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The Assassination of Martin Luther King.

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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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Tab 328 contains Press Abstract DCI dated 25 April 1968

!. ( ) Previously denied in toto under exemption(s) ___ of ___.

( ) Segregable portions previously released; excised portions exempted under ___ of ___.

Located during the DDO appeals review.

( ) Referred to DDO for review by ___.

3. Further description, identification, comments, and/or referrals, etc.

1. I RECOMMEND: Release in Toby

( ) Sustain initial denial in toto under exemption(s) ___ of ___.

( ) ADD exemption(s) ___.

( ) DROP exemption(s) ___.

( ) Sustain initial release of sanitized version with excised portions exempted under ___ of ___.

( ) ADD exemption(s) ___.

( ) DROP exemption(s) ___.

( ) Release additional information with excised portions exempted under ___ of ___.

( ) Deny document in toto under exemption(s) ___ of ___.

( ) Release a sanitized version with excised portions exempted under ___ of ___.

5. The exemptions cited above are being claimed to protect the following:

( ) Information from a foreign liaison service

( ) Information pertaining to a foreign liaison relationship

( ) Information which would/could identify the source

( ) Information pertaining to a source

( ) Information pertaining to intelligence methods

( ) Location of CIA overseas installation

( ) Location of unacknowledged domestic installation

( ) Name of CIA employee

( ) File number

( ) Pseudonym

( ) Cryptonym

( ) Internal organizational data

( ) Name of FBI agent

( ) FBI file number

( ) Privacy of other individual

( ) OTHER

11. COMMENTS and/or SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS.

. During the DDO classification review, this document which was marked as was:

( ) classified to ___

( ) downgraded to ___

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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.