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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.
13-00000 TO TUBE ROOM DATE INITIATES REQUESTER'S NOTES IP/INDEX DT•5 1B4003 28/9/76 NO. OF REFERENCES ORDERED 1 REQUESTER THIS REQUEST REFERS TO (Doc. Ref.) IP/FILES DT•6 GC52 SEARCH INSTRUCTIONS (TO IP/IN) REQUESTER IP/RMS DW•6 GA•20 E-2, IMPDET CL. BY; 007622 (4-8-38)
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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.