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: Renewed Outbreak of Student-Police Clashes Yesterday; Student Group Calls For Major Demonstration Today; Estimated 1 Million Still Striking Mainly Matalworkers TO: The Director, INR DATE: 6-11-68 TIME: Reg Morning SOURCE(S) Reuters 6-11 FBIS 61 6-11 CLASS./CONTROL(S) Unclassified An eighteen year old French student drowned in the Seine yesterday in the aftermath of a police swoop-down on a meeting of students and workers near the Renault plant at Flins on the Paris outskirts. Most accounts indicate the student drowned after jumping into the river to escape the police. Curiously a FBIS account based on Paris Domestic service reported that drowning occurred as a result of scuffling with police during which "about 10 young people were thrown into the Seine." INR Comment: With French radio stations under literal military occupation in view of the still unsettled strike situation involving CRTF—the French radio/TV establishment—it is curious that the radio should have carried the most inflammatory account of the student's death. Reuters accepts accepts the police version, to wit, that he drowned after jumping into the river. Paris 15960 LOU Embassy reports that as of yesterday there were an estimated 1 million still striking. Embassy Comments: In the public sector where unions are strong and the Government more willing to commit the taxpayers money, settlements were reached with reactive promptness and were generally in excess of the Government original offer in the so-called Grenelle accords of May 27. In the private sector where unions are weaker and the Patronat less willing or able to pay settlements have been far more difficult to achieve and in a number of cases the strikers (unorganized outnumbering organized) have continued to hold out. INR Notice REU BRIEFER DEary
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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.