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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. 139 …Further inquiry concerning ESTHER M. ENGELEMSKI revealed she recently divorced WILFORD BAVOY and reportedly returned to…
  • p. 154 …Bickel, A.M. "Return to Dallas." New Republic, 23 December 1967, p. 34. Bibon, Jim. The…
  • p. 161 …10 (1963-64), 1-3. "Boy, Don't You Know I'm on Camera?" New Republic…
  • p. 162 …Kampton, Murray. "Boy, Don't You Know I'm an General?" New Republic, 29 February 1964…
  • p. 165 …Aftermath of a tragedy; boy's deep hate, a senator slain." U.S. News and World…
  • p. 268 …10 (1963-64), 1-3. "Boy, Don't You Know I'm on Camera?" New Republic…
  • p. 272 …how's the story? Aftermath of a tragedy; boy'a deep hate, a senator plain." U…

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