BLACK POWER CONFERENCE, BIMINI, BAHAMAS
Originator: CIA
From: JMWAVE
To: DIRECTOR
Document date: 02/26/1968
Document type: PAPER - TEXTUAL DOCUMENT

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i: UPE SPECULATES THAT ADAN CLAYTON POWELL MAY HAVE

PLANNED HOLE BLACK POWER CONFERENCE ON 25 FEBRUARY, BUT NO

ONE SHONZO UP. BIMINE CONMISSIONER SAID CONFERENCE HAD BEEN

COHEDULED AT HOTEL ON NORTH SILENT AND THAT POLICE HAD BEEN

ALEFTED ALTHOUGH TROUBLE WAS NOT ANTICIPATED. BIMINI WAS

PICKED AS SITE OF CONFERENCE, ACCORDING TO UPI'S SOURCE,

BECAUSE IT WAS "EASIER TO DO IT THERE INAN IN THE UNITED

DZATES."

§ UPI REPORT DID NOT MENTION THAT DR. MARTIN LUTHER

12S EXPECTRD TO ATTEND, HOWEVER IT DID CARRY THE OTHER NAMES

"EXTONED TV REP AS TROSE INVITED.

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