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By JOHN MOULTON
News Sentinel Staff Writer

MEMPHIS --A notarized statement by Daniel Ellsberg, released to The News-Sentinel Saturday night by James Earl Ray's attorney, Mark Lane, states flatly that an aide to UN Ambassador Andrew Young told Ellsberg, "We know there was a conspiracy (to kill Dr. Martin Luther King) and we know who did it."

Ellsberg's affidavit claims he was told there was definitely FBI involvement in the murder.

Lane said the 44-page affidavit by Ellsberg, who gained worldwide attention by leaking the now-famed Pentagon Papers secrets, will be one of the chief pieces of evidence used in seeking a new trial for Ray.

The completed text of the affidavit was signed and notarized in San Francisco Oct. 20.

In the statement, Ellsberg tells of a conversation he had with ,y~on Brady, the young aide, in June. I-M .said Tyson tokl Brady the conspiratms included a group of off-duty and retired FBI officers w0rking under the directin of J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the, FBI in 19 when Dr. King was shot to death m Memphis.

Ellsberg's statement says that Tyson told him it is believed that the group had a "sharp-shooter who actually did the shooting. To hear this presentation, as an absolute fact from someone in the U.S. government was startling.

Lane also had a statement he said was made by Rev. James Lawson, a Los Angeles minister who married James Earl Ray and Knoxville free-lance artist Anna Sandhu last month. Ray is serving a 99year prison sentence for the slaying of Dr. King. However, the statement was 'not signed by Rev. Lawson. Lane said Lawson is sending him a similar, notorized statement.

The affidavit from Ellsberg said that Tyson claimed to have knowledge of the King murder through conversations with Rep. Walter Fauntroy, 'chairman of the House Assassination~ Committee. He said told him investigators believe they the names.

Ellesberg was reported to be in Colorado Saturday night and could not be for comment. Ellesberg said he assumed the information would come out at U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations hearings on Dr. King's shooting, and that when it didn't he approached Lane.

In another development Saturday night, Michael Eberhardt, the house committee's assistant chief deputy counsel, resigned to show his dissatisfaction with the panel'a decision not to recall Ray.

Lane also said he will have additional affidavits soon, including one in which Rep. Fauntroy contends he was approached by CIA agents, who told him they would help provide him information about the FBI involvement in the King death if Rep. Fauntroy would promise not to delve into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Tyson, reached at his New York City residence, said, "I will deny under oath that I said I knew who did It."

He said he was speculatingwtth Ellsberg on who might have killed King and expressed his personal theory that the FBI conducted the assassination.

He said he has had a "couple of conversations with Walter (Fauntroy)" about the House assassination investigation. However, he said nothing specific was discussed.

He said he has heard that Fauntray's life has been threatened, but did not gain the information from Fauntroy. He said that he and others believe that the possible FBI involvement in King's death needs further investigation.