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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by 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. 118 …As you may know, the heavy volume of Freedom of Information requests received by the Agency…
  • p. 204 # The Notebook on COMMON SENSE, ELEMENTARY AND ADVANCED is devoted to development, exposition, and illustration of…
  • p. 207 …of the $4.5 billion computer services industry. ## Technological Advances Most important technological advances have been…
  • p. 208 …Association and the Bank Administration Institute, computer firms, and research firms such as Advancement Management Research…
  • p. 211 …advancement to positions in general management, and are given an equal chance to rise in the…
  • p. 218 …In the 21st century over-populated world, there is a very advanced computer Shalmaneser owned by…
  • p. 221 …our work on the "Notebook on Common Sense and Wisdom, Elementary and Advanced" - which we have…
  • p. 240 …the system to detect changes in rock strata as the working face of the mine advances…
  • p. 244 …The Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Research Council will administer the program and award…
  • p. 247 …NY 10022 / page 32 THE NOTEBOOK ON COMMON SENSE, ELEMENTARY AND ADVANCED / published by Computers and…
  • p. 249 …the Advanced Society, by C. P. Snow, Ministry of Technology, London, England (April 1966) The Information…
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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).
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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.