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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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UNITED STATES-GOVERNMENT Memorandum TO : Mr. Rosen FROM : C. L. McGowan / DATE: April 10, 1968 1 - Mr. Rosen 1 - Mr. Malley 1 - Mr. McGowan Tolson ___ DeLoach ___ Mohr ___ Bishop ___ Casper ___ Callahan ___ Conrad ___ Felt ___ Gale ___ Rosen ___ Sullivan ___ Tavel ___ Trotter ___ Tele. Room ___ Holmes ___ Gandy ___ SUBJECT: MURKIN 1 - Mr. Long This is the matter involving the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King. Liaison advised of the receipt of information from Richard Helms, Director of CIA, that one Robert Kramer was a possible suspect. According to information furnished by Howard Osborn, Director of Security of CIA, Kramer, who is a doctor, has been a source of trouble to CIA for some time. Only recently Mr. Helms received a very cryptic telegram from Kramer. In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to recent pictures of artist drawings of the killer which have appeared in local papers. The likeness was so striking that Mr. Helms thought it should be brought to the attention of the FBI immediately. ## ACTION: Senior Resident Agent Jesse Hall, Alexandria, Virginia, was telephonically contacted and instructed to obtain full details from the files of CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, together with all background information on Kramer, as well as a photograph, so that this matter could be thoroughly checked out. CRM:mcs (5) REC-31 44-39861-6038 12 APR 16 1968 7 0 APR 1 0 1999 244 Referee PCs 1 - C 29 May 1911 Duly
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.