CABLE ON THE INITIAL DETAILS OF JAMES EARL RAY'S ARREST.
Agency: CIA
Originator: CIA
Document date: 6/8/68
Document type: PAPER-TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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* Initial details of Ray's arrest.

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

USES ADMIT ANYTHING, AS OF Z0GE HOURS S JUNE LOCAL FBI HAD NOT

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

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

EFFECTS.

2. BELIEVE BRITISH SPECIAL BRANCH OFFICER AT AIRPORT

SHUNE RECOGNIZED RAY FROM PHOTOS FBI HAD FURNISHED.

3.. FBI HERE APPARENTLY BELIEVES RAY HAS BEEN "FLOATING

AROUND EUROPE® SINCE ARRIVAL FROM TORONTO 7 MAY. FBI HAD BEEN

TRYING FOLLOW UP EARLIER LEAD RAY HAD BEEN TRYING ARRANGE EST

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

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