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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.
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## INITIAL REVIEW FORM Document Description: Mario FOIA/PA Request No. ___ Document Located By : FB1 (Office Designation) Dated: 4/28/68 --- 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) E 2 IMPDET CL BY 012170
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