13-00000
SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20505
14 MAY 1968
TO : Director
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Attention: S. J. Papich
FROM : Deputy Director for Plans
SUBJECT: Assassination of Martin Luther King
1. On 3 May 1968, an official Italian Intelligence Service provided this Agency's representative in Rome with the following information on one James RAY:
A James RAY, born in Los Angeles on 8 March 1928 (father's name Oliver), arrived at San Gimignano, Siena, in March 1955 and registered as a student at Perugia. In 1956, RAY was confined at San Gimignano Hospital and in 1957, he was in Sant'Antonio de Fiesole Hospital. These confinements were for "osteomyelitical condition causing bone depression in the cranium, on right parietal temple region." RAY returned permanently to the United States in December 1967.
2. The Italian National Police and the Italian Intelligence Service have turned up no other information thus far. All Italian entry posts have RAY and his aliases on their watchlist.
3. The Federal Bureau of Investigation representative in Rome was advised of the information in paragraphs 1 and 2 above.
CSCI 316/01763-68
REC-23 44 38861 3515
EX 109 6 MAY 16 1968
Jan 10, 78
This CSCI was treated
as doc #250 in
Initial review.
BLL
SECRET
GROUP 1
Excluded from
declassification
schedule