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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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DEPARTMENT STATE GIST: Media of Communist World on Robert Kennedy Assassination (Roundup No. 2) TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 6, 1968 TIME: 4 p.m. COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) FBIS 07 June 6 (Moscow domestic radio June 6) commentary by Yuriy Babich) UNCL "Who guided the hand of the assassin?" "American bourgeois society is in fact incurably sick." The rich powerful US "has no inspiring national aims, no ideals which can capture the minds and hearts of the people." The US rulers are trying to fill "this political and moral vacuum with anti-communism and anti-Sovietism." RFK shooting following the King assassination "shows vividly that ultra-American reactionaries have started to act more and more impudently." After the King shooting and LBJ's call for nonviolence, "the subsequent bloody reprisals against Negroes and against some of the participants of the March of the Poor on Washington," plus the RFK shooting, show that LBJ's appeal was not needed. FBIS 10 June 6 (Hungarian wire service NYI June 5) UNCL The JFK, King, and RFK shootings show that gangsterism is becoming accepted in the US as a means for solving social and political differences. Vietnam encouraged this. RFK by turning to opposition to Vietnam and advocacy of the poor Gas "becoming the most dangerous candidate." "Robert Kennedy was shot by the same political underworld which destroyed his elder brother." "The aim in both cases was identical: to prevent the emergence of an American policy truly based on the realistic requirements of the world." FBIS 16 June 6 (Yugoslav wire evo. Tanyug June 5) UNCL Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Yugoslav National Assembly and former Ambassador to the US: a crime against RFK's program of "peace, cooperation among peoples, and the development of a new, constructive, powerful role for America." RFK was a friend of Yugoslavia. He viewed Vietnam "realistically." FBIS 19 June 6 (Havana domestic TV) UNCL Obviously he was murdered to keep him from the White House, where he probably was headed. Sirhan "is after all a byproduct of the violent North American society." It was revealed recently that Kennedy money was behind Garrison's investigations. "Pres. Johnson's name began to crop up in the investigations by Garrison." Who benefits from keeping RFK from the White House? "The answer must be sought in Washington, in the White House." FBIS 34 June 6 (TASS press review June 6) UNCL Pravda June 6 (by Vishnevakiy): no one tried to kill RFK when he worked for Sen. Joe McCarthy or "when he faithfully served the ruling class as Attorney General." The "ultras" behan hating him only when he shifted to a somewhat more
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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.