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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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1	TYPE	YEAR	NUMBER	I/1	DOC. NO.	NEW DOCUMENT RECORD
2	DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION (30 CHARACTERS)	DAY	MONTH	YEAR
CABLE DISPATCH MEMO REPORT	11	Dec	73
3	FROM/ORIGINATOR (30 CHARACTERS)	TO/RECIPIENT (30 CHARACTERS)
CIA - James Angleton	FB1
4	CLASS	WHERE LOCATED (10 CHARACTERS)	REFERRED BY (10 CHARACTERS)	DDO 1	DO FILE NUMBER (20 CHARACTERS)
 FB1 CIR-316/03/07-73
5	SUBJECT (80 CHARACTERS)
Conference of the Committee to Investigate Assignations
6 TYPE OF REVIEW	IAL	DATE OF REVIEW	DAY	MONTH	YEAR
7	Recommendations:
A. Release in full text
B. Release in sanitized form
C. Deny in toto
D. Defer decision to coordinate with (Specify in Line 8)	E. Sustain initial denial in toto
F. Sustain initial release of sanitized version
G. Release additional information
8	DEFER DECISION TO (10 CHARACTERS)	COORDINATE WITH (10 CHARACTERS)	NEW CLASS	Nattung Kawahari C. RA1
SIGNATURE AND OFFICE OF REVIEWING OFFICER
9	EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED (40 CHARACTERS)

Exemptions are being claimed to protect the following:

REMARKS (IF OTHER WAS CHECKED ABOVE) (40 CHARACTERS)

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