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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.
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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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