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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.

  • p. 164 …Ca., 1968. "Big Hunt for masters killer." U.S. News and World Report. 29 April 1968…
  • p. 170 …Clifford Irving was a master liar, and he had beaten the polygraph, but he would have…
  • p. 211 …Many analysts joining major corporations hold degrees as Master, Business Administration. Their educational backgrounds, when combined…
  • p. 243 …Materials Labs., Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio Developing Air Force Computer Aided Manufacturing(AFCAM) master plan $251…
  • p. 253 …Clifford Irving was a master liar, and he had beaten the polygraph, but he would have…
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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 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.