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The Assassination of Martin Luther King.

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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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1. Tab 7 contains Cable Jm WAVE 2017 dated 12 APR 68.

2. ( ) Previously denied in toto under exemption(s) ___ of ___.

( ) Segregable portions previously released; excised portions exempted under ___ of ___.

Located during the DDO appeals review.

( ) Referred to DDO for review by ___.

3. Further description, identification, comments, and/or referrals, etc.

## 4. I RECOMMEND:

( ) Sustain initial denial in toto under exemption(s) ___ of

( ) ADD exemption(s) ___.

( ) DROP exemption(s) ___.

( ) Sustain initial release of sanitized version with excised portions exempted under ___ of ___.

( ) ADD exemption(s) ___.

( ) DROP exemption(s) ___.

( ) Release additional information with excised portions exempted under ___ of ___.

( ) Deny document in toto under exemption(s) ___ of ___.

Release a sanitized version with excised portions exempted under (a)(ii)(b) of F01A.

5. The exemptions cited above are being claimed to protect the following:

( ) Information from a foreign liaison service

( ) Information pertaining to a foreign liaison relationship

Information which could identify the source

Information pertaining to a source

Information pertaining to intelligence methods

Location of CIA overseas installation

Location of unacknowledged domestic installation

Name of CIA employee

File number

Pseudonym

Cryptonym

Internal organizational data

Name of FBI agent

FBI file number

Privacy of other individual

OTHER

6. COMMENTS and/or SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS.

7. During the DDO classification review, this document which was marked as SECRET was:

( ) maintained

( ) classified to

( ) declassified

( ) desensitized

( ) downgraded to Confidential

E2 IMPDET

CU BY 012170

UNCLASSIFIED

SECRET

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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.