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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.
“Mission Control”3 pages
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIST: Haitian Press Charges CIA Subsidy to Exile Radio TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 10, 1968 TIME: morning briefing COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) LOU GOH controlled press charged June 7 that CIA supported Haitian Coalition Creole broadcasts from New York. Described broadcasts as radio "which pretends to be Haitian but which owes its existence only to foreign financial support, primarily that of CIA whose directors pay $3000 weekly subsidy ... to peddle most impudent lies and gratuitous calumnies to justify these large sums." Embassy Comment: Embassy has learned that press has been instructed by Pres. Duvalier to keep up constant anti-US line as long as New York Creole Broadcasts continue. INR Comment: The broadcasts referred to are the so-called "morning mass" made every morning at 6:00am by the Haitian Coalition over WNYW in New York. The May 20 invasion of Cap Haitien apparently was conducted by some of the more radical members of the Haitian Coalition, but during the invasion the broadcasts indicated that the IC leadership may not have been fully informed of the invaders' plans or operations. Duvalier probably still believes the USG was somehow involved in the invasion and is determined to step on every exposed toe in hopes of embarrassing the USG and perhaps extracting some economic compensation." INR OFFICE BRIEFER EXTENSION RAR Watson 4976
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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.