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.
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What the National Committee in Washington, D.C. is doing about computerizing files of evidence, initiating lawsuits to obtain information, etc.; and comments on two new books by District Attorney Jim Garrison and Robert Blair Kaiser. ## March 1971 25 "The Assassination of President Kennedy: The Application of Computers to the Photographic Evidence" - Comment 35 I. Another View, by Benjamin L. Schwartz, Ph.D. A polemical attack on "The Assassination of President Kennedy: the Application of Computers to the Photographic Evidence" by Richard E. Sprague published May 1970. 40 II. Response, by Edmund C. Berkeley, Editor 45 District Attorney Jim Garrison on the Assassination of President Kennedy: A Review of Heritage of Stone by Neil Macdonald, Assistant Editor ## April 1971 32 The Right of Equal Access to Government Information by the National Committee to Investigate Assassinations, Washington, D.C. ## May 1971 27 The Assassination of President Kennedy: The Spatial Chart of Events in Dealey Plaza by Robert B. Cutler, Architect The chart, first published in May 1970, is revised and brought up to date. ## June 1971 41 The Case of Secret Service Agent Abraham W. Bolden by Bernard Fensterwald, Attorney, Executive Director, National Committee to Investigate Assassinations Bolden wanted to tell the Warren Commission about a Chicago plot to kill President Kennedy, and was jailed six years on a framed-up charge for trying to do so. ## July 1971 51 The Central Intelligence Agency and The New York Times by Samuel F. Thurston, Newton, Mass. The issue of systematic suppression of questions about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and a hypothesis. ## August 1971 37 Jim Garrison, District Attorney, Orleans Parish, vs. the Federal Government by Bernard Fensterwald, Attorney, Executive Director, National Committee to Investigate Assassinations How District Attorney Jim Garrison of New Orleans became interested in the New Orleans phase of the assassination of President Kennedy; and how the Federal government frustrated and blocked his investigation in more than a dozen ways. ## September 1971 The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Assassination of President Kennedy by Bernard Fensterwald, Attorney How J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI withheld much pertinent information from the Warren Commission, flooded them with irrelevant information, and altered some important evidence, thus concealing Oswald's connections with the FBI. ## October 1971 41 The Assassination of President Kennedy - Declassification of Relevant Documents from the National Archives The titles of the documents and other evidence indicate convincingly that Lee Harvey Oswald was trained in spy work by the CIA before his visit to Russia; etc. Like the Pentagon Papers, these documents should be declassified. ## November 1971 24 The Assassination of President Kennedy: The Pattern of Coup d'Etat and Public Deception by Edmund C. Berkeley, Editor, Computers and Automation Five significant, eye-opening events from May 1970 to October 1971, showing patterns of coup d'etat, assassination, and concealment; and some predictions. ## December 1971 32 The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: A Model for Explanation by Vincent J. Salandria, Attorney, Philadelphia, Pa. A study of the reasons why a great deal of the Federal government's own evidence in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy declared "conspiracy" - and a hypothesis, supported by considerable evidence, about why the President was assassinated and how the implications of that action were to be signaled to those who could read the signals. 6 The Strategy of Truth-Telling by Edmund C. Berkeley Editorial ## January 1972 57 Spotlight on McGeorge Bundy and the White House Situation Room by Robert B. Cutler, Manchester, Mass. An argument that the "lone assassin - no conspiracy" announcement from the White House Situation Room could have resulted from information available in Dallas and Washington prior to the announcement - and thus does not actually demonstrate that someone there had a guilty foreknowledge of the shooting.
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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.