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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. 122 …Thank you for your assistance and continued cooperation. This request has been assigned the case number…
  • p. 138 …Chugash Electrical Association, Nitromain Bus Lines, Nitromain Electric Association, Fairview PDB, Cooper Valley Electric Association, and…
  • p. 198 UNTIL DECEMBER 31,1973 STARTING JANUARY 1,1974 WORKING TOGETHER Cooperative Facilities to Obtain the Advantages…
  • p. 201 …How to plan, before operations begin, a cooperative service bureau that will provide its sponsors with…
  • p. 205 …A cooperative service bureau consists of several sponsoring firms who jointly own a computer and share…
  • p. 206 ## Lack of Interest At the present time, widespread lack of interest in joining a cooperative is…
  • p. 210 …Companies would be well advised to consider the idea seriously, for cooperative service bureaus offer a…

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Actually the struggle goes deeper and wider than that. The present wave of race terror and hatred in the South is being fanned by the White Citizens Council. What is not generally known is that this terror is directed against any white workers who dare to solidarize with Legoos. The murderous White Citizens Council are not only rebidly Jim Crow but Anti-Semitic and Anti-Labor. Their aim is to procure the system of color segregation and discrimination as the foundation upon which rests the open shop structure of the "Right to Work" South".

Also appearing in this issue is an article relating that the Catholic Worker has protested the pedlooking of the Daily Worker as a violation of the freedom of the press.

An article appearing under the caption "Auto Workers Take Home Pay Declines" reflects the "demand for a 30 hour week at 40 hours pay" by the UAW, Ford Local 600, and the AFL-CIO. Another article under the caption "Employment Falling Off; Productivity is Increasing", quotes JOHN CLARK, president of the International Union of Mines, Mill and Smaller Workers, as stating that his union "Intends to do something" about declining employment in the metals industry. Also set forth in this issue of the Alaskan Labor Defender is the "platform" of DONALD W. HOLTON, Independent Candidate for the Senate, ENNEST GRIPPIN, MIKE DOLLINTER, and NILLO KAFGUM, Independent Candidates for the House of Representatives. Two of the issues listed on the "platform" are "Stop the governments thought-control witch hunt which is pushing America

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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.