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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. 157 …World Report, 14 November 1966, p. 81. O'Brien, Conor C. "The Life and Death of…
  • p. 160 …Commission." Newsweek, 8 June 1964, p. 48. O'Brien, Coor Cruise. "Veto by Assassination?" Minority of…
  • p. 264 …Week, 30 November 1963, pp. 21-23. O'Brien, Conor C. "The Life and Death of…
  • p. 267 …Editor & Publisher, 3 October 1964, p. 61. O'Brien, Conor Cruise. "Veto by Assassination?" Minority of…
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CSC1-316/01702-68, 2 May 68 bi (laugh) 63, 66

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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

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.