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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.

  • p. 167 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 169 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 170 …I worked there years and never saw or heard any-suggesting the Agency was involved assassination…
  • p. 171 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 172 …The bullets never gained perfectly intact, as the one found the stretcher, they became twisted lumps…
  • p. 173 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." "I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 206 …and documents were destroyed through some catastrophe never resumed business or were permanently closed down within…
  • p. 250 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 252 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 253 …I worked there three years and never saw or heard anying suggesting the Agency was involved…
  • p. 254 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 255 …The bullets never mained perfectly intact, as the one found in the stretcher; they became twisted…
  • p. 256 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 291 …Union member on 21 February 1968 but never shipped out. His Social Security Number is 562…
TYPE	YEAR	NUMBER	I/II	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	29	Nov	73
FROM/ORIGINATOR (30 CHARACTERS)	TO/RECIPIENT (30 CHARACTERS)
FB1 Mr. E. S. Miller	FB1 - W.A. Branigan
CLASS	WHERE LOCATED (10 CHARACTERS)	REFERRED BY (10 CHARACTERS)	DDO 1	DO FILE NUMBER (20 CHARACTERS)
 FB1
SUBJECT (80 CHARACTERS)
Committee To Investigate Assassinations
	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:
OS	Nalt J. Kwahh C/RA/1
SIGNATURE AND OFFICE OF REVIEWING OFFICER
EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED (40 CHARACTERS)
B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7C J1 J1B J1C J1E J1F K1 5B1 5B2 5B3 5B4 OF FOIA OF PA OF E.O. 11652
Exemptions are being claimed to protect the following:
1. Classification
2. Information from liaison with a Foreign Government
3. Information pertaining to a liaison relationship with a Foreign Government
4. Information which would/could identify the source
5. Information pertaining to a source
6. Information pertaining to intelligence methods
7. Location* of CIA overseas installation
8. Location* of unacknowledged domestic installation
9. Name* of CIA employee
10. File number
11. Pseudonym
12. Cryptonym
13. Internal organizational data
14. Name* of an FBI agent
15. FBI file number
16. Privacy of other individual
17. Does not pertain to request
18. Information from another Government agency
19. Other (Specify in Line 11)

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 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.