CIA • 2025
VARIOUS NEWSPAPER EXCERPTS RE MLK 1975-1977
APPROVED FOR RELEASE 2025 UNDER EXECUTIVE ORDER 14176 TYCL C ON NEW SDAY 3 APRIL wrr Tew era) authorities attached little significance yesterday an Ohio Penitentiary inmate's claim that FBI and CIA agents offered a New York underworld figure a $1-million contract in 1968 to kill Martin Luther King Jr. The latest account of an assassination plot, reported in a copyrighted story by Scripps-Howard Newspapers, will be in- vesiigated by the House Select Committee on Assassinations, although not immed...
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Document #
07167453
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Document Type
SPECIALCOLLECTION
Collection
Records Related to the Assassination of Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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RIFPUB
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17 pages
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