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

handle is hein.jfk/jfkarch72673 and id is 1 raw text is: 104-10120-10472  2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992


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                                                 2 1 OCT 1976


       U1ORA1DUM FOR:   General Counsel

       ATTENTION     : Mr.  Richard H1. Lansdale

       FROM          : 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'Department 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 disclosed 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 (051353 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 :-r. (Jay Richard hennedy3'
           (0S#172 527) and which appear to relate to refer-
           enced request.  It should be noted that (hr. Kennedy
           was a confidential informant of the office of



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