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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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F. Irving Dymond, attorney for the defendant, in the February 1969 trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans; Clay Shaw was charged by the grand jury with "having conspired with David W. Ferrie and Lee Harvey Oswald to murder President John F. Kennedy" in regard to which the trial jury found Clay Shaw "not guilty". ## May 1973 6 Burying Facts and Rewriting History by Edmund C. Berkeley, Editor, Computers and Automation Taken together, the information published May 1970 to May 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. ## June, July 1973 36 The American News Media and the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Accessories After the Fact (in two parts) by Richard E. Sprague, Hartsdale, N.Y. An examination of what happened in many important American news organizations, to cover up and hide the facts about how President John F. Kennedy was actually assassinated in Dallas. ## September 1973 6 Establishments and Truth by Edmund C. Berkeley, Editor, Computers and Automation The nature of an establishment as a system 38 A Parallel of 1963 by Marguerite C. Oswald, Ft. Worth, Texas The ignoring of evidence of conspiracy regarding Lee Harvey Oswald - a parallel to the Watergate cover-up. ## October 1973 21 The Framing of Lee Harvey Oswald by Richard E. Sprague, Hartsdale, N.Y. When Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested, Nov. 22, 1963, for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, he said to his captors in the Dallas jail cell, "I'm a patsy". A review of the evidence (including 18 photographs) proves that Oswald was a patsy, and that he was "framed" for the murder of President Kennedy - although "establishmentese" American history denies it. ## Hertlein - Continued from page 19 human failing. Even the most broad-minded practitioner is bound by his or her capacities and philosophy, and it requires a deliberate and concerted effort to remain open-minded, and to appreciate varied approaches that are not in accord with one's own temporary aesthetic parameters. One discerns computer artists who prefer natural or man-made patterns and sounds, vs. those who desire only mathematics, electronic and computer sounds, sans the human touch. There are those who exploit two or three-dimensional static images, vs. the creators who prefer moving permutations in flux, declaiming that the computer is a perceptual medium, and therefore should not be imprisoned in static form, i.e., cybernetic art is "pure idea," ad infinitum. Ironically, even the newest of the arts appears destined to hardening within specific schools of thought, with separatist camps warring in "vs." expression and debate. ## Summary It is obvious that the concept of manipulation and processing via the computer is merely the first stage of cybernetic creation. Even now, far beyond the statements of the artistic problem and aesthetic, personal variation, is a vast, open territory that is being explored by questioning, hardy intellectual pioneers, as they seek to perceive the inner anatomy of art and philosophy: What is style? What constitutes the aesthetic? How may this be accomplished? What is art? Music? Sculpture? Dance? Poetry? What is science? Mathematics? Is art purely the man-made: The sound of the human voice, or playing music upon man-made instruments? The painting and sculpting of man with hand-held tools? Is art a part of life, embracing: The ordinary, the animal and natural sounds? The patterns carved by the winds, sands, and the water? Is art perceptual, a mere fleeting moment or experience in time, or is it permanent, enduring? What is the optimum role of man in a cybernetic society? What is the role of art in a technology-oriented world? What is the symbiosis of man-and-the-machine? What is thinking? What is creativity? Is man the measure of all things? When man uses the computer as an aid in creation, or when he attempts to create heuristic art, his mind finds new questions to explore and to answer. It appears highly possible that a renewed perception of life and the arts awaits present and future generations of man, and that this may be partially accomplished by eliminating the boundaries of compartmentalized disciplines, and by walking freely between art and science, by combining interdisciplinary practices and materials, to hopefully bring forth the ideal of an open, growing, and dimensional perception of art/life for the human race.
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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.