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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by GLM-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. 128 …Haile William J. Haynes, Jr. Robert W. Hill, Jr. William Bradford Huie George McMillan William N…
  • p. 129 …Arthur Hanes, Sr. Renfro Hays Robert W. Hill, Jr. William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Robert…
  • p. 130 …obtained: Bernard Fensterwald Percy Foreman Robert W. Hill. William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Albert Pepper…
  • p. 145 …Haile William J. Haynes, Jr. Robert W. Hill, Jr. William Bradford Huie George McMillan William N…
  • p. 146 …Arthur Hanes, Sr. Renfro Hays Robert W. Hill; Jr. William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Robert…
  • p. 147 …obtained: Bernard Fensterwald Percy Foreman Robert W. Hill William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Albert Pepper…
  • p. 155 …McGraw-Hill, 1965. Power: Same Goals, Sterner Style." Business Week, 30 November 1963, pp. 31-32…
  • p. 161 …McGraw-Hill, 1964. Report of the President's Commission on the Aggression F. Kennedy. Washington. Report…
  • p. 162 …Dir cait, 19, no. 13 (1964), 7. Hill, Richard J and Charles M. Boujean. "Mean Diffusion…
  • p. 172 …stress in his statements. atrolman Gerald L. Hill testified that he and three spent bullet hulls…
  • p. 174 …the Dallas policemen Hill, Jacks, Jackson and Weitzman; the medical examiner, Captain Humes; Commission staffer Wesley…
  • p. 240 …Murray Hill, N.J. 07974 The Bell System is using computer technology to modernize production of…
  • p. 243 …Calif. $6.7 million Honeywell, Inc., Wellesley Hills, Mass. State of Arizona, Phoenix, Ariz. A Honeywell…
  • p. 255 …stress in his statements. Ratrolman Gerald L. Hill testified that he und three spent bullet hulls…
  • p. 257 …the Dallas policemen Hill, Jacks, Jackson and Weitzman; the medical examiner, Captain Humes; Commission staffer Wesley…
  • p. 261 …Anna. Elnokryllkonstial elnokvalnaztáig. Budapest: Kosuth Konyvkiado, 1964. Hill, David. "Truth was try only goal." Texas Observer…
  • p. 268 …McGraw-Hill, 1964. Report of the President's Correlation on the Aggregation of President Kennedy. Report…
  • p. 269 …Hörder?" Diezeit, 19, no. 15 (1964), 7. Hill, Richard J and Charles M. Bonjean. "News Diffusion…

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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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