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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by 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.

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  • p. 161 …some new facts." U.S. News and World Report, 6 July 1964, p. 44. Warren Report…
  • p. 164 …News and World Report, 6 February 1967, pp. 66-67.alin, Nicholas. "Just Read the News…
  • p. 263 …News and World Report 13 March 1967, p. 16. "Jill Stilling: New Findings." U.S. News…
  • p. 264 …News and World Report, 5 December 1966, pp. "New light on the Assassination." "New Light on…
  • p. 267 …read the Warren Report " World News " Jacobson, Dan. "Hem Street: Warren Commission Report." New Statesman, 15…
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  • p. 271 …News and World Report, 20 February 1967, pp. 51-52. Jacqueline Kennedy's Victory." New York…
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(n) B-191, dated 9 October 1968; Subject: Jamaican Special Branch Report - Jamaica/ United States Black Power Ties; exempt under (b)(1)(5)B(1).

(o) B-308, dated 17 February 1969; Subject: Bahamas/United States Black Power Ties; report of a British service; exempt under (b)(1)(5)B(1).

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(p) B-618, dated 8 September 1969; Subject: World Council of Peace planned delegates to Paris; a sensitive reliable source revealed a Clarence Fielden Jones as being in contact with Martin Luther King; exempt under (b)(3)(a) and (b)(6).

(q) EX-9272, dated 21 November 1972; is a summary about Ralph Henry; incidental reference to the Subject; exempt under (b)(3)(a) and (b)(6).

(r) EX-10198, dated 29 May 1972, concerns VB#5 and miscellaneous comments by (MHRUPEE); incidental reference to the Subject; exempt under (b)(3)(a) and (b)(6).

(s) CSCI-1763, dated 14 May 1968 (201-760966); 378 this file has been closed. - Record on Ray

3. Thirty FBI reports which mention the Subject and/or his activities. Excluded under 1900.3(g)(4). See Attachment I.

4. The cited documents are available in this office if needed.

Chief, Internation1 Terrorism Group Operations Staff

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