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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.

  • p. 167 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 169 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 170 …I worked there years and never saw or heard any-suggesting the Agency was involved assassination…
  • p. 171 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 172 …The bullets never gained perfectly intact, as the one found the stretcher, they became twisted lumps…
  • p. 173 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." "I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 206 …and documents were destroyed through some catastrophe never resumed business or were permanently closed down within…
  • p. 250 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 252 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 253 …I worked there three years and never saw or heard anying suggesting the Agency was involved…
  • p. 254 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 255 …The bullets never mained perfectly intact, as the one found in the stretcher; they became twisted…
  • p. 256 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 291 …Union member on 21 February 1968 but never shipped out. His Social Security Number is 562…
NAME OF MANUFACTURER	NAME OF COMPUTER	DATE OF FIRST INSTALLATION	AVERAGE OR RANGE OF MONTHLY RENTAL $(000)	NUMBER OF INSTALLATIONS	NUMBER OF UNFILLED ORDERS
In U.S.A.	Outside U.S.A.	In World
Microdata Corp.	Micro 400/10	12/70	0.1-0.5	139	0	139	-	-
Irvine, Calif.	Micro 800	12/68	0.2-3.0	2927	810	3737	-	-
(A)(Sept.1973)	Micro 1600	12/71	0.2-3.0	914	95	1009	-	-
NCR	304	1/60	X	5	2	7	X	-
Dayton, Ohio	310	5/61	X	8	0	8	X	-
(N)(R)(Oct.1973)	315	5/62	7.0	255	200	455	-	-
	315 RMC	9/65	9.0	55	35	90	-	-
	390	5/61	0.7	160	325	485	-	-
	500	10/65	1.0	1100	1750	2850	-	-
	251	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
	Century 50	2/71	1.6	580	0	580	-	-
	Century 100	9/68	2.6	1175	783	1958	-	-
	Century 101	12/72	3.7	50	1	51	-	-
	Century 200	6/69	7.0	575	335	910	-	-
	Century 300	2/72	21.0	5	5	10	-	-
Philco	1000	6/63	X	16	-	-	X	-
Willow Grove, Pa.	200-210,211	10/58	X	16	-	-	X	-
(N)(Jan.1969)	2000-212	1/63	X	12	-	-	X	-
Raytheon Data Systems Co.	250	12/60	X	115	20	135	X	-
Norwood, Mass.	440	3/64	X	20	-	-	X	-
(A)(July 1973)	520	10/65	X	26	1	27	X	-
	703	10/67	12.5(S)	179	33	212	0	-
	704	3/70	7.2(S)	300	100	400	40	-
	706	5/69	19.0(S)	75	17	92	1	-
Standard Computer Corp.	IC 4000	12/68	9.0	9	0	9	2	-
Los Angeles, Calif.	IC 6000-6000/E	5/67	16.0	3	0	3	-	-
(A)(June 1972)	IC 7000	8/70	17.0	4	0	4	1	-
	IC-9000	5/71	400.0(S)	1	0	1	-	-
Systems Engineering Laboratories	SYSTEMS 810A/810B	6-66/9-68	1.8/2.6	382	30	412	-	-
Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.	SYSTEMS 71/72	8-72/9-71	0.9/1.0	19	5	24	-	-
(A)(Sept.1973)	SYSTEMS 85/86	7-72/6-70	6.0/10.0	47	3	50	-	-
Texas Instruments Inc.	960	6/70	X	-	-	-	X	-
Houston, Tex.	960A	11/71	0.2-2.7	-	-	-	-	-
(A)(June 1973)	980	5/68	X	-	-	-	X	-
	980A	8/72	0.3-2.7	-	-	-	-	-
UNIVAC Div. of Sperry Rand	9200	6/67	1.5	1360	616	1976	-	-
Blue Bell, Pa.	9300/9380	9/67	3.4	795	675	1470	-	-
(A)(Aug.1973)	9400/9480	5/69	7.0	212	228	440	-	-
	9700	-	-	3	11	14	-	-
	418 III	6/63	11.0	40	77	117	-	-
	494	-	-	62	46	108	-	-
	1106	-	-	61	143	204	-	-
	1108	9/65	68.0	163	92	255	-	-
	1110	-	-	11	17	28	-	-
	I & II	3/51 & 11/57	X	23	-	-	X	-
	File Computers	8/56	X	13	-	-	X	-
	LARC	5/60	135.0	2	0	2	-	-
	1107, UIII, 490/1/2, 418II, 1004/5, 1050, SS80/90	-	X	2063	1442	3505	X	-
UNIVAC - Series 70	301	2/61	7.0	143	-	-	-	-
Blue Bell, Pa.	501	6/59	14.0-18.0	17	-	-	-	-
(A)(Feb.1973)	601	11/62	14.0-35.0	0	-	-	-	-
	3301	7/64	17.0-35.0	74	-	-	-	-
	Spectra 70/15, 25	9/65	4.3	18	-	-	-	-
	Spectra 70/35	1/67	9.2	95	-	-	-	-
	Spectra 70/45	11/65	22.5	265	-	-	-	-
	Spectra 70/46	11/68	33.5	30	-	-	-	-
	Spectra 70/55	11/66	34.0	10	-	-	-	-
	Spectra 70/60	11/70	32.0	18	-	-	-	-
	Spectra 70/61	4/70	42.0	7	-	-	-	-
	70/2	5/71	16.0	63	-	-	-	-
	70/3	9/71	25.0	7	-	-	-	-
	70/6	9/71	25.0	24	-	-	-	-
	70/7	12/71	35.0	7	-	-	-	-
	EMR 6020	4/65	5.4	15	1	16	0	-
	EMR 6040	7/65	6.6	6	0	6	0	-
	EMR 6050	2/66	9.0	15	2	17	0	-
	EMR 6070	10/66	15.0	7	8	15	0	-
	EMR 6130	8/67	5.0	34	13	47	0	-
	EMR 6135	-	2.6	36	5	41	4	-
	EMR 6145	-	7.2	-	-	-	8	-
	EMR 6140	-	-	-	-	-	0	-
Varian Data Machines	620	11/65	X	-	-	75	X	-
Newport Beach, Calif.	6201	6/67	X	-	-	1300	X	-
(A) (Mar. 1973)	R-6201	4/69	-	-	-	80	-	-
	520/DC, 5201	12/69;10/68	-	-	-	500	150	-
	620/f	11/70	X	-	-	207	X	-
	620/L, 620/L-00C	4/71;9/72	-	-	-	740	101	-
	620/f-100	6/72	-	-	-	100	43	-
	620/L-100	5/72	-	-	-	200	235	-
	Varian 73	11/72	-	-	-	40	39	-
	XDS-92	4/65	1.5	43	4	47	-	-
	XDS-910	8/62	2.0	170	10	180	-	-
	XDS-920	9/62	2.9	120	12	132	-	-
	XDS-930	6/64	3.4	159	14	173	-	-
	XDS-940	4/66	14.0	33	3	36	-	-
	XDS-9300	11/64	8.5	25-30	4	29-34	-	-
	XDS-530	8/73	7.6	-	-	-	-	-
	Sigma 2	12/66	1.8	163	36	199	-	-
	Sigma 3	12/69	2.0	21	1	22	-	-
	Sigma 5	8/67	6.0	32	14	46	-	-
	Sigma 6	6/70	12.0	3	-	-	-	-
	Sigma 7	12/66	12.0	31	7	38	-	-
	Sigma 8	2/72	-	5	-	-	-	-
	Sigma 9	-	35.0	7	-	-	-	-

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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.