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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.

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“Open Minds”6 pages

  • p. 172 …He was asked here was any doubt in his mind that vald was the man he…
  • p. 174 …could conceivably change my mind. That is, if the government would open all its files on…
  • p. 193 …All depends on whether the judiciary acts honestly or with political consideration in mind. As it…
  • p. 228 …a deliberate and concerted effort to remain open-minded, and to appreciate varied approaches that are…
  • p. 255 …He was asked there was any doubt in his mind that Oswald was the man he…
  • p. 257 …could conceivably change my mind. That is, if the government would open all its files on…
Photograph taken 1968 (eyes drawn by artist)

Photograph taken 1968

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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.