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The Assassination of Martin Luther King.

Central Intelligence Agency · 166 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 55 …COORDINATED THEIR REMARKS WITH CAMPAIGN LEADER FRANCIS FULLER AND MEMBERS DAVID HARRIS AND SAM WEBER. CHAMBERLAIN…

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PAGE 3 BERLIN 2149 CONCIDENTIAL

WEEKEND CENTERED ON FURTHER ATTACKS ON SPRINGER

PROPERTY AND DEMONSTRATIONS IN DOWNTOWN WEST

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C/S Comment:*Reported activities of Americans in anti-Vietnam activity. **Hqs participating in survey of international connections of anti-Vietnam war movement in U.S.

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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.