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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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(u) Memorandum to the FBI, dated 6 May 1968; 408 Subject: Joe Bailey Musgrave.

(v) Memorandum to the FBI, dated 13 May 1968; Subject: Joe Bailey Musgrave; forwarded passport photos of Musgrave.

(w) Frankfurt-5732 (IN-18095), dated 24 May 1968; records of the Federal Criminal Police provided a negative reply (re Galt); exempt under (b)(1)(5)B(1).

4. Seven FBI reports which mention the Subject and/or his activities; excluded under 1900.3(g)(4). See Attachment I.

a. Undated Memo, sanitized for release if the FBI concurs; exemptions (b)(3)(a) and (b)(6).

b. Cactus-001, dated 22 January 1973; concerns 912 proposed hijacking of an unidentified aircraft.

c. Photos of Eric Starvo Galt, aka Harvey Lawmyer and John Willard.

414 d. Photo of an unidentified individual.

415 e. Photo of an unidentified individual.

4/16 f. FBI Wanted Poster - FBI No. 405 942G.

g. FBI Wanted Poster - FBI No. 405 942G, Identification order 4132, 20 April 1968.

5. Department of State telegram, Ottawa-1813, dated 8 June 1968. Reports of the apprehension in London of James Earl Ray. Excluded under 1900.3(g)(4). See Attachment II.

6. AB Memo, number 9605, dated 24 April 1968 which forwarded information on the Subject is attached for your contact with C/TSD/AB/PDS concerning the releasibility of this information. See Attachment III.

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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.