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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.

  • p. 102 …It is suggested that Headquarters may wish to send Venezuela some background information on Margaret with…
  • p. 156 ## NHCHAOS REF: HEADQUARTERS 1. IN FINAL COVERAGE ON 18 MAY OF WPC, WHICH ENDED 16 MAY…
  • p. 157 ## HEAD QUARTERS ## .CHAOS REF: HEADQUARTERS 1. IN FINAL COVERAGE ON 18 MAY OF WPC, WHICH ENDED…

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SUBJECT: Americans Attending the World Peace Council (WPC) Conference in Budapest, Hungary, 13-16 May 1971

1. the following Americans spoke at the indicated committee meetings of the WPC 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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