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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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  • p. 37 …IN/DIR NUMBER IN 03635 STATION NUMBER Rome 5861 DATE May 18 SUBJECT RA9
  • p. 66 …Ray; exempt under (b)(3)(a). (c) Rome-5861, dated 3 May 1968; concerns a James…
  • p. 75 …Ray; exempt under (b)(3)(a). (c) Rome-5861, dated 3 May 1968; concerns a James…
  • p. 155 …1964. Gurgo, Ottorino. Percha i Kennedy muglono. Rome: Tord, 1969. Gurgo, Otterino. Perche I Kennedy mujione…
  • p. 159 …Blevett, Rome, by D. Campion, Washington, by S. Quinlan, Bogota, by Andrade, Milwaukee, by Q.Quade…
  • p. 262 …1964. Gurgo, Ottorino. Perche i Kennedy muolono. Rome: Trevi, 1968. Habe, Hans. "Die Hälfte der Wahrheit…
  • p. 266 …Blevett, Rome, by D. Campion, Washington, by S. Quinlan. Bogota, by Andrade. Milwaukee, by Q.Quade…
  • p. 290 …On 3 May 1968, an official Italian Intelligence Service provided this Agency's representative in Rome…
IRT - 6733, 20 Oct 64

SC1 - 316/62051-64, 30 Nov 64

Menu, 5 Oct 67

Menu, 5 Oct 67

UWCA-3516, 11 Oct 67

Menu, 5 Nov 67

WAVE, 26 Feb 68

George, 5024, 26 Feb 68

Menu-895, 7 Mar 68

Knopf, 6 Apr 68

Maxi, 7 Apr 68

Tolkien, 10 Apr 68

Dir, 10 Apr 68

Maxi, 10 Apr 68

HDCA, 10 Apr 68

UPG-A, 11 Apr 68

UPG-A, 11 Apr 68

WAVE, 2 Apr 68

Berlin, 15 Apr 68

Dir, 18 Apr 68

Menu Draft, 26 Apr 68

FHAT - 7 May 68

5 Dec 9024, 7 June 68

Menu 19 Sep 68

Menu 13 Nov 68

Buda, 19 May 71

Menu, 21 May 71

Menu, 28 Nov 75

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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.