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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. 37 …IN/DIR NUMBER IN 03635 STATION NUMBER Rome 5861 DATE May 18 SUBJECT RA9
  • p. 66 …Ray; exempt under (b)(3)(a). (c) Rome-5861, dated 3 May 1968; concerns a James…
  • p. 75 …Ray; exempt under (b)(3)(a). (c) Rome-5861, dated 3 May 1968; concerns a James…
  • p. 155 …1964. Gurgo, Ottorino. Percha i Kennedy muglono. Rome: Tord, 1969. Gurgo, Otterino. Perche I Kennedy mujione…
  • p. 159 …Blevett, Rome, by D. Campion, Washington, by S. Quinlan, Bogota, by Andrade, Milwaukee, by Q.Quade…
  • p. 262 …1964. Gurgo, Ottorino. Perche i Kennedy muolono. Rome: Trevi, 1968. Habe, Hans. "Die Hälfte der Wahrheit…
  • p. 266 …Blevett, Rome, by D. Campion, Washington, by S. Quinlan. Bogota, by Andrade. Milwaukee, by Q.Quade…
  • p. 290 …On 3 May 1968, an official Italian Intelligence Service provided this Agency's representative in Rome…
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Dany per 27 Apr 77

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## 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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