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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: Obscure Oblast Purty Secretary From Cholyabinsk Succeeds Sergey Favlov as Komsomol Chief TO: The Director, INR DATE: 12 Jun 68 TIME: 1530 COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) FBIS 47 12 Jun 63 A plenum of the Komsomol Central Committee today released Sergey Favlov as first secretary and member of the Euro. In grateful recognition of his great contributions, Favlov was elected an honorary Komsomol, awarded an honorary badge, and his name was inscribed in the Book of Honor. Yevgeniy Tyazholnikov was elected first secretary of the Komsomol. Secretary Marina Zhuravlova was released from the Secretariat and Euro in connection with her transfer to another post, and was honored with a badge. The agenda of the plenum consisted of: 1) fulfillment of decisions of the GPSU April Fleenu 2) Komsomol guidance by the Krasnoyarsk Kraykom 3) preparations for the World Youth and Student Festival in Sofia this summer. INR Comment: The reasons for Pavlov's donation were discussed in our briefing item of last Friday and our IN of Monday. Today's move countries our view that a candidate outside the Moscow Komsomol group would be chosen. Yevgeniy Tyacholnikov comes to Moscow from the obscurity of the agitprop secretaryship of the Cholyabinsk Oblast Party Committee. Judging from his writings, he was interested in pedagogy in the rural schools and pre-university levels. He has been an oblast party secretary at least since September 1965, and he attended the 23d Party Congress as a voting delegate in March-April 1966. The chairman of an obscure oblast Party secretary without any known Komsomol rank emphasizes the point of tighter Party control over the Komsomol which was spolled out in the recent Party decree on the shortcomings of the Krusnoyarsk Party Committee. The decree, which is binding nationally, noted general slackening of Party monitoring, a decrease in the percentage of Party members among Komsomol officials, and an undesirable level of antisocial acts, indifference to Party indoctrination, and sparse recruitment of laboring and rural youths. The presence of Party ideologist Suslov and Party personnel secretary Kapitonov further emphasizes the observations in the above paragraph. Evidently, the Komsomol will participate actively in the current ideological holding operation as outlined at the April Plenum, and organizational steps may be taken to check the spread of youthful receptivity to Western ways and ideas. Presumably, Moscow will furnish further details on Tyazhalnikov. His recent Party boss in Cholyakinsk is Nikolay Rodionov, a Leningrador who was considered a member of the faction of the late Frol Kozlov, a one-time contender for supreme Party power. Rodionov's current political ties are not clear.
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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.