From: Karen Lee Wald [mailto:kwald at california.com]
Sent: Friday, August 05, 2005 3:34 PM
To: Walter Lippmann
Subject: Re: Funeral set today for Benjamin Karim
That story about the chickens was pure anti-Castro
fabrication planted in the press at that time as an
excuse for the hotel to get rid of Fidel and his
entourage, under pressure from the rightwing.
Passing it on verbatim from the mouth of a
"Malcolm X righthand man", without noting that
the story is false, gives it the aura of truth.
Karen