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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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(1) Memorandum from DCS, dated 28 May 1969. # 256 (2) Memorandum to Director, DCS, dated 19 February 1969. # 255 (3) DDO cable, dated 8 June 1968, IN 27362. - 252 (4) DDO cable, dated 8 June 1968, IN 27366. - 253 (5) DDO cable, dated 8 June 1968, IN 27367. - 254 (6) DDO dispatch, UFGT-16828, dated 15 July 1966. - A-62 (7) DDO biographic data on Martin Luther King, dated 5 November 1967.
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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.