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.
“Weekly World News”1 page
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SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) Prague tel 2295 June 5 LOU Prague press published June 5 Sik's speech at May plenum in which he strongly defended the role of journalists, in sharp contrast with Duboek's statement at plenum on press's role. Meeting of Central Trade Union Council which opened June marked by outspoken views, including a call for leaving the decision to call strikes to unions. FBIS 13 June 6 (Prague home radio June 5) UNCL The Secretary of the CP Aktiv of the Gettwaldov District (of Prague) at a June 5 meeting said the Party rightly suspended members for illegalities during Novotny's rule of "personal power," would defer decisions on these cases pending proof. Meanwhile, CP would uphold its democratic course, despite voices opposed to the Party, especially in the ranks of the K-231 Club. He cited speeches by Club members in 4 different cities attacking the CP and called 2 of the speakers former agents of foreign intelligence, adding "such incitement against the Party has already provoked close to 50 cases of assaults upon and wounding of honest functionaries." FBIS 74 June 5 (Prague home radio June 5) UNCL The June 5 Mlada Fronta complained about Duboek's plenum statement criticizing the press and also the delays in releasing the May plenum materials, saying the population should have been able to read these things in the press immediately. FBIS 15 June 6 (Prague home radio June 5) UNCL More than 100 workers at a RR station stopped work June 4 June 5 they were joined by the morning shift. "The strikers demanded" the removal of the management. The management was suspended pending an investigation, and the RR station resumed operations. INR comment: The RR station incident was not a conventional strike, apparently, since economic or social grievances are not mentioned. However, the event is remarkable for a communist country and may be related to the trade union meeting in Prague, where there have been calls for more worker authority. INR OFFICE RSB BRIEFER WBSmith EXTENSION 4888
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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.