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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. 5 …1968; Washington Star, 23 September 1968; Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1968; 125-3+7 See…
  • p. 63 …York Times, dated 23 April 1968; Washington Post, dated 5 July 1968; Los Angeles Free Press…
  • p. 72 …York Times, dated 23 April 1968;Washington Post, dated 5 July 1968;Los Angeles Free Press…
  • p. 157 …Los Angeles: The author, 963. on. "November 22, 1963." Progressive Magazine, December 1964. ley. "What They…
  • p. 159 …Los Angeles, September 1964, pp. 1-19. (paper) Sheatsley, Paul B. and Jacob J. Feldman. "The…
  • p. 160 …Los Angeles: Associated Press 1964. Highlights of the Warren Report. Los Angeles Associated Professional Service 1964…
  • p. 161 …Warren Report Wrong, College Teacher Says." Los Angeles Times, 17 November 1967, p. 18. Warren's…
  • p. 162 …Los Angeles: University of California, 1968. Gosset, P. and R. L'homme qui crut guer Kennedy…
  • p. 164 …Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1968. Man in Room 3. Time, 12 April 1968, p. 21. "Martin…
  • p. 165 …ntoosa, Rm. "First Court Appearance; Suspect Gives Impression of Cocky, arrogant Confidence." Los Angeles Times, 9…
  • p. 238 …primarily Miami, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Dallas, Austin, Galveston…
  • p. 264 …Los Angeles: Bureau of International Relations, 1967. "President and Nation's Journey." Reconstruction Int. 13 December…
  • p. 266 …Los Angeles, September 1964, pp. 1-19. (paper) Sheatsley, Paul B. and Jacob J. Feldman. "The…
  • p. 267 …Los Angeles. Pould, Jan. The Weight of the Evidence: The Warren Report and its Critic. New…
  • p. 269 …Los Angeles: University of California, 1968. Gosset, P. and R. L'homme qui crut tuer Kennedy…
  • p. 271 …Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1968. "Man in Room 5." Time, 12 April 1968, p. 21. "Martin…
  • p. 272 …Worthington, Richard. "New Yorker Warp on Family, Friends Return with Body." Los Angeles Time, 7 June…
# CONFIDENTIAL

Extracts from Monthly Counterintelligence Report, OSI, AAC

COURSE: DIR CSI, AAC

DATE OF INFORMATION: 1-30 April 1956

DATE OF REPORT: 14 May 1956

Extracts of interest taken from the O3I Monthly Counterintelligence Report are as follows:

## SEIOTON

Former CP member arrived in Alaska. CP member confined in Federal jail of Anchorage for non-conviction. Activities of possible subversives not forth. Alaska Labor Defender starts publication again.

1. An aircraft passenger lot from the Jamaican Daily Courier revealed ANP had arrived in that city from Controls, Washington on 3 March 1953 and departed for Anchorage on 5 March 1953. A later lot in the newspaper revealed ANP again flew to Anchorage on 29 March 1953. Then interviewed by the FBI in 1951, ANP concluded being a member of the Kotahil branch of the Communist Party from 1953 to 1959.

B. Another passenger list in the Jamaica Captured Station for Amherge on 07 March 1953. Information of this office indicated Jamaica D. Amherge, Jamaica Captured Station, was to return to Amherge from the EX during the latter half of March 1953. Further inquiry by this office has disclosed Jamaica D. Amherge was classified in the Federal Colll in Amherge and charged with non-aggard of his former wife. Amherge was released on 13 April 1953 when he capital to pay the obligated amount and in reportedly planning on working as a cell-employed contractor in the Amherge area.

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3. In all fairly recent reports on cessation for Anderson Layer, in the letter's Chicago with the City Council over a paying contract. As an indication of Anderson's contribution to the recently represented the following companies and/or individuals in highly controversial issues: General Electrical Association, Interstate Dax Line, Eastern Electric Association, Fairview Ld, Lower Valley Electric Association, and the (Illinois) tax case. In connection with the Killikill case, a local newspaper reported that a National started a fund raising activity which was termed the "National Defense Fund."

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