</s>UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION In Reply Please Refer to Atlanta, Georgia Fil No. July 5, 1968 JAMES EARL RAY. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. - VICTIM CIVIL RIGHTS Raymond Curtis submitted a letter to Mr. Charles L. Sanders, Ebony Broughton which letter is as follows; the letter was semi literate and the following is not a direct quotation sets forth the essentials: "Mr. Charles L. Sanders. "Dear Mr. Sanders." "That thank you for your answer to my letter, I think that details I give you in this letter will be of help to you. "Well, Sir, I have written a story. No one but myself read it but me. At this time I know that it will as I wrote for I am not a writing it as bad as it is. "It all about the crime I did and about a crime I did in 1954 with James Ray and about the 13 years of prison palmer everything we talk about about. About thing Martin Luther King, Jr. to talk to killing King for three years. And we talked to the man from Mississippi was put up the money to kill King. I also know the men from Mississippi. This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency; it and its contents are not to be distributed outside your agency. 2025 RELEASE UNDER E.O. 14176

Summary: The document contains a mix of fragmented administrative records and coded entries from the FBI's Civil Rights Division, dated between 1966 and 1968. It includes cost data for a project in Bonn, Germany, referencing hours worked by agents and clerical staff, with notes about a report submitted on June 26, 1968, and no further cost data expected unless additional leads are received. There are references to "MURDIA" and coded terms like "CO2L DUVY RVIC VERHITA (CH-F0B3)" which may relate to an investigation but lack contextual clarity. The text also includes declassification information under Executive Order 14176, with release dates marked as 2025. Miscellaneous entries mention U.S. Savings Bonds and administrative transfers, though these are not directly tied to the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination investigation or related events.

Key People: Raymond Curtis, James Earl Ray, Thomas R. Henry Jr., Albert D. Millard  
Key Locations: Whitfield County Jail (Dalton, Georgia), Vicksburg, Mississippi, Joliet, Illinois, Memphis, Tennessee, Springfield (SAC), Bonn, Germany  
Key Events: Curtis’s claims of conspiring with James Earl Ray to assassinate MLK, FBI interviews at Whitfield County Jail, Curtis’s attempt to sell a story to *Ebony* Magazine, FBI assessment of Curtis’s fabricated statements, plans for transferring James Earl Ray from Great Britain to Memphis, fingerprint identification policies in England, prison records checks in Missouri and Kansas City, submission of cost data for a project in Bonn, Germany, reference to an unspecified report dated June 26, 1968, administrative transfers and record-keeping activities  
Key Organizations: Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), *Ebony* Magazine, U.S. Savings Bonds program, Scotland Yard

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