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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. 165 …578-588 Martin, Dean. "Dean Martin talks about his drinking, the Mafia, Frank Sinatra, Women, Bobby…
  • p. 272 …573 Martin, Dean. "Dena Martin talks short his drinking, the Halla, Frank Sinatra, Horse Bobby Kennedy…

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"Vardict on Sithan." Newveek, 28 April 1969, pp. 41+. Weiss, P. and M. Mannes. "Reflections on a tragedy." Savanteen, August 1968, pp. 194- 195.

"What was in Sirhan's mind?" Time, 24 January 1969, p. 54.

Weick, Paul R. "The Cragon Primary." New Republic, 3 June 1968, pp. 1-15.

Wise, David. "How Bobby Plans to Win It." Saturday Evening Post, 1 June 1968, pp. 23-27.

"Witnesses speak." Newyork, 24 June 1968, pp. 20-27.

Yoakum, Robert. "Kennedy and McCarthy: 1955-1957 Voting Record." New Republic, 11 May 1968, pp. 23-27.

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