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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. 22 …Summer of 1952 she had revisited UN headquarters in the role of a communist organizer. The…
  • p. 53 …CHIEF, INFORMATION REVIEW STAFF 7 C 28 Headquarters FORM 1.75 3533 OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS (13…
  • p. 110 …full details from the files of CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, together with all background information…
  • p. 113 …full details from the files of CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, together with all background information…
  • p. 137 …3-Headquarters w/attach as noted. FULL TEXT COPY - DO NOT RELEASE 51-28A
  • p. 188 …The headquarters are in Washington, D.C. (at 1520 16th Street, N.W.). In the four…
  • p. 208 …Chase Manhattan Bank's New York City headquarters, has proved useful. Engineered by Walter Kidde & Co…
  • p. 220 …LOCATION OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL BUSINESS OFFICES OF THE PUBLIC, ETHICAL, AND FINANCIAL PUBLICATIONS Berkeley…
  • p. 224 …Kennedy, and who were arrested seeking to bug Democratic National Headquarters at 2:30 a.m…
  • p. 234 …Golden was also security director of Nixon's convention headquarters in Miami that year, and was…
  • p. 236 …Central States, Southeast and Southwest Pension Fund headquartered in Chicago, has become a bankroll for some…

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## INITIAL REVIEW FORM

Document Description: Mario

FOIA/PA Request No. ___

Document Located By : FB1 (Office Designation)

Dated: 4/28/68

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Document referred to DDO for review by: ___

## RECOMMEND:

RECOMMEND:

Release in full-text

Release in sanitized form

Deny in toto

Defer decision to ___

Coordination with ___ prior to above denial/release

EXEMPTIONS ARE BEING CLAIMED TO PROTECT THE FOLLOWING:

| | FOIA | PRIVACY |

| :--- | :--- | :--- |

| ( ) Classification | (b)(1) | (k)(1) |

| ( ) Information from a foreign liaison service | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b)(c) |

| ( ) Information pertaining to a foreign liaison relationship | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b)(c) |

| ( ) Information which would/could identify the source | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Information pertaining to a source | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Information pertaining to intelligence methods | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Location of CIA overseas installation | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Location of unacknowledged domestic installation | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Name of CIA employee | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(e) |

| ( ) File number | (b)(2) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Pseudonym | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Cryptonym | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Internal organizational data | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(e) |

| ( ) Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Privacy of other individual | (b)(6) | (j)(1)(f) |

| ( ) Does not pertain to request | N/A | "Exempted portions are not relevant to the requester" |

| ( ) Information from another Government agency | (b)(1) | (j)(1)(c) |

( ) Information from another Government agency (b)(1) (j)(1)(c)

* Other, specify: This issue is subject to new regulations as of the USS

* For further guidance regarding exemptions, please see DDA-75-5943,

16 December 1975 (Privacy Act) and HN-70-21, 14 February 1975 (FOIA).

COMMENTS AND/OR SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:

Signature of Reviewing Officer & Office

Document No.

(To be completed by ISS/PICG)

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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.