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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. 176 …Fletcher Prouty - Former Liaison Officer between Pentagon and CIA; author of The Secret Teams Mr. Robert…
  • p. 223 …intelligent orchestration stemming from the Pentagon, the Central Intelligence Agency and the Presidency, and with assists…
  • p. 226 …Like the Pentagon Papers, these documents should be declassified. ## November 1971 24 The Assassination of President…
  • p. 259 …Fletcher Prouty - Former Liaison Officer between Pentagon and CIA; author of The Secret Teams Mr. Robert…

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Eric Starvo Galt, aka Harvey Lowmyer and John Willard (Eyes drawn in by FBI artist)

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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.