13-00000
TELETYPE TO LEGAT SANTO DOMINGO
RE: ASSASSINATION OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
MADRID, SPAIN. ACCORDING TO CIA, HE HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN BOTH
PRO-CASTRO AND ANTI-CASTRO ACTIVITIES IN MADRID DURING PRECEDING
TWO YEARS AND WAS SUSPECTED OF BEING A MEMBER OF CUBAN G-TWO.
THIS INFORMATION WAS CLASSIFIED "SECRET" BY CIA.
CIA ON AUGUST NINE, SIXTY SIX, ADVISED IT HAD NOT HAD ANY
OPERATIONAL INTEREST IN HERNAN HENRIQUEZ LORA AND ITS FILES
INDICATED HE HAS "VERY UNSAVORY REPUTATION."
ADDITIONAL PERTINENT INFORMATION CONCERNING HENRIQUEZ LORA
WILL BE FORWARDED BY AIRTEL.
NOTE:
Legat in retels reported Henriquez Lora had
volunteered a third party had over heard a conversation in
Santo Domingo between two Dominican communists in which
it was alleged that Stokely Carmichael and H. Rap Brown
advocated the death of Martin Luther King and King's
assassination would benefit the cause of black violence.
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