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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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ab-53 contains CABLE IN 90561 JMWAVE 2022 dated 12 Apr. 1968.

) Previously denied in toto under exemption(s) of Recommended for but not rest to regularly 195 Segregable portions previously released excised portions exempted under (b)(1) (b)(3) of E01A.

) Located during the DDO appeals review.

) Referred to DDO for review by ___.

urther description, identification, comments, and/or referrals, etc.

## 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 (A)(1)(B)(3) of FOIM.

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

Release a sanitized version with excised portions exempted under of ___.

he 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 would/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

OMMENTS and/or SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS.

uring the DDO classification review, this document which was marked s SECRET was:

% downgraded to confidential

E2 IMPDET

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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.