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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.
“Weekly World News”10 pages
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 F8I 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 ---CONTINUED--- HR580 S-E-C-R-E T E2 IMPDET CL BY 054979 PAGE 0001 181148 034
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