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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. 167 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
- p. 169 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
- p. 170 …I worked there years and never saw or heard any-suggesting the Agency was involved
assassination…
- p. 171 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
- p. 172 …The bullets never gained perfectly intact, as the one found the stretcher, they became twisted lumps…
- p. 173 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge."
"I have found nothing since that time." he…
- p. 206 …and documents were destroyed through some catastrophe never resumed business or were permanently closed down within…
- p. 250 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
- p. 252 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
- p. 253 …I worked there three years and never saw or heard anying suggesting the Agency was involved…
- p. 254 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
- p. 255 …The bullets never mained perfectly intact, as the one found in the stretcher; they became twisted…
- p. 256 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge."
I have found nothing since that time." he…
- p. 291 …Union member on 21 February 1968 but never shipped out. His Social Security Number is 562…
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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.)
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1. Ray Smith
5D 3116 17 FEB 1978 Please do a classification review (and downgrade when possible) the attacked docs. Thank you.
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3. D/EA/STA 21 FEB 1978
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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.