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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.
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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 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.