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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 TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building) DATE OFFICER'S INITIALS COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.) RECEIVED FORWARDED 1. DDO/PIC F. C. Randall HT-1 Amber; GX-2 pls relay Action Attached is a copy of the only document we have which is pertinent to the request. It is denied pursuant to the provisions of exemptions (b)(1) and (b)(3)(a, b). 2. DCD 3. OS/IRG E. R. Duffy EX-1 4. 6-21-76 P.M. 5. CRS/FIO C. W. Rice 2E-60 6. FELTON MARY HR-580 DDO/PIC 1D4127 EXT. 1644 TUBE HT1 7 SECRET E2 IMPDET CL BY 004108 8. Batch F6-161 9. AI/DDA H. G. Bean BX4 10. PM 6-25-76 11. DDI/FIO T. C. Lawler 2E-6104 6-25-76 12. RETURN TO: IPS Vorhis 2E-50
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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.