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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. 22 …Summer of 1952 she had revisited UN headquarters in the role of a communist organizer. The…
  • p. 53 …CHIEF, INFORMATION REVIEW STAFF 7 C 28 Headquarters FORM 1.75 3533 OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS (13…
  • p. 110 …full details from the files of CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, together with all background information…
  • p. 113 …full details from the files of CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, together with all background information…
  • p. 137 …3-Headquarters w/attach as noted. FULL TEXT COPY - DO NOT RELEASE 51-28A
  • p. 188 …The headquarters are in Washington, D.C. (at 1520 16th Street, N.W.). In the four…
  • p. 208 …Chase Manhattan Bank's New York City headquarters, has proved useful. Engineered by Walter Kidde & Co…
  • p. 220 …LOCATION OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL BUSINESS OFFICES OF THE PUBLIC, ETHICAL, AND FINANCIAL PUBLICATIONS Berkeley…
  • p. 224 …Kennedy, and who were arrested seeking to bug Democratic National Headquarters at 2:30 a.m…
  • p. 234 …Golden was also security director of Nixon's convention headquarters in Miami that year, and was…
  • p. 236 …Central States, Southeast and Southwest Pension Fund headquartered in Chicago, has become a bankroll for some…

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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.