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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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"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 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.