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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.
3-00000 COMMUNITIAL (when filmed in) TYPE YEAR NUMBER I/I DOC. NO. NEW DOCUMENT RECORD 1 FPE 75 76 77 78 Instructions for Divisions and Staffs: 1. Fill in shaded areas only. 2. Additional comments should be written on back of form. DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION (30 CHARACTERS) DAY MONTH YEAR CABLE DISPATCH MEMO REPORT 14 JAN 69 FROM/ORIGINATOR (30 CHARACTERS) TO/RECIPIENT (30 CHARACTERS) CIA FB1 CLASS WHERE LOCATED (10 CHARACTERS) REFERRED BY (10 CHARACTERS) DDO? DO FILE NUMBER (20 CHARACTERS) CSC1-316/00108-69 SUBJECT (80 CHARACTERS) GARRISON and the Kennedy Assignment 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 of sanitized version TO FENSTERWARD G. Release additional information 8 DEFER DECISION TO (10 CHARACTERS) COORDINATE WITH (10 CHARACTERS) NEW CLASS Matthew Kwabsh: c1/RA/1 SIGNATURE AND OFFICE OF REVIEWING OFFICER EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED (40 CHARACTERS) B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7C OF FOIA J1 J1B J1C J1E J1F K1 OF PA 5B1 5B2 5B3 5B4 OF E.O. 11652 Exemptions are being claimed to protect the following:
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