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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.

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Sey Long essay outlta, learning Luther King's road to the Cross "in still at the publishers. I hope it will be published at East and it will have the possibility to send it to you. If somebody in your country will place an international symposium in the late thought and meaning of Martin Luther King, please let me know it. Would be my deepest wish to contribute; I hope you will not consider this wish inmodest - it is very serious, though, of course. I could not be the judge of her own work.

- thank you again, clear our King, for your letter.

Loury very sincerely Raissa Orlova

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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.