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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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  • p. 22 …Summer of 1952 she had revisited UN headquarters in the role of a communist organizer. The…
  • p. 53 …CHIEF, INFORMATION REVIEW STAFF 7 C 28 Headquarters FORM 1.75 3533 OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS (13…
  • p. 110 …full details from the files of CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, together with all background information…
  • p. 113 …full details from the files of CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, together with all background information…
  • p. 137 …3-Headquarters w/attach as noted. FULL TEXT COPY - DO NOT RELEASE 51-28A
  • p. 188 …The headquarters are in Washington, D.C. (at 1520 16th Street, N.W.). In the four…
  • p. 208 …Chase Manhattan Bank's New York City headquarters, has proved useful. Engineered by Walter Kidde & Co…
  • p. 220 …LOCATION OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL BUSINESS OFFICES OF THE PUBLIC, ETHICAL, AND FINANCIAL PUBLICATIONS Berkeley…
  • p. 224 …Kennedy, and who were arrested seeking to bug Democratic National Headquarters at 2:30 a.m…
  • p. 234 …Golden was also security director of Nixon's convention headquarters in Miami that year, and was…
  • p. 236 …Central States, Southeast and Southwest Pension Fund headquartered in Chicago, has become a bankroll for some…
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 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.