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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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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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