Documents / FOIA release
This is a compilation of Department of State Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) briefing notes to the Director of INR, mostly dated June 12, 1968, with some from June 6, 1968. The notes cover world events, including student riots in Paris, East German passport and visa rules for West Germans, a UN resolution on South West Africa, a change of Komsomol leadership, Sino-Nepalese relations, and the Colombian presidential resignation crisis. Unrest in Senegal and Somalia is also covered. None of the notes discuss UFOs.
“Cairo”3 pages
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SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) (continued) regime is willing to take its chances by bringing a set of genuine "notables" into the council, the body could act as a definite check upon government arbitrariness while giving vent to the many streams of dissidence in Iraqi life. The regime would then be obliged to maneuver more or less openly among the various factions and ethnic groups, playing them off against each other in traditional fashion, or to dissolve the council and hope to set up a more manageable successor, i.e., a rubber stamp. In any case, the institution is not yet in existence. If it emerges, its viability will be a test not only of the regime's good faith, but of Iraqi capacity for orderly self-government - neither of which has been conspicuously demonstrated thus far.
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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. 132 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.