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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.

  • p. 133 …In all fairly recent reports on cessation for Anderson Layer, in the letter's Chicago with…
  • p. 154 …Kennedy, Anderson, S.C.1 Droke House, 1969. Booker, Simeon. "Now JPK Surpassed Abraham Lincoln." Ebony…
  • p. 218 …needed to protect them from each other (Anderson, "Sam Hall"; Cole, The Funco File; Dick, Vulcan…
  • p. 219 …large numbers of people. ## Bibliography ## Fiction 1. Anderson, Poul. "Sam Hall". Astounding Science Fiction. September 1953…
  • p. 222 …Wiswesser The Differences in Two Strains of Corn / Edgar Anderson The Six Blind Men of Nepal…
  • p. 234 was Intertel that ITT hired in 1972 to snoop on columnist Jack Anderson. The latest and…
  • p. 235 …In 1962 Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson wrote that "Chotiner ... besides representing the top gangster of…
  • p. 236 …Jack Anderson documents, for example, that as early as 1960, then Vice-President Nixon and Attorney…

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MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

## Para C:

I cannot match the documents with the list you provided. Please arrange the articles chronologically and number them lightly in pencil to correspond with numbers in a memo (see attached Memo from the DDA, 26 March 76, para b. It would be useful if you would use that format for all your memos, as the way you have done it is very hard to follow without making errors.) Also clipped documents have parts cut off of them or are almost unreadable. Can you provide better copies?

## Para D:

First document is a report whose number should be left in. Pls provide another resanitized copy.

Please delete dissemination controls in your sanitizations; otherwise we just have to do them over. Also classification was left on one document. See clips.

Please provide sanitized 1st a page of EX-895, 7 Mar X 68.

Please delete cite numbers from incoming cables.

Many thanks.

Mary Felton X1644 DDO/P1C

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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.