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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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22 July 1976 DDO/PIC Re: Martin Luther King (Request #F-76-382) In response to this request, CI Staff has no records with the exception of one document, prepared in the Office of Security: Memorandum for the Record, dated 1 July 1968. Subject: King, Coretta Scott (#541 487). A copy is attached for referral. Daniel L. Roche, Jr. CI/PA Attachment: Referral Document, As Above
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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.