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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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CONFIDENTIAL (When Filled In) 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: MD Felton DIVISION/BRANCH HT-1 DD01D1C DATE 9 Aug 76 EXTENSION 1649 It is requested that the dissemination of ___ be changed as indicated. ADD: ___ F01A Recall copies from: ___ Change action from: ___ To: ___ Authorized by: ___ NAME (type or print) In coordination with: ___ NAME (type or print) Please furnish one copy of the cable described. I have ___ have no made inquiry of the CS Records control system. IN/DIR NUMBER IN 03635 STATION NUMBER Rome 5861 DATE May 18 SUBJECT RA9
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.