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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SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) Reuters June 8 from Moscow UNCL The Soviet press is building a picture of the RFK assassination as part of a plot to eliminate all serious opposition to present Washington policies. Some Soviet commentaries have come close to suggesting that Pres. Johnson himself, or at least close associates of his, might be connected with the JFK and RFK killings. The June 7 World Abroad article (briefed earlier) said that John Kennedy was the victim of the bosses of the "military-financial monopolies and especially a clique of Texas millionaires." AP June 9 from Moscow UNCL Pravda June 9 declared that the emphasis being placed by the US press on Sirhan's Arab origin was aimed at sharpening the already tense Arab-Israeli situation. The Pravda item, a frontpage commentary by Viktor Mayevskiy, also said that "attention is being drawn by the efforts of rabid reactionary circles in America to use the tragic murder of Robert Kennedy for an intensification of the anti-communist campaign." According to AP, Mayevskiy did not elaborate on these two points. Warsaw tel 3494 June 7 CONF The Embassy detects in the wide press attention to RFK's death some embarrassment and even defensiveness in treating Sirhan and his motives, since this does not jibe with Polish propaganda about either the US or the Polish internal situation. The Polish press links the JFK-King-RFK shootings, and Trybuna Ludu June 7 charged that US media had launched a campaign of lies about the motives of the RFK assassination. Warsaw tel 3495 June 7 LOU Polish press attacks attempts by California authorities to identify Sirhan with communist views, saying this was "too absurd" for the State Dept. and Attorney General Clark, who had denied foreign involvement. One paper asserts the "odium" for the killing will fall on the LBJ administration, which will hurt Humphrey's Presidential chances. Popular reaction in Poland, as reflected in comments by many visitors at the Embassy to sign the condolence book, is one of sympathy and shock. The crowds of signers are from all strata of society and are not being hindered by the militia in front of the building. CONFIDENTIAL (Classification) FORM DS-1118 6 NW 31097 DocId:33061196 Page 60
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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.