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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by GLM-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. 22 …Her long-time consort, Peter WILGA, a leading figure in the CPUSA, was also suspected of…
  • p. 176 …Peter Dale Scott - Professor at Berkeley; Author of The War Conspiracy 5:00 INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS WITH…
  • p. 259 …Peter Dale Scott - Professor at Berkeley; Author of The War Conspiracy 5:00 INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS WITH…
  • p. 269 …Ernest. "Dependent Ruby Will Meet the Ghost of a Long Dead Scott." Life, 31 February 1964…

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## FRIDAY-NOVEMBER 23

9:00 LATE REGISTRATION Early Registrants pick up passes.

9:30 WELCOME: Mr. Bernard Fensterwald, Jr., Executive Director, Committee to Investigate Assassinations Mr. Norman Mailer, Author and Forwarder of The Fifth Estate

10:00 CURRENT STATUS OF PROMINENT ASSASSINATION CASES: JFK CASE - Mr. Robert P. Smith, Director of Research, Committee to Investigate Assassinations

RFK CASE - Mr. Robert Hanson, Attorney present counsel for Sirhan Sirhan

KING CASE - Mr. James Lesar, Attorney present counsel for James Earl Ray

WALLACE CASE - Mr. Ronald Van Doren, Newsman, Author, researcher into the background of Arthur Bremer

ROCKWELL CASE - Ms. Meredith Rode Professor at Federal City College Authority in killing of George Lincoln Rockwell

11:30 UNIQUE INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES: Mr. William Turner, Moderator - Former FBI Agent, Author of numerous books on investigative techniques

Mr. George O'Toole - Former CIA Agent, Free-Lance Writer, expert on the PSE (Psychological Stress Evaluator)

Mr. Robert Saltzman - Computer Engineer, lecturer on the Warren Commission Report

# DECADE OF ASSASSINATIONS 1963-1973

## PROGRAM

FRIDAY-Continued

12:30 BREAK FOR LUNCH

2:00 MEDICAL AND PHYSICAL EVIDENCE:

Mr. Josiah Thompson, Moderator - Professor at Haverford College, author of Six Seconds in Dallas

Dr. Cyril Wecht - Professor of Law and Forensic Medicine at Duquesne University; Coroner of Pittsburgh, Pa.

Ms. Sylvia Meagher - Attorney, UN Official, author of Accessories After The Fact

Mr. Roger Hanson - Attorney, counsel to Sirhan Sirhan

Mr. Herbert MacDonnell - Professor of Criminalistics, Corning University; expert in case of Fred Hampton

Mr. Mark Lane - Attorney, author of Rush To Judgment and Executive Action

6:00 BREAK FOR DINNER

8:30 WARREN COMMISSION REPORT: FACT OR FICTION- A slide show and lecture by Mr. Robert Saltzman

## SATURDAY - NOVEMBER 24

20 ASSASSINATIONS AND THE MEDIA:

Mr. John Henry Faulk, Moderator Humorist and Author of Fear On Trial

Mr. Robert Kaiser - Author of RFK Must Die

Mr. Donald Freed - Co-Author of Executive Action

Mr. Harold Weisberg - Author of Frame Up

Mr. Ted Charach - Author of Second Gun

Mr. Peter Noyes - Author of Legacy Of Doubt

Mr. Fred Cook - Author of numerous books and articles

12:30 BREAK FOR LUNCH

:00 THEORIES OF CONSPIRACY:

Mr. Richard Sprague, Moderator - Computer expert and author

Dr. Richard Popkin, Professor at Washington University; author of The Second Oswald

Col. Fletcher Prouty - Former Liaison Officer between Pentagon and CIA; author of The Secret Teams

Mr. Robert K. Brown - Former Special Services Officer; expert in attempts on life of Castro

Mr. Earl Golz - Reporter for Dallas Morning News; expert on Organized Crimes

Mr. Victor Marchetti - Former CIA Agent; author

Mr. Peter Dale Scott - Professor at Berkeley; Author of The War Conspiracy

5:00 INDIVIDUAL WORKSHOPS WITH THE SPEAKERS - Question and Answer Sessions

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