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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.
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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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