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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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TO:	CABLE SECRATARIAT BRANCH, OC
CABLE REFERENCE SECTION
IA-53 HQS. EXT. 6159, TUBE ES-6	FROM:	NAME OF REQUESTER	DATE
 Marie D. Felth	13 Aug 76
 DIVISION/BRANCH
HT-1	EXTENSION 1644
It is requested that the dissemination of __ be changed as indicated.
ADD: __ FO1A
Recall copies from: __
Change action from: __ To: __
Authorized by: __ NAME (type or print) EXT
In coordination with: __ NAME (type or print) EXT
Please furnish one copy of the cable described. I have __ have not made inquiry of the CS Records control system.
IN/DIR NUMBER	2746	STATION NUMBER	COPE 7485	DATE June 68
 SUBJECT MHPASHA

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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.