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 INR BRIEFING NOTE GIST: FRANCE: Humanite Reporter Comments With Seeming Candor on Dilemmas of French Communists TO: The Director, INR DATE: 6-6-68 TIME: Reg Morning COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) Paris 15628 6-5-60 Confidential/LINDIS Reporter Marcel Roques commented on the negative aspects of May events upon the PCF. The main optimistic note was PCF might succeed in greatly outpolling the Federation and thus become the unequivocal first party of the left. But personally he thought Gaullists would win. He spoke disparagingly of the super-cautious, sclerotic PCF bureaucracy during the crisis. He talked at length about dissension within the party and prospect for serious trouble if PCF lost election. Embassy notes that Humanite article on "The Party's Relations With the Intellectuals" on June 5 is frankest acknowledgment in years of dissension within party and goes beyond what even Roques had to say about developing serious differences within party. NR OFFICE BRIEFER EXTENSION REU WPDeary 5474 Confidential/LTHDIS (Classification) DS-1118 -66 NW 31097 DocId:33061196 Page 127
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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.