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FOIA on Martin Luther King
Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by 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.
“United Press”16 pages
- p. 62 …27 June 1968; Associated Press, London, dated 27 June 1968; United Press International (UPI-16), dated…
- p. 71 …Press, London, dated 27 June 1968; 20 Associated Press, London, dated 27 June 1968; 21 United…
- p. 155 …New York University Press, 1960.
York: New York University Press, 1968.
"HM and JPM: Twine of…
- p. 156 …John Hopkins Press, 1967.
Lefever, Ernest W. Uncertain Mandate. Baltimore: John Hopkins Press, 1967, 1968. Lerner…
- p. 158 …United Press International.
Two Mrs. Kennedy. National Review. 4 April 1967, pp. 335-336. United Press…
- p. 165 …Special Unit Senator: RFK Ammunition. New York: Random House 1970.
" Conspiracial" Minority of Con, September 1968…
- p. 171 …The had been accused of conspiring to the President of the United States is being interviewed…
- p. 220 …COPIES PRINTED (NYT Press Rule) 9708 8300
B. FAIR CIRCULATION
1. SALES THROUGH DEALERS AND CARRIERS…
- p. 225 # Political Assassinations in the United States
Articles Published in Computers and Automation May 1970 to October…
- p. 240 …When the striker plate is pressed against the wall or roof of the mine and the…
- p. 245 …Part 1 of the Monthly Computer Census contains reports for United States manufacturers, A to H…
- p. 254 …The man had been accused of conspiring to under the President of the United States was…
- p. 262 …United States Committee for the United Nations, 1964.
Horowitz, Irving L. "Kennedy's Death, Myths, and…
- p. 263 …John Pitcherald Kennedy, 1717-1963, President of the United States of America Memorial Association at the…
- p. 265 …United Press International
United Press International. Prochure of front pages of 91 American newspapers. November 22…
- p. 272 …Special Unit Senator: RIK Administration. New York: Random House 1975.
"Minority of One, September 1758, pp…
# 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 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.