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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. 156 …November 20 - November 25, 1963. New York: Harpers, 1967. "The Death of a President." Look, 24…
  • p. 161 …Johnson, Priscilla. "Oswald in Moscow." Harper's, April 1964, pp. 46-50. Kempton, H. "Onwald, May…
  • p. 163 …Look, Manchester, Harper & Row; an Informal Glossary of Press Relations Techniques." Public Relations Journal, April 1967…
  • p. 164 …Kennedy Reaches Accord with Harper & Row and William Manchester. The Minority of One, June 1967, pp…
  • p. 165 …raten, David. "Travels with Bobby Kennedy." Harper's, July 1968, pp. 51-61. No. Hal. "Indiana…
  • p. 263 …November 20 - November 25, 1963. New York: Harpers, 1967. . "The Death of a President." Look, 24…
  • p. 268 …the Harper Review Ferron, Robert L. "Terpentine Devil: CBS News Inquiry; the Warren Report." Saturday Review…
  • p. 269 …Reponse au Rapport Harper. L'Affaire Orenald: Reponse au Rapport Warren, Paris: Les Editions de Minuit…
  • p. 270 …Lock, Manchester, Harper & Row; an Informal Glossary of Press Relations Techniques." Public Relations Journal, April 1967…
  • p. 271 …Kennedy Knights Accord with Harper & Row and William Manchester." Publishers Weekly 23 January 1967, p. 222…
  • p. 272 …rten, Reid. "Travels with Abby Framedy." Harper's, July 1968, pp. 51-61. Hal, Hal. "Dadiana…
A check of Bonn's indices reflected a reference to the "Committee to Investigate Assassinations, Inc.," 927 15th St., N.W., Washington, D.C., which came to attention in connection with Bonn's destroyed file regarding "Committee for 'The Investigation of the Three Assassinations': Information Concerning - Miscellaneous (FPC)" (Bufile 163-26234). Bonn indices are negative concerning subject.

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