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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. 249 …the Advanced Society, by C. P. Snow, Ministry of Technology, London, England (April 1966) The Information…
The applicability of these exemptions has been explained to you in our earlier correspondence.

Documents Exemptions

224-225. Two cables, dated 10 April 1968. (b) (1), (b) (3)

226. Cable, dated 10 April 1968. (b)(1), (b)(5), (b)(6)

227-229. Three cables, dated 19 April 1963. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6)

250-235. Four cables, dated 20 April 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6)

234-235. Two cables, dated 22 April 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6)

236-237. Two dispatches, dated 22 April 1968. (b) (1), (b) (3)

238-239. Two cables, dated 23 April 1963. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6)

240. Memorandum, dated 23 April 1968. (b) (1), (b) (3), (b) (6)

241. Cable, dated 26 April 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3)

242. Routing slip, dated 22 October 1975. (b) (1), (b) (3), (b) (6)

243. Routing slip, dated 23 October 1975. (b) (1), (b) (3), (b) (6)

The documents listed below are being withheld in their entirety under the exemption provisions of the Freedom of Informaton Act subsections given with each document.

Documents Exemptions

244. Memorandum, dated 17 April 1958. (b) (1), (b) (3), (b) (6)

245. Memorandum, dated 19 April 1963. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6)

246. Cable, dated 20 April 1963. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6)

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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.