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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 FOIA REQUEST TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building) DATE OFFICER'S INITIALS RECEIVED FORWARDED 1. 28 FEB 1978 2. 3. 1 - MAR 1978 ✓ 4. 5. 1 - MAR 1978 6. MAR 1978 CO 7. 8. MAR 1978 9. 10. 11. 12. RETURN TO: M. Stilson HT-3 PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST SECRET UNCLASSIFIED
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.