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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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--- 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 (13.47)
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.