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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by GLM-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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Herbert Garfinkel; Black Man's America, (EX-3208) by Simeon Booker; Staff Study by The Committee on Internal Security, (EX-4866) dated 1970; Testimony of Gerald Wayne Kirk, Hearings of the Committee on the Judiciary, (EX-7044) 1970; Hearings Before the Committee on Un-American Activities, (EX-2131) 1968; Riots, Civil and Criminal Disorders, Hearings before the Sub-Committee on Investigations, (EX-2169) June 20 and 21, 1968; The New Left, Memorandum prepared for the Committee on the Judiciary, (EX-3535), 9 October 1968; National Review, 3 May 1967; The Rebel (published in Exile), May-June 1967; The New World of Negro Americans, (EX-3571) by Harold R. Isaacs.

b. The following overt items which mention the Subject and/or his activities are not available in this office.

Washington Star, dated 14 August 1968

Washington Star, dated 4 February 1969

Washington Star, dated 8 May 1968

Washington Star, dated 14 April 1968

Washington Star, dated 20 January 1969

Washington Star, dated 10 November 1968

Washington Star, dated 29 March 1969

Soul Newspaper (EX-3653), 1 December 1969

New York Times, dated 13 April 1967

New York Times, dated 18 August 1968

New York Times, dated 5 October 1969

Time, dated 12 April 1968

Liberation News, dated November 1967

Committee Newsletter, dated May 1967

D.C. Catholic Standard, dated 18 July 1968

Militant (pg. 5), dated 22 November 1968

Ottawa Citizen, dated 17 December 1968

Sepia (pg. 66) (EX-3592), December 1969-destroyed

Jet Magazine (pg. 17) (EX-3594), 7 August 1967-

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The Black Panther (pg. 10) dated 1969

Washington Post, dated 1 September 1967

Washington Post, dated 15 November 1968

Washington Post, dated 28 June 1968

Washington Post, dated 26 May 1968

Washington Post, dated 24 December 1968

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