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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.
“United Press”16 pages
## 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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