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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. 167 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 169 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 170 …I worked there years and never saw or heard any-suggesting the Agency was involved assassination…
  • p. 171 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 172 …The bullets never gained perfectly intact, as the one found the stretcher, they became twisted lumps…
  • p. 173 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." "I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 206 …and documents were destroyed through some catastrophe never resumed business or were permanently closed down within…
  • p. 250 …mysterious autopsy photographs which the Warren Commission never saw—do they support the Commission's lone…
  • p. 252 …The Kent State incident had never been fully cleared up. But one subject seemed to loom…
  • p. 253 …I worked there three years and never saw or heard anying suggesting the Agency was involved…
  • p. 254 …There was occasional stress, but it never reached the high level I was finding in the…
  • p. 255 …The bullets never mained perfectly intact, as the one found in the stretcher; they became twisted…
  • p. 256 …The word "never" was a perfectly "trimmed hedge." I have found nothing since that time." he…
  • p. 291 …Union member on 21 February 1968 but never shipped out. His Social Security Number is 562…
CIA info in FBI Documents

Dany per 27 Apr 77

ISSUED BY IPS

## DOCUMENT DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION NUMBER

Cable, Memorandum, Dispatch

Other: Tolotype

Date : 4/11/68

Cable, Memorandum, Dispatch Other:

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

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

Other:___

Date: 17 Apr 68

Based on Doc. 389 of Dingq

FB1 Referral, 25 Mar 77

FOIA/ Request No. 76-382

TAB C

(P(CG1S)

## EXEMPTIONS

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

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

Other:___

Cable, Memorandum, Dispatch Other: Date : 22 APR 68 Based on Doc.398 of Bingap

Cable, Memorandum Dispatch

Other:

Date : 4/28/68

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

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

Other: ___

Cable, Memorandum, Dispatch

Other:

Date : 4/29/68

(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: ___

(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)

Other:___

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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.