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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 R BRIEFING NOTE GIST: Soviet Treatment of Robert Kennedy Shooting: Bulk of Coverage Has Not Inscrimated US Official Connivance TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 7, 1968 TIME: 4 p.m. COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) CLASS/CONTROL(S) Moscow tel 4139 June 6 LOU EmbassyEX Moscow's roundup of late June 6 on Soviet media treatment of the RFK assassination says that the articles have suggested both official negligence and even connivance. INR comment: One of Radio Moscow's first broadcasts after the shooting said that the act "was possible because of the irresponsible connivance on the part of the authorities." But since then we have seen no such Soviet comment. One June 6 article implied that the Los Angeles police had not tried hard enough to protect Robert Kennedy, and by suggesting the same thing concerning the Dallas and Memphis police, it was trying to weave the picture of a plot connecting the JFK-KingaRFK shootings by innuendo; but the piece stopped well short of "official connivance" in the sense of Federal scheming. Another June 6 article engaged in the same general kind of innuendo in talking about the claim of "many researchers" at the time of the JFK assassination that the FBI and CIA conshow were involved, and it said that the RFK assassination has now raised this question again. The great bulk of the Soviet propaganda built around the Robert Kennedy assassination, however, has concentrated on the alleged evils of the American way of life. INF OFFICE USB BRIEFER WBSmith EXTENSION 4888 LIMITED OFFICIAL USE NW31097a DocId:33061196 Page 78 (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.