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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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TELEPOUCH UFGA-29877 PAGE FOUR 13. RADIO HABANA, 7 APRIL, U.P.M. A JJJUAN / MARI/ BRAS, SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE MOVEMENT FOR THE INDEPENDENCE OF PUERTO RICO, MADE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS IN A LONG DISTANCE TELEPHONE INTERVIEW - DR. LUTHER KING'S ASSASSINATION WILL UNDOUBTEDLY PRE- CIPITATE THE REBELLION OF THE NEGRO PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES AGAINST ALL THE ABUSES OF WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN THE OBJECT." ORM RADIO HABANA, 5 APRIL, U.P.M. THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT OF THE ASIAN, AFRICAN, AND LATIN AMERICAN PEOPLES SOLIDARITY ORGANI- ATION / AALAPSO/ SENT A MESSAGE OF CONDOLENCE TO THE SNCC ON THE ASSASSINATION OF LUTHER KING." "THE AALAPSO'S MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PACIFIST ORGANIZATION ENDS AS FOLLOWS A WE BEG YOU TO EXPRESS TO THE FAMILY OF MARTIN LUTHER KING AND TO ALL AFRO-AMERICANS OUR DEEPEST SORROW OVER HIS DEATH, OUR DECISION TO SUPPORT YOUR STRUGGLE, AND OUR DEEP CONVICTION THAT THIS TERRIBLE CRIME--WHICH SHOWS US THAT ARMED REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE IS THE ONLY WAY OF ACHIEV- ING GENUINE LIBERATION--WILL HELP STRENGTHEN THE STRUGGLE OF THE AFRO-AMERICAN PEOPLE WHICH IS ALREADY AIMED IN THE DIRECTION OF A TOTAL CONFRONTATION." RADIO HABANA, APRIL, U.P.M. JAGUSTIN/GONZALEZ/ ARTINEZ, BISHOP OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF CUBA, MADE THE FOLLOWING TATEMENTS IN A SPECIAL INTERVIEW - MAY THE TRAGIC DISAPPEARANCE F THIS GREAT LEADER AT LEAST HELP TO SPEED UP THE ARRIVAL OF THE DAY HEN EVERY MAN IN HIS NATION AND IN ALL OTHER NATIONS WILL BE TREATED ITH THE RESPECT WHICH IS DUE TO THEM AS HUMAN BEINGS. RADIO HABANA, APRIL, U.P.M. JJREVEREND RAFAEL PASTOR, F THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN LUYANO, HAVANA, MADE THE FOLLOWING TATEMENTS IN A SPECIAL INTERVIEW - THIS BROTHERS, THE AMERICAN EGROES, WILL LEARN MUCH FROM HIS DEATH. WE CAN ALMOST ASSURE THAT KEY, THE AMERICAN NEGROES WHOSE DIGNITY AND DECORUM HAS BEEN RUSHED WILL COME BACK TO LIFE AFTER CENTURIES OF LETHARGY AND TELEPOUCH UFGA-29877 PAGE FOUR
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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.