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ARIABEIDIATION Of MARTIN LUTHER KIM], JR,

EkAik Reference is made to your letter dated August 16, 196$, requesting that copies of all investigative reports and results of interviews prepared in this case be furnished you and referring to alleged delay on the part of this Bureau in furnishing the Department copies of reports dated kley 15, 1968, and Ame 14, 196$, prepared by our Kansas City Office.

For your tutor matbn, investigative reports prepared la this case fall into two categories: 1) those containing infor mation gi evidentiary value pertinent to the prosecution of the Federal violation involved; and 2) those containing the results of the extensive ve investigation conducted to locate and apprehend the subject, Earl Ray.

All investigative reports pertinent to the prosecution af the Federal violation involved have been furnished to the Department iromptly and on a timely basis.

The remaining reports prepared in this case pertain solely W the extensive fugitive investigation conducted to locate the subject each reports are not war wally furnished to the Department since they contain mil tutor nation relative to the fugitive aspect of the case and de set contain information of evidentiary value or of pertinence to the proswutioa of the Federal violatio, involved.

The reports papered by our Kansas City Office and /referred to Is your letter bail, into this category. An additional twenty onsh reports have been presiarSi by ors ,vnrious field divisions, and - ancordance with your specific request, copies at all these reports ::„P -4'w— will be Welshed under separate cover to the 'Attorney General, . yen and to the Assietant Attorniti General in charge at the Criminal - -

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?or your information, Assistant Attorney General Fred Vim% Jr., by letter dated July 13, 1960, which was received in this Doreen July 11, 1911, requested that the records of the Missouri State Penitentiary be reviewed pertaining to Ray and references to Rayis family background; education; physical, medical and psychiatric admiration" &s al disciplinary proceedings be summarised. Such records had previously been reviewed in the initial phase of the fugitive aspect of this investigation, and the result" of the review bad been set forth in the pertinent reports prepared by our Kansas City Office and referred to in your letter. Since they contained the desired information requested by Assistant Attorney General Vinson, copies of these reports were furnished to Ilk. Vinson on July 11, 1961, with a copy for yoa, even though they did not appear to contain information relevant be the prosocutive aspects of this case, but rather to the fugitive favestigatioe.

We will contlaie to furnish to the Department, on a timely basis, copies of investigative reporth and the results of interviews prepared in this case.

NOTE: See memo Rosen to DeLoach, dated 8/11/68, captioned, "MUREIN," JGK:cs.

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pertinent to the prosecution of the case.

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