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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by 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. 5 …1968; Washington Star, 23 September 1968; Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1968; 125-3+7 See…
  • p. 63 …York Times, dated 23 April 1968; Washington Post, dated 5 July 1968; Los Angeles Free Press…
  • p. 72 …York Times, dated 23 April 1968;Washington Post, dated 5 July 1968;Los Angeles Free Press…
  • p. 157 …Los Angeles: The author, 963. on. "November 22, 1963." Progressive Magazine, December 1964. ley. "What They…
  • p. 159 …Los Angeles, September 1964, pp. 1-19. (paper) Sheatsley, Paul B. and Jacob J. Feldman. "The…
  • p. 160 …Los Angeles: Associated Press 1964. Highlights of the Warren Report. Los Angeles Associated Professional Service 1964…
  • p. 161 …Warren Report Wrong, College Teacher Says." Los Angeles Times, 17 November 1967, p. 18. Warren's…
  • p. 162 …Los Angeles: University of California, 1968. Gosset, P. and R. L'homme qui crut guer Kennedy…
  • p. 164 …Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1968. Man in Room 3. Time, 12 April 1968, p. 21. "Martin…
  • p. 165 …ntoosa, Rm. "First Court Appearance; Suspect Gives Impression of Cocky, arrogant Confidence." Los Angeles Times, 9…
  • p. 238 …primarily Miami, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Dallas, Austin, Galveston…
  • p. 264 …Los Angeles: Bureau of International Relations, 1967. "President and Nation's Journey." Reconstruction Int. 13 December…
  • p. 266 …Los Angeles, September 1964, pp. 1-19. (paper) Sheatsley, Paul B. and Jacob J. Feldman. "The…
  • p. 267 …Los Angeles. Pould, Jan. The Weight of the Evidence: The Warren Report and its Critic. New…
  • p. 269 …Los Angeles: University of California, 1968. Gosset, P. and R. L'homme qui crut tuer Kennedy…
  • p. 271 …Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1968. "Man in Room 5." Time, 12 April 1968, p. 21. "Martin…
  • p. 272 …Worthington, Richard. "New Yorker Warp on Family, Friends Return with Body." Los Angeles Time, 7 June…
# CONFIDENTIAL

down the road to dictatorship", and "Eliminate the government's blacklist which has placed 18 million Americans, through 70 government agencies, on Security Suspect Lists. Restore Freedom of Speech to all".

The Editorial Staff of the Alaskan Labor Defender is listed as DON HOLTON, ERNEST GRIFFIN, MIKE COLLINTER, CARTER PAGE and EMIL HYTUMEN. Mailing address for this newspaper is P. O. Box 1915, Fairbanks, Alaska.

OSI COMMENT: Although there is no evidence that this newspaper is associated with the Communist Party or its front organizations, it is interesting to note that in many articles, the paper has quoted publications or officials of organizations which have been cited by the U. S. Attorney General as either subversive or Communist infiltrated and controlled. It is further interesting to note that MIME COLLINTER, an editor of this newspaper, and ROY BATISTE, owner of the Fairbanks Recreation Center and Cafe, the only advertiser in this edition are both listed as Category I, Alaskan Command Surveillance List.

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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.