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The Assassination of Martin Luther King.

Central Intelligence Agency · 166 pages · text by 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.

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  • p. 4 …ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE /NAACP/, NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE, AND THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP…
  • p. 5 …IN THE UNITED STATES, WHICH INDUERS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE…
  • p. 9 …ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE /NAACP/, NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE, AND THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP…
  • p. 10 …IN THE UNITED STATES, WHICH HINDERS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE…
  • p. 14 …ASSOIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE /NAACP/, NATIONAL RBAN LEAGUE, AND THE SOUTHERN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP…
  • p. 15 …IN THE UNITED STATES, WHICH HINDERS THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE IN THE ENTIRE…
  • p. 35 …COUJA PERFORMANCE ON THE SUBJECT MAY INDICATE COUJA COLLUSION IN ASSASSINATION OR ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE THAT IT…
FROM:
C1/Ober EXTENSION
5847	NO.	B-191
DATE	9 October 1968
OFFICER'S INITIALS	COMMENTS (Number each comment to show from whom to whom. Draw a line across column after each comment.)
 Originated by: WH/7/R/PRO1son
(8 October 68)
Based on: HJK-251
a. para 405
b. para 406
c. para 411
d. para 413
e. para 417
f. para 420
Disseminated to: FBI on 10 Oct 68

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