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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. 161 …Johnson, Priscilla. "Oswald in Moscow." Harper's, April 1964, pp. 46-50. Kempton, H. "Onwald, May…
  • p. 163 …Look, Manchester, Harper & Row; an Informal Glossary of Press Relations Techniques." Public Relations Journal, April 1967…
  • p. 164 …Kennedy Reaches Accord with Harper & Row and William Manchester. The Minority of One, June 1967, pp…
  • p. 165 …raten, David. "Travels with Bobby Kennedy." Harper's, July 1968, pp. 51-61. No. Hal. "Indiana…
  • p. 263 …November 20 - November 25, 1963. New York: Harpers, 1967. . "The Death of a President." Look, 24…
  • p. 268 …the Harper Review Ferron, Robert L. "Terpentine Devil: CBS News Inquiry; the Warren Report." Saturday Review…
  • p. 269 …Reponse au Rapport Harper. L'Affaire Orenald: Reponse au Rapport Warren, Paris: Les Editions de Minuit…
  • p. 270 …Lock, Manchester, Harper & Row; an Informal Glossary of Press Relations Techniques." Public Relations Journal, April 1967…
  • p. 271 …Kennedy Knights Accord with Harper & Row and William Manchester." Publishers Weekly 23 January 1967, p. 222…
  • p. 272 …rten, Reid. "Travels with Abby Framedy." Harper's, July 1968, pp. 51-61. Hal, Hal. "Dadiana…
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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
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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.