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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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B-2628 21 MAY 1977 SUBJECT: Americans Attending the World Peace Council (WPC) Conference in Budapest, Hungary, 13-16 May 1971 1. A reliable source has reported that the following Americans spoke at the indicated committee meetings of the WPC Conference: A. Stanley FAULKNER, Committee on European Peace and Security; B. Sylvia KUSHNER, Committee on Indochina Aggression; C. John GILMAN, Committee on the Near East; D. Mary Angie DICKERSON, Section Meeting Discussing Discrimination; E. Luis GARZA, Section Meeting Discussing Discrimination; and F. Ruth GAGE-COLBY, Committee on Disarmament. All of the above-named persons were identified specifically as members of the U.S. delegation. 2. According to the same source, S. FAULKNER, "Vice President of the American National Lawyers' Association," functioned as President in a meeting of lawyer delegates to the Congress and the American delegate Albert KAHN translated a message from the widow of artist Rockwell KENT to the Conference. 3. In its final coverage on 18 May of the WPC Conference, which ended 16 May, the Hungarian Press made the following additional observations regarding United States participants: A. Sidney PECK, identified as "USA Professor," spoke on the war in Vietnam;
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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.