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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. 62 …27 June 1968; Associated Press, London, dated 27 June 1968; United Press International (UPI-16), dated…
  • p. 71 …Press, London, dated 27 June 1968; 20 Associated Press, London, dated 27 June 1968; 21 United…
  • p. 155 …New York University Press, 1960. York: New York University Press, 1968. "HM and JPM: Twine of…
  • p. 156 …John Hopkins Press, 1967. Lefever, Ernest W. Uncertain Mandate. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1967, 1968. Lerner…
  • p. 158 …United Press International. Two Mrs. Kennedy. National Review. 4 April 1967, pp. 335-336. United Press…
  • p. 165 …Special Unit Senator: RFK Ammunition. New York: Random House 1970. " Conspiracial" Minority of Con, September 1968…
  • p. 171 …The had been accused of conspiring to the President of the United States is being interviewed…
  • p. 220 …COPIES PRINTED (NYT Press Rule) 9708 8300 B. FAIR CIRCULATION 1. SALES THROUGH DEALERS AND CARRIERS…
  • p. 225 # Political Assassinations in the United States Articles Published in Computers and Automation May 1970 to October…
  • p. 240 …When the striker plate is pressed against the wall or roof of the mine and the…
  • p. 245 …Part 1 of the Monthly Computer Census contains reports for United States manufacturers, A to H…
  • p. 254 …The man had been accused of conspiring to under the President of the United States was…
  • p. 262 …United States Committee for the United Nations, 1964. Horowitz, Irving L. "Kennedy's Death, Myths, and…
  • p. 263 …John Pitcherald Kennedy, 1717-1963, President of the United States of America Memorial Association at the…
  • p. 265 …United Press International United Press International. Prochure of front pages of 91 American newspapers. November 22…
  • p. 272 …Special Unit Senator: RIK Administration. New York: Random House 1975. "Minority of One, September 1758, pp…
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.