FOIA on Martin Luther King

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.

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
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7. Both documents have to remain
8. CONFIDENTIAL. Secret
9. per (b)(1) + (b)(3)
10. Also (b)(6) for 19 Feb 69 name
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