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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 INTERNAL USE ONLY CONFIDENTIAL 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. DDO/PIC Mr. Randall GX-2 Pls relay to HT-1 Amber The attached 7 documents were surfaced by OS/IRG in its search on Subject. The documents originated in your component or predecessor component. Please review the documents to determine if they can be released to Subject in full, in sanitized form, or they are to be denied. If the documents are releasable in full, please have them declassified by an authorized officer of your component. If deletions are to be made, please make them and forward the sanitized version to this Staff to send to the requester. Cite the FOIA subsection which applies to the deleted portions. If the document is denied please cite the appropriate subsection(s) of the FOIA. In both of the above instances please name the denying official. We do not know anything more about this incident. Inasmuch as it apparently did not appear in the press, I am afraid that the information in these memoranda, if put into the public domain, could jeopardize our relationship with the person who provided it to us. Therefore both documents are being denied pursuant to exemptions (b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3)(a) and (b)(6). 2. 3. 29 Jul 16 30 Jul 16 11D 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 3 to 9: 12.
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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.