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104-10072-10071 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (05/16/1968)

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch70845 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-100 2-10071 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992 --- 16MAY198 t _ -- - _ .. -. . - -- - L ORAXDVM FR: Director . - .1 Federal.. Bureau of Investigation Attention: Er. S.J. Papich SUBJECT : Investigation in Japan of Report on SusDicCius Actions of Gerald Lee Richards, Originally Described as Resembling Suspected Assassin of Dr. artin Luther King, Jr. - 1. Reference is made to the report concerning the above subject made by telephone to ur. S.J. Papich at- 0930 on 17 Apri.l 1968. Following is a full account of the investigation made in this case: _ A. On 16 April 1968 a United States National - - aritime Union official in YoIsohana 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 ?esidence. The - National aritime Union official described Richards - -:- as 5* 10' tall, 155 pounds, with brown hair, a receding hairlinze on bath. sides, and a not eery pro~ainent scar two 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 semn 's - papers in San Pedro, California, 16 June 1964 and '.`.registered there as a United States National Maritime - - =Union member on 21 Febrnary 1968 but never shipped out. _is Sovial Security Nunber is 562-4&-5078; his United States Coast Guard Number Z 2711-782. - . s _. _ .-... .. I i 1 { i ;- 4

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