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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. 118 …As you may know, the heavy volume of Freedom of Information requests received by the Agency…
  • p. 204 # The Notebook on COMMON SENSE, ELEMENTARY AND ADVANCED is devoted to development, exposition, and illustration of…
  • p. 207 …of the $4.5 billion computer services industry. ## Technological Advances Most important technological advances have been…
  • p. 208 …Association and the Bank Administration Institute, computer firms, and research firms such as Advancement Management Research…
  • p. 211 …advancement to positions in general management, and are given an equal chance to rise in the…
  • p. 218 …In the 21st century over-populated world, there is a very advanced computer Shalmaneser owned by…
  • p. 221 …our work on the "Notebook on Common Sense and Wisdom, Elementary and Advanced" - which we have…
  • p. 240 …the system to detect changes in rock strata as the working face of the mine advances…
  • p. 244 …The Division of Mathematical Sciences of the National Research Council will administer the program and award…
  • p. 247 …NY 10022 / page 32 THE NOTEBOOK ON COMMON SENSE, ELEMENTARY AND ADVANCED / published by Computers and…
  • p. 249 …the Advanced Society, by C. P. Snow, Ministry of Technology, London, England (April 1966) The Information…

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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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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.