sy . pate: 02/14/05 ‘ JFK ASSASSINATION SYSTEM IDENTIFICATION FORM . AGENCY INFORMATION Released under the John ; : Kennedy AGENCY : CIA. ; . Wss5assination Records ee conD SERe ee : jee oe olleetion Act of 1992 . ‘ . “ (44 50 2107 Note). AGEN R: T 7 GENCY FILE NUMBE 80T01357A . ; ase#: NU 53294 Date: DOCUMENT INFORMATION He—-14-2017 _ | AGENCY ORIGINATOR : CIA ; 7 FROM : JAMESON, WM. GEORGE, OGC TO : FOLSOM, FRED G., DIR/TASK FORCE TITLE : LETTER RE A SEARCH OF CIA FILES FOR INFORMATION ON REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TASK FORCE. DATE : 12/14/1976 PAGES : 5 SUBJECTS : KING, M. L. UR. DOCUMENT TYPE : PAPER , CLASSIFICATION :: SECRET “RESTRICTIONS : _ 1B. . CURRENT STATUS : RELEASED IN PART PUBLIC - RELEASED WITH DELETIONS DATE OF LAST REVIEW : 07/26/93 COMMENTS : JFK51 : F1l : 1993.07.26.17:19:42:750240 [R] - ITEM .IS RESTRICTED 104-10136-10367 HW 53294 DBocld:32400591 Page 1
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY WASHINGTON,D.C, 20505 14 December 1976 . Fred G. Folsom, Director Martin Luther King, Jr. Task Force . Office of Professional Responsibility Department of Justice . Washington, D.C. 20530 Dear Mr. Folsom: | . _ Re: Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Department of Justice Task Force Pursuant to your requests, dated 24 September and 19. November 1976, for information regarding the extent and nature of FBI/CIA contact concerning Martin Luther King, Jr., a search of Agency files likely to contain the re- quested information was requested.. Numerous FBI documents which either mention or concern Reverend. King as well as a limited number of internal . documents which relate to FBI/CIA interest in Reverend King have been found. A brief list of documents located by our Office of Security appears below: . ne \ a. Both CIA and FBI originated documents, including an . FBI report on "Martin Luther King Jr., ~- A Current Analysis," which appear to relate to referenced request. ‘b. Documents taken from the CIA file on a confidential informant and which appear to relate to referenced request. — ' °*The documents refer to The Reverend Martin Luther King,.. ..."" together with other civil rights leaders, and it is presumed that the substance of the information contained within these documents was passed to the FBI through our routine liaison channels. c. Documents of a 23 May 1967 FBI study entitled "Racial Violence Potential in the United States this Summer," which refers in part to Reverend King. - 7  d. Several FBI documents which refer to either Reverend King and/or Mrs. Coretta (nee: Scott) King. e. A 23 August 1961 FBI document entitled "Southern Conference Educational Fund" which mentions Reverend King. - P76. et? meee Ta 010554 19068 HW 53294 Docld:32400591 Page 2?
HW 53294 f. Two FBI documents on Mrs. King. Both of these documents appear to be portions of two separate FBI documents. g. Al5 June 1965 FBI memorandum entitled "Demonstrations Protesting United States Intervention in Vietnam and the Dominican Republic" which mentions Mrs. King.’ h. A 5 January 1968 FBI memorandum entitled "Demonstrations Protesting United States Intervention in Vietnam" which mentions Mrs. Coretta (nee: Scott) King. i. Two internal Agency documents and selected pages from an FBI document, all of which concern and/or refer to Reverend King and the FBI's interest in that regard. Selected pages from the FBI document appear to have been extracted from a December 1967 FBI memorandum entitled "The New Left: Road to Anarchy," and the entire document could not be located. . Listed below are nine documents that are routine FBI information reports located by the Operations Directorate. Please note that the DBA, DBB, DBC and DFB designators and numbers, as well as the computerized titles, were assigned by this Agency for the purpose of retrieval and do not correspond with the original FBI document numbers and titles. a. DBF 82024 dated 19 April 1957 Subject: Discussions with One C.L.R. James. b. DBA 07422 dated 23 April 1962 Subject: Correspondence from One Paul Krassner Concerning an Interview with King. c. DBB 14763 dated 13 July 1965 Subject: A Request from a Union Leader Asking King to Grant an Audience with Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, a Member of the Kenyan Parliament. d. DBB 19833 dated 12 August 1965 Subject: A Major Policy Speech by King Containing the Substance of a Letter to ' President Johnson and Ho Chi Minh Concerning Vietnam. e. DBB 56930 dated 17 August 1966 Subject: Fund Raising Activity by Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in Behalf of King's Proposed Trip to the Holy Land. DoclId:32400591 Page 3
HW 535294 £.. DBC 05564 dated 23 January 1968 Subject: Request for King and Dr. Benjamin Spock to Visit England for Meetings Aimed — -at Campaigning Against the Vietnam War. g. DBC 09700 dated 11 March 1968 Subject: Information Regarding Plans for a Massive Civil Disobedience Demonstration in the Nation's Capital. ° fh. DBC 12561 dated 10 April 1968 Subject: A Plot by a Female Dominican Republic Citizen Involving Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown to Assassinate King. i. DBC 13895 dated 18 April 1968 Subject: Reaction to King's . Assassination by Carmichael, Floyd McKissick and Others, as Aired on Havana Radio. The following five documents indicate FBI requests for information from this Agency or Agency replies to such requests. They are-as follows: a. DBA 80456 dated 10 August 1964 Subject: Travel ‘to European Countries. b. CSCI- 316/02051- 64 dated 30 November 1964 Subject: Alleged Meeting with Members of the Italian Communist and Socialist Parties. c. DBB- 22473 dated 24 September 1965 Subject: Departure Schedule for European Trip. , d. OWOA 19623 dated 30 March 1966 Subject: Planned , Appearance at Oslo, Norway Rally. e. CSCI-316/01702-68 dated 2 May 1968 Subject: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This indicates a 1964 offer of employment from - Martin P. Littrell of Athens, Alabama to Roderick Claflin Brown, a ; Panamanian national who, in retrospect, believed it was an assas-~ ; _ sination plot against King. In November and December 1974, prior to the Congressional Moratorium on records destruction ‘instituted in response to Senator Mansfield's request, sixty-six documents were routinely destroyed. A list of these documents, similar to those provided above, is available for review. Additional search has been unable to locate any copies of those documents that might not have been destroyed. , , DoclId: 327400591 Page 4