</s>104-10142-10047 2 March 1977 CHRONO MEMORANDUM FOR: Douglas T. Cummins HSCA OLC FROM : Maurice A. Sovereign 07-0027/1/1 0/SA/10/0 SUBJECT : Department of Justice Inquiry Martin Luther King, Jr. Task Force : : OGC Letter, LOJ, Same Subject, REFERENCE 14 December 1976 (attached) 1. As recently noted in the press, the Department of Justice has made public the results of the inquiry by a Task Force made the Office of of the Department of the Department's Professionally by the Task Force of the Office Of Justice. The Task Force Reviewed the Department Of on the extent and Nature of the FBI/CIA Contracts concerning the Reverend King. 2. On 17 December 1976, a five member secured cleared team from the department of Justice, consisting of Messers, Fred G. Folson, Task Force, consistinging of the Messers. Fred G ., James R. Kiecklefner, James D. Walker and William D. White, reviewed, the DD DD and DDA/OS material. 3. In conversation with the OGC (Jameson), we are advised that no further use is required, for our material by the Department for Justice. 4. We recognize that despite its public JFK ACT tribulation, the House Select Committee is assassinations has been created and will most assassinationations have been created in CIA files on both the Kennedy and King Memorial in CIA Files on RELEASE 5. In Conversation With Mr. Cummines of OLC and Mr. John Leader of the IG Staff, it was agreed that we would continue to hold the sanitized king material which was prepared for the Justice investigation for possible eventual review by APPROVED FOR RELEASE 1993 CIA HISTORICAL-REVIEW PROGRAM APPROVEO FOR RELEASE 1963 E2 LMTEDT 1. BY 012860 2010

Summary  
This document is a chronology memorandum dated 2 March 1977 from Maurice A. Sovereign to Douglas T. Cummins of the House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) Office of Legal Counsel (OLC). It references the Department of Justice’s inquiry into Martin Luther King Jr., specifically a Task Force review of FBI/CIA contracts related to Reverend King. On 17 December 1976, a five-member DOJ team reviewed DD and DDA/OS material. The memorandum notes that the Office of General Counsel (OGC) advised no further use of the material by DOJ. It acknowledges the House Select Committee on Assassinations’ creation and mentions CIA files on both JFK and King. The document states that sanitized King-related material will be held for potential review by HSCA investigators, though coordination with the owning agency is required due to FBI material being loaned to CIA.  

Key People  
- Maurice A. Sovereign (sender)  
- Douglas T. Cummins (recipient, HSCA OLC)  
- Fred G. Folson, James R. Kiecklefner, James D. Walker, William D. White (DOJ Task Force members)  
- Jameson (OGC representative)  
- John Leader (IG Staff representative)  

Key Locations  
- Not specified in the text.  

Key Events  
- Review of FBI/CIA contracts related to Martin Luther King Jr. by DOJ Task Force (17 December 1976).  
- OGC’s directive that DOJ no longer requires the material.  
- Coordination between CIA and FBI regarding access to loaned materials for HSC, Committee on Assassinations.  

Key Organizations  
- Department of Justice (DOJ)  
- Office of General Counsel (OGC)  
- House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA)  
- Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)  
- Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

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