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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 ___ CL BY 012170
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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.