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104-10072-10071 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (5/16/1968)

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                                            16  MAY 1968



     ADM'W1 F'OR: Director
                 Federal Bureau of Investigation
                 Attention: Er. S.J. Papich

ZTBJECT          Investigation in Japan of Report on SusDicci
                 Actions of Gerald Lee Richards, Originally
                 Described as Resembling Suspected Assassin c
                 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.



     1,  Reference is made to the report concerning the abovc
subject made by telephone to Mr. S.J. Papich at- 0930 on 17 A;
1968.  Following is a full account of the investigation made
this case:

         A.  On 16 April 1968 a United States National
     Maritime Union official in Yoohsaa reported that one
     Gerald Lee Richards, who bore a general physical
     resemblance to the description given of the suspected
     assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had arrived
     in Japan about 15 April 1968 and requested a position
     aboard any ship going anywhere. Richards became
     agitated when asked for a contact address in Japan
     and refused to divulge his Japanese Tesidence. The
     National Maritime Union official described Richards
     as 5' 10 tall, 155 pounds, vith brown hair, a receding
     hairline on both sides, and a not very proninent scar
     tvo and one-half inches long traversing the center
     forehead, his most outstanding characteristic being a
     disconcerting, idiotic grin resembling a constant
     grimace.  According to Richards' documents and state-
     ments, he was born 8 April 1937, applied for seamn's
     papers in San Pedro, California, 16 June 1964 and
     'registered there as a United States National Maritime
     Union member on 21 February 1968 but never shipped out.
     Eis Social Security Number is 562-46-5078; his United
     States Coast Guard Nunber Z 2711-782.


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