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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According to the political supervisor for the Saudi radio and TV, the Yemen Royalists will shortly announce the moving of the capital of Yemen from Sanaa to Saeda, where they will then set up a government. When questioned whether this might be a first step towards a de facto partition of Yemen into a Royalist Zaydi north and a Republican Shaf'i south, the Saudi official said no, since the Saudis were still opposed to any partition concept. However, it will have a partial partition effect as the Royalists will try to gain international recognition for their new regime inside Yemen. The Saudis, fed up with a poor Royalist military showing against the Republicans, in early May gave the Royalists an ultimatum to reorganize themselves and move their regime out of Saudi territory into Yemen - or face the loss of Saudi aid. The report that Saeda will to the new Royalist capital therefore is not surprising. (Saeda, the largest town in north Yemen, is located about 25 miles south of the Saudi frontier on the caravan route from Gajran.) The still unanswered question is: what will happen within the Royalist leadership? Goaded by the Saudis, the Royalists finally met at Saeda from April 25 to May 1 in order to deal with the problem of the Imam Indr's faltering leadership. Prince Muhammed bin Musayn emerged with a mandate for Hamid al Din (the ruling dynasty) leadership, but thus for Badh has refused to quit. While Muhammed bin Musayn probably will retain his de facto leadership, the Indr-Muhammed tug-of-war will further split and weaken the already badly divided Royalists. In addition, recent intelligence reports indicate that several key tribes in the important Sanaa and north-west Yemen areas have defected (or are about to defect) from the Royalist side. While the Republicans could be expected to capitalize on current Royalist weaknesses, factionalism within the Republican camp may well prevent the al Amri regime from pressing the situation to full advantage. However, al Amri still has a functioning air force, and could make life in Saeda extremely unpleasant for its Royalist occupants. As for the question of international recognition, the Royalists probably will not have to expend much worry about setting up a diplomatic quartar... no rush of diplomats to Saeda is expected.
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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.