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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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2. OTHER RELATED US CAMPAIGN PLANS INCLUDED MEETING WITH LOCAL FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS IN HOPE OF PROACHING THEM ABOUT VIETNAM WAR, THE POLITICAL EQUATION IN BERLIN, DRAFT AND FULBRIGHT PROGRAM SELF. IT IS NOT KNOWN WHETHER THIS MEETING EVER PLACE. CAMPAIGN IS ALSO PLANNING THEATER SENING, TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR 20 APRIL, ART CITATION AND SIMILAR EVENTS, PROCEEDS FROM WHICH BE SUPPOSED TO GO TO VIET CONG. 3. RADICAL LEFT ELEMENT IN BERLIN STAGED APRIL DEMONSTRATION MARCH ON RAIHAUS SCHOENEBERG WAKE OF DR. KING'S ASSASSINATION. IN VIEW OF THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON LEFTIST STUDENT LEADER
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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.