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2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992


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KING, Jr.


      1.  Reference is made to this Agency's out message
 number 94270 dated 25 April 1968 concerning the assassi-
 nation of Dr. Martin Luther KING, Jr.

      2.  On 16 April Roderick Claflin BROWN, a Panamanian
 national born 1 July 1917 in British Honduras, voluntarily
 appeared at the Department of National Investigations (DENI)
 of the Republic of Panama and signed a deposition, the
 highlights of which are as follows:

           (1) On 26 October 1962 he served as cook/seaman
 aboard the Texaco B.S. Southhampton which docked at Mobile,
 Alabama.

           (2) While on a shore visit to the Mobile airport
 on the morning of 26 October 1962 in tho company of two
 fellow Panamanian seamen, he was approached by Marvin P.
 LITTRFILL, owner of LITTRELL Motor Co., 921-25 South Clinton
 Street, Athens, Alabama, who after ascertaining BROWN was
 a Panamanian seaman, asked if he knew of Dr. Martin Luther
 KING, Jr.

           (3) LITTRELL inquired whether BROWN was interested
in employment, the details of which were unspecified.  He
went on to describe Dr. KING as Our greatest problem who
is causing us much trouble.  le gave BROWN a business card
to use in the event he was interested in pursuing the employ-
ment offer.

          (4) On 28 January 1963 BROWN wrote LITTRELL from
New York City, stating he was interested in a job and


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