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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. 122 …Thank you for your assistance and continued cooperation. This request has been assigned the case number…
  • p. 138 …Chugash Electrical Association, Nitromain Bus Lines, Nitromain Electric Association, Fairview PDB, Cooper Valley Electric Association, and…
  • p. 198 UNTIL DECEMBER 31,1973 STARTING JANUARY 1,1974 WORKING TOGETHER Cooperative Facilities to Obtain the Advantages…
  • p. 201 …How to plan, before operations begin, a cooperative service bureau that will provide its sponsors with…
  • p. 205 …A cooperative service bureau consists of several sponsoring firms who jointly own a computer and share…
  • p. 206 ## Lack of Interest At the present time, widespread lack of interest in joining a cooperative is…
  • p. 210 …Companies would be well advised to consider the idea seriously, for cooperative service bureaus offer a…

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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

Remarks:
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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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.