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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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James N. Lesar, Esq. Attorney at Law 1231 Fourth Street, S.W. Washington, DC 20024 Dear Mr. Lesar: This is in partial response to your request, dated 11 June 1976, made on behalf of your client, Mr. Harold Weisberg. Please refer also to our letters, dated 21 June 1976, 30 November 1976 and 13 January 1977. Per our recent telephone conversation this partial response addresses itself to that part of your letter requesting records pertaining to James Earl Ray. The materials located thus far have been reviewed carefully, and our determinations are as follows: Enclosed, Tab A, are copies of the following items which are being released to you in their entirety: 1. One book excerpt. 2-109. One hundred and eight (108) press items. 110-134. Twenty-five (25) UPI wire itens. 155-171. Thirty-seven (37) Reuters wire items. 172-223. Fifty-two (52) AP wiro items. Enclosed also, Tab B, are segregable portions of the documents listed below. Deletions in the originals were made under the exemption provisions of the Freedom of Information Act subsections which are given with each document 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.