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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.

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BON-2 (RV 301-71)

OPTIONAL

NO. 1772 2017.4

USSR 616 2017.4

UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT

1. Memorandum

TO Acting Director. FBI ( DATE: 11/13/72

FROM : Legal Attache, Bonn (105-7501-1779 ) (RUC )

SUBJECT: BERNARD FENSTERWALD, JR.

IS-EG

(OO:WFO)

Enclosed is one copy each of item(s) pertaining to subject received from Bureau Source 300. For details and reporting procedures see Form BON-6 attached to enclosed.

Request enclosure(s) ___ be translated in summary verbatim and enclosure(s) and translation sent to interested field division.

BERNARD FENSTERWALD, JR. Law Offices

Fensterwald & Ohlhausen 905 16th Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20006

## REMARKS:

ENCLOSURE

The enclosed is a form letter directed by JULIUS MADER (Bufile 100-169674), Mauerstrasse 69, East Berlin, to subject soliciting the latter to buy MADER's book, "Yellow List: Where is the CIA?" and furnishing an order blank for this purpose.

Subject encloses the order blank, indicating he wants one copy in English of the above book, and his personal check in the amount of $2 which shows the designation Committee to Investigate Assassination."

$ \because $ X - bureau (Enc. 1)

1 - NXX Forcign Liaison Desk

2 - Bonn

1 - 105-7501-1779

58DEU: 619/2 105-4658

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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.