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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by GLM-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. 133 …In all fairly recent reports on cessation for Anderson Layer, in the letter's Chicago with…
  • p. 154 …Kennedy, Anderson, S.C.1 Droke House, 1969. Booker, Simeon. "Now JPK Surpassed Abraham Lincoln." Ebony…
  • p. 218 …needed to protect them from each other (Anderson, "Sam Hall"; Cole, The Funco File; Dick, Vulcan…
  • p. 219 …large numbers of people. ## Bibliography ## Fiction 1. Anderson, Poul. "Sam Hall". Astounding Science Fiction. September 1953…
  • p. 222 …Wiswesser The Differences in Two Strains of Corn / Edgar Anderson The Six Blind Men of Nepal…
  • p. 234 was Intertel that ITT hired in 1972 to snoop on columnist Jack Anderson. The latest and…
  • p. 235 …In 1962 Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson wrote that "Chotiner ... besides representing the top gangster of…
  • p. 236 …Jack Anderson documents, for example, that as early as 1960, then Vice-President Nixon and Attorney…

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26 February 1968, exempt under (b)(6); EX-895, 7 March 1968; exempt under (b)(6); Kingston-4004, 6 April 1968, exempt under (b)(3)(a), (b)(3)(b), (b)(1)5(B)(1); Mexico City-5143, 7 April 1968, exempt under (b)(3)(a), (b)(3)(b); Tokyo-9443, 10 April 1968, exempt under (b)(3)(a), (b)(3)(b); Dir-90530, 10 April 1968, exempt under (b)(3)(a), (b)(3)(b), (b)(6); Mexico-5188, 10 April 1968, exempt under (b)(3)(b); JMWAVE-2022, 12 April 1968; exempt under (b)(3)(b); Berlin-2149, 15 April 1968, exempt under (b)(3)(b), (b)(6); Dir-92664, 18 April 1968; exempt under (b)(3)(b), (b)(6); Memo draft, dated 26 April 1968, exempt under (b)(3)(a) (if USIB concurs);

not records

FHH1-6444, 7 May 1968, exempt under (b)(3)(a), (b)(6); Stockholm 9024, 7 June 1968, exempt under (b)(3)(a), (b)(3)(b), (b)(6); B-173, 19 September 1968, exempt under (b)(3)(b); RL-188, 13 November 1968, (b)(3)(a); B-2628, 21 May 1971, (b)(3)(a), (b)(3)(b), (b)(6); Budapest-017, 19 May 1971, (b)(3)(b), (b)(6); EX-8726, 27 September 1971, exempt under (b)(3)(b), (b)(6); Memorandum, 28 November 1975, exempt under (b)(3)(b).

e. The following Top Secret (SI) documents which mention either Dr. or Mrs. King are held in OPS/ITG (SI) vault:

3/0/QOY/T 68-68

3/0/Q0F/T151-67

3/0/QOY/T-58-68

3/0/GOUT/T269=68

3/0/GOUT/T88-69

3/0/GOUT/T92-69

3/0/QOY/T57-67

3/0/COUT/T415-69

3/0/Q0F/T95-67

3/0/Q0F/T106-67

3/0/GOUT/T177-69

2. The following documents are exempt from release; exemptions are as cited.

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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.