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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. 164 …Ca., 1968. "Big Hunt for masters killer." U.S. News and World Report. 29 April 1968…
  • p. 170 …Clifford Irving was a master liar, and he had beaten the polygraph, but he would have…
  • p. 211 …Many analysts joining major corporations hold degrees as Master, Business Administration. Their educational backgrounds, when combined…
  • p. 243 …Materials Labs., Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio Developing Air Force Computer Aided Manufacturing(AFCAM) master plan $251…
  • p. 253 …Clifford Irving was a master liar, and he had beaten the polygraph, but he would have…
"Cardict on Sirhan." Newweek, 28 April 1969, pp. 414.

Weiss, P. and M. Mannes. "Reflections on a tragedy." Saventeen, August 1968, pp. 194-195.

"What was in Sirhan's mind?" Time, 24 January 1969, p. 54.

Weick, Paul R. "The Oregon Primary." New Republic, 8 June 1968, pp. 14-15.

"Win or lose, the Primary Players." Life, 7 June 1968, pp. 35-41.

Wise, David. "How Bobby Plans to Win It." Saturday Evening Post, 1 June 1968, pp. 23-27.

"Witnesses speak." Newweek, 24 June 1968, pp. 26-27.

Yeakum, Robert. "Kennedy and McCarthy: 1965-1967 Voting Record." New Republic, 11 May 1968, pp. 23-27.

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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.