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Department of State Inr Briefing Note- June 12, 1968

Central Intelligence Agency · 1968-06-12 · 132 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 39 …impromptu visit to Brussels as guest of King Emmanuel Baudouin. He was expected to most also…
  • p. 55 …the deaths of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. PCI leader Longo has called…
  • p. 60 …The Polish press links the JFK-King-RFK shootings, and Trybuna Ludu June 7 charged that…
  • p. 61 …Borba June 6 called JFK-King-RFK shootings all the work of the same forces, subtly…
  • p. 84 …policies." This is apparent in the bitterness of comment on the Martin Luther King and Kennedy
  • p. 116 According to King Husayn, the Soviet Ambassador in Amman told him on 4 June that the…
  • p. 117 …Martin Luther King. It attributed the shooting to a conspiracy, possibly directed from the White House…
  • p. 118 …FBIS 10 June 6 (Hungarian wire service NYI June 5) UNCL The JFK, King, and RFK…
  • p. 119 …June 6) Responsible for the JFK, King, and RFK shootings, "the extreme right has united in…
  • p. 120 …Edgar Hoover called Martin Luther King a liar; Hoover prompted the assassins. He invented "a slanderous…

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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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