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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.
“Los Angeles Times”17 pages
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13-00000 CONSIDERATING (when filled in) 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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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.