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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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  • p. 5 …1968; Washington Star, 23 September 1968; Los Angeles Times, 7 August 1968; 125-3+7 See…
  • p. 63 …York Times, dated 23 April 1968; Washington Post, dated 5 July 1968; Los Angeles Free Press…
  • p. 72 …York Times, dated 23 April 1968;Washington Post, dated 5 July 1968;Los Angeles Free Press…
  • p. 157 …Los Angeles: The author, 963. on. "November 22, 1963." Progressive Magazine, December 1964. ley. "What They…
  • p. 159 …Los Angeles, September 1964, pp. 1-19. (paper) Sheatsley, Paul B. and Jacob J. Feldman. "The…
  • p. 160 …Los Angeles: Associated Press 1964. Highlights of the Warren Report. Los Angeles Associated Professional Service 1964…
  • p. 161 …Warren Report Wrong, College Teacher Says." Los Angeles Times, 17 November 1967, p. 18. Warren's…
  • p. 162 …Los Angeles: University of California, 1968. Gosset, P. and R. L'homme qui crut guer Kennedy…
  • p. 164 …Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1968. Man in Room 3. Time, 12 April 1968, p. 21. "Martin…
  • p. 165 …ntoosa, Rm. "First Court Appearance; Suspect Gives Impression of Cocky, arrogant Confidence." Los Angeles Times, 9…
  • p. 238 …primarily Miami, New York, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, San Diego, Las Vegas, Dallas, Austin, Galveston…
  • p. 264 …Los Angeles: Bureau of International Relations, 1967. "President and Nation's Journey." Reconstruction Int. 13 December…
  • p. 266 …Los Angeles, September 1964, pp. 1-19. (paper) Sheatsley, Paul B. and Jacob J. Feldman. "The…
  • p. 267 …Los Angeles. Pould, Jan. The Weight of the Evidence: The Warren Report and its Critic. New…
  • p. 269 …Los Angeles: University of California, 1968. Gosset, P. and R. L'homme qui crut tuer Kennedy…
  • p. 271 …Los Angeles: Holloway House, 1968. "Man in Room 5." Time, 12 April 1968, p. 21. "Martin…
  • p. 272 …Worthington, Richard. "New Yorker Warp on Family, Friends Return with Body." Los Angeles Time, 7 June…

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# CONFIDENTIAL

London-5061, dated 8 June 1968 and London-5062, dated 8 June 1968; concerns Ray traveling in London; source of this information was the FBI, some of the information was received from Scotland Yard; excluded under 1900.3(g)(4) and exempt under (b)(1)5(B)(1).

Ottawa-5446, dated 8 June 1968; concerns travel of Galt; (SMABOVE/9) a Canadian service provided the information; exempt under (b)(1)5(B)(1).

UFGT-16828, dated 15 July 1966; concerns surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. by the Dade County/Florida police (Criminal Intelligence); excluded under 1900.3(g)(4).

John J. Reagan

Chief, International Terrorism Group

Operations Staff

Roy LOND 5062 OGA1

8 June 68 liaison

E.IMPDET CL BY 058723

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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.