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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.
“Los Angeles Times”17 pages
- p. 5 …1968; Washington Star, 23 September 1968; Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1968;
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- p. 63 …York Times, dated 23 April 1968; Washington Post, dated 5 July 1968; Los Angeles Free Press…
- p. 72 …York Times, dated 23 April 1968;Washington Post, dated 5 July 1968;Los Angeles Free Press…
- p. 157 …Los Angeles: The author, 963.
on. "November 22, 1963." Progressive Magazine, December 1964.
ley. "What They…
- p. 159 …Los Angeles, September 1964, pp. 1-19. (paper)
Sheatsley, Paul B. and Jacob J. Feldman. "The…
- p. 160 …Los Angeles: Associated Press 1964.
Highlights of the Warren Report. Los Angeles Associated Professional Service 1964…
- p. 161 …Warren Report Wrong, College Teacher Says." Los Angeles Times, 17 November 1967, p. 18. Warren's…
- p. 162 …Los Angeles: University of California, 1968.
Gosset, P. and R. L'homme qui crut guer Kennedy…
- p. 164 …Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1968.
Man in Room 3. Time, 12 April 1968, p. 21.
"Martin…
- p. 165 …ntoosa, Rm. "First Court Appearance; Suspect Gives Impression of Cocky, arrogant Confidence." Los Angeles Times, 9…
- p. 238 …primarily Miami, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Dallas, Austin, Galveston…
- p. 264 …Los Angeles: Bureau of International Relations, 1967.
"President and Nation's Journey." Reconstruction Int. 13 December…
- p. 266 …Los Angeles, September 1964, pp. 1-19. (paper)
Sheatsley, Paul B. and Jacob J. Feldman. "The…
- p. 267 …Los Angeles.
Pould, Jan. The Weight of the Evidence: The Warren Report and its Critic. New…
- p. 269 …Los Angeles: University of California, 1968.
Gosset, P. and R. L'homme qui crut tuer Kennedy…
- p. 271 …Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1968.
"Man in Room 5." Time, 12 April 1968, p. 21.
"Martin…
- p. 272 …Worthington, Richard. "New Yorker Warp on Family, Friends Return with Body." Los Angeles Time, 7 June…
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## PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building) DATE OFFICER'S INITIALS COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
RECEIVED FORWARDED
1. CI Staff Attn: John Bender 2C29 22 JUNE 1976 22 JUL 1976 22 July 1976
DDO/PIC:
Please see attached comments.
Not a Record
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3. CI/EXO 22 JUL 1976
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5. CI/PA (Graves) 20 JUL 1976
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9. DDO/FIO Attn: Annette Tube: CT-5, 2B1415
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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.