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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. The WPC awarded the JOLIOT-CURIE GOLD MEDAL posthumously to the Reverend Martin Luther KING. The medal was accepted by the Reverend Ralph ABERNATHY and the Reverend Wyatt T. WALKER, "an American peace fighter." A photograph of the presentation ceremony also included William DOUTHARD and Mrs. Addie WYATT as U.S. delegates to the Conference; C. U.S. delegates Ruth GAGE-COLBY and Sylvia KUSHNER spoke at a meeting of Indochinese and American delegates; and D. Americans Herbert APTHEKER and Carlton GOODLETT were re-elected to the Presidential Board of the WPC. 4. For previous information on Subject, please refer to our teletype 3216, dated 14 May 1971, Subject: Ralph David ABERNATHY and Dr. Carlton GOODLETT. Please transmit reply via CACTUS channel Originated by: CI/SO:GMKline:jm Based on: BUDAPEST 016, 18 May 71 (WPC/Sens/BW) and BUDAPEST 017, 19 May 71 (WPC/Sens/BW) ## Distribution: Original - FBI (Mr. Wannall) via CI/SO courier 1 - B memo chrono 1 - extra copy 1 - WPC/Sens/BW 1 - FAULKNER/Sens/GMK (201-354414/GK) 1 - KUSHNER/Sens/BW (201-878516/BW) 1 - GILMAN/Sens/BW (new) 1 - DICKERSON/Sens/BW (201-854982/BW) 1 - GARZA/Sens/BW (new) 1 - COLBY/Sens/GMK (201-053968/GK) 1 - KAHN/Sens/EC 1 - KENT, Mrs./Sens/GK (201-221724/GK) 1 - PECK/Sens/BW (201-830466/BW) 1 - KING/Sens/JD (201-760966/JD) 1 - ABERNATHY/Sens/JD (201-853022/JD) 1 - WALKER/Sens/JD 1 - DOUTHARD/Sens/BW (201-857634/BW) 1 - WYATT/Sens/BW 1 - APTHEKER/Sens/BW (201-757176/BW) 1 - GOODLETT/Sens/BW (201-742726/BW) 1 - Production Budapest 1 - Production JKLANCE NO FOREIGN DISSEM/NO GIACCI ABROAD CONFIDENTIAL
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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.