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though they had no possible relacion to Ray's stories or to the know facts. The results were negative. We found no evidence of my complicity of the part mf eha Markie Baliean Manseirane ae AF tha FRT wa ae EP ee ie 4: Oe TY We acknowledge that proof of the negative, i.e., . proof that others were not involved, is here as elusive and difficult as it has universally been in criminal law. But the sum of all of the evidence of Ray's guilt points to him so exclusively that it most effectively makes the point that no one else was involved. Of course, saneme could conceivably have provided him with logistics, or even paid him to commit the crime. However, we have found no competent evidence upon which to base such a theory. Fourth, it is true that the task force umearthed some new data - data which answers some persistent questions and which the FBI did not seek. But the Bureav concentrated on the principal in the case and much was not considered important to his discovery and apprehension. We find no dishonesty in this. A lead suggesting that one or both of James Earl Ray's brothers were in contact with him after, and in aid of, his escape in 1967 from the Missouri State Prison, and before the murder of Dr. King, was not followed. It was not mearthed until after Ray's capture in England on June 8, 1968; it was then apparently deemed a lead made ~109-