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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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SOURCE	DATE REQUESTED	DATE RECEIVED	SOURCE	DATE REQUESTED	DATE RECEIVED
DO AREA DESKS CENTRAL REFERENCE SERVICE
IP/ARCHIVES CIA LIBRARY
COMINT NAME CHECK OFFICE OF SECURITY
SB BIOGRAPHICS BRANCH OFFICE OF MEDICAL SERVICES
TRAVEL PROGRAMS DOMESTIC COLLECTION DIVISION
NAME OF BEARER FILE/OTS
CIA APPLICANTS FILE/OFFICE OF PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
SPECIAL ACTIVITIES GROUP·SS/IL(WPTU) DEFENSE CENTRAL INDEX
COVER AND COMMERCIAL STAFF CENTRAL REGISTRY·EUROPE
OPERATIONS STAFF	RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI
INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I&NS
CI OPERATIONS: CAPTURED GERMAN DOCUMENTS DEPARTMENT OF STATE
E/G PROGRAM SECRET SERVICE
WH SUBVERSIVES PROGRAM DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY

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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.