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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.
“The Advance”11 pages
# CONFIDENTIAL OSI CONTENT: The CHARLES PARKER continued above is believed to be the same individual as CHARLES LINCOLN PARKER, who resigned a commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve because of admitted pro-Russian sympathies. BOYKO's continual agitation past association with Communists, and apparent association with PARKER, certainly places both individuals in a category which is, at least, highly questionable. Further inquiry concerning ESTHER H. EUGHILLSKI revealed she divorced WILFGRD JAVOY and reportedly returned to the Honor, area. OBI CORPMENT: Liaison has been effected with another govern ment agency in the Winolchik area in an effort to determine the present whereabouts of SUBJECT. The Alaskan Labor Defender, a monthly news publication, has recently reappeared in the Fairbanks area with its first publication dated May 1950. Previous editions of this newspaper appeared in the Fairbanks area in early 1955, but it was discontinued after publication of two editions due to the refusal of a local printing firm to print subsequent copies. Among editorials appearing in the Alaskan Labor Defender are several articles condensed from the "MILITANT," a publication of the Socialist Workers Party, which is cited by the U. S. Attorney General as subversive. One article quoted a speech ends by a cr) DU COIS at a rally held at Carnegie Hall in New York on 29 Karon 1956 which relates, in referring to the Montgomery, Alabama bus protest, "Led by clear thinking, they (the Mogroo) have discovered that the race problem was at bottom an economic problem. Unwittingly they have discovered Earl Marx." (In referring to KARL KARX, they were probably referring to KARL MARX, co-author of the Communist Manifesto) Quoted below are portions of another article under the caption "It's time to think" written by ERNEST GRIFFIN, Independent Candidate from Fairbanks, Alaska, for the House of Representatives: "Today there seems to be little or no attention paid to the examples made by the founders of this new nation, the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, or the Negro people as citizens of these United States." (In reference to the Constitution of the United States) "Although this Constitution ranks above every other written Constitution for excellence of its scheme, its simplicity, the precision of its language, and its judicious mixture of definiteness in principle, it has become a neglected Constitution."
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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.