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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.

  • p. 4 …5), dated 22 November 1968 Ottawa Citizen, dated 17 December 1968 Sepia (pg. 66) (EX-3592…
  • p. 60 …exempt under (b)(1)5(B)(1). Ottawa-5446, dated 8 June 1968; concerns travel of…
  • p. 64 …The Ottawa Citizen, dated 10 June 1968; The Ottawa Journal, dated 10 June 1968; The Gazette…
  • p. 69 …Department of State telegram, Ottawa-1813, dated 8 June 1968. Reports of the apprehension in London…
  • p. 73 …The Ottawa Citizen, dated 10 June 1968; The Ottawa Journal, dated 10 June 1968; The Gazette…
  • p. 78 …Department of State telegram, Ottawa-1813, dated 8 June 1968. Reports of the apprehension in London…
  • p. 192 …Why did he travel repeatedly to Ottawa? How did he manage to carry guns on planes…
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Cable, Memorandum, Dispatch

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3704

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Cable. Memorandum, Dispatch

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Date : 11 Apr 68

Cable, Memorandum, Dispatch

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Cable, Memorandum, Dispatch

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Date:___

Cable, Memorandum, Dispatch

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Date:___

(b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(6)

(j)(1)(b, c, d, e, f), (k)(1)

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FBI Referral, 25 Mar 77

FOIA Request No. 76-382

EXEMPTIONS

(b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(6)

(j)(1)(b, c, d, e, f), (k)(1)

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(b) (1), (b) (2), (b) (3), (b) (6)

(j) (1) (b, c, d, e, f), (k) (1)

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(b) (1), (b) (2), (b) (3), (b) (6)

(j) (1) (b, c, d, e, f), (k) (1)

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(b) (1), (b) (2), (b) (3), (b) (6)

(j) (1) (b, c, d, e, f), (k) (1)

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(b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(6)

(j)(1)(b, c, d, e, f), (k)(1)

Other:___

Cable, Memorandum, Dispatch

Other:___

Date :___

(b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(6)

(j)(1)(b, c, d, e, f), (k)(1)

Other:___

Cable, Memorandum, Dispatch

Other:___

Date :___

(b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(6)

(j)(1)(b, c, d, e, f), (k)(1)

Other:___

Cable, Memorandum, Dispatch

Other:___

Date :___

(b)(1), (b)(2), (b)(3), (b)(6)

(j)(1)(b, c, d, e, f), (k)(1)

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