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.
“Cairo”3 pages
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PRI. 43, CUO, 7 Jun Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban gave an interview, the first of its kind to an East European journal, to a Czechoslovak newspaper. Political circles in Israel are said to attach great importance to the interview, in view of severed diplomatic relations between Israel and CSSR. The Defense Ministry organ reportedly has denied a regional CP organ the right to publish the interview. Note: The reason a Govt press organ would deny a Party organ such a right is unclear. Eban said Israel sincerely desired to diplomatic resume/relations with Prague and it was also willing to expand trade, cultural, and tourist relations before diplomatic ties were restored. UPI 25, Unc @ Jun Several Czech youths in Prague urged passersby to sign petition on est. diplomatic relations with Israel. INR COMMENTS: Israel would certainly be hopeful that the new Dubcek leadership would resume diplomatic relations, severed by the Novotny regime last June at the outbreak of the Israeli-Arab war. However, despite the statements of various liberal writers and intellectuals in Czechoslovakia calling for the resumption of diplomatic ties, there is little likelihood at present that Prague will resume relations—unless it knows there will be no objection from the USSR. This is a marginal foreign policy issue on which Prague would not want to antagonize Soviets. At the end of April, the CSSR Foreign Minister said it did not intend to resume relations—as some press reports had alleged. (If left to own devices, however, Prague would resume diplomatic relations with Israel.)
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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.