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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.
“FBI file”20 pages
- p. 12 …760966); 378 this file has been closed. - Record on Ray
3. Thirty FBI reports which mention…
- p. 22 …1961, the date of an FBI report in her file.
5. The postmaster at Heiberger, Alabama…
- p. 42 …CENTRAL REGISTRY·EUROPE
OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI
INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I&NS
CI OPERATIONS…
- p. 46 …CENTRAL REGISTRY · EUROPE
OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI
INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I & NS
1 OPERATIONS…
- p. 96 …b)(3)
( ) Name of an FBI agent (b)(7)
( ) FBI file number (b)(2)
Privacy of…
- p. 97 …Atkinson
TO LEGAT SANTO DOMINGO FROM DIRECTOR FBI
VIA TÉLETYPE
1234567
APR111968
ENGIPHERED
ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN…
- p. 99 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) |
| ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
- p. 101 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) |
| ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
- p. 110 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
- p. 111 …Subject of FBI investigations in 1954 (Voice of America) and 1956 (USIA) - Bureau File 123-15026…
- p. 113 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
- p. 125 …Weisberg's request, please return those documents which you so consider to the FBI. We would…
- p. 142 …Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) (j)(1)(b)
( ) FBI file number (b)(2) (j…
- p. 174 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
- p. 225 …32 More About Jim Hicks
32 Confirmation of FBI Knowledge 12 Days Before Dallas of a…
- p. 226 …is doing about computerizing files of evidence, initiating lawsuits to obtain information, etc.; and comments on…
- p. 235 …A few months after the purchase the SEC filed suit charging Lums and Ceasar's Palace…
- p. 238 …an FBI agent was assigned to infiltrate the group of alleged conspirators".
Do we now believe…
- p. 257 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
- p. 295 …Name* of an FBI agent
15. FBI file number
16. Privacy of other individual
17. Does…
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