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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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## INITIAL REVIEW FORM

FOIA/ Request No. 76-382

Document Description: FBI Teletype

Document Located By : (Office Designation)

Document referred to DDO for review by: FBI

Dated: 4/11/68

## RECOMMEND:

Release in full-text

Release in sanitized form

Deny in toto

Defer decision to

Coordination with LA/DR prior to above denial/release

EXEMPTIONS ARE BEING CLAIMED TO PROTECT THE FOLLOWING:

FOIA

( ) Classification (b)(1)

( ) Information from a foreign liaison service (b)(3)

( ) Information pertaining to a foreign liaison (b)(3)

relationship

( ) Information which would/could identify the (b)(3)

source

( ) Information pertaining to a source (b)(3)

( ) Information pertaining to intelligence methods(b)(3)

( ) Location of CIA overseas installation (b)(3)

( ) Location of unacknowledged domestic (b)(3)

installation

( ) Name of CIA employee (b)(3)

( ) File number (b)(2)

( ) Pseudonym (b)(3)

( ) Cryptonym (b)(3)

( ) Internal organizational data (b)(3)

( ) Name of an FBI agent (b)(7)

( ) FBI file number (b)(2)

Privacy of other individual (b)(6)

Does not pertain to request N/A

"Exempted portions are not relevant to the requester" (j)(1)(c)

Information from another Government agency (b)(1) ( ) Other, specify:

* For further guidance regarding exemptions, please see DDA-75-5943, 16 December 1975 (Privacy Act) and HN-70-21, 14 February 1975 (FOIA).

COMMENTS AND/OR SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:

All CIA info denied 61, 63, 62

Signature of Reviewing Officer & Office (To be completed by ISS/PICG)

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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.