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a a ee Se, ee Cenials to be suspect. In lighe of this low credid icy and critical passage of time which has allowed the stacute of limitations to rn, we concluded that the FBI abandoned a significant opportunity to obtain answers fron family members concerning some of the important questions about James Earl Ray which still remain. D. Critical Evaluation Of The Assassination Investigation As this report reflects, there was a wealth of information in the files developed by the FBI mirder investigation. We have been able to dig up some additioal data. Only a small part of any of this information has been made a matter of any official public record. Some of it was embodied in the stipulation agreed to by James Earl Ray and judicially acknowledged in open court by him (with a stated reservation as to agreeing to the wring indicating a lack of a conspiracy). Sane emerged in Ray's post-conviction efforts to get a new trial. A quantity of the 'imofficial” evidentiary data and a great deal of mis-information was gleaned by the news media and by professional writers. It is understandable therefore that many suspicions have been generated and, because of Justice Department rules against disclosures of raw investigative files, have gone wnansvered. First, the task force has concluded that the investi- gation by the FBI to ascertain and capture the mmrderer of ~106-