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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. 167 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 169 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 170 …I worked there years and never saw or heard any-suggesting the Agency was involved assassination…
  • p. 171 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 172 …The bullets never gained perfectly intact, as the one found the stretcher, they became twisted lumps…
  • p. 173 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." "I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 206 …and documents were destroyed through some catastrophe never resumed business or were permanently closed down within…
  • p. 250 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 252 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 253 …I worked there three years and never saw or heard anying suggesting the Agency was involved…
  • p. 254 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 255 …The bullets never mained perfectly intact, as the one found in the stretcher; they became twisted…
  • p. 256 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 291 …Union member on 21 February 1968 but never shipped out. His Social Security Number is 562…
# 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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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.