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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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FILE SECRETARIAT DISSEMINATION CLASSIFIED MESSAGE TOTAL COPIES ROUTING AND/OR INITIALS - SEEN BY ON/UNIT.NUMBERED CONFIDENTIAL 1 6 2 7 3 8 4 9 5 10 REPRODUCTION OF THIS COPY PROHIBITED INDEX: □ YES □ NO CLASSIFY TO FILE NO. X-REF TO FILE NO. FILE RID □ RET. TO BRANCH DESTROY SIG. ITEM BY PER ATION RID COPY PAGE 2 BERLIN 2149 CONFIDENTIAL. COORDINATED THEIR REMARKS WITH CAMPAIGN LEADER FRANCIS FULLER AND MEMBERS DAVID HARRIS AND SAM WEBER. CHAMBERLAIN ALSO ACCOMPANIED RUDI DUTSCHKE TO PRAGUE IN LATE MARCH FOR MEETING OF THIRD CHRISTIAN PEACE CONFERENCE. 2. OTHER RELATED US CAMPAIGN PLANS INCLUDED MEETING WITH LOCAL FULBRIGHT SCHOLARS IN HOPE OF APPROACHING THEM ABOUT VIETNAM WAR, THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN BERLIN, DRAFT AND FULBRIGHT PROGRAM ITSELF. IT IS NOT KNOWN WHETHER THIS MEETING EVER TOOK PLACE. CAMPAIGN IS ALSO PLANNING THEATER EVENING, TENTATIVELY SCHEDULED FOR 20 APRIL, ART AUCTION AND SIMILAR EVENTS, PROCEEDS FROM WHICH ARE SUPPOSED TO GO TO VIET CONG. 3. RADICAL LEFT ELEMENT IN BERLIN STAGED 6 APRIL DEMONSTRATION MARCH ON RATHAUS SCHOENEBERG IN WAKE OF DR. KING'S ASSASSINATION. IN VIEW OF THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON LEFTIST STUDENT LEADER RUDI DUTSCHKE ON 11 APRIL, STUDENT ATTENTIONS OVER
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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.