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A previously buried technical report authored by a Bell System technician reveals that the telephone line inside Bessie Brewer’s rooming house, where James Earl Ray allegedly fired the fatal shot at Martin Luther King Jr., exhibited abnormal call patterns in the hours surrounding the assassination. According to a memo dated April 6, 1968, the technician wrote: line 1 and 3 active unusually; copies to HQ on directive -- secure tape. The document refers to multiple call routes being activated simultaneously and mentions unusual multipoint call routing.  These terms suggest that either surveillance or call-forwarding systems were in place at the location, which had not been disclosed publicly or referenced in official FBI or DOJ reports. The memo does not specify the recipients of the calls, nor does it list the originating devices. However, an adjacent FBI field note references the same address and includes a line reading: requested silence on switchboard anomaly, to be handled int...

A recently unearthed internal FBI inventory memo lists not one, but two separate 30.06 caliber rifle tags recorded under Martin Luther King Jr. exhibit entries in the 12 hours following the civil rights leader’s assassination.  The existence of a second weapon reference has not been disclosed in any official FBI reports, DOJ briefs, or House Select Committee exhibits. The relevant line appears in a typed evidence room entry log dated April 5, 1968. It reads: MLK exhibit, Item 23: Remington 760 serial #D2611 -- received 8:30 a.m.; Item 25: 30.06 tag, no SN -- logged 10:42 a.m., custody transfer pending. This direct reference to a second unidentified 30.06 caliber firearm tag contradicts the narrative that only one murder weapon--the Remington Gamemaster 760--was ever recovered and presented as evidence against James Earl Ray. No other public record mentions an “Item 25” or a second tag entry. When contacted for clarification during the 1978 congressional inquiry, FBI representativ...

A declassified but partially redacted British diplomatic cable reveals that UK intelligence services, including MI6, were monitoring James Earl Ray’s movements in London several days before his June 1968 arrest at Heathrow Airport--contradicting longstanding FBI and Justice Department assertions that his capture was purely accidental. The cable, marked “NAC DUL/INTEL EYES ONLY” and dated June 5, 1968, references coordination with North American liaison and a Colonial Security Attaché regarding surveillance of suspect believed en route to Lisbon via UK.  While Ray’s name is redacted in the body of the message, the attached routing sheet includes the line: subject alias Ramon George Sneyd confirmed via passport cross-check. Ray was detained at Heathrow on June 8, 1968 while attempting to board a flight to Brussels using a Canadian passport under the name Sneyd. The official account has long claimed that Interpol had circulated an alert only hours before and that UK customs officers ...

Internal military surveillance records and withdrawn photographic file IDs now confirm that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was being tracked by elements of Army Intelligence in the hours leading up to his assassination on April 4, 1968, at the Lorraine Motel--despite public denials by federal agencies for more than five decades. A series of documents from the 902nd Military Intelligence Group, previously redacted in FOIA releases, references a mobile field unit assigned to Memphis for real-time observation of civil rights activity.  One entry from April 3 states: D-2 element will relocate per LORRAINE signal--prepare concealed lens array and rotating log detail, marked TOP SECRET -- EYES ONLY. Separate files list withdrawn Army photographic logs under ID numbers 4M-12 and 4M-17, with no corresponding prints included in investigative files reviewed by the House Select Committee on Assassinations.  A handwritten margin note states: Reels pulled per CINCPAC request -- not entered i...

A network of cocktail waitresses, bartenders, and alleged sex workers in late-1960s Los Angeles maintained contact with James Earl Ray under his alias Eric S. Galt, according to newly reviewed FBI files and interview transcripts.  The documents portray a hidden lifestyle that linked the assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to a murky world of prostitution, coded sexual behavior, and potentially intelligence-adjacent surveillance. Marie Martin, a cocktail waitress who admitted to having a “close friendship” with Galt, was a central figure in these records. FBI interviews reveal Galt gave Martin a Zenith portable television and left her with barbells—returning later to demand cash for them, despite previously claiming he was destitute.  He also visited her mother, delivering packages, and stayed in her home without registering in his name, all while concealing his own address and legal identity. Martin told agents she met Galt while he was training at the International School...

A series of buried FBI field reports reveal James Earl Ray’s Los Angeles social orbit was shaped by overlapping sexual, psychological, and coded behaviors, forming an ecosystem far more ritualistic and manipulative than previously known. In multiple interviews dated March to May 1968, witnesses described acts involving sexual stimulation through mirrors, trance states, and underground prostitution networks -- not as isolated oddities, but as embedded practices within Ray’s alias-driven community under the name Eric S. Galt. Charles Stein, an associate of Galt in early 1968, admitted to burying women’s underwear in his backyard while in trance-like states.  FBI agents wrote that he described these events as “sensory contact with nature” and asked a woman to remove her pants before burial. No psychiatric referral was filed. Rita Stein, Charles’s wife, described ceiling mirrors being installed “for the purpose of freaking out during sexual intercourse.”  The term appeared repea...

Previously sealed FBI files reveal a complex web of aliases, misidentified individuals, and potential decoys surrounding James Earl Ray in the months before and after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which raise sharp questions about whether the man known as Eric S. Galt operated alone -- or as part of a wider misdirection network. The alias “Eric S. Galt” was central to Ray’s movements in Los Angeles and Mexico. Yet FBI reports note striking contradictions in witness identifications.  Rita Stein and Marie Martin positively recognized Ray as “Galt” from photos provided by a bartending school, not law enforcement. But Stein later said a photo of Ray from Mexico, dated November 1967, was “not a good likeness.”  One memo observed: subject hesitated, said photo ‘does not resemble Galt she knew,’ though she earlier ID'd school image. Another alias, “Marie Perez,” was suspected to be an alternative identity used by cocktail waitress Marie Martin, whose connections t...

Newly surfaced federal records reveal major inconsistencies and suppressions in surveillance data surrounding the April 4, 1968, assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., including missing telephone logs, withheld Army intelligence photographs, and secret post-operation briefings involving multiple U.S. agencies. One Bell Systems technician’s field note, dated April 5, 1968, referenced unusual multipoint call routing through lines tied to the rooming house allegedly used by James Earl Ray. The memo stated: spike on Line 3 noted from 17:58–18:06 CST, unusually active; second patch noted 18:19. Tapes secured to HQ under ‘directive’ protocol. Despite such detailed activity, no phone transcripts from the boarding house before or after the assassination were entered into the FBI’s official exhibits, nor were any logs made available to the House Select Committee on Assassinations in 1979.  Another margin note in a technician’s log read: local switchboard flagged duplicate ringing on ...

Newly reviewed FBI files show that two Los Angeles women, Marie Martin and Rita Stein, positively identified a photo of Eric S. Galt, the alias used by James Earl Ray, as someone they personally knew in Los Angeles in late 1967--more than four months before the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. According to an April 16, 1968, FBI report, cocktail waitress Marie Martin told agents yes, that’s definitely Eric Galt after being shown a photograph sourced not from law enforcement files but from the International School of Bartending at 2125 Sunset Boulevard.  Rita Stein, her roommate, also confirmed the photo, but later stated that a different photo of Ray from Mexico taken in November 1967 was not a good likeness. This inconsistency was noted but never followed up in public investigation records. The FBI sourced Galt’s image from a bartending school graduation file, not official mugshots, raising questions about informal tracking. One memo reads that the photograph was located ...

Newly declassified FBI interview transcripts from 1968–1977 reveal that James Earl Ray, convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., may have targeted King as part of a $1 million bounty allegedly offered by southern white supremacists with organized crime ties . Image Source: Nobel Prize Raymond Curtis, a fellow inmate of Ray’s in Missouri State Penitentiary, gave detailed testimony to FBI agents that Ray had spoken repeatedly of collecting a large bounty for killing King—and that the contract was said to originate from a group called the “KK of the South.”  Most explosively, Curtis claimed Ray was in contact with a New Orleans-based underworld figure, described as an older “fence,” who could provide a safe haven after the assassination. According to Curtis, Ray discussed escape plans involving New Zealand, Brazil, or Switzerland and expected assistance from unnamed criminal contacts.  FBI notes show Curtis implicated a third cellmate who overheard the discussions, but...

Newly declassified 2025 documents from the CIA and FBI archives show that the CIA was running or tracking a “sensitive source” operating in Memphis on or near April 4, 1968—the day Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. The document, previously marked for "2025 RELEASE UNDER E.O. 14176," notes operational compartmentalization and control over “a specific individual source with knowledge of foreign-involved activity” near the Lorraine Motel.  Image Source: Magnum Photos This suggests that the Agency may have had contemporaneous surveillance assets inside the city at the time of the assassination. Although the name of the source and operational identifiers remain redacted, the file's placement within a batch detailing interagency coordination between CIA counterintelligence and domestic federal investigations under the HSCA (House Select Committee on Assassinations) confirms that the source was under watch by federal intelligence. Significantly, the document hints ...

A newly declassified DOJ memo from July 1968 reveals that James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was no disorganized fugitive but a calculated, elusive operator traveling through Europe with forged IDs, multiple passports, and a carefully constructed alias network.  Image Source: FXMC1957 The revelations from Ray’s first interrogation in London suggest the assassination may have been just the beginning of a broader, concealed conspiracy. The memo details Ray’s arrest at Heathrow Airport as he attempted to flee to Brussels. He was carrying a Canadian passport under the name “George Sneyd” and traveling with forged documents—obtained weeks after King’s murder.  This implies that someone helped him cross borders, establish cover, and finance a transatlantic escape. Ray admitted using multiple names and claimed his real identity was “Eric Galt”—another alias tied to his passport history.  Most crucially, he repeated a name that has haun...

Newly declassified documents dated April 5, 1968—just one day after the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.--reveal that the FBI was closely monitoring political activities surrounding mourning events, particularly those organized by Communist Party affiliates and left-wing organizations in Miami.  Image Source: FBI Boston on X The memo offers a rare window into how intelligence agencies viewed public grief as a potential national security flashpoint. According to the memo sent to Director J. Edgar Hoover and circulated to key bureau officials including Clyde Tolson, William Sullivan, and Mark Felt, FBI informants embedded within the Miami Communist Party reported the formation of a “Coordinating Committee” just hours after King’s murder.  The group convened on the evening of April 4 and immediately launched efforts to organize mass marches and memorials for King, with explicit calls for civil disobedience. The committee encouraged its members to contact peace groups...

Newly declassified intelligence files reveal that U.S. federal authorities knew Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassin, James Earl Ray, had fled to Europe under an alias weeks before his eventual arrest—but still postponed direct action, citing ongoing surveillance. A 1968 cable, now publicly released under Executive Order 14176, confirms that Ray, using the alias “George Sneyd,” traveled from Toronto to London on May 7, then swiftly left for Lisbon just 15 hours later.  Image Source: NationalMerican on X British police, acting on FBI suspicions, flagged him on re-entry from Portugal. But despite this, the FBI waited until June 8 to send representatives to the UK, stating only that they were “informally aware” of his movements. The documents suggest internal hesitation at the Bureau. One cable noted that the FBI “postponed” action even after Scotland Yard alerted them of Ray’s presence at London Heathrow Airport preparing to board a flight to Brussels.  The delay in pursuing an a...

In a bombshell from the Cold War era’s long shadow, a 1968 investigative report—now declassified—details stunning claims from James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., implicating an unidentified handler named “Raoul” in a sprawling conspiracy that extended across Canada, Mexico, and the American South.  Image Source: TheRWCHR The new documents also suggest the motive may have been to inflame racial tensions ahead of the U.S. presidential election. According to reporting in LOOK magazine, cited by Moscow’s press and summarized in U.S. intelligence files, Ray claimed that he met Raoul—described as a 35-year-old man—in Montreal in mid-1967 while searching for documents to escape U.S. law enforcement. Raoul allegedly offered Ray money, foreign travel, and protection in exchange for performing “tasks,” beginning with transporting contraband across the U.S.-Canada border. Over several months, Ray received thousands of dollars from Raoul and was allegedly d...

The House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) had concluded on December 31, 1978 that both President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. were likely killed as a result of conspiracies, not lone gunmen—a direct rebuke to the conclusions of the Warren Commission and earlier federal investigations. Image Source: Today in History According to the committee’s final report, newly declassified, scientific evidence strongly suggested a second gunman fired at President Kennedy.  While Lee Harvey Oswald was confirmed to have fired three shots—two of which struck Kennedy—the acoustical evidence indicates a "high probability" of at least one additional shooter, leading the committee to conclude a “probable conspiracy,” even though it could not identify all conspirators. On the King assassination, the committee confirmed that James Earl Ray was the triggerman but added that circumstantial evidence supports the “likelihood” that Ray did not act alone.  The committee found...