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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.

SOURCE	DATE REQUESTED	DATE RECEIVED	SOURCE	DATE REQUESTED	DATE RECEIVED
O AREA DESKS CENTRAL REFERENCE SERVICE
P/ARCHIVES CIA LIBRARY
OMINT NAME CHECK OFFICE OF SECURITY
B BIOGRAPHICS BRANCH OFFICE OF MEDICAL SERVICES
RAVEL PROGRAMS DOMESTIC COLLECTION DIVISION
AME OF BEARER FILE/OTS
IA APPLICANTS FILE/OFFICE OF PERSONNEL DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
PECIAL ACTIVITIES GROUP·SS/IL (WFTU) DEFENSE CENTRAL INDEX
OVER AND COMMERCIAL STAFF CENTRAL REGISTRY · EUROPE
OPERATIONS STAFF	RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI
INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I & NS
1 OPERATIONS: CAPTURED GERMAN DOCUMENTS DEPARTMENT OF STATE
/G PROGRAM SECRET SERVICE
H SUBVERSIVES PROGRAM DRUG ENFORCEMENT AGENCY

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