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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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“Harper”11 pages

  • p. 156 …November 20 - November 25, 1963. New York: Harpers, 1967. "The Death of a President." Look, 24…
  • p. 161 …Johnson, Priscilla. "Oswald in Moscow." Harper's, April 1964, pp. 46-50. Kempton, H. "Onwald, May…
  • p. 163 …Look, Manchester, Harper & Row; an Informal Glossary of Press Relations Techniques." Public Relations Journal, April 1967…
  • p. 164 …Kennedy Reaches Accord with Harper & Row and William Manchester. The Minority of One, June 1967, pp…
  • p. 165 …raten, David. "Travels with Bobby Kennedy." Harper's, July 1968, pp. 51-61. No. Hal. "Indiana…
  • p. 263 …November 20 - November 25, 1963. New York: Harpers, 1967. . "The Death of a President." Look, 24…
  • p. 268 …the Harper Review Ferron, Robert L. "Terpentine Devil: CBS News Inquiry; the Warren Report." Saturday Review…
  • p. 269 …Reponse au Rapport Harper. L'Affaire Orenald: Reponse au Rapport Warren, Paris: Les Editions de Minuit…
  • p. 270 …Lock, Manchester, Harper & Row; an Informal Glossary of Press Relations Techniques." Public Relations Journal, April 1967…
  • p. 271 …Kennedy Knights Accord with Harper & Row and William Manchester." Publishers Weekly 23 January 1967, p. 222…
  • p. 272 …rten, Reid. "Travels with Abby Framedy." Harper's, July 1968, pp. 51-61. Hal, Hal. "Dadiana…
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 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.