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: Istanbul University Students Threaten To Join Boycott The Director, INR DATE: June 12, 1968 TIME: 5:00 p.m. COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) Istanbul 1307 12 June, 1968 LOU In press conference June 11 Istanbul University Student Union president listed 12 demands for reforms in class and examination systems, threatened "Turkey will be a second France" if action not taken in two days. Professors and other observers doubt student action now but expect trouble next fall. INR/RMA Comment Turkish students have demonstrated regularly against the US and NATO and in support of Cyprus but this is the first hint of mobilization against their most obvious target-- the deplorable teaching and housing conditions in their universities. Any demonstrations now will be short-lived because of the approaching end of the school year, but demonstration-prone Turkish students may try to outdo themselves next fall. Turkish students are proud of their part in bringing down the Menderes government in 1960 and consider it their patriotic responsibility to exert themselves as a political force; if demonstration's continue in Europe during the summer Turkish students can be expected to exert themselves to catch up. INR OFFICE RNA BRIEFER W. E. Humphrey EXTENSION 1972 Limited Official Use (Classification)
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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.