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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 INR BRIEFING NOTE TO: The Director, INR DATE: 10 June 1968 TIME: 0730 SOURCE(S) FBIS 11 Hanoi in English OUO CLASS./CONTROL(S) Whan Dan's Commentator in authoritative June 10 article has again defended the right of every Vietnamese to fight and defeat the enemy, wherever he may be on the soil of Vietnam. The article alludes to the 4,000 years of Vietnamese struggle against outside attackers, then recounts the history of the Lao long Party since 1930 (in struggles against the French and the US), and then says that the Vietnamese are resolved to fight against the US wherever it encroaches on "our" country. The US covets Vietnamese steel and tungsten, but Vietnam does not covet US dollars. Pres. Ho promised that we would fight 20 years or longer, and we will, if necessary. Then we will rebuild Vietnam in all its lovely greenness. The independence and freedom of Vietnam is one, the Vietnamese nation is one. The US rigged up the two Vietnams, but cannot hide the truth. He who intrudes at any time into any place on Vietnamese soil encroaches on Vietnam and must be resisted by the entire Vietnamese people throughout the country. Not only have South Vietnamese who regrouped to the NVN responded to the call to liberate the south, but "all, repeat all Vietnamese throughout the country and in foreign countries" have responded. The US theory of two Vietnams has been denounced whenever it is rehashed by the US, even in its offers of so-called assistance, which is only a plot to wreck the cause of the Vietnamese. After the war, after victory, it is the Vietnamese who will rebuild Vietnam, from the Chinese border to Cau "au." Johnson still pursues his design of war; Harriman still attempts to blur the distinction between aggressor and victim. The Vietnamese will step up their offensive and carry out their duties.
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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.