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This CIA FOIA release contains an April 1968 dispatch, UFGA-29877, summarizing how Cuban media covered the assassination of Martin Luther King from 5 to 8 April. The dispatch quotes Granma and Havana radio stations, including statements by Stokely Carmichael and others that call for revolutionary violence. The release also includes May 1971 cables and a memo to the FBI on Americans at the World Peace Council conference in Budapest, where King was posthumously awarded the Joliot-Curie Gold Medal.
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CONTINUATION OF DISPATCH CLASSIFICATION CONFIDENTIAL DISPATCH SYMBOL AND NUMBER HMMA-34688 4. Attachments II and I concern a book which Margaret is hoping to write on Fidel CASTRO. According to Sergio's letter of April 18, she is planning to go to Cuba in October with a tape recorder, and then, based on these tapes, will write her book. Sergio suggests Doubleday as a publisher; however, on 25 April 1968 Paula McGuire of Pantheon Books (attachment I) wrote Margaret saying that publisher might be interested. It is suggested that WOLIME may have contacts in these two publishing houses. Evie I Saxon for Willard C. CURTIS FORM 864 1401 53a USE PREVIOUS EDITION CONFIDENTIAL SECRET/RYBAT CONTINUED PAGE NO. 3 of 3
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 166 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.