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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.
VIA AIR (Specify Air or Bom Pencil) DEWATCH NO. RAKA-790 TO : Chief, SR DATE 25 May 1956 FROM : Chief of Station, Anchorage SUBJECT GENERAL REDWOOD/Operational SPECIFIC Transmittal of Extracts taken from AAC Counterintelligence Report - April 1956 Submitted herewith for your information and retention are Extracts taken from the AAC Monthly Counterintelligence Report covering the period 1-30 April 1956. The information submitted is only that which deals with CE Activities in the Alaskan Theatre. Approved: Herbert M. Cavell Russel T. Arne Attachment: Extracts from Report, in dup. Distribution: 3-Headquarters w/attach as noted. FULL TEXT COPY - DO NOT RELEASE 51-28A
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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.