISTOSITION

Mary

James Cooper

Ercen Jr.

#PA17 725 195

7-30-65

disch 2-19-85

st my Pat

James Cooper

11-12-65

Kirtiood tio

Green JI #C-11256

Shoriri's Office

Janes Cooper

11-12-65

Alton 110

Green Jr

#G-2756-B

auto theft

Iel to oregon

county dush

car theft

Dant of Corr

Joficison City

110

USt! l'emphis Tenn

James Cooper

GrEEn JI

#11267

James Coöper

Green jr

$2509

11-29-65

PG GT

3 yrs

comm of sen:

12-23-67

PD Menphis Tenn

James Cooper

Green jr

#10320]:

12-22-67

10, =

Dyer Act

Title 18

sad'

Section 2312

7-12-08

1-1:

Inv(larc auto)res to covit oi

chg of Dyer

10: 43.257-12-23-67201

Eyes des

USM MenoMiS

Medical Contex

for Ecd Pis

Springficla Mo

James Cooper

Green JI.

2-15-58

MVTA

Fed Ref

El Reno Okla

44-700

Cooper

James

Green

#Y 31307 SWY

7-23-68

I/S Transp

stln veh

Indet 5010 B

1/6/70

PaI..

Se Fry. Patrol

Paolar Bluff

i:0

James Cooper

6457.

12-19-73

burg II

intormation shown on this Identification Record reprosenis data furnished FBl by fincerprint

conrilutor.

Where final dispesition is not shown or further explanation of charge is daused, com-

muriceir with agency contributing those fingeroints.

Notations incicated by are NO'T based on lingerprints in FBI files but are listod only as irivesti-

ww.staise !bodiassbgsonsa.sieddedsailical with subject of this record.

Ü.S. GOYRAHAXNT RR.MPPu6, GHP138,18918-697-458

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UNITED STATES GO:

ISNT

Memoranaumm

TO

iShC,. BIRKINGHAM

DATE:

3/30/78

TROL :SAC, ST. LOUIS (87-24046) (RUC)

80-27641-

SUBJECT:

UNSUB, aka

Haynona Gibbis,

James C. Green 15 Cero Does,

Linda jacksons:

James Kef,

Lee Bankhead,

Shirley Jackson,

Annie Raytora

Et Al,

Rich Donalasor, o

Junior

Brown,

• James, D.

CONSUMER HONEY ORDER # 49-977841-89550W0

ITSP

00:

BIRMINGHAM

Re:

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF CONSUMER MONEY ORDER (S)

RAISED CONSUMER MONEY ORDER(S)

COUNTERFEIT MONEY ORDER(S)

XX THEFT OF CONSUMER MONEY ORDER(S)

Enclosures were furnished on 3/27/78, byCharles voellinzer

Treasuror, Consumer Money Order Co., St. Louis,.

Mo., who

advised the following:

Initial notification XX Follow-up.

Printed in the amount Of $

•XX Taken in

armed robbery, XX burglary,

sneak

theit or nysteriously disappeared from Nelson Brothers,

324•17th St., North, Birmingham, Alabama

XX There is a potential loss of 511, 600.00

Purchased in a small amount and raised to a

larger amount.

Checkwritei, serial #

was also stolen.

Insure chochwriter is entered into'NCIC when applicable.

This incident was reported to the police.

The money order (s) 11x/were negotiated and submittcà

through normal banking channels to the Bank of lentzville,

"entzville, Mo., for payment and returned as subtokyraised to.

place of negotiation, as shown on enclosed copies of negotiated

money orders..

Any investigation and/or submission of original

specimen to FBI Laboratory is being left to the discretion of

Office of Origin.

St. Louis should not be furnished information

copies of any report gencrated as a result of this invostigation.

87-210616-56

St. Louis

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• PULY 1979 KONICH

UNITED STATES GOV UNMENT

Memorandum

80 : ERE, ST.. IQUIS (62-0)

DATE: 71/8/78

TaiN : ER MARSHALL P. GORHAN

575108: MISCEIIANEOUS

I'FORISTION CONCERNING

JAMES COOPER GREEN, JR.

For information of SAC, GREEN is a Caucasian male,

DOB 1/7/47, FBI $432 338 F., and

from 1/6/70, until ?/11/74,

was under parole supervision of the U.S. Probation and Parole

Office, Cape Girardeau, Mo.

GREEN had been convicted of

ITSAV violation in USDC, Memphis, Tennessee.

On 11/7/78, SA TOM TEYSSIER, BATF, Cape Girardeau,

advised. SA GORHAM that TEYSSIER had a conversation with

GREEN on this date.

GREEN related to TEYSSIER that he (GREEN) •

was to appear before a Congressional committee in the fall of

1979,

which committee was investigating Federal investigative

agencies.

GREEN also

stated that he would reveal that

GORHAM had requested him to break into a juage's house in

Pemiscot County, MO. TEYSSIER obtained no additional

information; however, related GREEN indicated that he would

receive a Presidential pardon.

BATE, Cape Girardeau, is familiar with GREEN aS

GREEN was utilized as an informant in Peniscot County in

ycars 1973 or 1974 to make gun buys.

GREEN subsequently

worked for BATE under undercover Sting operation in Memphis,

Tennessee.

•On 11/8/78, SA DICK HERBERT, BATF, Cape Girardeau,.

Mo., advised that GREEN on 11/8/78, displayed a subpoena to

testify in Washington, D.C., 11/10/78, at 2:00 p.M. before

"DOC

Congressional committee investigating

assassinations and

other matters: GREEN stated that SA GORHAM asked GREEN to

break into Judge RAGLAND'S

house at Caruthersville and this

break-in concerned a piano.

GREEN alleged that he had a

witness regarding this matter.

WILLIAM L. RAGLAND is a

Circuit Judge for New Madrid. and Pemiscot Counties, Mo.

SA GORHAM can recollect only three contacts with

GREEN. The first. contact. was. in the year 1973 or 1974, When

GREEN appeared at the Cape Girardeau RA, while he (GREEN) 62-5097-

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was in Cape Girardeau visiting with U.S. Probation ana Parole

officer CHARLES MATHEWS.

GREEN stated

that he was capable of

getting information regarding criminal activities in Pemiscot

County and appeared to be wanting to be an informant.

NO

attempt was made to develo! GREEN as an informant inasnuch as

he was on Federal parole.

It is possible, however SA GORMAM

has no recollection, that the matter of pianos was discussed

inasmuch as SA DOUGIAS ROSENBERGER (retired) had a 15 case in

1971 or 1972 in which three Caruthersville men, HAROLD HINCHEY,

CLYDE MANLEY, and ENNETT LEE, were convicted for the theft of

a shipment of pianos. All, the pianos in this matter were not.

recovered:

On one other occasion; possibly in 1974, GREEN

again appeared at the RA and all that can be recalled from

this contact was GREEN advising

that he was working for the

U.S. Attorner's Office in Memphis and was seeking a pardon.

=..

•SA GORHAM believes that he observed GREEN several

years ago outside or possibly inside the sheriff's office at

Caruthersville, Mo., and only greetings were exchanged.

• . .

BATF, Cape Girardeau, and U.S. Probation and Parole

Officer CHARLES MATHEWS consider GREEN as

• "unstable."

• Any accusations GREEN makes against SA GORHAM Or

the St. Louis Division of the FBI regarding any illegal

•activities are false.

i See attached for references to JAMES COOPER GREEN

from St. Louis indices.

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GREEN, JAMES COOPER,

JR.

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Lako Loulso,

Out. 4, 1977

210.

=

63070

Todoral Purcau of Invostigation

1520 lariot 5t.

Sto Louis, i0.

63177

Iroasury lapto

1214 sarkot Sto

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6317

Goatlexang

o your agenolos cola haly no find as Individuas

oy tho sans of Dallas

I wondor 15 tars sides Jerry 1111er, plus any othor ellaces he hase

Under tho name lallas Barr he spont a couple of years in tho Fedoral

pricon in Torre Faute Indo for parsing bogus money.

The last time I heard about him ho was sing the name Jerry miller

and tostifiod at tho trail of a nan for nudoring come noman those body ras

fousd 1n Bablos Parko

=...

.. . . ..

I chooked iiith tho St. louls County shoriffs dopt. but dron a blank.

This 1s not a vendotta. I em lallas farrs esafather-in-lan. I haro

no loto for his, but it just happons ho could do one of his younger children&

bIg sorvice if I can talk him into it. At 16a9t I would like to try 1f I cas

find hit.

I till dooply appreciato any holp aither of your agendios can givo

Sinoorly yours,

H. Eterni

62-0-193.50

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Post Office Box 7251,

Main Station

St. Louis, Missouri

63177

October 11, 1977

Mr. H. Eberhardt

Lake Louise,

Missouri

63070

• Dear Mi. Eberhardt:

This will acknowledge receipt of your communication

dated Octobor 4, 1977.

While I would like to be of assistance to you

in this matter, current

regulations prohibit the Federal

Burcau of Investigation

from conducting any investigation

in matters which are not a Federal violation.

Unfortunately

the problons you have experienced do not constitute a matter

within Federal jurisdiction.

Very truly jours,

HARLAN C. PHILLIPS

Special Agent in Charge

Addressee

St. Louis (62-0)

LFC: sfm

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VZCZCHQO279

O0 CE KC ME NO SL SI

DE HQ. 0079 3122049

ZNY EEEEE

0 082019Z NOV 78.

FM DIRECTOR FBI (62-117298)

TO FBI CHICAGO (IMMEDIATE)

FBI KANSAS CITY (IMMEDIATE)

FBI MEMPHIS (IMMEDIATE)

FBI NEW ORLEANS. (IMMEDIATE)

FBI SPRINGFIELD (IMMEDIATE)

FBI ST. LOUIS (IMMEDIATE)

, BT

UNCLAS EFT O

62-5097*

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS CHSCA)

• BUDED NOVEMBER 13, 1978.

HSCA; BY LETTER DATED NOVEMBER 6, 1978, REQUESTED CHAT ALL

FBIHQ AND FIELD OFFICE FILES, BE PROVIDED ON THE FOLLOWING

SUBJECIS:

,55%

Al JAMES COOPER GREEN, AKA JIM GENOVESE

DOB: JANUARY 7; 1947

ADDRESS: ROUTE 2; CARUTHERSVILLE, MISSOURI

64-5097-174

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1. 61-0-14350

B) DALLAS

BARR, AKA' JERRY

MILLER

•DOB: FEBRUARY 1, 1928 OR JANUARY 1, 1929

FBI NUMBER 5.041 865

ON NOVEMBER 8, 01978, MICHAEL EZERHARDT; HSCA; ADVISES THAT

THE COMMITTEE WANTED THE FIELD OFFICES IN CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY,

• SPRINGFIELD AND ST. LOUIS, CHECKED FOR. MATERIAL ON BARR.

EBERHARDT REQUESTED THAI THE FIELD OFFICES IN MEMPHIS;

NEW ORLEANS AND SI. LOUIS BE CHECKED FOR MATERIAL ON'GREEN.

ABOVE-NAMED OFFICES SHOULD REVIEW INDICES AND ANY MATERIAL

FOUND IDENTIFIABLE WITH JAMES COOPER GREEN OR DALLAS BARR, IN.

THE APPROPRIATE FIELD OFFICE, SHOULD BE DUPLICATEL AND ONE COPY

FURNISHED BY COVER AIRIEL TO CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT, RECORDS

MANAGEMENI DIVISION, FBIHQ, BY NOVEMBER 13, 1978. ANY POTEN-

TIAL PROBLEMS IN COMPLYING WITH DEADLINE SHOULD BE TELE-

PHONICALLY RESOLVED WITH CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT.

BT.

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GREET, JAMES COOPER,

JR.

67

b.

1-7-47,

Kennett,

k0.

FBI #432

: 338

GREEN, JAMES COOPER JR.

FBI# 432338F

tui

GREEN, JAMES COOPER

No desc.

44-200kKs

152-01

4/65

1/68

15-17227-63

1-?1

44-700*

GREEN, JAMES COOPER

FBI# 432338F

NOY

17:

25-77227-63

GREEN, JAMES C.

87-24046-56

APR

1378

NO DESC.

00 BH

610'

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MITLER, JERRY

Hr 0 0

137-7675*

Aka of Henri William Millard

w. M. B. 6-11-41,

seattle, Wash,

• FBI # 241 452 C

NI

MILLER, JERRY

91-3927*

aka David Lynn JoNson

1967

wm, b. 7-9-40; 9-28-38, Pottland,

Amte 332, 200n tana

oregon;

201 D

IO 3 4204

NI

MILLER, JERRY

aka of Jerry Lynn Young

91-3736#

Ach 67

FBI #-909 609D

dob 10-2-42, Russellville, Ala.

WF # 410

I0 # 4089

NI

MILLER, JERRY

MAY 6 7

aka of GERALD FLOYD MILEER

W, m, b. 5-31-24, Danville, Ill.

88-7153*

NI

HILTER, JERRY

Aka of Haruld Loya Joyce

SEP 59•

W. Me B. 7-2-24, Hammond, Ind.

FBI # : 345 174.

Cc i 21

47-3580*

NI

MILLER, JERRY

42-8821*

aka of Jerry Lee Millel, or.

wm; dob 1-23-43, Muskogee,

MSN 197 5969

"Orla. NI

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Airtel

11/7/78.

TỎ :

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-117290)

(ATTN:

CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT,

RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION)

FROM:

SAC, SI. LOUIS (62-5097)

SUBJECT:

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

BUDED.: 11/9/78

Re Bureau teletype to St. Louis, 11/7/78.

Enclosed herewith is one copy each of Serials 14 -

150 inclusive and one copy of Serial IA-1, all from SI file

100-17801 captioned "MARTIN LUTHER RING, JR.; SM - C".

A review of the enclosed serials will reveal that

several permanent charge-outs are in this file revealing the

tact that certain serials have been previously furnished to

FBIHQ and are no longer available, nor are copies of those

serials available, to the St. Louis Office.

The following additional comments are offered for

the benefit of the Bureau:

Serial 33 is a newspaper clipping dated 3/21-22/64.

Serial. 35 is SI airtel to the Bureau dated 3/25/64 captioned

"COMMUNIST PARTY, USA, NEGRO QUESTION, COMMUNIST INFLUENCE

IN RACIAL MATTERS, INTERNAL SECURITY - C". Between these two

serials is a form captioned "Metropolitan Police Department,

City of st. Louis, Vehicular Accident Report".

This accident

report is Serial 34; however, the blockstamp and serializa-

tion information appears on the reverse of page 1 of this

report and is not reproduced in the enclosure.

2 - Bureau (Enc - 2)

(2 - St. Louis

(0 62-5097 & 1- 100-17801)

JES: kmt

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SL 62-5097

Serial 52 is missing. St. Louis cannot determine

at this time whether Serial 52 was inadvertently skipped in

the serializing process or was permanently charged out and

sent to the Bureau without a permanent charge-out being

submitted to the file.

Between Serials 55 and 57 is a photograph over

AT COMMUNIST TRAINING SCHOOL". This is Serial 56 which was

blockstamped and serialized on the reverse side and is not

Between Serials 125 and 126 is an unserialized

memorandum dated 6/23/66

frOm SA RICHARD BOYD SMITH to the

SAC captioned "A Citizen's White Paper; Info Concerning".

This memorandum was apparently inadvertently skipped in

serializing.

Serial 131 is Chicago airtel to the Bureau dated

3/28/67 enclosing an LHM. That IHM is dated 3/28/67 at

Illinois and bears the following dual captions

CHARTIN LUTHER KING, JR., RACIAI MATTER; DEMONSTRATIONS,

CHICAGO FREEDOM MOVEMENT (CEM) - SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADER-

SHIP CONFERENCE (SCIC), CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, RACIAL MATTER"•

That LHM is Serial 130; however, is blockstamped and

serialized on the reverse of page l and is not reproduced

herewith.

Serial 134 is St. Louis airtel to the Bureau

dated 7/18/67 captioned "CP - USA, POLITICAL ACTIVITY, IS - C,

CINAL,". That airtel enclosed an LIM dated 7/18/67 at St.

Louis,

Missouri captioned "NEW POLITICS".

The LHM was not

serialized separately in this file as it should have been

and, therefore, bears no serial number.

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vicornor t

PP SL

DE 42

11: 111305

ZAY 15t54

P ATIOGIZ: NOY 75

FM DIRECIOR FDJ (62-117297)

TO FEL SI, LOUIS COO-ITBRNS PRIGGITY

UNCLOS EFTO.

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSIUGTIONE CHECA).

AGaLO ROVRMBER 9, 1778$

DO LET, OR OCDOSER SI, 19784 THE MOOR, MI'M IS GENRUCTIN.

INVEO ISTO ME MUE OF CAR IN LO HER KINGO NOr

HANUT SATEGOT-LO IT TO GIROT OLS ANGA NO A92A97G0 C613.0635

TIED AS LAG CECURITY, FOR THEMERIOR COING JANUARY 10S.

HAOUCH DECEMBER, TOSS." AGOING TO A PREVIOUS LIVEERORY OF

KING FILES PY FUI LIADUAT ERE (FBINO), E O LUIS FILES.

•CERLAL CONTAINCO I FILE 107-17821 FOR THE R 9197

JANUARY Y,

19SU, THACUCH DECEMBER SUE I90CO FORMAR TAGGERN TO NEECA

INGROWAVA GROSSE CLINA KINONT HUNGISCALONOS NOLENZILE •CHTAN

67-5097-172

SEALED AL NIEX

_ INDEXEL

NOV 7 1978

E2I-ST. LOUIS

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1,

FD-36 (Rev. 5-22-78)

TRANSMIT VIA:

* Teletype

] Facsimile

FBI

PRECEDENCE:

• Immediate

• Priority

Routine

CLASSIFICATION:

• TOP SECRET

O SECRET

• CONFIDENTIAL

UNCLAS EFT O

• UNCLAS

Date

11/6/78

5763

9110

FM ST. LOUIS (62-5097)

TO DIRECTOR (62-117290) ROUTINE ATTN: CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT,

RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION

BT

UNCLAS E F TO

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

RE BUTEL TO SL. 10/31/78.

RUSSELL BYERS, 9329 FREDERIC COURT, ROCK HILL, MO., WAS INTER-

VIEWED AT HIS RESIDENCE 11/6/78. BYERS SAID HE HAS BEEN INTERVIEWED

BY HSCA RE DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.. BYERS STATED THAT THE SCA

COMMITTEE DID NOT QUESTION HIM ABOUT PROVIDING CONFIDENTIAL INFOR-

MATION TO THE FBI UNTIL 10/16/78 WHEN (FNU) EBERHARDT (PHONETIC),

HSCA ATTORNEY, CAME TO ST. LOUIS AND MET WITH BYERS AND BYER'S ATTOR-

NEX. EBERHARDT ASKED BYERS IF BYERS HAD EVER BEEN CONVICTED AND WHAT

SENTENCE HE RECEIVED. BYERS TOLD EBERHARDT THAT BYERS HAD A CONVIC-

TION IN 1967 AND RECEIVED PROBATION. EBERHARDT ASKED BYERS WHY BYERS

WOULD RECEIVE PROBATION AND ASKED BYERS IF IT WASN'T TRUE THAT BYERS

HAD RECEIVED PROBATION IN RETURN FOR BYERS PROVIDING INFORMATION TO

THE FBI CONCERNING THE KING ASSASSINATION. BYERS TOLD EBERHARDT THAT

THAT WAS NOT TRUE. EBERHARDT ASKED IF BYERS HAD PROVIDED INFORMATION

TO THE FBI AND BYERS TOLD EBERHARDT THAT HE HAD BEEN INTERVIEWED BY

THE

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TRANSMIT VIA:

• Teletype

Facsimile

FBI

PRECEDENCE:

• Immediate

• Priority

• Routine

CLASSIFICATION:

• TOP SECRET

SECRET

CONFIDENTIAL

O UNCLAS EF TO

• UNCLAS

Date

5763

PAGE TWO SL (62-5097) UNCLAS E F T O

FBI MANY TIMES. BYERS EXPLAINED TO INTERVIEWING SA THAT BYERS HAD

NEVER ACCEPTED ANY MONEY FROM THE FBI ALTHOUGH IT WAS OFFERED AND NEVER

CONSIDERED HIMSELF A "SNITCH" OR "INFORMANT." EBERHARDT ASKED BYERS

TO SIGN A "FORM 59" SO THAT EBERHARDT COULD OBTAIN BYER'S FBI FILES.

BYERS REFUSED TO SIGN THE FORM AND GAVE EBERHARDT NO INFORMATION RE-

GARDING CONTACTS BY THE FBI. BYERS TOLD EBERHARDT HE WOULD CONSIDER

SIGNING THE FORM IF EBERHARDT WOULD GUARANTEE BYERS WOULD NOT HAVE TO

REAPPEAR IN WASHINGTON, WHICH EBERHARDT WOULD NOT GUARANTEE. BYERS

SAID HE DID NOT READ THE FORM AND ASKED INTERVIEWING SA WHAT FORM 59

WAS AND IT WAS REQUESTED BYERS REFER THAT QUESTION TO EBERHARDT. BYERS

INDICATED THAT HE DID NOT WANT TO SIGN ANY FORM WHICH MAY CAUSE HIM

TO BE INVOLVED IN FURTHER TESTIMONY IN THIS MATTER. BYERS VOLUNTEERED

THAT HE HAD RECENTLY BEEN SUBPOENAED TO REAPPEAR BEFORE THE HSCA IN

LATE NOVEMBER.

BYERS SAID HE HAS RESIDED AT 9329 FREDRIC COURT SINCE APPROXIMATELY

1967 AND AT 9832 MADISON (1 MILE FROM CURRENT RESIDENCE) FOR ABOUT 4 -

YEARS BEFORE THAT.

INDICIES AND FILE REVIEW AT SL FAILS TO DISCLOSE BYERS FURNISHED

ANY INFORMATION TO FBI EXCEPT AS NOTED IN SI 137-16541 (FBIHQ HAS COPY)

AND INTERVIEW OF BYERS ON 9/29/75 IN SL 92-2104. THE 9/29/75 INTER-

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TRANSMIT VIA:

Teletype

Facsimile

FBI

PRECEDENCE:

• Immediate

• Priority

• Routine

CLASSIFICATION:

• TOP SECRET

7 SECRET

CONFIDENTIAL.

• UNCLAS EFT O

O UNCLAS

Date

911°

PAGE THREE SL (62-5097) UNCLAS E F T 0

VIEW CONCERNED BYERS KNOWLEDGE OF RAYMOND L SCHARF, BYERS FORMER

EMPLOYER WHO WAS CONVICTED IN 1976. IT IS NOTED THAT BYERS CO-OPER-

ATION DURING THIS INTERVIEW WAS BASIS OF OPENING 137-FILE.

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FD-350 (Rev. 10-19-77)

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

Tane Says FBI Agents

Involved In King Slaying

By Karl Evanizz

who took the life of Dr.

evidence.

ARGUS, Washington:

Hẹ

King."

adaeu,

however, that his investi-

Corresponding

The veteran civil rights

gators are pursuing one

leader said that although

lead provided by. Lane.

Washington As he

he was

not sold on the

promised at the recent

The House

wedding of James Earli

Rạ Ye

Jr.,

the

mạn

accused and convicted.of

the assassination:.of slain

civil rights. leader Dr.

Martin Luther King, Jr...

Mark Lane has reportedly

• told. House investigators

have involved Ray, but

certainly there were other

slayings: earlier this fall,

persons involved."

sis. set ito résume the

hearings in a few. weeks,

Rep. Walter Fauntroy,

-(D-D.O.): chairman, of the

that former and off-duty

agents.of the Federalf said he was, not overly

Bureau of Investigation:

impressed with Lane's the last-time.

actually assassinated,

King-

Lane, Ray's attorney

and co-author (along with;

activist Dick Gregory) of

"Code Zorro: The: Assa-

ssination of Dr. Martin

Luther King, JE.,

fused

ito go into

detail.

about. the eyidence, He

promised: to release

it if

the House panel doesn't

insthe near future,

King confidant Ralph

D: Abernathy and. Repr

Louis Stokes (D-Qhio)

accompanied Lane to the

meeting. Stokes, who is a

member of the House

Assassinations subcom:

mittee investigating John

F. Kennedy's and King'S

assassination; would not

comment:

Abernathy, however,

told reporters that the

i" information

that. "Mr.

Lane revealed is that it

livas former FBI agents.

gnd off-duty FBI agents.

(Indicate page, name of

newspaper, city and state.)

3

ST. LOUIS

ARGUS

-

Date: 11/2/78

Edition: Weekly

Title:

HSCA

Character:

or

classication: ST 62-5097

Submitting Office:

02-5092-110

but.

Bil:

NOy&

1978

FBI/

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VZCZCHQ0@45

RR SL

DE HQ

0845 3041724

ZNY EEEEE

• R 3115237 OCT 78

FM DIRECTOR FBI (62-117298)

TO FBI SI. LOUIS ROUTINE

BT

. UNCLAS EF TO

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

HSCA, BY LETTER DATED ÖCTOBER 20, 1978, HAS REQUESTED THAI

SI: LOUIS AND HEADQUARTERS INFORMANT FILES FOR RUSSELL GEORGE

BYERS BE PROVIDED. REASON FOR HSCA INTEREST LIES IN RECENT

, DISCOVERY BY SI. LOUIS OFFICE OF MEMORANDUM IN FILE OF

SL 31S7-C WHICH REPORTED MEETING BETWEEN INFORMANI AND BYERS

DURING WHICH BYERS TOLD INFORMANT OF OFFER MADE TO HIM IO KILL

DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR: HSCA ALLEGEDLY HAS INTERVIEVE:

BYERS ON OCTOBER 16, 1978, CONCERNING THIS MAITER AND REFERENCED

LETTER STATES BYERS "ADVISED THAT HE HAD PREVIOUSLY PROVIDES

INFORMATION TO THE FBI ON A CONFICENTIAL BASIS", HOWEVER, HE

WOULD NOT PROVIDE COMMITTEE WITH WAIVER FOR RELEASE OF HIS

INFORMANT FILES.

the Bus.

Seshe is

0x1/1178

a fe

event

camdect

wauld won

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• HSCA ALLEGES FURTHER THAT DESPITE ABSENCE OF RYERS•

ÁUTHORIZATION, THAT HIS ADMISSION OF HIS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE

FBI ELIMINATES NEED TO PROTECT THE CONFISENTIALITY OF THE

INFORMATION FURNISHED. ADDITIONALLY, HSCA STATES BYERS'

INFORMANI STATUS "RAISES SOME SERIOUS QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE

INVOLVEMENT OF AT LEAST AN FBI INFORMANI IN A CONSPIRACY TO•

KILL DR. KING.".

FBI HEADQUARTERS (FBIHO) IS IN POSSESSION OF A COPY OF

BYERS' ST. LOUIS INFORMANT FILE (SL 137-16541) WHICH REFLECTS

BYERS BEING OPENED OCTOBER 3, 1975, AND CLOSED-BY LETTER

10 FBIHQ, NOVEMBER;, 22, 1976, HAVING FURNISHED INFORMATION ONLY

ON GENERAL CRIMINAL MATTERS. AS SUCH, HSCA'S REQUEST FOR IHIS.

FILE IS CONSIDERED OUTSIDE SCOPE OF THEIR INQUIRY; HOWEVER,.

THIS POSITION CANNOT BE PROMULGATED UNTIL ST. LOUIS OFFICE

PROVIDES ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING BYERS AND HIS

RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FBI.

ST. LOUIS OFFICE IS REQUESTED TO CONTACT RUSSELL GEORGE

BYERS AND ASCERTAIN FROM HIM THE FOLLOWING:

(1) HAS HE BEEN INTERVIEWED BY THE HSCA?.

(2). DIÜ HE REVEAL HIS PAST CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP

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UNCLAS' EFTO

WITH THE FBI?

(3) IF HE DI: REVEAL HIS CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP,

SPECIFICALLY WHAT INFORMATION DI" HE TELL ASCA HE FURNISHED THE

FBI?

(4) THE REASONS FOR REFUSING AUTHORIZATION FOR ASCA TO

REVIEW HIS INFORMANI FILES.

(5) PLACES HE HAS RESITED DURING PERIOD OF 1967 TO THE

PRESENT.

BYERS SHOULD NOT BE APPRISED OF COMMITTEE'S REQUESI TO

REVIEW HIS INFORMANT FILES, NOR SHOULD HE BE ASKED ANY OTHE?

QUESTIONS THAN THOSE LISTED ABOVE•

IN ORDER TO FURTHER REBUT ASCA ALLEGATION, ST. LOUIS IS

REQUESTED TO ASCERTAIN THROUGH APPROPRIATE INDICES SEARCH, FILE

REVIEW, AND OTHER APPROPRIATE MEANS, WHETHER BYERS, PRIOR

TO BEING FORMALLY, OPENED AS SL 3567-PC, FURNISHED ANY INFOR-.

* MATION TO THE FBI. SUTEL RESULTS OF CONTACT WITH BYERS AND

SI: LOUIS FILE

REVIEW TO FBIHQ, ATTENTION: CONGRESSIONAL

INQUIRY UNIT, RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION.

BT

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BYERS, RUSSEIG.

4- 65

10-75

10-75 Corr. Hemo

Aka of Russell George Byers

WM 8-19-31, St. Louis, Ho.

.FBI 101 311 E

137-16541%

137-16541-5

BYERS, RUSSELL

4 65

10-75

137-16541*

10-75 Corrhemo137-16541-5

Aka of Russell George Byers

WM 8-19-31, St. Louis, Mo.

| FBI 101. 311 E

• 874

EYERS, RUSSELI

no desc, data

92-2104-178

OCT

1975

BYERS,

RUSS

4-65

20-75

137-16541%.

10-75 Corr. Hemo 137-16541-5

WM 8-19-31, St. Louis, Mo.

Aka of Russell

George

Byers

FBI IO1 311 E

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BYERS, RUSSELL GEORGE

87-24019-31

NAR

1978

00

SES

AGE STA

BYERS, RUSSEl GEORGE

87-23947*.

wal; b: 9/19/31

resides at 9329 Frederick Ct., Rock, Hil:

00: SL

BYERS, RUSSELt GEORGE

12/75

87-23082-72p2

1 no desc.

ner stabus

BYERS, RUSSELI GEO

5/76

137-16541%

aka Russell George Byers, Russell. G. Byers

wm, be 8/89/19/31, Sto Louis, Hissouri

FBI # 101 311 E

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BYERS,

RUSSELL GEORGE

• 4-65.

10-75

137-165417

10-75 Corr. Hemo

137-16541-5

WM 8-19-31,

St. Louis, Ho.

FBI 101 311 E

FBI #101 311 E DOB 8-19-31

SSAN 496-28-4822

00: SL

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FD-350 (Rev. 10-19-77)

(Mount Clipping in Space Below)

Ray's lawyer says off-duty,

former FBI agents killed King

WASHINGTON (AP): - Mark. Lane, lawyer for

James Earl Ray, gave House investigators Friday what

was described as information that former. and off duty?

-FBI agents assassinated the Rev: Dr. Martin Luther

King Jr:

• Lane refused to disclose publicly: whatever evidence

he might have. He said he would do sorif the House

committee did not.

elegate: Walter. Fauntroy of the District.of Colun

ia, chairman of the House assassinations,subcommi

tee investigating Dr. King's murder, said he was disap

pointed: "My conclusion is that there was no new evi

dence,?

" Fauntroy said;

The Rev, Ralph Dayid Abernathy accompanied Lane

to a meeting with Fauntroy. and 'Rep.Louis Stokes; D

Ohio; chairman of the House assassinations committee

"Afterward, the Rev. Mr. Abernathy said, "The infor

mation, that Mr. Lane revealed is that ithyas.former

FBI agents'and off-duty FBI agents who took the life of

Dr. King."

ainly: there were other persons:involved, in the conspir-

Jacy."

Indicate page, y and State.

newspaper, ‹

16A ST. LOUIS

GLOBE- DEMOCRAT

Date: 10/28-29/78

Edition:

Weekend

Title:

Character:

or

Classification:SL 62-5097

Submitting Office:

62-5097-168

SEARCHED.

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Alrtel

10/24/78

TO:

FROM:

SUBJECT:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-117290)

(ATTN:

CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT,

RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION)

SAC, ST. LOUIS (62-5097)

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS

(HISCA)

BUDED: 10/31/78

Re Bureau teletype to Albany, Kansas City.: •

Seattle, and St. Louis dated 10/23/78.

St. Louis indices contain two references concerning

GEORGE BEN EDMONDSON, aka ALEX BORMANN.

The first reference is on page 5 of Memphis

teletype to Bureau and other offices dated 6/11/77 in case

captioned "JAMES. EARL, RAY, aka Eric Stavro Galt, John Willara,

Harvey Lowneyear, Harvey Lownyer - FUGITIVE; CONSPIRACY TO

COMMIT UFAC - ESCAPEY, 00: Knoxville, Su file 88-10663. •OnE

copy of that teletype 1s enclosed herewith.

The second reference in St. Louis indices is an

index card in the name of ALEXANDER GEORGE BEN EDMONDSON,

SI 137-4674, one copy of which is also enclosed herewith.

À review of that indices card by experienced support personnel

leads to the following conclusion:

~ Bureau (Enc - 2)

1- st. Louis.

JES: Kmt

(3)

STARENED

INDEXED

FILED

62-5090-167

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SI. 62-5097

At the time EDMONDSON became an IO fugitive in

May, 1966, an "88" indices card was prepared indicating

that ALEXANDER GEORGE BEN EDMONDSON was an alias of

GEORGE BEN EDMONDSON whose date of birth was 8/3/37,

Springfield, Missouri, and who was assigned FBI $990

and who was the subject of IO #4011 and wanted flyer #398.

At the time of filing this indices card, a prior reference

to EDMONDSON (SL 137-4674) was consolidated thereon. It

is assumed that sometime during the period that EDMONDSON

was an informant for the Kansas City Division, the St.

Louis Division received a lead to check the National

Personnel Records Center concerning EDMONDSON and, this

being prior to the current method of not opening up full

cases for record checks, a "137" case was opened for the

purpose of checking those records.

At the time the "137"

reference was added to the "88" indices card, the date of

the "137" being opened should have been added also but this

was not done.

Following normal destruction procedures, when

EDMONDSON "'s

"g8" file was destroyed, that number was inked'

out on the indices card leaving only the reference to

137-4674.

Under the old file destruction program (approximately

five years ago), SL file 137-4674 was destroyed and the

Eila

indices card should have been purged; however, the indices

card was inadvertently not destroyed.

The above

described indices card has been purged

from the St. Iouis indices and is being maintained as an

exhibit in captioned file.

_- ..

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ATLANTA IMMEDIATE

BIRMING HAD IMMEDIATE

CHICAGO IMMEDIATE

CLEVELAND IMMEDIATE

DALLAS IMMEDIATE

the

HOUSTON IMMEDIATE

JACKSONVILLE IMMEDIATE

KANSAS CITY IMMEDIATE

XIO XVILLE IMMEDIATE

LOS ANGELES IMMEDIATE

MIAMI IMMEDIATE.

MINNEAPOLIS IMMEDIATE

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NEW ORLEANS IMMEDIATE

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• PAGE TWO ME 88 - 10052 E F

ST • LOUIS IMMEDIATE

SAN FRANCISCO IMMEDIATE

SPRING FIELD IMMEDIATE

BI.

EFTO

SECTION 1 OF 2

JAMES EARL RAYS ARA ERIC STAVRO GALI, JOHN WILLARD, HARVEY

LOWNEYEAR, HARVEY LOWNYER - 'FUGITIVE.

CONSPIRACY ID COMMIT

UFAC - ESCAPE, 00: KNOXVILLE.:

RE KNOXVILLE TELETYPE TO THE BUREAÙ, JUNE 11, 1977.

FOR INTO RECEIVING OFFICES, ON JUNE 11, 1977, COMPLAINT

AUTHORIZED BY USAG GRIFFIN BELL THROUGH SPECIAL ASSISTANT

FREDERICK BARRON AND PREPARED BY AUSA EDWARD WILSON AT KNOXVILLE,

TENNA COMPLAINT FILED BY SA RONALD LO JOHNSON BEFORE USDJ FRANK

Ao KAUFMAN AT KNOXVILLE CHARGING RAY. AND OTHERS IN VIOLATION OF

TITLE 18, USE, SECIION 371, IN UNLAWFULLY, ETCO, CONSPIRING TO

VIOLATE TILE 18, USC, SECTION 10'73. RAY AND COMPANIONS SHOULD

BE HELD WITHOUT BOND. .

AT APPROXIMATELY 7:20 P. MOS

JUNE

10, 1977, RAY, IN THE

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COMPANY OF LARRY EDWARD HACKER, EARL HILL, JRO, DAVID LEE POWELLS

DOUGLAS SHELTON, AND DONALD RAY CAYLOR, ESCAPED BRUSHY MOUNTAIN

STATE PRISON @MSP), PETROS, TENNO, USING A LADDER ON THE OUTSIDE

WALL. FOLLOWING A DISTRACIION OF THE GUARDS BY OTHER PRISONERS.

BASP RECORDS REFLECI JAMES EARL RAY AS WIM, DOB, MAR. 10,

1928, 5'10: 175 LBS., BLACK & GRAY HAIR, BLUE EYES, FAIR COMPLEX.

RECEIVING OFFICES REVIEW RESPECTIVE MURKIN FILES AND SET

FORTH ADDITIONAL LOGICAL LEADS. ',

REVIEW OF FILES OF SUBJECT RAY (YEAR 1968) AT MEMPHIS HAS

CREATED THE FOLLOWING LEADS SET FORIH TO DETERMINE LATEST KNOWN

CONTACIS WITH RAY AND MOSI RECENT INFORMATION OF HIS ACTIVITIESS.

ATLANTA AT DALTON, GA. RAYMOND LOUIS CURTIS, WHITFIELD

COUNTY JAIL, ON APPEAL FOR MURDER AND FORMER MISSOURI STATE

PERITENTIARY (MSP) ASSOCIATE.

:.. AI MARIETIA, GA. LEVIE RAYMOWD

DOW DA 2 COBB CDO JAIL, MSP ..

AI ATLANTA, GA

JIMMIE

DELTON

GARNER, FORMER LANDLORD,

197-14TH STREET N.E.

BIRMINGHAM AT REFORM, ALAO

JA PES

BROWNS FBI

564 9773€

• AT BIRMINGHAM, ALA.

FORMER ATTORNEY ARTHUR HANES:

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MPAGE FOUR ME 88-10052 E F 14O

"IF FEASIBLE, AUTHOR WILLIAM BRADEORD HUTE.

CHICAGO AI JOLIEI, ILLO AT ILLINOIS SIATE PRISON, INMATE

MILTON' DEAN "BUCKY

BATCHEDER, FBI

548 312 B, EX MSPo.

JOSEPH ARAMS, I

AI LAKE ZURICH, ILL. JERRY RAY, BROTHER, BOX 145.

AT CHICAGO, ILLO

MRSO SUSAN (MICHAEL) DONIAN, SISTER,

sero paratia:

3414 BRYN MAMR.

- ISP ASSOCIATES LEE

MIELER 6538 NO TALMAN, OR 3542 SOUTH

PORIS EDWARD PAUL RIVERA, SIS WEST 63RD SIREETE GUS. MARZAHN,

1628 WESI NELSON STREET.

, CLEVELAND AI CLEVELAND, OHID.

LA MES TO BOND, INMATE,

CUYHOGA COUNTY JAILE.

DALLAS AI SEAGOVILLE, TEXAS.

BILLY BROWN AEBY, STARK ROAD,

EX MSP •

HOUSTON AT HOUSTON, TEXAS.

UNIT,. TEXAS SIATE DEPARIMENT OF CORRECTIONS.

JASSONVILLE AI RAIFORD, FLA. LEO BARNETI, FLORIDA STATE

NEAL EDGAR ABBY, EX MSP, RAMSEY

PRI SO No

KANSAS CIIY AI JEFFERSON GITY, 1.

BEN GOO DMAN, SALESMAN,

ВИМОВИМИ

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*PAGE FIVE ME 88-19052 EF I O

'SCHANIZMEYER FORD COMPANY, EX MSP

AJAC

7/72

AT LEAVENWORIH FEDERAL PENITENTIARY.

EX

NSP.

JULIuS

MAURICE BLOCK,

AT MOBERLY, MO., MEN'S

TRAINING CENIER.' EX MSP INMATES

REGGER, 039593 JAMES CE

FLETCHER, 7257L: MILION ZAVALCO FSKI, 81658.

AI WARSAW, MD. JACK FOX DO PHIRES EX MISP.

AI MISSOURI STATE PRISON. INNES RUSSES LEE MARTIN. @8014;

FRANK JOSEPM GO-INAN

6227S BILLY LAARD MILES,

02485; HOWARD

NUM, 6389; RAX PRUETI, 2195; ORLAN-EUGENE ROSE, 72723; JAMES DO

WALLACE, 75682; JERRY WATHE WHITE, 19743, TO BE RELEASED ON

FEDERAL DETAINER,, 1968; JOHN KENNETH HURTI, 75582; JI MY Z.

BRADLEY AND/OR JAMES HARVEY BRADLEY, 71844, WHO PEDDLED,

AMPHETAMINES; JEROME-CARPENTER. 0304 CHIS MOTHER - RAN AWAY WITH

JERRY RAY AI ONE TIME); ERNEST BAGBY: 31013; THOMAS BRITTON :

ig!

THOMAS BEEGHER CREWS, 71845; GEORGE SEN EDMONDSON; MELVIN OLIVER

GRIDLEY; CECIL CLAXTON LILLIBRIDGE, 67755, CLOSE ASSOCLALE

• AT HANSAS CITY, MO.

STERLING JUNIOR HILL. EX MSP, 9104

WALNUT.

55216

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LOS ANGELES AI HOLLYWOOD, CALIF.

MARIE MARINe AKA MARIE

DENI NN

11075 OXNARD STREET, WHO WENT TO NEW ORLEANS WIIH RAY

AND COUSINS NAMED STEIN.

AT LOS ANGELES, CALIFO

-CHARLES AND RIIA STEIN. SUPRAS

5666 FRANKLIN.

pause

CHARLES CALVIN BOOKMAN, FBI 892 355 ROOM 201, BELMONT

19. 0001704

APARTMENIS, 948 SOUTH FIGUERDA, CONTACIED BY RAY FOR MONEY AFTER

KING

ASSASS INATION.

BARTENDERS JAMES

MORRISON, 191i GRACE AVENUE; BO DELMONTE,

• 1229 NORTH BRONSON; DONALD MURPHY, 1729 HUNTLEY DRIVE; RICHARD

or .

GONZALES,

1404 No MANZANITA.

AND FLORENCE THOMPSON, GAYLE DRUM, ALL ST. FRANCIS

HOTEL, 5533 HOLLYWOOD BLUD.

FREDERICK J. ECHWARTZ, 2754 WOODSHIRE DRIVE,

RAY'S COURT

APPOINTED ATTORNEY IN LONDONO

MIAMI AI PALM SPRINGS A FLAS

PAUL

ALVIN LAILO EX MSP, 34

BARBADO SO

• MINNEAPOLIS AI MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. E

_PAUL OSBORN BRIDGEMAN,

EX MSP. APARIMENT 303, 2814 PORILAND DRIVE, WHO GAVE RAY MONEY

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AFTER HIS ESCAPE.*

NEWARK AI NEWARK, NOCO LILLIAN PICKINSON AND MAR ORLE LOUISE

FETTERS, FORMER POI'S AND ASSOCIATIS OF

, GERRY RAY.

NEW ORLEANS AT GREINA, LAA NARIE LEE, 2001 CLAIRE AVENUE,

SAW RAY IN NEW ORLEANS.

OKLAHOMA CITY AT FOLSOM SIATE PENITENTIARY •

HAROLD DEAN

PP

EX MSP s

ST • LOUIS AT CENTER,

MO..

JERR

AT MAPLEWOOD, MOO

RAYNESE, ROUTE 2, FATHER.

MRS A

CAROL (ALBERT) PEPPER, 2925 OR 4025

BELLEVUE STREET.

AT SI. LOUIS,

110.

JOHAS LARRY RAY, 1982 ARSENAL, BROTHER.

EX MP. ASSOCIATES

CARL BENTON DRAKE, 2634 SI: VINCENI,

TWICE CALLED BY RAY AFTER KING KILLING.

JAMES EDWARD "TED

RICHARDGON AND jOHN EUGENE GAWRONg 1807

SOUTH LITH STREET.

LOWN DAUL VELANTI SVALANTI, SOUIN IBTH STREETO:

JANES LAOMA OVENS, 308A FOLSON AVENUE, OR RURAL ROUTE 3i Juphy

SUNRISE LAKE, DESPIO, NO.

ORVIL ERNEST GANN, DISMAS HOUSE. BT

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EDMONDSON, ALEXANDER GEORGE BEN

MAY

aka of George Ben Eamondson

dob 8-3-37, Springfield, Mo.

: FBI #. 990

• 987B

, IO # 4011

WF# 398

6 6

Samas

137-4674#

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VZCZCHQOIID

PP AL KC SL SE

DE HQ

0110 2962255

ZNY EEEEE

P 2321337 OCT 78

FM DIRECTOR FBI (62-117298)

TO FBI ALBANY PRIORITY

FBI KANSAS CITY PRIORITY

FBI SEATTLE PRIORITY

FBI SI. LOUIS PRIORITY

BT

UNCLAS E F'T O

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA)

BUREAU DEADLINE OCTOBER 31, 1978.

AUGUS I 3,_1937, WAS OPÉRATED AS AN INFORMANT. FOR THE KANSAS CITY

DIVISION DURING 1958-1959 AND WAS REOPENED FOR A BRIEF PERIOD IN:

1968, (BUREAU FILE 137-77.38). EDMONDSON WAS ALSO A BUREAU TOP-

TEN-FUGITIVE FROM JUNE 20, 1966, IO JUNE 28, 1967, WHEN HE WAS

APPREHENDED. IN QUEBEC CANADA (RETURNED TO UNITED STATES THROUGH

ALBANY DIVISION). WHILE IN PRISON AT THE MISSOURI STATE

16/23/18

0.7

5097-164

Or:T 2: 1978

LONE

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PAGE TWO DE HQ DID UNCLAS E F I.

PENITENTIARY, HE FURNISHED INFORMATION REGARDING VARIOUS MEANS

THAT ONE COULD UTILIZE IN GAINING ENTRY INTO CANADA, PROCURING

PASSPORTS, AND METHODS OF GOING BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THE .

UNITED STATES AND CANADA WHEN IN A FUGITIVE STATUS.

IN CONNECTION WITH ITS INVESTIGATION INTO THE ASSASSINATION

OF MARTIN LUTHER KING; JR., THE HSCA HAS BEEN INTERESTED IN THE

ACTIVITIES OF EDMONDSON, WHO WAS A FELLOW INMATE OF JAMES EARL

RAY PRIOR TO RAY•S ESCAPE IN 1967. THE HSCA RECENTLY LOCATED

AND INTERVIEWED EDMONDSON AI ROUTE 2, WALLA WALLA, WASHINGTON.

EDMONDSON FURNISHED THE COMMITTEE A SIGNED WAIVER AUTHORIZING

HSCA ACCESS TO ALL MATERIAL UNDER CONTROL OF THE FBI CONCERNING

HIM, INCLUDING INFORMANT OR CONFIDENTIAL SOURCE FILES.

• CURRENTLY, BUREAU POLICY INVOLVING A SIGNED HSCA WAIVER OF

THIS TYPE IS TO OBTAIN OUR OWN WAIVER IN ORDER TO PROTECT

AGAINST CIVIL SUITS. SEATTLE SHOULD PROMPTLY INTERVIEW

EDMONDSON (NOW USING THE NAME ALEX BORMANN, INFORM HIM OF.

RECEIPT OF THE HSCA WAIVER AND OBTAIN ANOTHER SIGNED WAIVER.

THIS WAIVER SHOULD BE WORDED TO AUTHORIZE THE FBI TO RELEASE ALL

INFORMATION IN ITS POSSESSION CONCERNING HIM INCLUDING THOSE

RECORDS PERIAINING TO HIS CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP. THIS

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D

UNCLAS EF TO

WAIVER SHOULD ALSO STATE THAT EDMONDSON UNDERSTANDS THESE FILES

• WILL DISCLOSE TO THE ASCA ANY CONFIDENTIAL RELATIONSHIP HE MAY

HAVE HAD WITH THE FBI. SEATTLE SUBMIT TELETYPE REGARDING

RESULTS OF CONTACT WITH EDMONDSON AND

FORWARD WAIVER, IF

OBTAINED; TO FBI HEADQUARTERS (FBIHQ) BY COVER AIRTEL.

ALL RECIPIENTS CONDUCT FILE REVIEW FOR ALL RETRIEVABLE

INFORMATION CONCERNING EDMONDSON

FOR THE PERIOD JANUARY 1,

1957, 10

PRESENT. FURNISH FBIHQ ONE LEGIBLE COPY OF EACH FILE

AND SERIAL RETRIEVED. FORWARD MATERIAL BY COVER AIRTEL TO

FBIHQ, ATTENTION: CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY UNIT, RECORDS MANAGE-

MENT DIVISION. IF YOUR REVIEW DETERMINES FILES CONCERNING

EDMONDS ON: HAVE BEEN DES IROYED, FURNISH THE DATE AND BASIS OF

DESTRUCTION. IN VIEW OF HSCA PUBLIC HEARINGS WHICH ARE

SCHEDULED FOR EARLY NOVEMBER, 1978, THIS MATERIAL SHOULD REACH

•FBIHQ BY OCTOBER 31, 1978=

BT

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==

Airtel

10/12/78

TO :

DIRECTOR, FBI

662-1172907

(ATTN:

FOI-PA BRANCH, RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION)

FROM:

SAC, SI. LOUIS (62-5097)

SUBJECT: FOIA REQUEST CONCERNING RUSSELI G. BEYERS

Re. Bureau telcall to St. Louis, 10/12/78.

Enclosed herewith are one copy each of the

following:

Memorandum (1 page) from Supervisor JAMES I.

dated 7/27/78 captioned "House

and

Memorandum (1 page) from SA MARTIN JOHN WEBER

to the SAC, St. Louis; dated 8/10/78 captioned "Former

SL 3549-PCI"

2 - Bureau (Enc - 2)

ZES: Kmt

•- St. Louis.

(3) p

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t2 ia 10. 12/in

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& AIRTEL

10/3/78

TO :

FROM:

DIRECTOR, FBI (62-117290)

SAC, LOUISVILLE (66-2612)

SUBJECT: HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE

SOUSE OT EISEEESTATIVES

Re St. Louis teletype to the Bureau and Louisville,

dated 10/3/78.

inclosed herewith for the Burezu is the original an

wo (2) copies of sell-explanatory sworn affidavit socured iro

SA JOHN P. JOYCE as requested by referenced communication.

Inclosed herewith for St. Louis is one copy of above

lescribed affidavit for informational purposes inasmuch as si

OYCE, who is assigned to the St. Louis Division, is currentl

on special assignment within the Louisville Division.

2. - Bureau (Enc. 3)

@ = St. Louis (62-3007) (Inc.pty"

1 - Louisville

EVA/jt

(1)

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AREIDAVIT

I, John P. Joyce, being duly sworn, execute the

following affidavit:

I am

a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of

Investigation (FBI); St. Louis Division, St. Louis, Missouri.

On August 2, 1978, along with Special Agent Dennis D. Mattes,

FBI, St. Louis Division, St. Louis, Missouri, I interviewed Oliver

Patterson, Jr. at his residence, 12350 Old Halls Ferry Road,

Black Jack, Missouri.

I have never had any contact with any media representatives

concerning the intervier with Oliver Patterson, Jr., nor did I

reveal to Patterson that the House Select Committee on Assassinations

(HSCA) may be the source of any information concerning the interview.

During the interview with Patterson; I did ask him if

he was familiar with, or have any knowledge of, a man by the name

of Clarence Haynes, This question was directed to Patterson in

order to ascertain Haynes! whereabouts in order to inform Haynes

and local law enforcement agency, as expeditiously as possible,

that retaliatory action may be taken against Haynes.

I did not inform Patterson directly that Haynes may be

the victim of a retaliatory act, however,

due to the line of

questioning, I believe Patterson came to this conclusion.

John: P.

Rile lagre

swoin to and subscribed. before

me this 3rd day

of october,

1978,

at Louisville, Kentucky

encomin

0

Benjamin B.

Cooke, Special Agent

in Charge, FBI, Louisville,

Kentucky

witaess:

Edmund Cumente 10/3/28.

Special Agent,

Louisville, Kentucky

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XX Airtel

10/3/78

TO:

FROM:

DIRECTOR, FBI

SAC, ST. LOUIS (62-5097)

SUBJECT: HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE

ON ASSASSINATIONS. (HSCA) ,

U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Re Bureau teletype to SL, SI, and RC dated 9/29/78.

All Special Agents who had access to information

furnished in Bureau teletypes described in referenced teletype

advised they had no media contacts regarding that information.

OLIVER PATTERSON, JR. was interviewed by Special

Agents DENNIS D. MATTES and JOHN P. JOYCE, both St. Louis

Division. Enclosed herewith is original affidavit of SA

MATTES.

SA JOYCE is currently on Special assignment in the

Louisville Division.

By teletype dated 10/3/78 to FBIHQ and

Louisville, SAC, Louisville, was requested to secure affidavit

from SA JOYCE.

-, Bureau

(Enc - 1)

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AFFIDAVIT

I, Dennis D. Mattes, being duly sworn, execute the

following affidavit:

I am a Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation,

St. Louis Division, St. Louis, Missouri.

On August 2, 1978, along with Special Agent John P. Joyce,

Federal Bureau of Investigation, St. Louis Division, St. Louis,

Missouri, I interviewed Oliver Patterson, Jr. at his residence,

12350 Old Halls Ferry Road, Black Jack, Missouri.

I had no contacts with media representatives about the

above interview.

During this interview with Patterson, I did not identify

House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) as the source

of any

information.

During this interview with Patterson, I asked him if he

one Clarence Edgar Haynes. Patterson replied in the negative. •

Missouri employment of Haynes in order

that appropriate St.

Missouri law enforcement authorities could be advised of

possible retaliation attempts against Haynes. I did not mention

Haynes' name as being in danger of retaliation to Patterson.

Affiant Dennis (1 /V'attin

Jworn to and sabscribed befor

me This

2 day of October, 1978 at USt. Cois, Minouri.

John 7 Stanley

Assistent Special Agest in Charge

Witness fain Feet, in gut, louis, 0, 143/28

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FD-36 (Rev. 3-24-77)

TRANSMIT VIA:

Xx Teletype

Facsimile

FBI

PRECEDENCE:

• Immediate

IX Priority

Routine

CLASSIFICATION:

• TOP SECRET

O SECRET

O CONFIDENTIAL

XXE FT O

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Date - 10/3/78

5760/

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FM ST. LOUIS (62-5097)

TO DIRECTOR ROUTINE

LOUISVILLE ROUTINE

1712

PRIORITY 152,5

BT

UNCLAS E FT O

HOUSE SELECT COMMITTEE ON ASSASSINATIONS (HSCA), U.S. HOUSE OF

REPRESENTATIVES.

BY TELETYPE DATED SEPTEMBER 29, 1978, THE BUREAU ADVISED AS

FOLLOWS: "REBUTEL TO ST. LOUIS AND SPRINGFIELD DATED AUGUST 4, 1978,

ENTITLED "JERRY RAY; POSSIBLE OOJ."

"ALSO REBUTEL TO ST. LOUIS, SPRINGFIELD AND KANSAS CITY DATED

AUGUST 4, 1978, ENTITLED "JERRY RAY; NELSON STONEY, AKA; UNSUB, AKA;

BANK ROBBERY SUSPECTS. "

"ON SEPTEMBER 27, 1978, THE DIRECTOR RECEIVED A LETTER FROM G..

ROBERT BLAKEY, CHIEF COUNSEL AND DIRECTOR OF CAPTIONED COMMITTEE

ALLEGING THAT THE BUREAU IN HANDLING INFORMATION FURNISHED BY THE

COMMITTEE ENDANGERED THE SOURCE WHO FURNISHED THIS INFORMATION TO THE

JFS: cms

as St. Louis

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TRANSMIT VIA:

• Teletype

Facsimile

FBI

PRECEDENCE:

[ Immediate

• Priority

• Routine

CLASSIFICATION:

• TOP SECRET

DJ SECRET

CONFIDENTIAL

DEFTO

• CLEAR

Date

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PAGE TWO SI 62-5097 UNCLAS EFTO

COMMITTEE.

"THE NECESSARY BACKGROUND INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS MATTER

WILL BE FOUND IN THE REFERENCED TELETYPES.

"SACS ST. LOUIS, SPRINGFIELD AND KANSAS CITY ARE REQUESTED TO

INTERVIEW ANY SPECIAL AGENTS WHO HAD ACCESS TO THE INFORMATION FUR-

NISHED IN REFERENCED TELETYPES AS TO ANY MEDIA CONTACTS REGARDING

THIS INFORMATION. ANY EMPLOYEE HAVING SUCH CONTACT WITH THE MEDIA

CONCERNING THIS INFORMATION IS TO FURNISH AN AFFIDAVIT AS TO THE

DETAILS OF THE CONTACT.

"SACS ST. LOUIS AND SPRINGFIELD ARE REQUESTED TO HAVE AFFIDAVITS

SUBMITTED BY THE SPECIAL AGENTS WHO CONTACTED OLIVER PATTERSON AND

CLARENCE HAYES REGARDING ANY CONTACT WITH MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES.

THESE AFFIDAVITS SHOULD ALSO COVER WHETHER DURING THE INTERVIEW WITH

PATTERSON AND HAYNES THE COMMITTEE WAS IDENTIFIED AS THE SOURCE OF

THIS INFORMATION. THE INTERVIEWING AGENTS ARE ALSO 'REQUESTED TO

COMMENT ON WHETHER PATTERSON'S NAME WAS MENTIONED AS ALSO BEING IN

DANGER DURING THE INTERVIEW WITH HAYNES. AND DURING THE INTERVIEW OF

PATTERSON WHETHER HAYNES' NAME. WAS MENTIONED. IF SO, REASON FOR

DOING SHOULD BE FURNISHED.

"IT IS TO BE NOTED THAT THE COMITTEE ADVISED PATTERSON THAT

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TRANSMIT VIA:

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FBI

PRECEDENCE:

I Immediate

• Priority

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• TOP SECRET

0 SECRET

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THE BUREAU WOULD CONTACT HIM, PRIOR TO HIS CONTACT BY THE INTER-

VIEWING SPECIAL AGENTS. THESE INTERVIENS ARE TO BE GIVEN EXPEDITIOUS

HANDLING.

"ANY QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS MATTER ARE TO BE HANDLED TELE-

PHONICALLY WITH SA GEORGE KEENAN, CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIVE DIVISION,

EXTENSION 4195. "

OLIVER PATTERSON WAS INTERVIEWED BY SPECIAL AGENTS DENNIS D.

MATTES AND JOHN P. JOYCE ON AUGUST 2, 1978, AT BLACK JACK, MO.

AFFIDAVIT HAS BEEN SECURED FROM SA MATTES AND WILL BE SUBMITTED TO

FBIHQ VIA AIRTEL. SA JOYCE CURRENTLY ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT AT

LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY.

SAC LOUISVILLE REQUESTED TO SECURE AFFIDAVIT FROM SA JOYCE AND

SUBMIT SAME TO FBIHQ.

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