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: Giap Statement on Troops in SVN Not New TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 7, 1968 TIME: SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) WASH. POST June 7 UNCLASSIFIED According to news dispatches, NVN commander-in-chief Vo Nguyen Giap stated in a speech to NVN transport workers broadcast recently in Vietnamese that: "The Army of Liberation and our people are fighting on all battlefields from Camau near the southern tip of SVN to Route 9, just south of the DMZ." Giap also said the workers have "ceaselessly carried ammunition, guns and food to our army on the front lines." INR Comment: We do not yet have an FBIS monitoring of Giap's speech. Even if the wire services have correctly monitored his statement, it does not go beyond previous statements by Hanoi. For example, Hanoi domestic service on April 20 stated, "In South Vietnam, ever since the Lunar New Year, our people and armed forces have been launching repeated attacks and uprisings..." We therefore do not concur with the press speculation that the statement constitutes any new breakthrough on the issue of NVN forces in the South. We particularly do not believe that it should be read as a concession to our insistence that Hanoi admit its involvement there.
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FOIA release, from the cia-readingroom collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 132 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.