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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 TUBE ROOM DATE INITIALS REQUESTER'S NOTES IP/INDEX DT-5 1B4003 18 6 NO. OF REFERENCES ORDERED 4 REQUESTER THIS REQUEST REFERS TO (Doc. Ref.) IP/FILES DT-6 GC52 3m SEARCH INSTRUCTIONS (TO IP/IN) REQUESTER F IP/RMS DW-6 GA-20 SUBJECT OF INDEX SEARCH SURNAME KING GIVEN NAMES Martin Luther Jr. SPELLING VARIATIONS TO BE SEARCHED 201 NO. IF KNOWN 201- AKA. ALIASES OTHER IDENTIFYING DATA (Occupation, CP membership, I. S. affiliations, etc.) SEX DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH CITIZENSHIP RESIDENCE RESULTS OF IP/INDEX SEARCH NO RECORDS IDENTIFIABLE WITH SUBJECT THERE ARE OTHER INDICES THAT YOU SHOULD CONSIDER. SEE REVERSE SIDE FOR CHECKLIST OF OTHER INDICES AND 201 CONSOLIDATION INSTRUCTIONS. SURNAME NOT FOUND IN FILES TO ORDER DOCUMENTS INDEX RECORDS ATTACHED 1. REVIEW INDEX RECORDS. 2. DRAW GREEN DIAGONAL LINE ACROSS ITEMS YOU DO NOT WANT. 3. FORWARD TO IP/FILES. THERE ARE RECORDS OF WHICH ARE FNU'S WHICH MAY PERTAIN TO THE SUBJECT OF THIS SEARCH; THESE MAY BE REVIEWED IN IP/IN. 1B4003. TO EDIT THE INDEX RECORDS COMMENTS AFTER RECEIPT OF THE DOCUMENTS, EDIT THE INDEX RECORD ACCORDING TO DOI 70-19. 1. TO DESTROY INDEX RECORD: MARK THE INDEX RECORD WITH A GREEN D, AND CITE THE REASON. 2. TO MAKE CORRECTIONS/ADDITIONS: ENTER THE CHANGES ON THE INDEX RECORD IN GREEN INK. 3. FORWARD TO IP/RMS VIA YOUR RECORDS OFFICER REQUEST NO./DATE/TIME 181148 E-2, IMPDET CL. BY: 007622 (4-8-38)
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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.