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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. 291 …Union member on 21 February 1968 but never shipped out. His Social Security Number is 562…
10 JUL 1978

Mr. Frank Underwood Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts Branch J. Edgar Hoover Building, Room 6958 10th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20535:

Attention: Connie Fruitt

Gentlemen:

In responding to an FOIA litigation from Harold Weisberg (enclosure 1), we have surfaced reference to 46 documents which originated with your agency. Three of these documents are referred by listing only, and either first pages or full text copies of the remaining 43 documents are enclosed. This information is being forwarded to you for review and direct response to the requester.

Please note that the documents listed, and those of which just the first pages have been included, have not been reviewed to see if they contain CIA information. In the event that they do, we request that this material be coordinated with us before being released to the requester.

We will advise the requester of this referral in our response, which we expect to complete in the near future.

If you have any questions, please contact Karen Wolfe or Allie Falardeau, 351-5615, and refer to our request F76- 382.

Sincerely,

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Gene F. Wilson Information and Privacy Coordinator

## Enclosures

Distribution:

Orig - Addse

SECRET

UNCLASSIFIED When Separated

1 - IPS Chrono

From Enclosure

1 - IPS Subject (F-76-382) APPEAL w/attach DDO docs

1 - OGC (Launie Ziebell)

- DDO/IMS/FPG/AL (Helen Stilson)

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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.