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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.

  • p. 167 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 169 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 170 …I worked there years and never saw or heard any-suggesting the Agency was involved assassination…
  • p. 171 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 172 …The bullets never gained perfectly intact, as the one found the stretcher, they became twisted lumps…
  • p. 173 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." "I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 206 …and documents were destroyed through some catastrophe never resumed business or were permanently closed down within…
  • p. 250 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 252 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 253 …I worked there three years and never saw or heard anying suggesting the Agency was involved…
  • p. 254 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 255 …The bullets never mained perfectly intact, as the one found in the stretcher; they became twisted…
  • p. 256 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 291 …Union member on 21 February 1968 but never shipped out. His Social Security Number is 562…
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 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.