</s>104-10322-10088 The Director Central Intelligence Agency Executive Registry 79-7777 Washington D.C. 2005 23 APR 1979 JFK ACI OLC 79-0001/F 05-05-99 Honorable Louis Stokes, Chairman Select Committee on Assassinations House of Representatives RELEASE Washington, D. C. 2015 Dear Mr. Chairman: I have your letter of 26 March 1979 requesting that the congressional letter of investigation and related information from your Committee investigating not to be publicly discourse of the Agency without the written concurrence of the House of Representatives, and I will be guided accordingly. Yours sincerely, 1/8/Stanfield Turnarı STANFIELD TURNER Distribution: Orig - Adse 1 - DCI OC/FOIA (E. Meyerfeld) 1 - DCCI 1 - ER 1 - ODCCI 1 - OLC/Subb OLC/RS/Ksn OLC./Chrono CIA HISTORICAL REVIEW PROGRAM RELEASE IN FULL 1999 EXECUTIVE REGISTRY FILE # Sp.Inr3

Summary: This document is an internal CIA administrative record from April 23, 1979, concerning the release of materials related to the Select Committee on Assassinations (SCA) investigation into the deaths of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President John F. Kennedy. It includes correspondence between Admiral Stanfield Turner, Director of Central Intelligence, and Congressman Louis Stokes, Chairman of the SCA. Stokes requested that CIA materials provided to the committee not be disclosed publicly without House of Representatives approval. The document outlines distribution instructions for the record and references ongoing coordination between the CIA and the SCA regarding information requests under the Freedom of Information Act.  

Key People:  
- Louis Stokes (Chairman, Select Committee on Assassinations)  
- Admiral Stanfield Turner (Director of Central Intelligence)  
- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (subject of investigation)  
- President John F. Kennedy (subject of investigation)  

Key Locations:  
- Washington, D.C. (CIA headquarters and congressional offices)  
- Ohio (Louis Stokes' home state)  
- California, Tennessee, Michigan, Pennsylvania (committee members' locations)  

Key Events:  
- Request by the Select Committee on Assassinations for CIA materials related to MLK Jr. and JFK assassination investigations  
- Coordination between CIA and Congress regarding disclosure of classified information  
- Administrative routing of documents within the CIA for distribution  

Key Organizations:  
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)  
- Select Committee on Assassinations (SCA)  
- U.S. House of Representatives  
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) compliance procedures

MLK Declassified Files

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