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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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FOIA PRIVACY ( ) Classification (b)(1) (k)(1) ( ) Information from a foreign liaison service (b)(3) (j)(1)(b)(c) ( ) Information pertaining to a foreign liaison relationship (b)(3) (j)(1)(b)(c) (✓) Information which would/could identify the source (b)(3) (j)(1)(b) (✓) Information pertaining to a source (b)(3) (j)(1)(b) (✓) Information pertaining to intelligence methods (b)(3) (j)(1)(b) ( ) Location of CIA overseas installation (b)(3) (j)(1)(b) ( ) Location of unacknowledged domestic installation (b)(3) (j)(1)(b) ( ) Name of CIA employee (b)(3) (j)(1)(e) ( ) File number (b)(2) (j)(1)(b) ( ) Pseudonym (b)(3) (j)(1)(b) ( ) Cryptonym (b)(3) (j)(1)(b) ( ) Internal organizational data (b)(3) (j)(1)(e) ( ) Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) (j)(1)(b) ( ) FBI file number (b)(2) (j)(1)(b) ( ) Privacy of other individual (b)(6) (j)(1)(f) ( ) Does not pertain to request N/A "Exempted portions are not relevant to the requester" ( ) Information from another Government agency (b)(1) (j)(1)(c) *( ) Other, specify: Egahh mo/EOn/0 SIGNATURE OF REVIEWING OFFICER UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL Document No. (To be completed by ISS/PICG) E 2 IMPDET CL BY: SECRET TOP SECRET
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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.