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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.

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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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