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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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SECRET 191348Z MAY 71 CITE BUDAPEST 017 HEAD QUARTERS RYBAT MHCURB MHCHAOS REF: HEAD QUARTERS 2789 1. IN FINAL COVERAGE ON 18 MAY OF WPC, WHICH ENDED 16 MAY, LOCAL FRESS HAS MADE FOLLOWING ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS RE U.S. PARTICIPANTS: A. SIDNEY P E C K, IDENTIFIED AS "USA PROFESSOR," SPOKE AT CONGRESS ON VIET NAM WAR. B. WPC HAS AWARDED JOLIOT CURIE GOLD MEDAL STRUMOUSLY TO REV MARTIN LUTHER KING. MEDAL ACCEPTED BY REV RALPH ABERNATHY AND REV W. WALKER "AN AMERICAN PEACE FIGHTER." PHOTOGRAPH (POUCHED) OF PRESENTATION ALSO PICTURES U.S. DELEGATES WILLIAM DOURTHARD MRS. ADDIE WYATT. C. U.S. DELEGATES RUTH GAGE - COLBY AND SYLVIA KU S G H E R (SIC) SPOKE AT MEETING OF INDOCHINESE AND DELEGATES. D. AMERICANS HERBERT A P T HE K E R AND CARLTON GOOD LETT REELECTED TO PRESIDENTIAL BOARD. 2. STATION POUCHING MOST SIGNIFICANT PRESS COVERAGE OF COUNCIL SESSIONS. GP-1 SECRMJE Downgraded to by Authority of date 10 Mar 1728
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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.