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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. 37 …IN/DIR NUMBER IN 03635 STATION NUMBER Rome 5861 DATE May 18 SUBJECT RA9
  • p. 66 …Ray; exempt under (b)(3)(a). (c) Rome-5861, dated 3 May 1968; concerns a James…
  • p. 75 …Ray; exempt under (b)(3)(a). (c) Rome-5861, dated 3 May 1968; concerns a James…
  • p. 155 …1964. Gurgo, Ottorino. Percha i Kennedy muglono. Rome: Tord, 1969. Gurgo, Otterino. Perche I Kennedy mujione…
  • p. 159 …Blevett, Rome, by D. Campion, Washington, by S. Quinlan, Bogota, by Andrade, Milwaukee, by Q.Quade…
  • p. 262 …1964. Gurgo, Ottorino. Perche i Kennedy muolono. Rome: Trevi, 1968. Habe, Hans. "Die Hälfte der Wahrheit…
  • p. 266 …Blevett, Rome, by D. Campion, Washington, by S. Quinlan. Bogota, by Andrade. Milwaukee, by Q.Quade…
  • p. 290 …On 3 May 1968, an official Italian Intelligence Service provided this Agency's representative in Rome…
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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