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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.

  • p. 156 …New and World Report, 13 March 1967, p. 16. New Findings." U.S. New and World…
  • p. 157 …29-. "New conflict over assassination." U.S. News and World Report, 3 December 1966, pp. 6…
  • p. 160 …News and World Report, pp. 47-41. at the Warren report will show." U.S. News…
  • p. 161 …some new facts." U.S. News and World Report, 6 July 1964, p. 44. Warren Report…
  • p. 164 …News and World Report, 6 February 1967, pp. 66-67.alin, Nicholas. "Just Read the News…
  • p. 263 …News and World Report 13 March 1967, p. 16. "Jill Stilling: New Findings." U.S. News…
  • p. 264 …News and World Report, 5 December 1966, pp. "New light on the Assassination." "New Light on…
  • p. 267 …read the Warren Report " World News " Jacobson, Dan. "Hem Street: Warren Commission Report." New Statesman, 15…
  • p. 268 …some new facts." U.S. News and World Report, 6 July 1964, p. 44. "Warren Report…
  • p. 271 …News and World Report, 20 February 1967, pp. 51-52. Jacqueline Kennedy's Victory." New York…

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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.