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.
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FBI memo of May 23, 1968 SECRET The story is going the rounds among the leadership of the Canadian GP that Premier Kosygin is opposed to the extreme hardline ideological campaign now being pushed by Moscow and that he will resign his premiership as a protest, using illness as the pretext for resignation. INR comment The Pravda announcement of Kosygin's sudden visit to Prague on May 17 stated that he had come for a "brief rest and treatment," and Kosygin did spend several days taking the waters at the spa of Karlovy Vary. A commentator on a Prague Radio roundtable claimed that Kosygin came to Czechoslovakia for treatment of gastric ulcers. Kosygin does have health problems normal to a man of his age (64) and responsibilities but he has maintained a very heavy work schedule since his vacation last August. In view of his attitude toward his work as his main reason for existence, resignation on the grounds of illness, were it to occur, would be reminiscent of Khrushchev's "resignation" on the grounds of old age. There have been many rumors circulated in Moscow within the last year of the possible removal, willing or otherwise, of Kosygin from the premiership. But the UAR Ambassador, one of the sources for such rumors, has recently changed his tune and reported this May that Soviet sources no longer say that Kosygin wants to retire. On the political front, it remains true that Kosygin is the only Politburo member not to have spoken before a local audience in support of the April Plenum decisions, which officially sanctioned the crackdown on ideology backed earlier by Brezhnev and Kosygin himself in February speeches. The other oft-rumored bone of contention between factions led by Drezhnev and Kosygin is the Soviet policy toward changes in Prague with Kosygin pictured as the counsellor of moderation. Were the event to happen, a suitable formal opportunity would arise on June 25 when the USSR Supreme Soviet opens for a session which probably will amend Soviet legislation on marriage and the family, although no formal agenda has been announced. INR OFFICE RS150V BRIEFER D.Graves EXTENSION 5088
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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.