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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by GLM-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. 12 …760966); 378 this file has been closed. - Record on Ray 3. Thirty FBI reports which mention…
  • p. 22 …1961, the date of an FBI report in her file. 5. The postmaster at Heiberger, Alabama…
  • p. 42 …CENTRAL REGISTRY·EUROPE OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I&NS CI OPERATIONS…
  • p. 46 …CENTRAL REGISTRY · EUROPE OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I & NS 1 OPERATIONS…
  • p. 96 …b)(3) ( ) Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) ( ) FBI file number (b)(2) Privacy of…
  • p. 97 …Atkinson TO LEGAT SANTO DOMINGO FROM DIRECTOR FBI VIA TÉLETYPE 1234567 APR111968 ENGIPHERED ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN…
  • p. 99 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) | | ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
  • p. 101 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) | | ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
  • p. 110 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
  • p. 111 …Subject of FBI investigations in 1954 (Voice of America) and 1956 (USIA) - Bureau File 123-15026…
  • p. 113 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
  • p. 125 …Weisberg's request, please return those documents which you so consider to the FBI. We would…
  • p. 142 …Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) (j)(1)(b) ( ) FBI file number (b)(2) (j…
  • p. 174 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
  • p. 225 …32 More About Jim Hicks 32 Confirmation of FBI Knowledge 12 Days Before Dallas of a…
  • p. 226 …is doing about computerizing files of evidence, initiating lawsuits to obtain information, etc.; and comments on…
  • p. 235 …A few months after the purchase the SEC filed suit charging Lums and Ceasar's Palace…
  • p. 238 …an FBI agent was assigned to infiltrate the group of alleged conspirators". Do we now believe…
  • p. 257 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
  • p. 295 …Name* of an FBI agent 15. FBI file number 16. Privacy of other individual 17. Does…

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Washington Post, dated 14 December 1968

Washington Post, dated 19 November 1968

Washington Post, dated 22 September 196

Washington Post, dated 17 August 1968

Washington Post, dated 29 March 1968

Washington Post, dated 20 March 1968

Washington Post, dated 24 May 1968

Washington Post, dated 17 November 1968

Washington Post, dated 5 April 1968

Washington Post, dated 12 May 1968

Washington Post, dated 1 April 1968

Washington Post, dated 14 March 1969

c. The following overt items pertaining to the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. are releasable to the requestor. There are no exemptions. Look, 15 April 1969; Washington Star, 24 April 1968; 12 March 1969; 13 March 1969; 17 March 1969; 20 March 1969; 23 March 1969; 24 March 1969; 1 April 1969; 2 April 1969; 4 April 1969; 13 April 1969; 24 April 1969; 27 May 1969; 16 July 1969; 31 May 1969; New York Times, 10 March 1969; 7 March 1969; 8 March 1969; 14 March 1969; 16 April 1969; 23 May 1969; 24 May 1969; 26 May 1969; 1 June 1969; UPI-108, 3 January 1969; Washington Post, 3 January 1969; 18 January 1969; 28 January 1969; 31 January 1969; 8 February 1969; 8 March 1969; 11 March 1969; Tass International Service, 11 March 1969; Daily World, 12 March 1969; Washington Post, 12 March 1969; 13 March 1969; 17 March 1969; 18 March 1969; 20 March 1969; 22 March 1969; 23 March 1969; 26 March 1969; 8 April 1969; 12 April 1969; Item from News Dispatches, 1969; The Sunday Star, 16 March 1969; Item from Associated Press, 8 April 1969; Associated Press, 14 June 1969; Associated Press item, 13 May 1969; Associated Press item, 14 May 1969; Washington Post, 21 May 1969; 23 May 1969; 24 May 1969; 27 May 1969; 26 May 1969; 25 May 1969; 16 July 1969; 30 May 1969; 16 March 1969; 27 June 1969; 20 June 1969; 26 June 1969; Washington Star; 4 May 1968; Washington Star, 29 May 1968; Time, 13 September 1968; Washington Post, 19 September 1968; Chicago Daily News Service, undated; Washington Star, 18 September 1968; Washington Star, 23 September 1968; Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1968;

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See separate list from OPs/ITG - above is not accurate

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.