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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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75-004 75-4927 75-4765 75-6669 76-143 Assign to Ed K. Freedom of Information Act Coordinator Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D. C. Attention: Gene F. Wilson Room 2E 42 Clarence M. Kelley, Director Subject: FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA) REQUEST OF MR. HAROLD WEISBERG CONCERNING THE COMMITTEE TO INVESTIGATE ASSASSINATIONS Enclosed herewith are a copy of correspondence from captioned individual and two copies of each document which originated with your Agency. Please examine these documents and if classified determine if classification is to be maintained. If continued classification is not warranted or if the documents are unclassified and otherwise releasable, please indicate any portions to be withheld under the FOIA and cite the applicable exemptions. Two copies of each document are enclosed. One copy is to be returned in the same condition as received while the other should be used to indicate deletions directly thereon and returned to us. While it is recognized that disposition of these documents could be made directly by you to the requester, we request their return so direct response to the requester may be made by the FBI. We have found, from past experience with requests of this magnitude, that such procedure affords a more easily managed system of accounting for released material. To assist in accounting for this referral, it is requested that you direct your reply to Linda Morcock, FOIA Branch, telephone number 324-5550. Enclosures (9) MAY 24 1 00 PH 77
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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.