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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.

  • p. 12 …760966); 378 this file has been closed. - Record on Ray 3. Thirty FBI reports which mention…
  • p. 22 …1961, the date of an FBI report in her file. 5. The postmaster at Heiberger, Alabama…
  • p. 42 …CENTRAL REGISTRY·EUROPE OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I&NS CI OPERATIONS…
  • p. 46 …CENTRAL REGISTRY · EUROPE OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I & NS 1 OPERATIONS…
  • p. 96 …b)(3) ( ) Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) ( ) FBI file number (b)(2) Privacy of…
  • p. 97 …Atkinson TO LEGAT SANTO DOMINGO FROM DIRECTOR FBI VIA TÉLETYPE 1234567 APR111968 ENGIPHERED ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN…
  • p. 99 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) | | ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
  • p. 101 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) | | ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
  • p. 110 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
  • p. 111 …Subject of FBI investigations in 1954 (Voice of America) and 1956 (USIA) - Bureau File 123-15026…
  • p. 113 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
  • p. 125 …Weisberg's request, please return those documents which you so consider to the FBI. We would…
  • p. 142 …Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) (j)(1)(b) ( ) FBI file number (b)(2) (j…
  • p. 174 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
  • p. 225 …32 More About Jim Hicks 32 Confirmation of FBI Knowledge 12 Days Before Dallas of a…
  • p. 226 …is doing about computerizing files of evidence, initiating lawsuits to obtain information, etc.; and comments on…
  • p. 235 …A few months after the purchase the SEC filed suit charging Lums and Ceasar's Palace…
  • p. 238 …an FBI agent was assigned to infiltrate the group of alleged conspirators". Do we now believe…
  • p. 257 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
  • p. 295 …Name* of an FBI agent 15. FBI file number 16. Privacy of other individual 17. Does…
The magazine of the design, applications, and implications of information processing systems - and the pursuit of truth in input, output, and processing, for the benefit of people.

World Affairs and Social Policy (continued)

33 Virtue, in Spite of Erroneous Conceptions [NT A] by J. P. Frankel, Dean of the Faculty, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, Calif. Which projects and problems should scientists work on? and which projects and problems should receive support by the government and which from other sources?

The Profession of Information Engineer and the Pursuit of Truth 3 Unsettling, Disturbing, Critical [NT F] Statement of policy by Computers and Automation

3 The Pursuit of Important Truth [NT F] by Edmund C. Berkeley, Editor Four kinds of truth that are regularly unexplored and unmentioned.

36 Nixon and the Mafia - Conclusion [N] by Jeff Gerth, SunDance Magazine, San Francisco, Calif. The many connections of President Richard M. Nixon with organized crime, scandal, etc.

by Edmund C. Berkeley, Editor, Computers and Automation Taken together the information published May 1970 to November 1973 in Computers and Automation effectively destroys a large segment of the beliefs, the rewritten history, that the establishment in the United States has arranged for the people in the United States to believe.

28 Political Assassinations in the United States [NT R] Inventory of 41 articles published in Computers and Automation May 1970 to October 1973 on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, Reverend Martin Luther King, and other politically important persons in the United States: titles, authors, and summaries.

27 The Watergate Crimes [NT R] Inventory of 12 articles published in Computers and Automation August 1972 to September 1973 on the burglarizing of the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Building, Washington, D.C., June 17, 1972, and the ramifications: titles, authors, and summaries.

35 Numbles [T C] by Neil Macdonald

## Corrections

For changes in "The Path to Championship Chess by Computer" by Professor Donald Michie published in the January 1973 issue of Computers and Automation, see page 23 of this issue, or page 24 of the July issue.

For changes in the reprinting and the indexing of "Communication Three Wav: Chimpanzee. Man. Computer".published in the Julv issue.

## Front Cover Picture

Three eighth graders - each from a different continent - are working together to solve complex mathematics problems. They are at the new United Nations International School, and are Laurence Ling May, a Chinese-Thai American; Catharina Nilson of Stockholm, Sweden; and Arun Alagappan of India. The minicomputer system is a gift from Digital Equipment Corp. For more information, see page 43 of the July 1973 issue.

## Departments

42 Across the Editor's Desk Computing and Data Processing Newsletter

50 Advertising Index

50 Calendar of Coming Events

32 Classified Advertisement

48 Monthly Computer Census

46 New Contracts

47 New Installations

23 Statement of Ownership

## Key

Key

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[C] - Monthly Column

[E] - Editorial

[F] - Forum

[NT] - Not Technical

[R] - Reference

[T] - Technical

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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.