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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DEPARTMENT OF STATE GIST: Media of Communist World on Robert Kennedy...PAGE 3 TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 6, 1968 TIME: SOURCE(S) PBIS 78 June 6 (TASS 6/6) CLASS./CONTROL(S) UNCL The US is becoming an arena for political bandwagon, writes Paramonov in the weekly Life Abroad. The RFK shooting "brings to the fore again with new force the sinister role played by the FBI and CIA..." which "remain a grim embodiment of the police state which the US has become." "The FBI and CIA, many researchers say were implicated in the assassination of Pres. Kennedy." J. Edgar Hoover called Martin Luther King a liar; Hoover prompted the assassins. He invented "a slanderous version that behind this murder was a 'communist conspiracy.'" Reuters from Moscow 6/6 UNCL Pravda June 6, on a different page from its comment on the RFK assassination, told readers in a brief item that the assassin was an Arab refugee. The comment however implied RFK was killed by rightists. Reuters from Moscow 6/6 UNCL Isvestiya in the evening of June 6 reported that the chief suspect was a Palestinian Arab, but said that any US news media stressing this point were trying to shield "the American way of life, the true culprit of the tragedy in Los Angeles." The Isvestiya report of RFK's death was on the front page. (Apparently other Soviet newspapers so far have sidestepped the Arab origin of Sirhan. INR comment: A more sophisticated explanation concerning Sirhan's Arab origin may yet appear in Soviet media. INR OFFICE BRIEFER EXTENSION
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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.