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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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IF: DIRECTOR=89694 1. LITEMPO=72, ON 12 APRIL 1968, PROVIDED FOLLOWING REPORTS LATING TO REFERENCE. 2. THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARIAT OF THE AFRO-ASIAN LATIN AMERICAN PEOPLE'S SOLIDARITY ORGANIZATION (AALAPSO) IN HAVANA, DIRECTED RAMON ECHAVARRIA, IS SENDING TO MEXICAN COMMUNISTS LARGE "BLACK JER" POSTERS, WITH CAPTION "RETALIATION TO CRIME: REVOLUTIONARY ENCE," IN ENGLISH, FRENCH, SPANISH AND ARABIC. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF RECEIPT OF THIS MATERIAL IS TO BE MADE TO M.OSVALDO EDES ALVAREZ, SIBISKE NAMESTI, C-1; BUBENEC, PRAGUE, CZECHOSLOVAKIA. POUCHING COPIES OF POSTER. 3. THE INDEPENDENT PEASANTS' CENTRAL (CCI), ON 5 APRIL, PRESSED LETTER TO PRESIDENT LYNDON B. JOHNSON, PROTESTING INST THE ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, ATTRIBUTING TO THE AGGRESSIVE AND FASCIST POLICIES OF U.S. GOVERNMENT. LETTER ALSO AN END TO THE WAR IN VIETNAM. CRET FULL TEXT COPY = DO NOT RELEASE
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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.