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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.

  • p. 12 …760966); 378 this file has been closed. - Record on Ray 3. Thirty FBI reports which mention…
  • p. 22 …1961, the date of an FBI report in her file. 5. The postmaster at Heiberger, Alabama…
  • p. 42 …CENTRAL REGISTRY·EUROPE OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I&NS CI OPERATIONS…
  • p. 46 …CENTRAL REGISTRY · EUROPE OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I & NS 1 OPERATIONS…
  • p. 96 …b)(3) ( ) Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) ( ) FBI file number (b)(2) Privacy of…
  • p. 97 …Atkinson TO LEGAT SANTO DOMINGO FROM DIRECTOR FBI VIA TÉLETYPE 1234567 APR111968 ENGIPHERED ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN…
  • p. 99 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) | | ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
  • p. 101 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) | | ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
  • p. 110 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
  • p. 111 …Subject of FBI investigations in 1954 (Voice of America) and 1956 (USIA) - Bureau File 123-15026…
  • p. 113 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
  • p. 125 …Weisberg's request, please return those documents which you so consider to the FBI. We would…
  • p. 142 …Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) (j)(1)(b) ( ) FBI file number (b)(2) (j…
  • p. 174 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
  • p. 225 …32 More About Jim Hicks 32 Confirmation of FBI Knowledge 12 Days Before Dallas of a…
  • p. 226 …is doing about computerizing files of evidence, initiating lawsuits to obtain information, etc.; and comments on…
  • p. 235 …A few months after the purchase the SEC filed suit charging Lums and Ceasar's Palace…
  • p. 238 …an FBI agent was assigned to infiltrate the group of alleged conspirators". Do we now believe…
  • p. 257 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
  • p. 295 …Name* of an FBI agent 15. FBI file number 16. Privacy of other individual 17. Does…
dated 18 June 1968; Associated Press, dated 17 June 1968; Reuters, London, dated 21 June 1968; Reuters, London, undated; Reuters, London, dated 28 June 1968; Reuters, undated; Reuters, Washington, dated 8 June 1968; Reuters, London, dated 8 June 1968; Reuters, London, dated 8 June 1968; Reuters, undated; The Washington Post, 9 June 1968; Northern Virginia Sun, dated 18 April 1968; Northern Virginia Sun, dated 17 April 1968; The Washington Post, dated 8 April 1968; Northern Virginia Sun, dated 16 April 1968; St. Louis Missouri, Post-Dispatch, dated 5 April 1968; Chicago Illinois News, dated 8 April 1968; London, dated 27 June 1968; London, dated 27 June 1968; Associated Press, London, undated; London, dated 27 June 1968; Washington Star, 27 June 1968; New York Times, 18 April 1968; New York Times, dated 18 April 1968; New York Times, dated 19 April 1968; New York Times, dated 23 April 1968; Washington Post, dated 5 July 1968; Los Angeles Free Press, dated 19 April 1968; Washington Star, 26 April 1968; Northern Virginia Sun, dated 25 April 1968; Washington Post, dated 27 April 1968; Washington Post, dated 4 July 1968; Washington Star, dated 30 December 1969; Reuters, dated 9 June 1968; Reuters, London, dated 9 June 1968; EX-3438, dated 1969; The Strange Case of James Earl Ray; dated 1969; London, undated; Associated Press, London, dated 10 June 1968; London, dated 10 June 1968; UPI-7, London, 10 June 1968; Associated Press, London, dated 10 June 1968; London, dated 10 June 1968; Reuters, London, 11 June 1968; Reuters, London, undated; London, 11 June 1968; Associated Press, London, dated 11 June 1968; London, dated 10 June 1968; Reuters, Washington, dated 10 June 1968; London, 10 June 1968; London, dated 10 June 1968; Reuters, London, 10 June 1968; Reuters, London, dated 10 June 1968; London, undated; Moscow, (Gevorgyan Report), dated 22 November 1968; Moscow Trud (Gevorgyan Report), dated 22 November 1968; Evening Star, dated 9 May 1968; Washington Post, 8 May 1968; Washington Post, dated 2 July 1968; Reuters, London, dated 11 June 1968; Associated Press, dated 10 June 1968; Reuters, London, dated 10 June 1968; Associated Press, Toronto,

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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.