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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by GLM-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. 129 …Arthur Hanes, Sr. Renfro Hays Robert W. Hill, Jr. William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Robert…
  • p. 130 …obtained: Bernard Fensterwald Percy Foreman Robert W. Hill. William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Albert Pepper…
  • p. 145 …Haile William J. Haynes, Jr. Robert W. Hill, Jr. William Bradford Huie George McMillan William N…
  • p. 146 …Arthur Hanes, Sr. Renfro Hays Robert W. Hill; Jr. William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Robert…
  • p. 147 …obtained: Bernard Fensterwald Percy Foreman Robert W. Hill William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Albert Pepper…
  • p. 155 …McGraw-Hill, 1965. Power: Same Goals, Sterner Style." Business Week, 30 November 1963, pp. 31-32…
  • p. 161 …McGraw-Hill, 1964. Report of the President's Commission on the Aggression F. Kennedy. Washington. Report…
  • p. 162 …Dir cait, 19, no. 13 (1964), 7. Hill, Richard J and Charles M. Boujean. "Mean Diffusion…
  • p. 172 …stress in his statements. atrolman Gerald L. Hill testified that he and three spent bullet hulls…
  • p. 174 …the Dallas policemen Hill, Jacks, Jackson and Weitzman; the medical examiner, Captain Humes; Commission staffer Wesley…
  • p. 240 …Murray Hill, N.J. 07974 The Bell System is using computer technology to modernize production of…
  • p. 243 …Calif. $6.7 million Honeywell, Inc., Wellesley Hills, Mass. State of Arizona, Phoenix, Ariz. A Honeywell…
  • p. 255 …stress in his statements. Ratrolman Gerald L. Hill testified that he und three spent bullet hulls…
  • p. 257 …the Dallas policemen Hill, Jacks, Jackson and Weitzman; the medical examiner, Captain Humes; Commission staffer Wesley…
  • p. 261 …Anna. Elnokryllkonstial elnokvalnaztáig. Budapest: Kosuth Konyvkiado, 1964. Hill, David. "Truth was try only goal." Texas Observer…
  • p. 268 …McGraw-Hill, 1964. Report of the President's Correlation on the Aggregation of President Kennedy. Report…
  • p. 269 …Hörder?" Diezeit, 19, no. 15 (1964), 7. Hill, Richard J and Charles M. Bonjean. "News Diffusion…

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## 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 above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.