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104-10120-10472 JFK Assassination Records Archives 1 (10/21/1976)

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                                                 2 1 OCT 1976


      MEORANDUM  FOR:   General Counsel

      ATTEXTION      : Mr.  Richard 11. Lansdale

      FROK           : Sidney  D. Stembridge
                       Acting  Director of Security
      SUBJECT       :  Reverend  Martin Luther King, Jr.
                       Department of Justice Request


           1. - Reference- is made to your request of 4 October 1976
      (OGC 76-5403) in relation to a-Depatitment of Justice inves-
      tigation concerning the past activities of the Federal  Bureau
      of Investigation (FBI) which were directed at the late
      Reverend Martin Luther King.  Reference asked that the Office
      of Security determine through its files the nature and extent
      of any contact between the Agency.and the FBI concerning
      Reverend King.

           2.  A search of our files has  isclosed numerous FBI
      documents. which either mention or cpncern Reverend King as well
      as a limited number of internal Office of Security documents
      which relate to FBI/CIA interest in Reverend King.  Forwarded
      herewith as Tabs A through J are copies of each of these docu-
      ments.  A brief description of these documents together with
      an explanation of the Office. of Security files from which these
      documents were obtained appears below:

               a,  Tab A consists of both Office of Security
           and FLI originated documents from our file on
           Reverend Martin Luther King (0S1353 062) and which
           appear to relate to referenced request.  No
           sanitization has been effected on these documents.

               b.  Tab B consists of documents taken from the
           Office of Security file on Mr. (Jay Richard Kennedy
           (OS#172 527) and which appear to relate to refor-
           enced request.  It should be noted that(Mr. Kennedy
           was a confidential informant of the Office of



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