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.
“Los Angeles Times”2 pages
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SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) FBIS 09, June 5 Paris AFP The Prague correspondent of the French newsagency claims to have pieced together the results of Kosygin's recent negotiations with Dubcek and other Czechoslovak leaders from reports that have since filtered through. He states that the Soviet leader's task apparently ended in the following gentleman's agreement: —the Czechoslovak CP will not permit its leadership role to be questioned —key posts will continue to be staffed by communists —no opposition party will be permitted —both sides will consult each other before major political decisions —Czechoslovakia will remain vigilant along its Western border Another point of agreement might bear on the inspection of Czechoslovak forces by the Warsaw Pact commander INR Comment: All of the above have been traditional Dubcek positions which have been for the most part officially stated—most recently on the occasion of the 4-day Czechoslovak CP Central Committee plenum ending June 1. AFP concedes that it did not obtain official confirmation of this tacit agreement, which in any case does not endanger Dubcek's democratization process. The report strikes us as something Czech political and journalistic sources (mentioned in AFP story) would gladly leak to the West. This, however, does not preclude the possibility that the above is the totality of what Kosygin obtained.
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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.