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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.
UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL SECRET PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST 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. Mr. Owen 4 May 40 These are the documents on Ray only. Please review them and let me know if there are any changes you want made on them. OGC is currently reviewing them and writing the affadavit. Court date is 22 May. We will have to incorporate your changes into the affadavit. Thanks Helen X1313 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Helen 1B 3125 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. RETURN TO: PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST
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