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The Assassination of Martin Luther King.

Central Intelligence Agency · 166 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 105 Box 332, Cooper Station New York, N.Y. 10003 Dear Margaret Randall, Thank you very much…

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Box 332, Cooper Station New York, N.Y. 10003

Dear Margaret Randall,

Thank you very much for

the great great pleasure. We are

using as many of them as we can.

I will let you know exactly which ones.

The magazine is coming out army

May 10. Right now our glumin

others have seized Columbia University -

now named Malcolm X University

and own which an N.I.F. flag now

flies - The others, faculty, doors, managers,

are all scurrying and speaking plans - might

SDS this, SDS next, while we hold five buildings

in jujuism and the most serious preparation

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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.