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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.

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  • 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…
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397 (j) Director-93264, dated 20 April 1968; concerns one Edwin Mason.

(k) Panama City-6150 (IN-95853), dated 22 April 1968; concerns the detention of two Americans who were suspect.

(1) San Jose-0162 (IN-95902), dated 23 April 1968; queries fail to reveal any knowledge of Wolman or Hubbard (subjects of Panama City-6150, above).

(m) Panama City-6180 (IN-97560), dated 24 April 1968; concerns a Roderick Claflin Brown, Panamanian National, who voluntarily signed a deposition that when his ship docked in Mobile Ala. in October 1962 he was approached with a job offer that might have had something to do with Dr. King.

(n) Panama City-6193 (IN-98420), dated 25 April 1968, concerns material being pouched to the Station (ie the deposition of R. Brown cited above).

(0) Director-94343, dated 25 April 1968; Station 102 sent a request to pouch copy of deposition and letter.

(p) HZPT-10075, dated 26 April 1968; transmits 403 a copy of deposition material as requested.

(q) Lagos-9878, dated 28 April 1968; requests that the Embassy inquire of Wilder Company concerning one J. B. Musgrave.

(r) Lagos-9888 (IN-00793), dated 30 April 1968; reveals subject of Addis Ababa-2200 is not the man we seek.

(s) Director-95641, dated 30 April 1968; is a request that future traffic be sent in Air Force Channels.

(t) Memorandum, dated 2 May 1968; concerns a Roderick Claflin Brown, a Panamanian National; forwarded to the FBI Brown's deposition.

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