</s>4/28/08 Airtel ON 57 To: SAC's, Seattle (44-371) Memphis (44)-1807) From: Director, FBI (44 -3881) OMURKIN From: Directors, FBI(44-3881] Re Seattle airtel 4/22/68, submitting place of cardboard bearing the printed word "CANADA", "Q86, and a Timex road map of California, Q87. Two latent fingerprints developed on Q97. These latent finger- two latent fingerprinted developed on q97. There latent fingerprint finger- prints are not identical with the fingerprints of dames Hair Ray, FBI 140594IG. Q962 and Q97 being returned under separate cover to Seattle Division. Laboratory report separate. EX-110 REC-71 44-38861-2599 COMMUNITY MADELA 4 APR-0 9088 19 MAY 2 1968 Tolson Deloach 1 - Mr. Rosen Blaise Bianco Collan Collan Cale Cale Cale Sullivian Teller Teller 5-5 MAY No. 5-5MAY No. 908TELETYPE UNIT Gandy 2005 RELEASE UNDER E.O. 14176

Summary: The document contains multiple telegraphic communications from FBI offices detailing investigative activities related to James Earl Ray, a suspect in the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Key elements include inquiries into phone calls made by Ray from coin-operated telephones in Texas and Louisiana between December 15-17, 1967, with specific numbers and times recorded. The FBI sought to trace these calls to Memphis, Tennessee, and contacted individuals with the surname Slattery in Kansas City for verification of long-distance connections. Fingerprint comparisons were requested between Morris Shaggs (arrested in Beaver County, Pennsylvania) and latent prints from a case involving Memphis. References to "ARMED AND DANGEROUS" are noted in several entries. The text includes administrative notes about document releases under Executive Order 1470 and other declassification markings.  

Key People: James Earl Ray (suspect), Morris Shaggs (arrested in Beaver County, Pennsylvania), Mrs. Donovan Woodside (reported sighting of an individual resembling Ray on a flight), FBI agents (various SACs and divisions).  

Key Locations: Birmingham, Memphis, Kansas City, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, Texas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh.  

Key Events: Investigation into phone calls made by James Earl Ray from coin-operated telephones in Texas and Louisiana; fingerprint comparison requests between Morris Shaggs and latent prints; verification of long-distance calls to Memphis; administrative notes on document declassification.  

Key Organizations: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Special Agents in Charge (SACs), Identification Division, Latent Fingerprint Section, Communications Section.

MLK Declassified Files

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