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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.

  • p. 133 …In all fairly recent reports on cessation for Anderson Layer, in the letter's Chicago with…
  • p. 154 …Kennedy, Anderson, S.C.1 Droke House, 1969. Booker, Simeon. "Now JPK Surpassed Abraham Lincoln." Ebony…
  • p. 218 …needed to protect them from each other (Anderson, "Sam Hall"; Cole, The Funco File; Dick, Vulcan…
  • p. 219 …large numbers of people. ## Bibliography ## Fiction 1. Anderson, Poul. "Sam Hall". Astounding Science Fiction. September 1953…
  • p. 222 …Wiswesser The Differences in Two Strains of Corn / Edgar Anderson The Six Blind Men of Nepal…
  • p. 234 was Intertel that ITT hired in 1972 to snoop on columnist Jack Anderson. The latest and…
  • p. 235 …In 1962 Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson wrote that "Chotiner ... besides representing the top gangster of…
  • p. 236 …Jack Anderson documents, for example, that as early as 1960, then Vice-President Nixon and Attorney…

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## INITIAL REVIEW FORM

Document Description: Memo

FOIA/PA Request No. ___

Document Located By : FB1 (Office Designation)

Dated: 4/29/68

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Document referred to DDO for review by: ___

## RECOMMEND:

Release in full-text

Release in sanitized form

Deny in toto

Defer decision to ___

Coordination with ___ prior to above denial/release

EXEMPTIONS ARE BEING CLAIMED TO PROTECT THE FOLLOWING:

| | FOIA | PRIVACY |

| :--- | :--- | :--- |

| (x) Classification | (b)(1) | (k)(1) |

| ( ) Information from a foreign liaison service | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b)(c) |

| ( ) Information pertaining to a foreign liaison relationship | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b)(c) |

| (x) Information which would/could identify the source | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Information pertaining to a source | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Information pertaining to intelligence methods | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| (x) Location of CIA overseas installation | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Location of unacknowledged domestic installation | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Name of CIA employee | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(e) |

| ( ) File number | (b)(2) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Pseudonym | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Cryptonym | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) Internal organizational data | (b)(3) | (j)(1)(e) |

| (x) Name of an FBI agent | (b)(7) | (j)(1)(b) |

| ( ) FBI file number | (b)(2) | (j)(1)(b) |

| (x) Privacy of other individual | (b)(6) | (j)(1)(f) |

| Does not pertain to request | N/A | "Exempted portions are not relevant" |

( ) Information from another Government agency (b)(1) (j)(1)(c)

* Other, specify: This name is subject of investigation by the USS

* 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:

Signature of Reviewing Officer & Office

Document No. ___

(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 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.