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 GIST: South Vietnam: VC/NVA plans for suppression of "Nationalist Party" members TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 8, 1963 TIME: regular morning briefing SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) Saigon's tel 4349 June 10, 1968 Confidential The following is the gist of a captured document mentioned in a recent MACV cable, and of which INR requested a translation. The document, dated 29 March, concerns the suppression of "Nationalist Party" members in Quang Ngai Province. The Communist directive claims that, during Tet, "we killed 96 wicked tyrants, captured 148 others, and destroyed and disintegrated many rural pacification teams." It also urges its personnel to make plans for "suicide units" to suppress the Nationalist ring-leaders, and to continue to "liquidate" Nationalist Party followers, as well as to repress other reactionaries. Targets for elimination are members of the Nationalist Party committees at province and district levels, senior party members, secretaries of village party committees and members of the armed forces of the Nationalist Party. The directive calls for the plan to be implemented so that by June all district and village committees "will be frightened and shirk their duties;" and by July the party will become stagnant. REA Comment: The "Nationalist Party" referred to in the directive is believed to be the VNQDD. Documentation of Communist executions of VNQDD members in the I Corps area since Tet is not available at this time. It has been reported, however, that post-Tet assassination rates in I Corps have increased significantly, and it is probable that among the numerous victims of the Communists have been many VNQDD members. INR OFFICE BRIEFER REA Miriam/Sherman/Keogh EXTENSION 5934
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 132 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.