MEMO RE JAMES EARL RAY #541 245.

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Records Related to the Assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 00490058
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: July 16, 2025
• Publication Date: December 12, 1975

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CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROW*
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
SUBJECT: James Earl Ray
#541 245
12 December 1975.
1. On 12 December 19754aLft,erveElTet of the aeview
Staff asked for a file check on -nines 17- ay, in response
to an informal inquiry, from Senate Select Committee Staff
member Patrick Shea. The SSC is studying FBI activities,
including the King assassination and the recently publicized
Hoover/King controversy.
2. The bulk of Ray's file consists of news media
material. There are two State Department cables reporting
information on his extradition from England and two memo-
randa regarding Ray's first lawyer, Arthur J. Hanes. (Hanes
was a confidential correspondent for the Office of Security
from 1952 to 1959 and was on the OGC cleared Attorney Panel
in 1961. He was identitied in news media as a former con-
tract employee of CIA.)
3. tr�illerfwill advise Shea of the above, and the
fact that ad no file on Ray prior to the King assassina-
tion. A formal request is not expected and no further action4p4,04.4.
necessary at this time.
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