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FOIA on Martin Luther King
Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by GLM-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.
“FBI file”20 pages
- p. 12 …760966); 378 this file has been closed. - Record on Ray
3. Thirty FBI reports which mention…
- p. 22 …1961, the date of an FBI report in her file.
5. The postmaster at Heiberger, Alabama…
- p. 42 …CENTRAL REGISTRY·EUROPE
OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI
INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I&NS
CI OPERATIONS…
- p. 46 …CENTRAL REGISTRY · EUROPE
OPERATIONS STAFF RESERVE OFFICERS FILE FBI
INTERAGENCY SOURCE REG. I & NS
1 OPERATIONS…
- p. 96 …b)(3)
( ) Name of an FBI agent (b)(7)
( ) FBI file number (b)(2)
Privacy of…
- p. 97 …Atkinson
TO LEGAT SANTO DOMINGO FROM DIRECTOR FBI
VIA TÉLETYPE
1234567
APR111968
ENGIPHERED
ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN…
- p. 99 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) |
| ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
- p. 101 …Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) |
| ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j…
- p. 110 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
- p. 111 …Subject of FBI investigations in 1954 (Voice of America) and 1956 (USIA) - Bureau File 123-15026…
- p. 113 …In reviewing Kramer's file, they noted a photograph which bears a very strong resemblance to…
- p. 125 …Weisberg's request, please return those documents which you so consider to the FBI. We would…
- p. 142 …Name of an FBI agent (b)(7) (j)(1)(b)
( ) FBI file number (b)(2) (j…
- p. 174 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
- p. 225 …32 More About Jim Hicks
32 Confirmation of FBI Knowledge 12 Days Before Dallas of a…
- p. 226 …is doing about computerizing files of evidence, initiating lawsuits to obtain information, etc.; and comments on…
- p. 235 …A few months after the purchase the SEC filed suit charging Lums and Ceasar's Palace…
- p. 238 …an FBI agent was assigned to infiltrate the group of alleged conspirators".
Do we now believe…
- p. 257 …That is, if the government would open all its files on this matter to us and…
- p. 295 …Name* of an FBI agent
15. FBI file number
16. Privacy of other individual
17. Does…
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## SECRET
1. Your Bureau representative in Mexico City provided our representative with composite photographs of the suspected killer of Martin Luther King, Jr, and asked for a check against visitors to the Soviet and Cuban Embassies in Mexico City during the recent months.
2. Checks for persons appearing to resemble the composite photographs were negative at both Embassies. On 30 January 1968 an unidentified white male visited the Soviet Embassy but the description did not fit either the composite photograph or the description provided by your Bureau representative. However, our representative passed copies of the photographs to your Bureau representative with the notation that he did not appear to be identical with the Bureau suspect. Our representative further stipulated that any use of the photographs in an investigation should not reveal that the photographs were made in Mexico or by this Office.
REC 11 44-38861-1371
APR 23 1968
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 295 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.