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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. 167 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
p. 169 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
p. 170 …I worked there years and never saw or heard any-suggesting the Agency was involved assassination…
p. 171 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
p. 172 …The bullets never gained perfectly intact, as the one found the stretcher, they became twisted lumps…
p. 173 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." "I have found nothing since that time." he…
p. 206 …and documents were destroyed through some catastrophe never resumed business or were permanently closed down within…
p. 250 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
p. 252 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
p. 253 …I worked there three years and never saw or heard anying suggesting the Agency was involved…
p. 254 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
p. 255 …The bullets never mained perfectly intact, as the one found in the stretcher; they became twisted…
p. 256 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." I have found nothing since that time." he…
p. 291 …Union member on 21 February 1968 but never shipped out. His Social Security Number is 562…

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.