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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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UNCLASSIFIED INTERNAL USE ONLY FELTON MARY HR-580 DDD/PIC 1D4127 EXT. 1644 TUBE HT1 SECRET E2 IMPDET CL BY 004108 8. Batch F16-161 9. AI/DDA H. G. Bean 11. DDI/FIO T. C. Lawler 2E-6104 FYI 7/8 - 52 hrs. Per. P. Cochran 3 Aug 76
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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.