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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.
MEMORANDUM FOR: Director Federal Bureau of Investigation ATTENTION : Mr. William A. Branigan SUBJECT : Conference of the Committee to Investigate Assassinations, Report on Proceedings 23 November 1973 1. Herewith a report containing partial coverage on the events during the first session of the Committee to Investigate Assassinations, together with material (which is overt) made available on the floor of the conference. 2. We would be interested in anything you develop on any of the other sessions of the conference. FOR THE DEPUTY DIRECTOR FOR OPERATIONS: REC-64 62-112697-33 Enclosure: Report w/atts EX-104 J. Cayton James Angleton 14 JAN 3 1974 SECRET
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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.