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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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## PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST SUBJECT: (Optional) Martin Luther King, Jr., requested by Weisberg 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. Mr. C. LaClair EUR/EXO GS-6 AUG 1976 cc Pls review the attached documents for release to Weisberg per his FOIA request. Thanks. MFelton 2. 3. E/I 9/6 Ak 4. 5. EXO 9 AUG a 6. EUR/EXO GS-69 AUG 1976 cc 7. 8. DDO/PIC ATTN: Mary HT_1 9. 10. 11. 12. RETURN TO: REQUEST NUMBER F76-382 PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST
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