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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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NAME: KING, MARTIN LUTHER YOB: SEX: CIT:

ORIGIN:A DUR: PURPOSE:FDS PRTY:R UTPT:D300 FNU: SPELL: MASK: MAT:

0001 KING, MARTIN LUTHER

SEX M

CIT USA

TO BE INTERVIEWED BY PAUL KRASSNER CONTACT OF SUBJ

OF 201-24907.

FORMERLY: SS NO SOUR

***LOCATOR DATA: ORDER FROM IP/CRS - GC-52

201-0024907 ACA Date: 23 Apr 62

DBA-0 B22 APERTURE FAIR

23APR62

14:58 Buff:105-20110

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P9

Full: MM-105-4750

0002 KING, MARTIN LUTHER

SEX M

MENTIONED IN CONNECTION WITH 16TH NATIONAL CON-

VENTION OF CP, USA. PAGE NO. 316.

FORMERLY: DO NO DATE, SS NO SOUR

***LOCATOR DATA: ORDER FROM IP/CRS - GC-52

DFB-80124 20 SEP 72 03527255

100-004-1

DFB-80124

P 732-0

ORIGIN: New York, NY

Date: 4 March 57

Sulji, Communist Party USA

Rufile: 100-3

Field: NY-100-4931

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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.