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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by OCR

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

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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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