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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.
“King”60+ pages
- p. 1 …The first time the Bureau sent those, they combined King-Ray docs with Kennedy assassination dogs…
- p. 3 …Weisberg Request (Martin Luther King, Jr.) Part I
REFERENCE: 76-F-382
1. This office maintains…
- p. 5 …Martin Luther King, Jr. are releasable to the requestor. There are no exemptions. Look, 15 April…
- p. 7 …documents which mention either Dr. or Mrs. King are held in OPS/ITG (SI) vault:
3…
- p. 8 …3 of this cable mentions an intercepted letter addressed to President Johnson protesting the King assassination…
- p. 9 …Martin Luther King; exempt under (b)(3)(a) and (b)(6).
(e) OEPA-1097, dated 29…
- p. 10 …an incidental mention of the name Dr. King) by or about a Jonathan Power; exempt under…
- p. 11 …Investigation of Death of Martin Luther King, Jr. concerns a subject who did not appear to…
- p. 12 …as being in contact with Martin Luther King; exempt under (b)(3)(a) and (b)(6…
- p. 14 …documents which mention either Dr. or Mrs. King are held in OPS/ITG (SI) vault:
3…
- p. 17 MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
## Para C:
I cannot match the documents with the list you provided…
- p. 20 …Martin Luther King
(Request #F-76-382)
In response to this request, CI Staff has no…
- p. 21 …Stevens
SUBJECT
KING, Coretta Scott
#541 487
AKA: Mrs. Martin Luther KINGnee: Coretta SCOTT
1. Subject…
- p. 31 ## PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST
SUBJECT: (Optional) Martin Luther King, Jr., requested by Weisberg
TO: (Officer designation…
- p. 34 …July 1966. - A-62
(7) DDO biographic data on Martin Luther King, dated 5 November 1967.
- p. 41 …GA-20
SUBJECT OF INDEX SEARCH
SURNAME KING
GIVEN NAMES Martin Luther Jr.
SPELLING VARIATIONS TO…
- p. 43 …0001 KING, MARTIN LUTHER
SEX M
CIT USA
TO BE INTERVIEWED BY PAUL KRASSNER CONTACT OF…
- p. 47 …DJSJ REPORTEDLY SHOT AND KILLED MARTIN
LUTHER KING SUSPOSEDLY VISITED MEXICO
***LOCATOR DATA: DRUER FROM IP…
- p. 49 …6
4.
5.
SUBJECT (must be furnished): KING
HO. FILE NUMBER DOCUMENT SYMBOL AND NUMBER DOCUMENT…
- p. 50 …SUBJECT (must be furnished)
King Martin
HQ FILE NUMBER DOCUMENT SYMBOL AND NUMBER OUT DOCUMENT DATE…
- p. 53 …OR SUBJECT
WEISBERG request on Martin Luther King and James Earl Ray
SEARCH COST (To be…
- p. 59 …Martin Luther King, Jr.
b. Earl Ray
c. Other individuals involved with the assassination of Dr…
- p. 60 …Martin Luther King, Jr. by the Dade County/Florida police (Criminal Intelligence); excluded under 1900.3…
- p. 66 …Assassination of Martin Luther King. Subject in this memorandum is a James Ray, born 8 March…
- p. 68 …have had something to do with Dr. King.
(n) Panama City-6193 (IN-98420), dated 25…
- p. 75 …Assassination of Martin Luther King. Subject in this memorandum is a James Ray, born 8 March…
- p. 77 …have had something to do with Dr. King.
(n) Panama City-6193 (IN-98420), dated 25…
- p. 81 …Martin Luther King, Jr.
1. At the Attorney General's direction, a task force was established…
- p. 87 …FBI Referral re Harold Weisberg Request on Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Earl Ray
REFERENCES…
- p. 89 …MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
2. ANOTHER SENSITIVE RELIABLE SOURCE IN MEXICO CITY REPORTED THAT MCLAREN DEPARTED…
- p. 91 …MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
2. ANOTHER SENSITIVE RELIABLE SOURCE IN MEXICO CITY REPORTED THAT MCLAREN DEPARTED…
- p. 94 …of the suspected killer of Martin Luther King, Jr, and asked for a check against visitors…
- p. 97 …1234567
APR111968
ENGIPHERED
ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. REURTELS NUMBERS TWO AND FOUR DATED APRIL…
- p. 98 …Rap Brown advocated the death of Martin Luther King and King's assassination would benefit the…
- p. 103 …Allegedly, they are being detained in connection with the assassination of Martin Luther King. These individuals…
- p. 104 …MURKIN
no knowledge of any connection between these individuals and the assassination of Martin Luther King…
- p. 107 …Sullivan
This is the case involving the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr.,
4/4/68…
- p. 108 …and said he had killed Martin Luther King, Jr.
There is no Whitefield, North Carolina. There…
- p. 110 …Martin Luther King.
Liaison advised of the receipt of information from Richard Helms, Director of CIA…
- p. 113 …Martin Luther King.
Liaison advised of the receipt of information from Richard Helms, Director of CIA…
- p. 114 …In one on which I have paid the CIA large sums without compliance, the King assassination…
- p. 115 …In one on which I have paid the CIA large sums without compliance, the King assassination…
- p. 117 …Martin Luther King, Jr.
2. All records pertaining to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King…
- p. 118 …Martin Luther King, Jr., and/or James Earl Ray and any of his alleged or suspected…
- p. 119 …Martin Luther King, Jr., and to those dealing with James Earl Ray and any of his…
- p. 120 …Martin Luther King, Jr. and his assassination. Because you require a down payment of half the…
- p. 121 …Coretta King and James Earl Ray, respectively." Because Mr. Weisberg's request undoubtedly comprises records which…
- p. 122 …receipt of the sworn waiver from Mrs. King, as mentioned in your letter of 3 December…
- p. 123 FOIA Appeal - Harold Weisberg, for information about Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Earl Ray
IPS…
- p. 127 …Martin Luther King, Jr.:
1. All receipts for any letters, cables, documents, reports, memorandums, or other…
- p. 128 …Coretta King
Rev. Andrew Young
Rev. Samuel B. Kyles
Harry Wachtel
9. All notes or memorandums…
- p. 130 …Martin Luther King, Jr. since April 15, 1975.
17. All notes, memoranda, correspondence or investigative reports…
- p. 132 UNCLASSIFIED INTERNAL USE ONLY
CONFIDENTIAL
SECRET
## PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST
FBI Referral re Martin Luther King…
- p. 140 …Association, care of the Rev. M. L. King, Dexter Ave. Baptist Church, Montgomery, Alabama.'
The above…
- p. 144 …Martin Luther King, Jr.:
1. All receipts for any letters, cables, documents, reports, memorandums, or other…
- p. 145 …Coretta King
Rev. Samuel B. Kyles
Rev. Andrew Young
Harry Wachtel
9. All notes or memorandums…
- p. 147 …Martin Luther King, Jr. since April 15, 1975.
17. All notes, memoranda, correspondence or investigative reports…
- p. 158 …Some disturbing parallels; assassination of M.L. King and J.F. Kennedy." Ramparts Magazine, 29 Uma…
- p. 162 …28-31, 90.
"Ruby and the King of Torto." Times Literary Supplement, 17 March 1966, p…
- p. 164 …10.
"Did Ray Kill King?" National Review, 23 April 1968, pp. 376+.
"Doctor King." National Review…
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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.