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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.
“United Press”16 pages
Mr. Harold Tyler, Jr. Deputy Attorney General U. S. Department of Justice Washington, D. C. 20530 Dear Mr. Tyler: On behalf of Mr. Harold Weisberg, I am requesting that you grant him access to the following records pertaining to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: 1. All receipts for any letters, cables, documents, reports, memorandums, or other communications in any form whatsoever. 2. All receipts for any items of physical evidence. 3. All reports or memorandums on the results of any tests performed on any item of evidence, including any comparisons normally made in the investigation of a crime. 4. All reports or memorandums on any fingerprints found at the site of the crime or on any item allegedly related to the crime. This is moant to include, for example, any fingerprints found in or the white Mustang abandoned in Atlanta, in any room allegedly or rented by James Earl Ray, and on any registration card. It would also include all fingerprints found on any item considered as evidence in the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 5. Any taxicab log or manifest of Memphis cab driver James McCraw or the cab company for which he worked. 6. Any tape or transcript of the radio logs of the Memphis Police Department or the Shelby County Sheriff's Office for April 1968. 7. All correspondence and records of other communications exchanged between the Department of Justice or any division thereof and: R. A. Ashley, Jr. Harry S. Avery
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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.