FOIA on Martin Luther King

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.

ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
SUBJECT: (Optional)
Request For Opinion--FOIA (b)(6) & Privacy Act
FROM:
Charles A. Briggs
Chief, Services Staff EW-7	EXTENSION: 1596	NO
DATE: 15 July 1976
TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building)	DATE	OFFICER'S INITIALS	COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
RECEIVED	FORWARDED
1.	C/OPS/LTG ES-2
Attn: P. Haefner
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