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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.

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SUBJECT: Investigation of Death of Martin Luther King, Junior.

1. Your Bureau representative in provided our representative with composite photographs of the suspected killer of Martin Luther King, Jr. and asked for a check against

2. Checks for persons appearing to resemble the composite photographs were negative 1968 an unidentified white man but the description did not fit either the composite photograph or the description provided by your Bureau representative. However, our representative passed copies to your Bureau representative with the notation that he did not appear to be identical with the Bureau suspect.

APPROVED FOR RELEASE

Date 14.11.1978

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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.