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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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# Political Assassinations in the United States Articles Published in Computers and Automation May 1970 to October 1973 Inventory of Titles, Authors, and Summaries ## May 1970 The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Application of Computers to the Photographic Evidence by Richard E. Sprague A reexamination of some of the evidence relating to the assassination of John F. Kennedy - with emphasis on the possibilities and problems of computerized analysis of the photographic evidence. ## July 1970 29 The May Article, "The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: The Application of Computers to the Photographic Evidence" - Report No. 2: 32 More About Jim Hicks 32 Confirmation of FBI Knowledge 12 Days Before Dallas of a Plot to Kill President Kennedy 35 The Second Conspiracy About the Assassination of President Kennedy ## August 1970 48 The Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy: 48 Preface, by Edmund C. Berkeley 50 Two Men With Guns Drawn at Senator Kennedy's Assassination: Statement to the Press, by Theodore Charach 50 Map of the Scene of the Assassination of Senator Robert Kennedy 51 The Pantry Where Senator Robert Kennedy was Assassinated 52 Bullet Hole in the Frame of a Door 53 Two Bullet Holes in the Center Divider of the Pantry Door ## September 1970 39 Patterns of Political Assassination: How Many Coincidences Make a Plot? by Edmund C. Berkeley, Editor, Computers and Automation How the science of probability and statistics can be used as an instrument of decision to determine if a rare event is: (1) within a reasonable range; (2) unusual or strange or suspicious; or (3) the result of correlation or cause or conspiracy. 48 Computer-Assisted Analysis of Evidence Regarding Progress Report by Richard E. Sprague ## October 1970 52 The Conspiracy to Assassinate Senator Robert F. Kennedy and the Second Conspiracy to Cover It Up by Richard E. Sprague A summary of what researchers are uncovering in their investigation of what appears to be not one but two conspiracies relating to the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. 56 Index to "Special Unit Senator: The Investigation of the Assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy" An index is supplied for the Random House book written by Robert A. Houghton, of the Los Angeles Police Department, about the investigation of the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. ## November 1970 44 Confidential and Secret Documents of the Warren Commission Deposited in the U.S. Archives by Neil Macdonald, Assistant Editor A list of the subjects of over 200 documents of the Warren Commission which were classified confidential, secret, and top secret. ## December 1970 39 The Assassination of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., The Role of James Earl Ray, and the Question of Conspiracy by Richard E. Sprague James Earl Ray says he was coerced into entering a plea of guilty to killing Martin Luther King. and contrary evidence (plus other evidence) have led to filing of legal petitions for relief. ## January 1971 The Death of Walter Reuther: Accidental or Planned? by Edmund C. Berkeley and Leonard Walden Some significant questions about the plane crash in May 1970 in which Walter Reuther was killed. ## February 1971 48 The Report of the National Committee to Investigate Assassinations by Bernard Fensterwald, James Lesar, and Robert
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.