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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.

  • p. 163 …News and World Report 1964 a plot was feared when Kennedy was Shot." U.S. News…
  • p. 234 …As a Secret Service guard for Nixon when he was Vice President, Golden made a good…
  • p. 237 …News and World Report (September 11, 1972), Attorney General Richard Kleindienst hailed "about 1600" indictments of…
  • p. 270 …News and World Report, 6 January 1964, p. 7. ## C. JIM CARRISON "All the elements." Hammack…
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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