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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by GLM-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. 19 …John Bender 2C29 22 JUNE 1976 22 JUL 1976 22 July 1976 DDO/PIC: Please see…

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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.)
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1. LA ET-3 Pls review the attached document for release to Weisberg per his request. Cite exemptions for deletions or denial. Thank you. MDFelton
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8. DDO/PIC HT-1 ATTN: Mary
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PRIORITY HANDLING

FOIA REQUEST

FORM 3749

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SECRET

CONFIDENTIAL

INTERNAL USE ONLY

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