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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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# KING ASSASSINATION AND USIB ## DCI: ## A. General: 1. Request that the Federal Bureau of Investigation give a full report to USIB on ___ (date) on the status of the investigation of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ## B. Specific: 1. Is there any indication that Ray has left the USA? 2. If so, when, to what country or area, and by what means and route? 3. Is there any indication that Ray had in the past travelled outside the United States other than the October - November 1967 trip to Mexico as Galt? 4. Is there any indication that Ray had been issued a U.S. passport under his true name or any of his aliases? APPROVED FOR RELEASE Date 13.mcv.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.