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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.
“Weekly World News”10 pages
280. Cable, dated 28 April 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6)
281-282. Two Cables, dated 30 April 1963. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6)
283. Memorandum, dated 2 May 1968. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6)
284. Memorandum, dated 6 May 1963. (b) (1), (b) (3), (b) (6)
285. Memorandum, dated 15 May 1963. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6)
286. Cable, dated 24 May 1963. (b)(1), (b)(3), (b)(6)
The decisions cited above were made by Mr. Charles A. Briggs, DDO Information Review Officer.
As specified in the Freedom of Information Act, I am advising you of your right to appeal the above decisions, but it would seem to be more reasonable to await the complete results of our processing before you actually determine whether to do so.
We thank you for your patience and consideration.
Sincerely,
Charles S . Savigel
Gene F. Wilson Information and Privacy Coordinator
## Enclosures
IPS/EK/cb/20 Apr 77
Orig. - Adse.
1 - DDO
$\textcircled{1}$ - IPS Chrono
1 - IPS F-76-382 w/cy Tab B
1 - OLC
1 - OGC
1 - Pub Aff/Netu Not linked to a story yet.
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.