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FOIA on Martin Luther King

Central Intelligence Agency · 2025-06-12 · 295 pages · text by OCR, confidence 98%

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13-00000 □ UNCLASSIFIED □ INTERNAL USE ONLY □ CONFIDENTIAL □ SECRET PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST SUBJECT: (Optional) REQUEST NUMBER *Harold Weisberg Appeal / Litigation* IPS-70-382 FROM: EXTENSION DATE SENT *A. Wilson HT-3* 1005 *7 February 1976* SUSPENSE DATE *14 February 1976* TO: (Officer designation, room number, and building) DATE OFFICER'S INITIALS COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.) RECEIVED FORWARDED 1. *CIAF/Staff att: Mr. Joy* *Please review the attached documents for release to Mr. Weisberg. Bracket in red that part of the text you believe should be deleted and give the proper FOIA exemption for the deleted material.* 2. *3B-17-C* 3. *H. Wilson HT-3* *014845* 4. The documents may not be released. *Also, please review the material for classification. I recommend that all these documents be downgraded to CONFIDENTIAL. Classification reviews must be done by an officer with the SECRET classifying authority. All documents have been stamped with the classification review stamp for you to complete. Documents that you agree should be stamped with the DOWNGRADING stamp.* 5. Addis Ababa 2200 (IN 99685), 28 April 1968 identifies the source and does not pertain to James Earl Ray or Martin Luther King, or any known suspect, accomplice or associate. To release it would violate the privacy of another U.S. person. *If liaison is being claimed as an exemption please identify the service for me.* 6. The information contained in paras 1 and 3 of IN 00793, 30 April 1968 was acquired from a liaison source, the Nigerian Special Branch. Paragraph 2 identifies a source of intelligence and the information therein does not pertain to James Earl Ray, Martin Luther King, or any known suspect, accomplice or associate. To release the information would violate the privacy of another U.S. person. *Thanks,* 7. CSCI 316/01685-68 may not be released since it merely repeats the information contained in the two cables above, and the exemptions applied to them are equally *These documents only cover that portion of the request concerning James Earl Ray. The other documents will follow.* RETURN TO: *... Wilson* *(please turn over)* PRIORITY HANDLING FOIA REQUEST FORM 3749 1-75 □ SECRET □ CONFIDENTIAL □ INTERNAL USE ONLY □ UNCLASSIFIED

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