  The first detection of CO emission in a Fanaroff-Riley Class II (i.e.,
edge-brightened radio morphology) radio galaxy is presented. Multi- wavelength
(0.36-2.17 micron) imaging of 3C 293 shows it to be a disk galaxy with an
optical jet or tidal tail extending towards what appears to be a companion
galaxy 28 kpc away via a low surface brightness envelope. The molecular gas
appears to be distributed in an asymmetric disk rotating around an unresolved
continuum source, which is presumably emission from the AGN. A narrow (approx
60 km/s) absorption feature is also observed in the CO spectrum and is
coincident with the continuum source. Using the standard CO conversion factor,
the molecular gas mass is calculated to be 1.5x10^10 M_sun, several times the
molecular gas mass of the Milky Way. The high concentration of molecular gas
within the central 3 kpc of 3C 293, combined with the multiwavelength
morphological peculiarities, support the idea that the radio activity has been
triggered by a gas-rich galaxy-galaxy interaction or merger event.
