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) PDCS 314/09299-68 S/NF NVN Propaganda Strategy Recent comments of Charles Fourniau (SecGen of France-Vietnamese Friendship Assn and French CP advisor on VN) indicate clearly that US bombing had seriously affected NVN and it does not want the bombing renewed. Its strategy in the near future seem to include: 1) continuing propaganda pressure throughout the world and in the US to bring about a complete bombing halt; 2) create an extraordinary situation in Saigon through continuing military pressure there; 3) strive for a psychological blow by assassinating high US officials in Saigon. FBIS 61 (June 7) U Nhan Dan Commentator RFK Assassination "...One cannot fail to see that Robert Kennedy's assessment (US failure in SVN due to its reliance on the same Vietnamese who fought with the French) sounds more credible to the average American than Johnson's and Harriman's boasts about the US horse-shed in Saigon. ...This was one of the causes bringing success to Robert Kennedy in the many primaries, a success which increasingly threatened his opponents, who cling to the US policy...in Vietnam. People rightly think that that is precisely why Robert Kennedy has been dealt with—as his elder brother John was—by an assassin's bullets instead of by election votes." FBIS 30,31 (June 8) U Hanoi International Service, June 8 On "Infiltration" "...The Geneva Agreements...conforms to the truth that Vietnam is one, that the Vietnamese nation is one, and that SVN is an integral part of Vietnam. Anyone with sound judgement will agree that North and South Vietnam are not two countries but just two parts of one country and are related to each other more closely than any two states of a federation." "The USG itself must have found its theory of infiltration...quite unpalatable. Only maniacs could think of Vietnamese, wherever they might live, (who were) fighting in their own country, infiltrating or invading another country!" INF OFFICE REA/SA BRIEFER Kobayashi/Keogh EXTENSION 4909
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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.