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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.

  • p. 12 …760966); 378 this file has been closed. - Record on Ray 3. Thirty FBI reports which mention…
  • p. 22 …1961, the date of an FBI report in her file. 5. The postmaster at Heiberger, Alabama…
  • p. 42 …CENTRAL REGISTRY·EUROPE OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I&NS CI OPERATIONS…
  • p. 46 …CENTRAL REGISTRY · EUROPE OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I & NS 1 OPERATIONS…
  • p. 96 …b)(3) ( ) Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) ( ) FBI file number (b)(2) Privacy of…
  • p. 97 …Atkinson TO LEGAT SANTO DOMINGO FROM DIRECTOR FBI VIA TÉLETYPE 1234567 APR111968 ENGIPHERED ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN…
  • p. 99 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) | | ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
  • p. 101 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) | | ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
  • p. 110 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
  • p. 111 …Subject of FBI investigations in 1954 (Voice of America) and 1956 (USIA) - Bureau File 123-15026…
  • p. 113 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
  • p. 125 …Weisberg's request, please return those documents which you so consider to the FBI. We would…
  • p. 142 …Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) (j)(1)(b) ( ) FBI file number (b)(2) (j…
  • p. 174 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
  • p. 225 …32 More About Jim Hicks 32 Confirmation of FBI Knowledge 12 Days Before Dallas of a…
  • p. 226 …is doing about computerizing files of evidence, initiating lawsuits to obtain information, etc.; and comments on…
  • p. 235 …A few months after the purchase the SEC filed suit charging Lums and Ceasar's Palace…
  • p. 238 …an FBI agent was assigned to infiltrate the group of alleged conspirators". Do we now believe…
  • p. 257 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
  • p. 295 …Name* of an FBI agent 15. FBI file number 16. Privacy of other individual 17. Does…

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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

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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.