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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GIST: Tito Reportedly Says He Might Resign If Domestic Problems Which Caused Student Unrest Not Quickly Resolved; Belgrade Students Reportedly Abandon Strike in Wake of Speech DATE: June 10, 1968 TIME: regular a.m. COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) Routers June 9 from Belgrade UNCL Tito spoke June 9 on a nationwide radio-TV broadcast which was discussing a meeting underway in Belgrade of the Yugoslav CP Presidium. He is understood to have said that the problems over which Yugoslav students have been protesting should be rapidly solved, and that if he could not solve them, he should not remain in office. He said he agreed with a majority of the student demands. He added that the Yugoslav CP Central Committee had already been reviewing these problems before the student unrest began. By a Party error, little publicity had been given to this fact. Tito said the demonstrations, although they began spontaneously, had been exploited by right and left extremists. He mentioned supporters of Djilas and Rankovic and also of Mao. But the students had proven their "mature political consciousness." He denied that events in France, West Germany, and Czechoslovakia had caused the student unrest and said the weaknesses of Yugoslav society were the reason. Also, Yugoslavia's students had been treated like schoolchildren and had not been given sufficient chance to participate in self-government. He said the Party had been slow in resolving problems of social inequality, inadequate educational facilities, and non-socialist aspects of the economy. Many leaders would rather look after their own interests than do anything, he said. (not further identified) UPI June 7 from Belgrade UNCL Belgrade students' June 7 published an open letter to Tito appealing that he take action on their demands for broad reform of Yugoslav society. It said that the student action was inspired by Tito's thought, that the students had always been and now were "with you," and that the student movement was not a divergence from the Party. FHIS 25 June 8 (Tanyug June 7) UNCL According to a release by Tanyug, the Belgrade University Council, University Committee of the League of Communists (CP), and University Committee of the Student Union, and representatives of all student action committees met June 7. They issued a statement after the meeting announcing agreement that university operations should resume as soon as possible. It declared that the student action program accorded with the principles of the CP and the Yugoslav Constitution and that the students would continue to press for implementation. The statement called for 1) lifting the blockade of all university departments, 2) release of all arrested students, with no reprisals later, 3) investigation of incident at New Belgrade and punishment of officials responsible, and 4) dissemination of information.
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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.