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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.
“The Advance”7 pages
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## PAGE 2 JMWAVE 2017 SECRET GETS VARIOUS CUBAN MAILINGS INCLUDING LASO ITEMS BUT THESE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN VERY SLOW IN COMING AND HAVE USUALLY OBVIOUSLY BEEN SEVERAL WEEKS IN PREPARATION AND TRANSIT. IT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE TO ESTABLISH EXACT DATE OF RECEIPT OF PRESENT ITEM BECAUSE AMCARBON-1 WAS IN BAHAMAS COVERING ELECTION FROM 9 THRU 11 APRIL AND LAST SERVICED HIS P.O. SIX ON 8 APRIL. ENVELOPE BORE NO DATED POSTMARK, ONLY METERED "PORT PAYE" IN UPPER RIGHT-HAND CORNER. AT ANY EVENT IT IS CLEAR THAT IF POSTERS ARRIVED AT LATEST ON 11 APRIL, IT TOOK CUBANS LESS THAN A WEEK TO PREPARE AND MAIL THEM TO U.S. 3: WHAT HAS OF COUJAE OCCURRED TO ANGALBONS IS POSITIVE BILITY THAT QUICK COUJA PERFORMANCE ON THE SUBJECT MAY INDICATE COUJA COLLUSION IN ASSASSINATION OR ADVANCE KNOWLEDGE THAT IT WAS TO TAKE PLACE. WE HAVE TOLD THEN THAT WE KNOW OF NO OTHER EVIDENCE TO LEAD SUPPORT TO THIS ASSUMPTION. THEY ARE CHECKING ALL OTHER LOCAL PEOPLE OF COUJA PROPAGAN- TION PATTERN TO GOTHER ANONYMOUS PATTERNS. THEY ARE ALSO
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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.