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 GIST: HONDURAS/EL SALVADOR: Hondurans Considering Moving Troops to Disputed Border Area in Response to Alleged Salvadoran Mobilization Along Border TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 7, 1968 TIME: 3:00 P.M. SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) US DAO 53 Honduras 6/7/68 Conf. Chief of Honduran Armed Forces indicated to DATT that Salvadoran have moved troops up all along border area and thinks they are trying to provoke Honduran armed forces. He added that the way things appear Hondurans may have to likewise move troops to border. INR/RAR COMMENT: We do not have any evidence to confirm the Honduran allegation of a Salvadoran troop mobilisation. They have, however, recently expressed concern over the failure of the two governments to effect a full exchange of prisoners taken during the brief border skirmish in May 1967. They are even more concerned over Salvador's multi-million dollar expenditures on equipment for its armed forces. The Salvadorans are still smarting from their inept 1967 showing against the Hondurans. There is reason to suspect that the present Honduran allegations may be intended to convince the USG to either pressure the Salvadorans from going through with their equipment expenditures or at least to provide the Hondurans with additional equipment. Even if this is the case, miscalculations by either of the two sides could lead to a minor crisis.
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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.