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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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# CIVIL RIGHTS - CONSPIRACY INTERSTATE FLIGHT - ROBBERY WANTED BY FBI ## 1.0.4132 4-20-68 # JAMES EARLRAY FBI No. 405,942 G 16 M 9 U 000 12 ALIASES: Eric Starvo Galt, W. C. Harma, Harvey Lowryer, James McBride, James O'Connor, James Walton, James Walyon, John Willard, Jim M 4 W 101 ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` 市网300站中网南网300站南网300站南网300站 ```markdown ``` --noticeably protruding left ear; reportedly is a lone wolf; allegedly attended dance instruction school; has reportedly completed course in bartending ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` The image provided is too blurry and illegible to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a collection of random alphanumeric characters. Therefore, no text can be extracted from this image. Photographs taken 1960 Photograph taken 1963 (eyes drawn by artist) DESCRIPTION AGE: 40. born March 10. 1928. Alton Illinois SCARS AND MARKS: small scar on center of forehead and small scar on palm of right hand CRIMINAL RECORD Ray has been convicted of burglary, robbery, forging U.S. Postal Money Orders, armed robbery, and operating motor vehicle without owner's consent. CAUTION RAY IS SOUGHT IN CONNECTION WITH A MURDER WHEREIN THE VICTIM WAS SHOT. CONSIDER ARMED AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS. A Federal warrant was issued on April 17, 1968, at Birmingham, Alabama, charging Ray as Eric Starvo Gait with conspiring to interfere with a Constitutional Right of a citizen (Title 13 U.S. Code, Section 241). A Federal warrant was also issued on July 29, 1967, at Jefferson City, Missouri, charging Ray with Interstate Flight to Avoid Confinement for the crime of Robbery (Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 1373). IF YOU HAVE INFORMATION CONCERNING THIS PERSON, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL FBI OFFICE. TELEPHONE NUMBERS AND ADDRESSES OF ALL FBI OFFICES LISTED ON BACK. Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Washington, D. C. 20535 415 DOCUMENT AS REFERRED TO FB1 A417
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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.