Dear Jimmy, 1/2/ao Hauty response to your 12/2W/9, before it can get lost in the stacks of stuff

I have al over tb, pinee.

I do have both of the documents to which you refer and 1 believe others like them. It may be that I forced the coacittee to use thee° they did by my giving them to thi press and using then on a Washington TV ahoe right after Fiat tentified.

itecovering the pay not be easy, however, because I have not trees able to keep keep up pith my filing. I can't even count the number on stacks of thinge awaiting doing.

.7o if and when you feel you have a need, please -7et "Ark to make the request. know him as you appear not to and I don't want to do anything that can be mis-

inter:voted in any way'. this is why I let Carol send you what I thought would interest you. You should have more by now, what Jerry just/aseumed his "holy man" was responsible for but wasn't.

I can't recall why that Alton record is feellier but it is. I still rope to get all those records.

Tha nem oa th-, 4/2 motel 1.1 the DeSeto. I have not found any record of their checking there as I know they did.

Thanks for your good wishes. Ever thin in going about as well no I can expect. The last time I saw you was the first time I was released to travel after hoepital-ization for thrombosis, both legs and thighs. Since then problems with the arteries have been diagnosed. But nonetheless I manage to make out.

Liinoerely,

1arold Weisberg

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James E. Ray-65477 3.M.P.

Petros,tn. 37845.

Dear Harold:

I have recently been reading the Volumes reflecting the "Select Committee" final report. In one Volume Viii, I read a FBI document dated 17 July 1968 introduced by Jim reading:

"Subject, meaning James Earl Ray, refused to see two

Scotland Yard officers June 14 last and said he would also refuse to see the FBI if they asked to see him. Yard officers made reauest to see him in an effort to ascertain his activities in London from May 17 to June 8. Subject not saying anything significant to Warders as he believes they are trying to extract information for the police. Vol. VI11, p. 606.

If you have a copy of this document I would very mush appreciate a copy, although don't go to a lot of bother since I can just quoate the Volume. What I intent doing is sue the British government under the declaratory judgment act. England has now produced three(3) oral statements against me by Scotland Yard officers and, I believe, under the declaratory judgment act I can get a yes or no answer as to anything else in the way of oral statements they have hanging-over-my-head so to speak.

Enclosed is a document from the FBI about the matter, as you can read the document say's I was becoming even more "uncooperative" with my English attorney. In addition to these documents I also wrote Ramsey Clark & J. Edgar Hoover while in the London prison saying I would make no oral statements--so I think if I should receive a trial the 'Eist(s) stories would not carry to mush weight.

In another matter, Carol sent me a copy of a document you received from the J.D. saying John would not be prosecuted for perjury re: Bank robberies. In re: to bank robberies, the FBI also sent me a document (enclosed) concerning a bank robbery in Alton, Illinois. As yOu can see a woman identified John in the robbery 11 years later by stating he had white hair/red wig/blue or gray eyes. The FBI said this document had recently been declassififed thus apparently it was not made a part of the Select Committee final report--although they should have seen it.

Regarding the FBI/FOIA, I have filed numerous suits but receive a lot of double talk; when I get anything helpful it is usually something I did not ask for. (The bureau still won't admit that I was in the Motel, you visited, I said I was on April 2, 1968 near Memphis.

Hope everything is going ok.

Sincerely:

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The following additional pertinent information is being

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The British Attorney General has ruled that no request

would be made to the Governor of Prisons to interview subject

James Earl Ray until he is ordered extradited by the British courts.

The New Scotland Yard officials have advised that subject James Earl

Ray has become more uncooperative, even with his defense counsel. •

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Portugal, reveals that James Earl Ray made a telephone inquiry '

there regarding conditions for entering South Africa. Additional

inquiry at banks in Lisbon, Portugal, regarding accounts opened

by the subject have not resulted in any positive information. ;:.

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May 25 1968 was definitely identified as James Earl Ray by who is the piano player at the studio. It is

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address so the company could mail the suit to him at Birmingham,

Alabama, as he had to leave Montreal before the suit was finished.

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