Tulsi Gabbard Releases FBI Files Related to MLK Assassination Investigation
Gabbard made public 230,000 files.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard released 230,000 FBI files around Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination.
“Today, after nearly 60 years of questions surrounding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are releasing 230,000 MLK assassination files, available now at http://archives.gov/mlk,” Gabbard wrote on X. “The documents include details about the FBI’s investigation into the assassination of MLK, discussion of potential leads, internal FBI memos detailing the progress of the case, information about James Earl Ray’s former cellmate who stated he discussed with Ray an alleged assassination plot, and more.”
Today, after nearly 60 years of questions surrounding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are releasing 230,000 MLK assassination files, available now at https://t.co/71P3p5jBgK. The documents include details about the FBI’s investigation into the assassination… pic.twitter.com/l96t9tgYmn
— DNI Tulsi Gabbard (@DNIGabbard) July 21, 2025
MLK was murdered on April 4, 1968, in Memphis, Tennessee.
James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the murder on March 10, 1969. He died in prison in 1998.
However, many people, including the King family, believe the government, mafia, and Memphis police conspired to assassinate the civil rights leader.
I’m going through the files now. I’ll update this post. Some of these documents are hard to read.
Okay, I’m going to try to keep this organized.
Person in Photograph
In July 1978, a memo went out to address a newscast that published pictures and composite photos of a man given by the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
The committee hoped these items would “shed additional light on the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.” The members said the photos belonged to “part of the information on Lee Harvey Oswald.”
CIA Career Associate Petr Sergeyevich Deryabin identified the man as “journalist” Nikolay Sergeyevich Leonov.
Deryabin knew Leonov as a journalist who published a glowing article in a Soviet publication for Fidel Castro on his birthday:
Written in connection with Castro’s 50th birthday, the article praised Castro highly and implied a personal acquaintance between Leonov and the Cuban leader. It also briefly mentioned that the CIA had planned “a physical liquidation of F. Castro.” Deryabin comments that he knows “journalist” Leonov to be a KGB officer who has worked in Moscow headquarters as well as in Mexico and Cuba. He believes that Leonov’s implied personal acquaintanceship with Castro in fact stems grom his official position as a KGB officer.
File on MLK
A memo from January 1978 confirmed the CIA and FBI had files on MLK:
1. An intensive search of the files and indices of this Directorate has surfaced the attached CIA information concerning Dr. Martin Luther King. There will be a separate memorandum concerning James Earl Ray.
2. In addition to the information mentioned in . paragraph one above, there are two documents which this Directorate is not able to locate.
3. The FBI has information concerning Dr. Martin Luther King.
4. Dr. Martin Luther King was the Subject of OGC requests 76-S403 dated 14 October 1976, 76-6616 dated 23 November 1976 and FOIA request 76~382 dated 27 July 1976.
The next memo detailed more FBI documents on MLK.
An October 1976 memo listed other documents, including MLK allegedly meeting with members of the Italian Communist and Socialist Parties.
Then another memo, dated December 1976, said the FBI & CIA had 82 documents that reference to MLK. However, 66 were destroyed in 1974, two have been lost, and 14 were located.
Distrust
A memo from John Walker to William W. Wells, the CIA deputy director for operations, was about a visit from Richard Sprague, the general counsel for the House Committee investigating JFK and MLK.
It seems Sprague did not trust the CIA. He told them that he didn’t want to have to request the removal of documents from the CIA, instead offering to view confidential documents at headquarters.
He also kept stressing that he hoped no one would destroy anything connected to his investigation.
I guess Sprague knew that the CIA would do something like destroy documents or keep them close.
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Release the Kraken!! I mean the files.
Here is an idea. Release all files over 25 years old. All of them!!
That would likely get a lot of people killed who helped the US from inside the USSR, North Korea, China, Iran, Canada…
Possibly. Redact the names but not their statements, Or just release domestic files.
Bad idea. You can still tease out identifying information even if you redact names. There’s a process for declassifying information and it’s there for a reason. Let it work.
think about the reallll irony here
who would really want mlk dead?
if you hated poc then at the least you would say
well at least mlk wants a PEACEFUL poc
and to back that thought up
look who actually wanted malx dead
the nation of izzlam
as malx had changed his name as he also realized that white people were not (all) evil and that the nation actually wanted to keep the hate and violence going
doesnt mean other elements werent at play in this mess aka humanity
like I stated beofre in a different article on LI but mlk actually had FIRST chosen a different city than selma but the sheriff there and the town were cordial to mlk and that upset the goal of showing /needing their to be a violent reaction from whites
MLK had is personal issues. He was even branded a communist by Hoover. I have never seen proof of that tangent. He was a powerful figure in bringing the racist attitudes to the forefront. As a nation we did allow blacks to suffer in the Deep South more than any other area. Even in 1972 when I moved to Florida from Cleveland it was disturbing to see the racism worn on the sleeves of most of the teenagers in high school. If there is new revelations I’m for it. If it’s just a rehash, it’s a shoulder shrug.
he was a communist and the nyc hopeful mandami just quoted king as talking about kings disdain for capitalism,,,while of course living like a capitalist
yeah ..blacks were deeply mistreated and I know I was innocent of any mistreatment therefor I dont expect nor should I any attempts to make out otherwise aka blmplo agenda
Hoover was a real piece of work and blackmailed everyone to keep his job while being somewhat of a deviant. He had a personal itch for MLK as I recall. He had a lot of personal itches.
MLK was a plagiarist. an adulterer, somewhat of a misogynist, and I think there was some domestic violence thrown into the mix. No ones perfect. He was a great inspirational speaker.
Now do Jeffrey Epstein.
One-note new profile say what?
230,000 files. That might take a while.
Which includes 243,496 pages. And no zip file or archive of them so that you can easily download the lot of them to read offline. How totally worthless. What do they think we’re going to do. Download each file separately? All 6,301 pdf files? I guess so since that’s the only way you can get access to all the files.
Sounds like a job for AI, dude!
how come the king family isnt being called out as Qanon lovers as they claim
CONSPIRACY!??????
Whatever the reason they are right now about as discredited as the Tolkien family has been by backing Rings of Power.
A plagiarist and a sexual predator- hey, maybe Biden will get a holiday named after him too.
230,000 files! 230,000 files? Who in this world deserves so much paperwork. ? Did the fbi document every time mlk flushed a toilet? So many wirk hours at the taxpayer’s expense. That is a major crime in itself. Every monument, award, commendation in the name of J Edgar Hoover should be withdrawn and destroyed. A great example of waste fraud and abuse by government leaders. How many other people suffered the indignity of thousands of pages of fbi reporting and no crime committed by the subject of those files. What crime or crimes did mlk commit. Even if he claimed to be a communist, i dont think that is a crime in the USA. The crime was committed by the abuse if power and the waste and fraud of taxpayer funds. I hope this abuse is no longer carried out though it was obvious under Biden-Harris admin.
When someone that high profile is murdered the investigators will look into every single angle and collect everything humanly possible.
A good question might be, “how much of that paperwork was generated before the assassination vs how much afterwards. How much was the cia illegally operating domestically collecting data on a US Citizen in the US. How many pages were generated listening to MLK’s toilet flush?”
Yet another conspiracy theory has nothing. We have known who killed MLK since it happened.