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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
TO:	DATE: June 11, 1968
TIME: AM
SOURCE(S)	CLASS./CONTROL(S)
Eucharest 1806	LOU	Press reports the arrival on June 8 of DRV economic delegation led by Dep. Prime Minister NGHI.
Warsaw 3514	LOU	Press reports on signing of DRV-Poland aid and trade agreement on June 7 state that agreement provides "Poland will supply DRV machines and equipment for complete industrial objects as well as goods in exchange for DRV goods. No mention of military assistance although Nghi acknowledged his people receive "large and many sided aid from USSR, China, Poland and other fraternal socialist countries."
INR The pattern of East European non-communist countries mentioning only economic aid and not military is common as is, on the other hand, North Vietnamese mention of all types of aid.
FBIS 54	Prague CTK in English
Unclass.	Czech transportation del. currently in the DRV was received by For, Min. Trinh. Czech support to the DRV for the reconstruction and maintenance of railroads was discussed.

INR CE
RSB	BRIEFER
K. Yalowits	EXTENSION
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31097
Form DS-1118
DocId:33061196 Page 40
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