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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. 129 …Arthur Hanes, Sr. Renfro Hays Robert W. Hill, Jr. William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Robert…
  • p. 130 …obtained: Bernard Fensterwald Percy Foreman Robert W. Hill. William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Albert Pepper…
  • p. 145 …Haile William J. Haynes, Jr. Robert W. Hill, Jr. William Bradford Huie George McMillan William N…
  • p. 146 …Arthur Hanes, Sr. Renfro Hays Robert W. Hill; Jr. William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Robert…
  • p. 147 …obtained: Bernard Fensterwald Percy Foreman Robert W. Hill William Bradford Huie James H. Lesar Albert Pepper…
  • 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…
  • p. 162 …Dir cait, 19, no. 13 (1964), 7. Hill, Richard J and Charles M. Boujean. "Mean Diffusion…
  • p. 172 …stress in his statements. atrolman Gerald L. Hill testified that he and three spent bullet hulls…
  • p. 174 …the Dallas policemen Hill, Jacks, Jackson and Weitzman; the medical examiner, Captain Humes; Commission staffer Wesley…
  • p. 240 …Murray Hill, N.J. 07974 The Bell System is using computer technology to modernize production of…
  • p. 243 …Calif. $6.7 million Honeywell, Inc., Wellesley Hills, Mass. State of Arizona, Phoenix, Ariz. A Honeywell…
  • p. 255 …stress in his statements. Ratrolman Gerald L. Hill testified that he und three spent bullet hulls…
  • p. 257 …the Dallas policemen Hill, Jacks, Jackson and Weitzman; the medical examiner, Captain Humes; Commission staffer Wesley…
  • p. 261 …Anna. Elnokryllkonstial elnokvalnaztáig. Budapest: Kosuth Konyvkiado, 1964. Hill, David. "Truth was try only goal." Texas Observer…
  • p. 268 …McGraw-Hill, 1964. Report of the President's Correlation on the Aggregation of President Kennedy. Report…
  • p. 269 …Hörder?" Diezeit, 19, no. 15 (1964), 7. Hill, Richard J and Charles M. Bonjean. "News Diffusion…
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TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building)	DATE	OFFICER'S INITIALS
RECEIVED	FORWARDED
1. C/AF/Staffa. Att: Mr. toy
2. 3B-17-C
3. N. Wilson HT-3
4. The documents may not be released.
Addis Ababa 2200 (IN 99685), 28 April 1968 identifies the source and does not pertain to James Earl Ray or Martin Luther King, or any known suspect, accomplice or associate. To release it would violate the privacy of another U.S. person.
The information contained in paras 1 and 3 of IN 00793, 30 April 1968 was acquired from a liaison source, the Nigerian Special Branch. Paragraph 2 identifies a source of intelligence and the information therein does not pertain to James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King, or any known suspect, accomplice or associate. To release the information would violate the privacy of another U.S. person.
CSCI 316/01685-68 may not be released since it merely repeats the information contained in the two cables above, and the exemptions applied to them are equally
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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.