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This Central Intelligence Agency file, dated 29 September 1975, collects Office of Security memoranda written while the Senate Select Committee was investigating the Agency. Staff were told to alert former employees about possible committee contact over Project MERRIMAC/RESISTANCE, and the file answers committee questions about Hayes International and Bay of Pigs pilots. It also records staff interviews about CIA name checks at NSA and a Justice Department request for records on domestic electronic surveillance. It contains no material on UFOs.
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__ ___ _ ,..,,..,,.,.,.,.,-.. ..\qn»-mm‘--»~ "-—*~$ “at _ H. _‘ _, L.‘ I»;- . ' '- I “' E‘ J »- I‘ K ' 12 December 1975 MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECGRD SUBJECT: James Earl Ray #541 245 1. On 12 December 1975, Walter Elder of the ReviewStaff asked for a file ¢heck on James E. Ray, in responseto an informal inquiry from Senate Select Cummittee Staffmember Patrick Shea. The SSC is studying FBI activities,including the King assassination and the recently publicizedHoover/King controversy. 2. The bulk of Ray's file consists of news mediamaterial. There are two State Department cables reportinginformation on his extradition from England and two memo-randa regarding Ray's first lawyer, Arthur J. Hanes. (Maneswas a confidential cerrespondent for the Gffice of Securityfrom 1952 ta 1959 and was on the OGC cleared Attorney Fanelin 1961. He was identitied in news media as a former con~tract employee sf CIA.) 3. Mr. Elder will advise Shea sf the above, and thefact that CIA had nu file an Ray prior to the King assassination. A formal request is not expected and no further actionecussary at this time. John M. Reeves, Jr. Security Analysis Group JMR,Jr:hjd “*3 '1 >;_ Uwmwnpnn-aunt-lvInQnnun>M - n (J/Jpezz/'5
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