KING ASSASSINATION AND USIB

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06485482
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: September 27, 2017
• Case Number: F-2012-02055
• Publication Date: April 26, 1968

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A. General:
1. Request that the Federal Bureau of Investigation
give a full report to USIB on
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.on the status of the investigation of the assassination
of Dr. 'Martin Luther King, Jr.
B. Specific:
1. Is there any indication that Ray has left the
USA?
. If so, ,when, to what country or area, and by what
means and route?
3. Is there any indication that Ray had in the past
travelled outside the United States other than the
� October - November 1967 trip to Mexico as Galt?
. Is there any indication that Ray had been issued a
�U. S. passport under his true name or any of his
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5. there any Indication that Ray had any connection
with any foreign intelligence service? If so, please
.provide all possible details.
6. Is there any indication that Ray had any connection
with foreigners in the United States, especially
Cubans and Soviets?
7. 'Did Ray have. any Communist connections?:,
Did Ray ever express any interest in COrnmunism?
Did Ray ev- r indicate any interest in Cuba. Castro,
� or. the. Cuban revolution?
/10. Does it appear that Ray had any accomplices? If
so, have any been identified?
any
it Has the FBI identified/of Ray's clo e friends or
associates?
12. Have any contacts made by Ray in Mexico during
October/November 1967 been identified?
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13. If . any accomplices, associates,. Or contacts have
been identified, are any of them Communists or
associated with Communists, foreign officials, or
foreign intelligence services?
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14. Does the FBI think that Ray was hired to assassinate
King?
5. If so, is there any indication that Communists or
a foreign power were involvPd?
of any of the � SZO bills used by Ray to purchase the .
� rifle and make other payments?:
..17. On 19 April 1968 CIA' 'furnished to the :FBI .photographs
(b)(1)
taken in October 1967 (b)(3)
of' an unknown individual resembling Ray. Has
the FBI determined Whether or not this person is
possibly identical with Ray?
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