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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. AMERICAN INVOLVEMENT IN ANTI-VIEINAM WAR ACTIVITIES IN WEST BERLIN HAS CONTINUED SINCE REF A. MERS OF US CAMPAIGN CONTINUE TO CARRY OUT OUR "ACTION NIGHT LIFE," ENTERING GI BARS AND CUSING OUT LEAFLETS ENCOURAGING AND OFFERING STANCE FOR DESERTION. CAMPAIGN MEMBERS CITE SITIVE" RESULTS IN FACT THAT GI'S WILLING TO K WITH THEM AND TO PASS LEAFLETS ON TO OTHER SOLDIERS. CAMPAIGN HAS POINTED OUT TO NON-AMERICAN PICIPANTS INTERESTED IN "ACTION" THAT THEY MAY CONTACT SOLDIERS THROUGH US ARMY'S COMMUNITY ANIONS OFFICE.
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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.