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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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UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL SECRET PRIORITY HANDLING TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building) DATE OFFICER'S INITIALS COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.) RECEIVED FORWARDED 1. H. Thompson EA/OEM/FOI BU-2 6/8 6/6 OPS/ITG proposes we pass the attached document to Weisberg in response to his FOIA request. Do you agree with this and with their sanitization? In particular, do you agree with leaving the address at the top of the attachment to the dispatch? Thank you. MFelton 2. AC/PIC 3. 4. FA/OEM/OS 5. C/OEM 10/8 6. 7. 8. M. Felton DDO/PIC HT_1 9. 10. 11. 12. 2-4: Aslee; we do not want the "O.S. Martin" address released, att—ement of little use to request answer. Document FHHT-6444 7 May 1968 - Hawaii Foundations for American Freedom, Inc. RETURN TO: PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST SECRET
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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.