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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. 133 …In all fairly recent reports on cessation for Anderson Layer, in the letter's Chicago with…
  • p. 154 …Kennedy, Anderson, S.C.1 Droke House, 1969. Booker, Simeon. "Now JPK Surpassed Abraham Lincoln." Ebony…
  • p. 218 …needed to protect them from each other (Anderson, "Sam Hall"; Cole, The Funco File; Dick, Vulcan…
  • p. 219 …large numbers of people. ## Bibliography ## Fiction 1. Anderson, Poul. "Sam Hall". Astounding Science Fiction. September 1953…
  • p. 222 …Wiswesser The Differences in Two Strains of Corn / Edgar Anderson The Six Blind Men of Nepal…
  • p. 234 was Intertel that ITT hired in 1972 to snoop on columnist Jack Anderson. The latest and…
  • p. 235 …In 1962 Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson wrote that "Chotiner ... besides representing the top gangster of…
  • p. 236 …Jack Anderson documents, for example, that as early as 1960, then Vice-President Nixon and Attorney…

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10. All notes or memorandums pertaining to any telephonic or verbal communications from or on behalf of the District Attorney General of Shelby County, Tennessee, or the Attorney General of Tennessee to the Department of Justice or any division thereof.

11. All tape recordings and all logs, transcripts, notes, reports, memorandums or any other written record of or reflecting any surveillance of any kind whatsoever of the following persons:

Judge Preston Battle

Wayne Chastain

Bernard Fensterwald

Percy Foreman

Gerold Frank

Arthur Hanes, Jr.

Arthur Hanes, Sr.

Renfro Hays

Robert W. Hill, Jr.

William Bradford Huie

James H. Lesar

Robert I. Livingston

George McMillan

Judge Robert McRae, Jr.

Albert Pepper

Carol Pepper

James Earl Ray

Jerry Ray

John Ray

Richard J. Ryan

J. B. Stoner

Russell X. Thompson

Harold Weisberg

This is meant to include not only physical shadowing but also mail covers, mail interception, interception by any telephonic, electronic, mechanical or other means, as well as conversations with third persons and the use of informants.

12. All tape recordings and all logs, transcripts, notes, reports, memorandums or any other written record of or reflecting any surveillance of any kind whatsoever on the Committee to Investigate Assassinations (CTIA) or any person associated with it in any way.

This is meant to include not only physical shadowing but also mail covers, mail interception, interception by any telephonic, electronic, mechanical or other means, as well as conversations with third persons and the use of informants.

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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.