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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 GIST: Sorb Emigré Indicted in January 1967 Bombing of Yugoslav Consulate General in San Francisco TO: The Director, INR DATE: 6/7/68 TIME: 4:45 pm COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) AP, Washington, 7 June 1968 CLASS./CONTROL(S) UNCLASS The AP reported on June 7 that a Federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., handed down the first indictment arising out of the January 9, 1967 bombings of Yugoslav embassies and consulates in the US and Canada. The grand jury charged with perjury a 25-year-old Emigré, Borislav Djordje Kirnić (cr Krnić), from Chicago, who entered the US on April 28, 1965 as a permanent resident. The indictment charged Kirnić with testifying falsely twice. One count charged that he falsely denied being in San Francisco on January 28, 1967, and the other count charged he falsely denied having told other persons that he took part in the San Francisco bombing before the grand jury on March 31, 1967. INR: The bombings took place almost simultaneously and are the most extensive by one group on record. Involved were the Yugoslav embassy in Washington and general consulates in New York and Chicago (in addition to that in San Francisco) and in Canada the embassy in Ottawa and consultate in Toronto. A bomb placed in the general consulate in Pittsburgh failed to go. The Yugoslav press has blamed the bombings on the Serb National Defense (Srpska Narodna Odbrana), particularly its Chicago branch, a militant nationalist organization composed mostly of former followers of "Chetnik" leader Draza Mihailović. Although the Yugoslav government's protest turned out to be more moderate than expected, the affair left a legacy of almost ineradicable suspicion in Yugoslavia that the US government deliberately tolerated, if it did not sympathize with, the anti-Tito activities of Yugoslav immigrants, both Serb and Croat. The confinement of another suspect, Dragisa Kasiković, during May-December 1967 for civil contempt of court did not appear to lessen these suspicions. Today's indictment should elicit a favorable reaction in Yugoslavia and contribute substantially to eradicate some of this suspicion.
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