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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.
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UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL SECRET OFFICIAL ROUTING SLIP TO NAME AND ADDRESS DATE INITIALS 1 How Dube, DD/PIA6 2 1-0-4127-005 3 HT-1 4 5 6 ACTION DIRECT REPLY PREPARE REPLY APPROVAL DISPATCH RECOMMENDATION COMMENT FILE RETURN CONCURRENCE INFORMATION SIGNATURE Remarks: The first time the Bureau sent those, they combined King-Ray docs with Kennedy assassination dogs. After discussion with you, they were sent back to the Bureau asking them to segregate King-Ray docs. Here FOLD HERE TO RETURN TO SENDER They are FROM: NAME, ADDRESS AND PHONE NO. DATE Karen W. 57015 11/3 UNCLASSIFIED CONFIDENTIAL SECRET
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