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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.
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Albanian party organ Zeri Popullit carried an article May 19 by Politburo Member and Premier Mehmet Shehu praising the just-published works of party chief Hoxha. Published in accordance with a Central Committee decision to distribute Hoxha "teachings" to the masses, the first volume is now being distributed and a second volume will be published later this year. Shehu emphasizes Hoxha's preeminent role as "founder of our people's regime and the dictatorship of the proletariat". He lands Hoxha's successes in fighting off all challengers to his leadership over the past 27 years. Hoxha's works are said to "synthesize our party's and the international communist movement's experience in the struggle against revisionism." The Albanian leader's struggles with Yugoslav revisionism is given particular stress. Comrade Hoxha's works will xikapunky serve as a "powerful revolutionary weapon in the hands of our people and party," declares Shehu. NT: In addition to serving as a definitive Albanian party history, Hoxha's collected works seem to represent an Albanian counterpart to Mao's mass-circulation "Red Book" of the Chinese leader's teachings. Thus, their appearance adds to Albania's peculiar combination of nationalism, communist orthodoxy and pro-Peking orientation. Moreover, this Hoxha-think literature will contribute to further developments in the country's strictly Albanian-style "cultural revolution." INR OFFICE BRIEFER EXTENSION RSD MilProwick 3803
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 132 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.