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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.

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  • p. 155 …McGraw-Hill, 1965. Power: Same Goals, Sterner Style." Business Week, 30 November 1963, pp. 31-32…
  • p. 161 …McGraw-Hill, 1964. Report of the President's Commission on the Aggression F. Kennedy. Washington. Report…
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CONFIDENTIAL

SECRET

PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST

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. EA/STA/EXO att: Mr. Smith 50-3115	8 - FEB 1978 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. I recommend that all these documents be downgraded to CONFIDENTIAL. Classification reviews must be done by an officer with TOP SECRET classifying authority.
All documents have been stamped with the classification revision stamp for you to complete. Documents that you agree should be stamped with the DOA/GRADING stamp.
If Linison is being claimed as an exemption please identify the service for me.
Thanks.
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Mr. Weisberg 1-5 Jan. 1975	These documents only cover that portion of the request concerning JAMES LARL RAH. The King documents will not

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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.