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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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APPROVED FOR RELEASE Date 14 May 1978 20X15 INCH BLACK WHITE AND RED POSTERS FEATURING BLACK PANTHER WITH LEGEND, "BLACK POWER" IN HIS OPEN MOUTH AND BELOW IT IN LARGE LETTERS STATEMENT "RETALIATION FOR CRIME: REVOLUTIONARY VIOLENCE" IN ENGLISH FOLLOWED BY APPARENTLY GAME STATEMENT IN SMALLER LETTERS IN SPANISH, FRENCH AND ARABIIC. FINALLY LETTERS "OSPAAAL" AT BOTTOM OF POSTER. POSTERS WERE ACCOMPANIED BY MIMEDGRAPHED SHEET WITH FOLLOWING STATEMENT: "ON THE OCCASION OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING'S ASSASSINATION WE HAVE PUBLISHED A POSTER THAT IS NOW BEING DISCULATED ALL OVER THE WORLD. WE ARE SENDING YOU A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF THESE POSTERS WHICH MAY BE USED IN YOUR COUNTRY FOR THE ACTIVITIES TO BE CARRIED ON IN THIS REGARD." ARE ASTONISHED BY THE SPEED WITH WHICH THESE POSTERS HAVE BEEN PREPARED AND RAILED. ENVELOPE WAS RECEIVED IN POST OFFICE BOX IN WHICH HE NORMALLY
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