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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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247. Cable, dated 29 April 1968. (b)(4), (b)(3), (b)(6) 248. Memorandum, dated 1 May 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3) 249. Cable, dated 3 May 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6) 250. Memorandum, dated 14 May 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6) 251. Memorandum, dated 16 May 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6) 252-254. Three cables, dated 8 June 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3) 255. Memorandum, dated 19 February 1969. (b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(6) 256. Memorandum, dated 28 May 1969. (b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(6) 257-264. Eight biographic sketches. (b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(6) 265. Memorandum, dated 17 April 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6) 266-272. Seven Cables, dated 19 April 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6) 273. Cable, dated 20 April 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6) 274. Cable, dated 22 April 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6) 275. Cable, dated 23 April 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6) 276. Cable, dated 24 April 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6) 277-278. Two Cables, dated 25 April 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6) 279. Dispatch, dated 26 April 1968. (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.