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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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“Weekly World News”10 pages

  • 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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