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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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Mr. Gene F. Wilson Freedom of Information Coordinator Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D. C. 20505 Dear Mr. Wilson: On behalf of Mr. Harold Weisberg of Frederick, Maryland, I request access to the following: 1. All records pertaining to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 2. All records pertaining to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 3. All records pertaining to James Earl Ray, under whatever name or alias. 4. All records on any alleged or suspected accomplice or associate in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 5. All collections of published materials on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 6. All analyses, commentaries, reports, or investigations on or in any way pertaining to any published materials on the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. or the authors of said materials. 7. All records, letters, cables, memorandums, routing slips, photographs, tape recordings, receipts, sketches, computer printouts or any other form of data pertaining to or in any way relevant to the foregoing requests for information, regardless of source or origin. This request is made under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act, 5 U.S.C. $552, as amended by Public Law 93-502. Sincerely yours, James H. Lesar James H. Lesar
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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.