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.
“King”10 pages
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According to King Husayn, the Soviet Ambassador in Amman told him on 4 June that the Israelis were planning a paradrop to occupy Jordanian heights from Irbid to Salt. Ambassador Slyusarenko claimed the information was from "good sources" but admitted that he did not have "direct evidence". ## INR/RSB Comment Ababs have been circulating reports of a possible Israeli military action. The Soviet Ambassador's warning bears some similarity to the false information the Soviets passed to Nasser and to the Syrians on the eve of the June war that the Israelis were massing on the Syrian border. In the latter instance Moscow was probably attempting to encourage a degree of solidarity between Nasser and the Syrian regime in the face of a putative Israeli threat, rather than to incite actual conflict. In the present instance the Ambassador's intent may have been to persuade the King that the Soviets, in conveying their warning, were motivated by friendship and concern for the security of Jordan. Slyusarenko's effort to encourage the King to believe in the possibility of an imminent attack by Israel may also have been related to Soviet offers of military aid to strengthen and reequip the Jordanian army. Soviet commentaries continue to stress the desirability of a "political" rather than a"military" solution. Podgornyy's message to King Husayn on Jordan's Independence Day on May 25 stated that "the Soviet Union gives and will continue to give to the Arab peoples and countries aid in the cause of struggle for a political settlement, taking into consideration legitimate Arab rights and interests and for the establishment of a just and sound peace in the Middle East."
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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.