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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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13. All records pertaining to any alleged or contemplated witness, including any statements, transcripts, reports, or memorandums from any source whatsoever. 14. All correspondence of the following persons, regardless of origin or however obtained: Bernard Fensterwald Percy Foreman Robert W. Hill. William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Albert Pepper Carol Pepper James Earl Ray Jerry Ray John Ray J. B. Stoner Harold Weisberg 15. All letters, cables, reports, memorandums, or any other form of communication concerning the proposed guilty plea of James Earl Ray. 16. All records of any information request or inquiry from, or any contact by, any member or representative of the news media pertaining to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. since April 15, 1975. 17. All notes, memoranda, correspondence or investigative reports constituting or pertaining to any re-investigation or attempted re-investigation of the assassination of Dr. King undertaken in 1969 or anytime thereafter, and all documents setting forth the reasons or guidelines for any such re-investigation. 18. Any and all records pertaining to the New Rebel Motel and the DeSoto Motel. 19. Any records pertaining to James Earl Ray's eyesight. 20. Any records made available to any writer or news reporter which have not been made available to Mr. Harold Weisberg. 21. Any index or table of contents to the 96 volumes of evidence on the assassination of Dr. King. 22. A list of all evidence conveyed to or from the FBI by any legal authority, whether state, local, or federal.
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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.