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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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## 27 April 1977 MEMORANDUM FOR: Chief, Information and Privacy Staff FROM : Charles A. Briggs DDO Information Review Officer SUBJECT : FBI Referral re Harold Weisberg Request on Martin Luther King, Jr. and James Earl Ray REFERENCES : A. Request No. F 76-382 B. Referral, Dated 25 March 1977 C. Briggs' Memorandum to IPS dated 26 October 1976 The documents forwarded under Reference B have been reviewed by the responsible DDO components and the following determinations have been made: a. One CIA originated document may be released in sanitized form (Tab A). b. Five CIA originated documents are denied; they are listed with appropriate exemptions under Tab B. c. Five FBI documents containing CIA information should be denied; they are listed with appropriate exemptions under Tab C. d. Two FBI documents and one CIA document should be referred to other CIA components for determinations (see Tab D). Charles A. Briggs Charles A. Briggs Attachments: a/s cc: IPG/SCB SA/C/LA EUR/EXO AF/Plans CONFIDENTIAL E.2 IMPDET CL BY 013120
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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.