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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by GLM-OCR

This Central Intelligence Agency FOIA release, dated 2025-06-12, collects 1976 CIA paperwork on Harold Weisberg's request (76-F-382) for records on Martin Luther King, Jr. It includes routing slips, an Operations Staff memorandum listing releasable press items and exempt cables, dispatches and memoranda, and a CI Staff reply citing a 1968 Office of Security memo on Coretta Scott King. It also contains a 16 May 1968 memo to the FBI reporting that Gerald Lee Richards, investigated in Japan, did not resemble suspect James Earl Ray.

  • p. 133 …In all fairly recent reports on cessation for Anderson Layer, in the letter's Chicago with…
  • p. 154 …Kennedy, Anderson, S.C.1 Droke House, 1969. Booker, Simeon. "Now JPK Surpassed Abraham Lincoln." Ebony…
  • p. 218 …needed to protect them from each other (Anderson, "Sam Hall"; Cole, The Funco File; Dick, Vulcan…
  • p. 219 …large numbers of people. ## Bibliography ## Fiction 1. Anderson, Poul. "Sam Hall". Astounding Science Fiction. September 1953…
  • p. 222 …Wiswesser The Differences in Two Strains of Corn / Edgar Anderson The Six Blind Men of Nepal…
  • p. 234 was Intertel that ITT hired in 1972 to snoop on columnist Jack Anderson. The latest and…
  • p. 235 …In 1962 Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson wrote that "Chotiner ... besides representing the top gangster of…
  • p. 236 …Jack Anderson documents, for example, that as early as 1960, then Vice-President Nixon and Attorney…

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UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL SECRET
OFFICIAL ROUTING SLIP
TO	NAME AND ADDRESS	DATE	INITIALS
1	How Dube, DD/PIA6
2	1-0-4127-005
3	HT-1
4
5
6
	ACTION DIRECT REPLY PREPARE REPLY
	APPROVAL DISPATCH RECOMMENDATION
	COMMENT FILE RETURN
	CONCURRENCE INFORMATION SIGNATURE

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The first time the Bureau sent those, they combined King-Ray docs with Kennedy assassination dogs. After discussion with you, they were sent back to the Bureau asking them to segregate King-Ray docs. Here
FOLD HERE TO RETURN TO SENDER
They are
FROM: NAME, ADDRESS AND PHONE NO.
DATE
Karen W. 57015	11/3
	UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL SECRET

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