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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. 12 …760966); 378 this file has been closed. - Record on Ray 3. Thirty FBI reports which mention…
  • p. 22 …1961, the date of an FBI report in her file. 5. The postmaster at Heiberger, Alabama…
  • p. 42 …CENTRAL REGISTRY·EUROPE OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I&NS CI OPERATIONS…
  • p. 46 …CENTRAL REGISTRY · EUROPE OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I & NS 1 OPERATIONS…
  • p. 96 …b)(3) ( ) Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) ( ) FBI file number (b)(2) Privacy of…
  • p. 97 …Atkinson TO LEGAT SANTO DOMINGO FROM DIRECTOR FBI VIA TÉLETYPE 1234567 APR111968 ENGIPHERED ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN…
  • p. 99 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) | | ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
  • p. 101 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) | | ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
  • p. 110 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
  • p. 111 …Subject of FBI investigations in 1954 (Voice of America) and 1956 (USIA) - Bureau File 123-15026…
  • p. 113 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
  • p. 125 …Weisberg's request, please return those documents which you so consider to the FBI. We would…
  • p. 142 …Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) (j)(1)(b) ( ) FBI file number (b)(2) (j…
  • p. 174 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
  • p. 225 …32 More About Jim Hicks 32 Confirmation of FBI Knowledge 12 Days Before Dallas of a…
  • p. 226 …is doing about computerizing files of evidence, initiating lawsuits to obtain information, etc.; and comments on…
  • p. 235 …A few months after the purchase the SEC filed suit charging Lums and Ceasar's Palace…
  • p. 238 …an FBI agent was assigned to infiltrate the group of alleged conspirators". Do we now believe…
  • p. 257 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
  • p. 295 …Name* of an FBI agent 15. FBI file number 16. Privacy of other individual 17. Does…

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1:00 LATE REGISTRATION Early Registrants pick up passes.

2:30 WELCOME: Mr. Bernard Fensterwald, Jr., Executive Director, Committee to Investigate Assassinations

Mr. Norman Mailer, Author and Forwarder of The Fifth Estate

0:00 CURRENT STATUS OF PROMINENT ASSASSINATION CASES: JFK CASE - Mr. Robert P. Smith, Director of Research, Committee to Investigate Assassinations

RFK CASE - Mr. Robert Hanson, Attorney present counsel for Sirhan Sirhan

KING CASE - Mr. James Lesar, Attorney present counsel for James Earl Ray

WALLACE CASE - Mr. Ronald Van Doren, Newsman, Author, researcher into the background of Arthur Bremer

ROCKWELL CASE - Ms. Meredith Rode Professor at Federal City College Authority in killing of George Lincoln Rockwell

UNIQUE INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES: Mr. William Turner, Moderator - Former FBI Agent, Author of numerous books on investigative techniques

Mr. George O'Toole - Former CIA Agent, Free-Lance Writer, expert on the PSE

Rockwell

(Psychological Stress Evaluator)

# PROGRAM

Mr. Robert Saltzman - Computer Engineer, Instructor on the Warren Commission

FRIDAY - Continued

12:30 BREAK FOR LUNCH

2:00 MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL EVIDENCE: Mr. Josiah Thompson, Moderator Professor at Haverford College, author of Six Seconds In Dallas

Dr. Cyril Wecht - Professor of Law and Forensic Medicine at Duquesne University; Coroner of Pittsburgh, Pa.

Ms. Sylvia Meagher - Attorney, UN Official author of Accessories After The Fact

Mr. Roger Hanson - Attorney, counsel to Sirhan Sirhan

Mr. Herbert MacDonnell - Professor of Criminalistics, Corning University; expert in case of Fred Hampton

Mr. Mark Lane - Attorney, author of Rush To Judgment and Executive Action

6:00 BREAK FOR DINNER

8:30 WARREN COMMISSION REPORT: FACT OR FICTION- A slide show and lecture by Mr. Robert Saltzman

SATURDAY-NOVEMBER 24

20 ASSASSINATIONS AND THE MEDIA:

Mr. John Henry Faulk, Moderator Humorist and Author of Feqr On Trial

Mr. Robert Kaiser - Author of RFK Must Die

Mr. Donald Freed - Co-Author of Executive Action

Mr. Harold Weisberg - Author of Frame Up

Mr. Ted Charach - Author of Second Gun

Mr. Peter Noyes - Author of Legacy Of Doubt

Mr. Fred Cook - Author of numerous books and articles

12:30 BREAK FOR LUNCH

2:00 THEORIES OF CONSPIRACY:

Mr. Richard Sprague, Moderator - Computer expert and author

Dr. Richard Popkin, Professor at Washington University; author of The Second Oswald

Col. Fletcher Prouty - Former Liaison Officer between Pentagon and CIA; author of The Secret Teams

Mr. Robert K. Brown - Former Special Services Officer; expert in attempts on life of Castro

Mr. Earl Goiz - Reporter for Dallas Morning News; expert on Organized Crimes

Mr. Victor Marchetti - Former CIA Agent; author

Mr. Peter Dale Scott - Professor at Berkeley; Author of The War Conspiracy

5:00 INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS WITH THE SPEAKERS - Question and Answer Sessions

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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.