Documents / FOIA release
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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James G. Beasley Clay Blair David Calcutt Phil M. Canale John Carlisle Robert K. Dwyer Gov. Buford Ellington Michael Eugene Percy Foreman Gerold Frank Roger Frisby Arthur Hanes, Jr. Arthur Hanes, Sr. W. Henry Haile William J. Haynes, Jr. Robert W. Hill, Jr. William Bradford Huie George McMillan William N. Morris Jeremiah O'Leary David M. Pack Lloyd A. Rhodes J. B. Stoner Hugh Stoner, Jr. Hugh Stoner, Sr. 8. All correspondence or records of other communications pertaining to the guilty plea of James Earl Ray exchanged between the Department of Justice or any division thereof and: Rev. Ralph Abernathy Rev. James Bevel Rev. Jesse Jackson Mrs. Coretta King Rev. Samuel B. Kyles Rev. Andrew Young Harry Wachtel 9. All notes or memorandums pertaining to any letter, cable, or other written communication from or on behalf of the District Attorney General of Shelby County, Tennessee, or the Attorney General of Tennessee to the Department of Justice or any division thereof.
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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.