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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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## PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST

TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building)	DATE	OFFICER'S INITIALS	COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
RECEIVED	FORWARDED
1. Mr. Wells, DDO
THRU: Mr. Addona, DDO/PICG
1 D 4125 HQ HT-1 Attached is an FOIA Appeal with a due date of 19 Aug 77.
In accordance with IPS procedures, the Chairman has assigned action for this appeal as follows:
Mr. Wells, Mr. Dirks,
Mr. Stevens and Mr. Blake
Designated Action Member(s) should contact me within 48 hours should there be any objection to the case assignment.
The OGC attorney assigned to advise you or your Appeals Officer regarding this case is:
Mr. Ziebell
The Action Member or Appeals Officer is requested to ensure that staff work is completed and the case is ready for presentation (should such be required) at the 11 Aug 77 meeting.
2.	DDO/PIC 16 AUG 1971
3. Mr. Dirks, DDS&T
THRU: Mr. Redmond, DDS&T/FIO
6 E 56 HQ BY-1
4.
5. Mr. Stevens, DDI
THRU: Mr. Lawler, DDI/FIO
2 E 6104 HQ FX-4
6.
7. Mr. Blake, DDA
7 D 26 HQ BX-4
8.
9. Mr. Ziebell, OGC
6-D-0120 - Hqs. BX-5
10.
11. Mr. Biddiscombe, OS/IRG
GE 31 HQ FX-1
12.

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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.