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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 CONFIDENTIAL SECRET PRIORITY HANDLING 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. C/EUR/Stilson at: Mr. Lallain 1 C Please review the attached documents for release to Mr. Weisberg. Bracket in red that part of the text you believe should be deleted and give the proper FOIA exemption for the deleted material. Also, please review the material for classification. Downgrade all documents to CONFIDENTIAL where possible. Classification reviews must be done by an officer with TOP SECRET classifying authority. All documents have been stamped with the Classification Review stamp for you to complete. Document that you agree should be downgraded to CONFIDENTIAL should be stamped with the downgrading stamp. If liaison is being claimed as an exemption for deletions indicate the part that is from liaison and identify the service for me please. Thanks - Helen These documents cover Dr. King. You have already completed the Ray documents. 2. 4B-4406 3. E/BC Rtd 8 Mar ✓ 4. EUR/F 8 MAR 1978 8 D 5. Carole Davidson E/Staff A C 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST CONFIDENTIAL UNCLASSIFIED
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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.