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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: Dubcek to Head Czechoslovak Party-Govt Delegation to Hungary to Sign Friendship Treaty The Director, INR DATE: 12 June 68 TIME: 1530 hours COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. Prague Int'l Service announced that Czechoslovak Party First Secretary Dubcek will head the delegation which leaves in the morning for Budapest to sign a treaty of friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance. The delegation will include Premier Cernik, Foreign Minister Hajek, and other Party-Govt leaders. INR COMMENTS: Perhaps the most intgiguing aspect of the treaty signing will be whether Dubcek signs in the name of the Czechoslovak Party. Segments of the Czechoslovak press, as well as some Foreign Ministry officials, feel that the treaty should be in a state treaty only, one in which the respective communist parties should not become involved. Dubcek holds no government function; if he signs, as now seems likely, he will continue the precedent among the bilateral mutual defense treaty signatories of having both the Premier and the Party First Secretary sign the treaty. The treaty will most likely be of the "mild" variety with respect to West Germany -- i.e., while it will make due mention of the threat of revanchism and militarism in the FRG, there will be no iron-clad provisions on mutual defense specifically mentioning the FRG and its allies -- as the hard-line treaties signed among the East Germans, Poles, and Czechoalovaks under the Novotny regime have been. The Czechoalovak-Bulgarian treaty signed in April -- in which Dubcek participated -- was of the "mild" type. INR OFFICE RSB/LE BRIEFER Costolanski EXTENSION 3971 FORM DS-1118 6 MW 31097 DocId:33061196 Page 2
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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.