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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.

  • p. 21 …her supervisor there at one time, was Adam TARN, a Polish citizen said to be a…
  • p. 247 …Industrial & Scientific Conf. Mgmt., Inc., 222 W. Adams St., Chicago, IL 60606 Feb. 12-14, 1974…
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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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.