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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. 22 …Summer of 1952 she had revisited UN headquarters in the role of a communist organizer. The…
  • p. 53 …CHIEF, INFORMATION REVIEW STAFF 7 C 28 Headquarters FORM 1.75 3533 OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS (13…
  • p. 110 …full details from the files of CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, together with all background information…
  • p. 113 …full details from the files of CIA Headquarters at Langley, Virginia, together with all background information…
  • p. 137 …3-Headquarters w/attach as noted. FULL TEXT COPY - DO NOT RELEASE 51-28A
  • p. 188 …The headquarters are in Washington, D.C. (at 1520 16th Street, N.W.). In the four…
  • p. 208 …Chase Manhattan Bank's New York City headquarters, has proved useful. Engineered by Walter Kidde & Co…
  • p. 220 …LOCATION OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF GENERAL BUSINESS OFFICES OF THE PUBLIC, ETHICAL, AND FINANCIAL PUBLICATIONS Berkeley…
  • p. 224 …Kennedy, and who were arrested seeking to bug Democratic National Headquarters at 2:30 a.m…
  • p. 234 …Golden was also security director of Nixon's convention headquarters in Miami that year, and was…
  • p. 236 …Central States, Southeast and Southwest Pension Fund headquartered in Chicago, has become a bankroll for some…

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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.