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Department of State Inr Briefing Note- June 12, 1968

Central Intelligence Agency · 1968-06-12 · 132 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 39 …impromptu visit to Brussels as guest of King Emmanuel Baudouin. He was expected to most also…
  • p. 55 …the deaths of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. PCI leader Longo has called…
  • p. 60 …The Polish press links the JFK-King-RFK shootings, and Trybuna Ludu June 7 charged that…
  • p. 61 …Borba June 6 called JFK-King-RFK shootings all the work of the same forces, subtly…
  • p. 84 …policies." This is apparent in the bitterness of comment on the Martin Luther King and Kennedy
  • p. 116 According to King Husayn, the Soviet Ambassador in Amman told him on 4 June that the…
  • p. 117 …Martin Luther King. It attributed the shooting to a conspiracy, possibly directed from the White House…
  • p. 118 …FBIS 10 June 6 (Hungarian wire service NYI June 5) UNCL The JFK, King, and RFK…
  • p. 119 …June 6) Responsible for the JFK, King, and RFK shootings, "the extreme right has united in…
  • p. 120 …Edgar Hoover called Martin Luther King a liar; Hoover prompted the assassins. He invented "a slanderous…

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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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