Secret Files That Would Have Proven James Earl Ray Not Guilty
Los Angeles, California USA
March 18, 2006
Update: April 3, 2017
In the first House Select Committee on Assassinations 1977
interview with James Earl Ray, Chief Counsel Richard Sprague agreed with Ray and
his legal team that all materials concerning the assassination of Martin Luther
King Jr. as well as President John F. Kennedy (including CIA, FBI and other
intelligence agency files) should be made available to them as well as making them available to the (HSCA)
committee. Mr. Sprague, James Earl Ray and Mr. Ray's legal team believed the files would produce evidence that proved James Earl Ray did not shoot Martin Luther King Jr.
One week later Richard Sprague was forced to resign
his post because he found it impossible to do his job with the requirement that
he sign a secrecy agreement before he could view the files he requested. He did not believe he could properly investigate a US Government Department or Agency if he agreed to keep secret the proof that Ray wasn't the
assassin of Martin Luther King Jr..
Tape recordings made by Gary Revel reveal James
Earl Ray's request for release of the CIA, FBI and other investigative and
intelligence files in connection with his role in Martin Luther King's
assassination. Mr. Ray further asks for the files of the SELECT COMMITTEE TO STUDY
GOVERNMENTAL OPERATIONS WITH RESPECT TO INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES called the
Church Committee and points out that many files that would be useful in the
investigation had been destroyed.
Chief Counsel Richard Sprague is heard saying that
he too believes all CIA, FBI and other files having anything to do with the
entire matter (MLK and JFK's assassination) should be made available to the
committee and Ray's legal team. It is believed that the files will contain
proof that Ray was 'handled' via methods used by the Intelligence services and
set up to take the wrap for the MLK assassination.
It is now known that in the 1960's President Lyndon
Johnson set up the 'Domestic Operations Division' (Another DOD) to carry out
special operations within the United States which would be separate but support
Defense Department, NSA and FBI operations of national security interest.
CIA agents in the US and throughout the world could be directed from the White
House via the use of a secret communication channel between the agent in the
field and the President labeled CRITICOM (Critical Communication). In the
execution of an assassination or what would be established as a legal execution
of a clear and present danger to the national security of the United States of
America a very simple VOCO (Verbal Order of the Commanding Officer) could be the
triggering mechanism. This kind of operation would have no paperwork to
prove that it ever happened and any conincidental evidence would be classified
top secret and never released to the public until such time as it could be
confused or would be useless for investigative purposes.
James Earl Ray, Attorneys Jack and Mary Kershaw and
Gary Revel-Special Investigator and Richard Sprague believed that the CIA had
files that would produce evidence of a US Government-Organized Crime connection
with Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. Ray's admission that he was
given a phone number by Raoul to call for instructions and help when needed
connected organized crime. That phone number turned out to be the number
for a motel in New Orleans owned by Mafia Boss Carlos Marcello.
Former D. C. Congressional Delegate Walter Fauntroy
chaired the House Select Committee on Assassinations for a period of time and
discovered his telephones and television were bugged. Fauntroy said in a 1999
trial that Richard Sprague's replacement, Robert Blakey, did not follow up on
James Earl Ray's request for files from the CIA and others. What is clear
is that Mr. Blakey would have signed a secrecy agreement with the CIA and others
for whatever information he received thus even if he knew today that James Earl
Ray was innocent he would be legally bound from saying so.
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