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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.

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FOIA REQUEST MANAGEMENT INFORMATION	DATE
TITLE OF DOCUMENT(S) AND/OR SUBJECT
WEISBERG request on Martin Luther King and James Earl Ray
SEARCH	COST (To be completed by IRS)	CLASSIFICATION REVIEW	COST (To be completed by IRS)
GRADE/STEP LEVEL	MANHOURS	GRADE/STEP LEVEL	MANHOURS
8.7	44 manhours 8.7
 5 do. writing

TOTAL COST TOTAL COST
DO NOT DETACH THIS SLIP
RETURN TO	CHIEF, INFORMATION REVIEW STAFF
7 C 28 Headquarters

FORM 1.75 3533 OBSOLETE PREVIOUS EDITIONS

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