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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. 139 …Further inquiry concerning ESTHER M. ENGELEMSKI revealed she recently divorced WILFORD BAVOY and reportedly returned to…
  • p. 154 …Bickel, A.M. "Return to Dallas." New Republic, 23 December 1967, p. 34. Bibon, Jim. The…
  • p. 161 …10 (1963-64), 1-3. "Boy, Don't You Know I'm on Camera?" New Republic…
  • p. 162 …Kampton, Murray. "Boy, Don't You Know I'm an General?" New Republic, 29 February 1964…
  • p. 165 …Aftermath of a tragedy; boy's deep hate, a senator slain." U.S. News and World…
  • p. 268 …10 (1963-64), 1-3. "Boy, Don't You Know I'm on Camera?" New Republic…
  • p. 272 …how's the story? Aftermath of a tragedy; boy'a deep hate, a senator plain." U…
## 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 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.