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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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“Weekly World News”10 pages

  • p. 156 …New and World Report, 13 March 1967, p. 16. New Findings." U.S. New and World…
  • p. 157 …29-. "New conflict over assassination." U.S. News and World Report, 3 December 1966, pp. 6…
  • p. 160 …News and World Report, pp. 47-41. at the Warren report will show." U.S. News…
  • p. 161 …some new facts." U.S. News and World Report, 6 July 1964, p. 44. Warren Report…
  • p. 164 …News and World Report, 6 February 1967, pp. 66-67.alin, Nicholas. "Just Read the News…
  • p. 263 …News and World Report 13 March 1967, p. 16. "Jill Stilling: New Findings." U.S. News…
  • p. 264 …News and World Report, 5 December 1966, pp. "New light on the Assassination." "New Light on…
  • p. 267 …read the Warren Report " World News " Jacobson, Dan. "Hem Street: Warren Commission Report." New Statesman, 15…
  • p. 268 …some new facts." U.S. News and World Report, 6 July 1964, p. 44. "Warren Report…
  • p. 271 …News and World Report, 20 February 1967, pp. 51-52. Jacqueline Kennedy's Victory." New York…
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SUBJECT: CLAUDE CHESTER MCLAREN, JR.

1. A SENSITIVE RELIABLE SOURCE IN MEXICO CITY REPORTED THAT SUBJECT, BORN 12 SEPT 1936 IN TEXAS, U.S. PASSPORT Z 155489, ARRIVED MEXICO CITY FROM HONDURAS ON PAN AMERICAN FLIGHT ON 8 APRIL. SOURCE NOTED SUBJECT HAD AMAZING RESERVANCE TO "PHOTOGRAPHS" OF ALLEGED ASSASSIN OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.

2. ANOTHER SENSITIVE RELIABLE SOURCE IN MEXICO CITY REPORTED THAT MCLAREN DEPARTED MEXICO CITY FOR HOUSTON ON PANAM FLIGHT EVENING 8 APRIL OCCUPYING SEAT NO. 41. SOURCE SAW PLANE

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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.