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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.

  • p. 156 …November 20 - November 25, 1963. New York: Harpers, 1967. "The Death of a President." Look, 24…
  • p. 161 …Johnson, Priscilla. "Oswald in Moscow." Harper's, April 1964, pp. 46-50. Kempton, H. "Onwald, May…
  • p. 163 …Look, Manchester, Harper & Row; an Informal Glossary of Press Relations Techniques." Public Relations Journal, April 1967…
  • p. 164 …Kennedy Reaches Accord with Harper & Row and William Manchester. The Minority of One, June 1967, pp…
  • p. 165 …raten, David. "Travels with Bobby Kennedy." Harper's, July 1968, pp. 51-61. No. Hal. "Indiana…
  • p. 263 …November 20 - November 25, 1963. New York: Harpers, 1967. . "The Death of a President." Look, 24…
  • p. 268 …the Harper Review Ferron, Robert L. "Terpentine Devil: CBS News Inquiry; the Warren Report." Saturday Review…
  • p. 269 …Reponse au Rapport Harper. L'Affaire Orenald: Reponse au Rapport Warren, Paris: Les Editions de Minuit…
  • p. 270 …Lock, Manchester, Harper & Row; an Informal Glossary of Press Relations Techniques." Public Relations Journal, April 1967…
  • p. 271 …Kennedy Knights Accord with Harper & Row and William Manchester." Publishers Weekly 23 January 1967, p. 222…
  • p. 272 …rten, Reid. "Travels with Abby Framedy." Harper's, July 1968, pp. 51-61. Hal, Hal. "Dadiana…
FOIA Appeal - Harold Weisberg, for information about Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Earl Ray

IPS F 76-382

TO: (Civil 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.

H.G. Bean
2.
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 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.