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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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# NO FOREIGN DISSEM NO DISSEM ABRO23 SUBJECT: Stokely CARMICHAEL 1. Attached is a copy of an article appearing in the 9-15 May 1968 issue of CIarte, weekly newspaper of the Belgian Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist) covering an interview with Stokely CARMICHAEL that was published in the 1 May issue of Humanite Nouvelle, newspaper of the French Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist). The interview was conducted when CARMICHAEL was in Paris, France. 2. Also contained in the clipping is a report of an interview on Radio Havana with CARMICHAEL following the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther KING. CARMICHAEL was in Havana, Cuba, at the time. PLEASE TRANSMIT REPLY VIA LIAISON, MR. S. J. PAPICH Based on Clarte, Belgian Communist Party (Marxist-Leninist), 9-15 May 1968 Enclosure: as stated (one) (filed in Carmichael sens. soft) Declassified by 060395 date 28+28/1978 ```markdown ``` FULL TEXT COPY - DO NOT RELEASE CLASSIFICATION REVIEW CONDUCTED ON 3874978 JIMPOET CL BY 060570 NO FREIGHT DISCHARGE NO DISCHARGE ADROAD GROUP 1 Excluded from automatic downrating and customization
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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.