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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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## REQUEST FOR DISSEMINATION CHANGE OR CABLE REFERENCE SERVICE TO:CABLE SECRATARIAT BRANCH,OC CABLE REFERENCE SECTION IA-53 HQS.EXT.6159,TUBE ES-6 FROM:NAME OF REQUESTER Felham, Mary D. DIVISION/BRANCH HT-1 DD0/PIC DATE 3AUG76 EXTENSION 1649 It is requested that the dissemination of ___ IN/DIR NUMBER ADD: ___ ___ ___ FO1A Recall copies from: ___ ___ ___ ___ Change action from: ___ To: ___ Authorized by: ___ ___ NAME (type or print) Please furnish one copy of the cable described. I have have not made inquiry of the CS Records control system.
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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.