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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: NIGERIA: Netherlands Embargoes Arms Sales to Federal Nigeria TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 7, 1968 TIME: 1700 COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) FBIS 46 Routers, London, 2 Jun 68 QUO Netherlands Foreign Minister today announced an embargo on arms sales to Federal Nigeria. Arms shipment licences already issued would be considered invalid. The Hague 5238 6 Jun 68 CONF On May 31, in response to question from Catholic Party EP, Netherlands Prime Minister DE JONG stated that the GON was prepared, pending the development of negotiations between Nigeria and Biafra, to suspend arms sales permits. [The talks broke off May 31] De JONG stated that the GON had, over the past 11 months, issued expert licences for 16 million rifle rounds and other ammunition destined for Federal Nigeria. [INR/RAP Note: No mention made of similar arms embargo applied to Biafra.] INR Comment: To the best of our knowledge, the Netherlands is the fourth state to embargo arms shipments to Nigeria. Sweden and Switzerland were the first in 1967, followed by Czechoslovakia in April 1968. Catholic clergy in Europe have for the past several months called for an embargo on all shipments of arms to Nigeria. Many Catholic clergy in Europe are openly sympathetic to the Biafran cause; other church groups in England and elsewhere have expressed similar concern for Biafra's plight and called for an end to the civil war. The combination of increasingly effective Biafran propaganda and these pressures apparently resulted in the Netherlands embargo. INP OFFICE RAF BRIEFER Shurtleff Cleared with RBU and RSD EXTENSION 6625 CONFIDENTIAL RWF 9609718 DocId:33061196 Page 76 (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.