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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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51. 51.51.51 14 MAY 1968 TO : Director Federal Bureau of Investigation Attention: S. J. Papich الن FROM : Deputy Director for Plans SUBJECT: Assassination of Martin Luther King Mr. Obstruction 1. On 3 May 1968, an official Italian Intelligence Service provided this Agency's representative in Rome with the following information on one James RAY: A James RAY, born in Los Angeles on 8 March 1928 (father's name Oliver), arrived at San Gimignano, Siena, in March 1955 and registered as a student at Perugia. In 1956, RAY was confined at San Gimignano Hospital and in 1957, he was in Sant'Antonio de Fiesole Hospital. These confinements were for "osteomyelitical condition causing bone depression in the cranium, on right parietal temple region." RAY returned permanently to the United States in December 1967. 2. The Italian National Police and the Italian Intelligence Service have turned up no other information thus far. -All Italian entry posts have RAY and his aliases on their watchlist. 3. The Federal Bureau of Investigation representative in Rome was advised of the information in paragraphs 1 and 2 above. CSCI 316/01763-68 Jane 10.75 REC-23 44 38861 3515 This c5c1 was treated as doc 4250 in initial review. EX 109 MAY 16 1968 59 MAY 2012 T26C GROUP 1 Excluded from minimum downtime declare 71. 16
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