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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. 22 …Summer of 1952 she had revisited UN headquarters in the role of a communist organizer. The…
  • p. 53 …CHIEF, INFORMATION REVIEW STAFF 7 C 28 Headquarters FORM 1.75 3533 OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS (13…
  • p. 110 …full details from the files of CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, together with all background information…
  • p. 113 …full details from the files of CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, together with all background information…
  • p. 137 …3-Headquarters w/attach as noted. FULL TEXT COPY - DO NOT RELEASE 51-28A
  • p. 188 …The headquarters are in Washington, D.C. (at 1520 16th Street, N.W.). In the four…
  • p. 208 …Chase Manhattan Bank's New York City headquarters, has proved useful. Engineered by Walter Kidde & Co…
  • p. 220 …LOCATION OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL BUSINESS OFFICES OF THE PUBLIC, ETHICAL, AND FINANCIAL PUBLICATIONS Berkeley…
  • p. 224 …Kennedy, and who were arrested seeking to bug Democratic National Headquarters at 2:30 a.m…
  • p. 234 …Golden was also security director of Nixon's convention headquarters in Miami that year, and was…
  • p. 236 …Central States, Southeast and Southwest Pension Fund headquartered in Chicago, has become a bankroll for some…
## CONFIDENTIAL

Attached is one copy of a communication being sent to an East German address. This item was obtained from Bureau Source 300, which is to be described in communications prepared for dissemination as "another government agency which conducts intelligence investigations." The item is classified CONFIDENTIAL by the originating agency and bears the special marking "Warning Notice - Sensitive Sources and Methods Involved."

Permission has been received from the source to disseminate this information to United States and foreign agencies provided the information is appropriately classified and paraphrased in a manner which will fully protect the nature of the source. Verbatim quotation from the attached material and use of complete, exact, foreign addresses set out in attached material tend to indicate the nature of the source and are to be avoided when preparing communications for dissemination. Permission has been received from the source to withhold the special marking "Warning Notice - Sensitive Sources and Methods Involved" from Bureau communications containing properly paraphrased versions of Bureau Source 300 information.

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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.