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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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Deng - 201 CSC1-316/01702-68, 2 May 68 bi (laugh) 63, 66 PANA 6180 Release - 281 UFGA- 29884 11 Apr 68 UFGA- 29877, 11 Apr 18 HDCA- 7012, 18 Apr 68 QUOA- 19623, 30 Mar 66 ESC1- 316/82051-64, 30 Nov 64 OIRT- 6783, 17 Nov 64 OIRT- 6733, 20 Oct 64 61, 62 " " 61, 62, 63 61, 62, 63 61, 62, 63 61, 62, 63 61, 62, 63
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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.