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 GIST: More on the GDR Berlin Restrictions TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 12, 1963 TIME: regular am SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) Berlin 1640 1642 Further details on the new GDR restrictions on Berlin access indicate a complete reorganization of the basis on which Interzonal Trade is now handled is part of the package. Also included apparently is new financial regulations for sewage changes - these evidently affecting primarily West Berlin. The new trade and sewage payment systems will go into effect July 1 for the most part. Passport and visa requirements went into effect at midnight last night, but a grace period of some four weeks (til July 15) allowed for West Germans to obtain passports. FBIS 58 June 11 Moscow TASS TASS issued a statement yesterday afternoon reporting the GDR measures are a regular news item and quoting GDR justification for the actions. No editorial comment, however. This morning, Brezhnev, Podgornyy and Kosygin sent greetings to the GDR on the fourth anniversary of the 1964 Friendship Treaty, expressing mutual esteem and firm solidarity, but with no measure of the new GDR actions. 22 June 12 Moscow Domestic INR: Addition details of GDR measures, particularly as they affect trade, begin to look by extremely clever squeeze play on FRG. East Germans evidently are prepared, and obviously with Soviet connivance, to risk abrogation of IZT arrangements. Perhaps they are even hoping for such abrogation. (Ulbricht has been working since the 1960 IZT episode to guarantee GDR's invulnerability from such countermeasures and probably now could absorb the losses with relatively little consequences.) Thus the FRG's one major weapon, IZT, is more or less blunted. The GDR would be delighted if it were used - to eliminate it once and for all - but if it is used, the FRG has relatively little else. And by being hesitant about invoking IZT measures, the FRG risks antagonizing its allied who insist Bonn must go first. The Soviets sit benignly in the wings, having no active role to play but offer moral support for their agents - if the GDR can get away this time with acting as the Soviet agent on Four Power access matters.
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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.