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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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NO:	2012442	REQUEST CA:	M303	FELTON, TANY	030/FIC	134127	1644	HTL
1	MAY, JAMES EARL	DOA:	PURPOSE:PUS	WAY:1	STPT:0300	FU:	SPELL:	MASK:

RAY, JAMES EARL 201-03327324
SEX: GEE 10HARCE PDS USA, ILLINOIS TYPE: NAVE T
CIT: USA RED GATE 36
RES USA & SALT, EXIC STARVCT A GALT, ETI STARVCT A
MILLARD, JEAN E. MILLARDS, JONY, J. LOWYER, HARVEY E
COUNTRY, JAMES L. NEARON, JAC. Q., ALTON, JAMES G
GOORIDE, JAMES R. SNEYJ, RAMON, GEORGE S. SNEYA, RAMON
GLORGE
***LOCATION DATA: FILE PERMANENTLY CHARGED TO SPS/ITS, 080704, 1758, 19704/38
 25 JUL 88	00211859

RAY, JAMES EARL	POL USA	050-500
SEX M DJS C20 N MW-10390
CIT USA 25APR20
AKA CALF, ERIC STAKVO, AKA LUNNYER, HARVEY, AKA
WILLARD, JOHN DJSJ REPORTEDLY SHOT AND KILLED MARTIN
LUTHER KING SUSPOSEDLY VISITED MEXICO
***LOCATOR DATA: DRUER FROM IP/CRS - SC-52
	APERTURE CARDS AVAILABLE
HANNA-10390	01 AY 08 32723573

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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.