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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.

  • 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…
dated 18 June 1968;Associated Press, dated 17 June 1968;Reuters, London, dated 21 June 1968;Reuters, London, undated;Reuters, London, dated 28 June 1968;Reuters, undated;Reuters, Washington, dated 8 June 1968;Reuters, London, dated 8 June 1968;Reuters, undated;The Washington Post, 9 June 1968;Northern Virginia Sun, dated 18 April 1968;Northern Virginia Sun, dated 17 April 1968;The Washington Post, dated 8 April 1968;Northern Virginia Sun, dated 16 April 1968;St. Louis Missouri, Post-Dispatch, dated 5 April 1968;Chicago Illinois News, dated 8 April 1968;London, dated 27 June 1968;London, dated 27 June 1968;Washington Star, 27 June 1968;New York Times, 18 April 1968;New York Times, dated 19 April 1968;New York Times, dated 23 April 1968;Washington Post, dated 5 July 1968;Los Angeles Free Press, dated 19 April 1968;Washington Star, 26 April 1968;Northern Virginia Sun, dated 25 April 1968;Washington Post, dated 27 April 1968;Washington Post, dated 4 July 1968;Washington Star, dated 30 December 1969;Reuters, dated 9 June 1968;Reuters, London, dated 9 June 1968;BEX-3438, dated 1969;The Strange Case of James Earl Ray;dated 1969;London, undated;Associated Press, London, dated 10 June 1968;London, dated 10 June 1968;UPI-7, London, 10 June 1968;Associated Press, London, dated 10 June 1968;London, dated 10 June 1968;Reuters, London, 11 June 1968;Reuters, London, undated;London, 11 June 1968;Associated Press, London, dated 11 June 1968;London, dated 10 June 1968;Reuters, Washington, dated 10 June 1968;London, dated 10 June 1968;Reuters, London, 10 June 1968;Reuters, London, dated 10 June 1968;London, dated 11 June 1968;Reuters, London, undated;Moscow, (Gevorgyan Report), dated 22 November 1968;Moscow Trud (Gevorgyan Report), dated 22 November 1968;Evening Star, dated 9 May 1968;Washington Post, 8 May 1968;Washington Post, dated 2 July 1968;Reuters, London, dated 11 June 1968;Associated Press, dated 10 June 1968;Reuters, London, dated 10 June 1968;Associated Press, Toronto,

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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.