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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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PRIORITY HANDLING TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building) DATE OFFICER'S INITIALS RECEIVED FORWARDED 1. De Q Room 913 Key 29 Feb 21 Feb re 2. 3. DD01SS1P1AG 4. Alln: Nelle 5. 104127 6. 7. Both documents have to remain 8. CONFIDENTIAL. Secret 9. per (b)(1) + (b)(3) 10. Also (b)(6) for 19 Feb 69 name 11. 12.
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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.