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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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that if given the chance he would, within eighteen months, stage a demonstration. He has suggested that if his colleagues can supply marijuana and find a way to export it, he could guarantee an outlet in the United States and the money thus obtained could be used to finance the local Movement. Survad was being supported by his girlfriend, Bernadine Houston, who was expected to arrive from the United States towards the end of the ensuing month. He is now in straitened circumstances. ## WH/7/R/PRO1son:mbk (8 October 1968) Distribution: Orig - FBI w/att 3 - CI/OPS/DO 1 - WH/7/B/JATS 1 - C/WH/7/JATS 1 - C/WH/FI Based on: HJK-251 a. - para 405 b. - para 406 c. - para 411 d. - para 413 e. - para 417 f. - para 420
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