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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. 167 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 169 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 170 …I worked there years and never saw or heard any-suggesting the Agency was involved assassination…
  • p. 171 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 172 …The bullets never gained perfectly intact, as the one found the stretcher, they became twisted lumps…
  • p. 173 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." "I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 206 …and documents were destroyed through some catastrophe never resumed business or were permanently closed down within…
  • p. 250 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 252 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 253 …I worked there three years and never saw or heard anying suggesting the Agency was involved…
  • p. 254 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 255 …The bullets never mained perfectly intact, as the one found in the stretcher; they became twisted…
  • p. 256 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 291 …Union member on 21 February 1968 but never shipped out. His Social Security Number is 562…
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)
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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.