Documents / FOIA release
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.
“King”60+ pages
# RIDE THE EAST WIND: Parables of Yesterday and Today"
## Table of Contents
## Part 1. The Condition of Man
Pandora and the Mysterious Box / H. A. Guerber
The Garden of Paradise $ ^{*} $ / Hans Christian Andersen
$ ^{*} $ to which the King's son was transported by the East Wind
The History of the Doasyoulikes / Charles Kingsley
The Locksmith and the Stranger / Edmund C. Berkeley (B)
The Elephant and the Donkey / James Reston
Where that Superhighway Runs, There Used to be a
Cornfield / Robert Redfield
The Fire Squirrels / B
## Part 2. On Flattery and Persuasion
The Crow and the Fox / Jean de La Fontaine
The Visitor who Got a Lot for Three Dollars /
George Ade
The Cuckoo and the Eagle / Ivan A. Kriloff
The Wind and the Sun / Aesop
The Lion in Love / Aesop
The Crow and the Mussel / Aesop, B
The Two Raccoons and the Button / B
## Part 3. On Perseverance and Resourcefulness
The Crow and the Pitcher / Aesop Robert Bruce and the Spider / Sir Walter Scott Hannibal Mouse and the Other End of the World / B The Fly, the Spider, and the Hornet / B
## Part 4. Behavior - Moral and Otherwise
A Small Wharf of Stones / Benjamin Franklin
The Three Bricklayers / B
The Good Samaritan / St. Luke
Much Obliged, Dear Lord / Fulton Oursler
The Fisherman, the Farmer, and the Peddler / B
## Part 5. The Problem of Truth
On Being a Reasonable Creature / Benjamin Franklin
The Monkey and the Spectacles / Ivan A. Kriloff
The Golden Trumpets of Yap Yap / Mike Quin
The Barrels and the Pittsburgh Manufacturer / B
The Empty Column / William J. Wiswesser
The Differences in Two Strains of Corn / Edgar Anderson
The Six Blind Men of Nepal / B
The Sighting of a Whale / B
The Stars and the Young Rabbit / B
The Ocean of Truth / Sir Isaac Newton
## Part 6. On Common Sense
The Lark and her Young Ones / Aesop
The Bear and the Young Dog / B
The Bear and the Young Calf / B
The Bear and the Young Beaver / B
The Wasps and the Honey Pot / Sir Roger I'Estrange
The Six-Day War and the Gulf of Dong / B
The Deceived Eagle / James Northcote
## The Fox of Mt. Etna and the Grapes
Once there was a Fox who lived on the lower slopes of Mt. Etna, the great volcano in Sicily. These slopes are extremely fertile; the grapes that grow there may well be the most delicious in the world; and of all the farmers there, Farmer Mario was probably the best. And this Fox longed and longed for some of Farmer Mario's grapes. But they grew very high on arbors, and all the arbors were inside a vineyard with high walls, and the Fox had a problem. Of course, the Fox of Mt Etna had utterly no use for his famous ancestor, who leaping for grapes that he could not reach, called them sour, and went away.
The Fox decided that what he needed was Engineering Technology. So he went to a retired Engineer who lived on the slopes of Mt. Etna, because he liked the balmy climate and the view of the Mediterranean Sea and the excitement of watching his instruments that measured the degree of sleeping or waking of Mt. Etna. The Fox put his problem before the Engineer. . .
## Missile Alarm from Grunelandt / B
## Missile Alarm from Grunelandt / B The National Security of Adularia / B Doomsday in St. Pierre, Martinique / B
## Part 7. Problem Solving
The Wolf and the Dog of Sherwood / Aesop, B
The Three Earthworms / B
The Hippopotamus and the Bricks / B
The Cricket that Made Music / Jean de La Fontaine, B
The Fox of Mt. Etna and the Grapes / B
The Mice of Cambridge in Council / Aesop, B
Brer Badger's Old Motor Car that Wouldn't Go / B
The First Climbing of the Highest Mountain in the
World / Sir John Hunt, B
The Evening Star and the Princess / B
The Evening Star and the Princess / B
## Notes
Some Collections of Parables and Fables
To be published in November 1973 by Quadrangle / The New York Times Book Co., hard cover, $6.95
RETURNABLE IN 7 DAYS IF NOT SATISFACTORY (You can read it all in 7 days - and keep it only if you think it is worth keeping.)
(may be copied on any piece of paper) To: Computers and Automation
To: Computers and Automation 815 Washington St., Dept. CA11, Newtonville, Mass. 02160
( ) Please send me when published (November publication expected) ___ copy(ies) of Ride the East Wind: Parables of Yesterday and Today by Edmund C. Berkeley, Author and Anthologist. I enclose $7.25 (Publication price + Postage and Handling) per copy.
Total enclosed ___ (Prepayment is necessary)
RETURNABLE IN 7 DAYS FOR FULL REFUND IF NOT SATISFACTORY Not linked to a story yet.
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.