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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DEPARTMENT OF STATE INR BRIEFING NOTE TO: The Director, INR DATE: 6-10-68 TIME: Reg Morning SOURCE(S) London 4033 6-7-68 CLASS./CONTROL(S) LOU London 4033 6-7-68 Confidential Rome 6441 6-7-68 Italian Communists are predictably exlpoiting the assassination. They charge that chain violence in US reflects the unsolvable contradictions of US society and assert that there is a single plot linking the deaths of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. PCI leader Longo has called for a new foreign policy for Italy and warned of the dangers of the "policy of alliance and subordination to America." PM Moro expressed concern to the Ambassador about the PCI use of assassination to launch attack on NATO. Embassy notes that many Italians continue to believe in the plot theory of President Kennedy's death. INR Comment: Readiness to accept the existance of a possible plot linking deaths of President Kennedy, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King finds earliest acceptance on continent. British and Scandinavian (and also German reaction) is less prone accept the plot theory but is long on generalization about violence and deterioration of American society attributable thereto. Whatever theme is stressed, we are inclined to share London's assessment that net result has been a further augmentation of anti-Americanism already prevalent in much of West Europe.
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