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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. 169 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 170 …I worked there years and never saw or heard any-suggesting the Agency was involved assassination…
  • p. 171 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 172 …The bullets never gained perfectly intact, as the one found the stretcher, they became twisted lumps…
  • p. 173 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." "I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 206 …and documents were destroyed through some catastrophe never resumed business or were permanently closed down within…
  • p. 250 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 252 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 253 …I worked there three years and never saw or heard anying suggesting the Agency was involved…
  • p. 254 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 255 …The bullets never mained perfectly intact, as the one found in the stretcher; they became twisted…
  • p. 256 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 291 …Union member on 21 February 1968 but never shipped out. His Social Security Number is 562…
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.