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 R BRIEFING NOTE GIST: Chicoms Condemn NPT TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 12, 1968 TIME: COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) FEB 29 6/11 In a speech at a reception at the Nepalese embassy in Peking, CPR Foreign Minister Ch'en Yi condemned the NPT as an "out-and-out unequal treaty." He called it a "major plot to preserve nuclear monopoly by big powers and to oppose China and the people's of the world." COMMENT: This was China's first reaction to the NPT vote, although its frequent attacks on the treaty in the past had made its stand on the issue clear long ago. Indeed, Ch'en's remarks were a bit milder than the earlier Chinese commentary; this was probably to spare the Nepalese, who had voted for the treaty, some embarrassment. We expect the Foreign Ministry or some important organ like People's Daily to come out with a major blast at the treaty in the near future.
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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.