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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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TO: DATE INITIALS RCD. FWD. 1. IP/FILES DT-6 2. REQUESTER 3. IP/FILES DT-6 9055 Mini Alten 4. 5. SUBJECT (must be furnished) King Martin HQ FILE NUMBER DOCUMENT SYMBOL AND NUMBER OUT DOCUMENT DATE PANA 6180 97566 April 6, 1969 201-81911 DBC 970 D 23 July 1968 19-5-52 DBC-23402 19 Aug 1968 100-300-26 DBC-25546 30 Aug 1969 100-120-21 DBC-4496 13 Sep 1968 201-1277 DBC-29138 13 Aug 1968 100-4-113 DBC-47898 12 Aug 1968 100-4-44 DBC-23678 30 Sep 1969 96-300-7 DBC-63897 30 Sep 1969 201-80519 DBC-64858 30 Sep 1969
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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.