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Department of State Inr Briefing Note- June 12, 1968

Central Intelligence Agency · 1968-06-12 · 132 pages · text by GLM-OCR

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.

  • p. 39 …impromptu visit to Brussels as guest of King Emmanuel Baudouin. He was expected to most also…
  • p. 55 …the deaths of President Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. PCI leader Longo has called…
  • p. 60 …The Polish press links the JFK-King-RFK shootings, and Trybuna Ludu June 7 charged that…
  • p. 61 …Borba June 6 called JFK-King-RFK shootings all the work of the same forces, subtly…
  • p. 84 …policies." This is apparent in the bitterness of comment on the Martin Luther King and Kennedy
  • p. 116 According to King Husayn, the Soviet Ambassador in Amman told him on 4 June that the…
  • p. 117 …Martin Luther King. It attributed the shooting to a conspiracy, possibly directed from the White House…
  • p. 118 …FBIS 10 June 6 (Hungarian wire service NYI June 5) UNCL The JFK, King, and RFK…
  • p. 119 …June 6) Responsible for the JFK, King, and RFK shootings, "the extreme right has united in…
  • p. 120 …Edgar Hoover called Martin Luther King a liar; Hoover prompted the assassins. He invented "a slanderous…

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
INR BRIEFING NOTE	GIST:
Travel Dan on Foreign Diplomats in Moscow
TO:
The Director, INR	DATE: 6/7/68
TIME:	COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING
NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE.
SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S)

was prohibited for about a 2-month period. We were informally told at the time by Soviet officials--especially the Soviet military--that the ban was imposed because of publication in the West of the Penkovsky papers, which were deemed highly insulting to the Soviet military (Malinovsky was said to be infuriated).

6. We note that our colleague Kenneth Kerst, whose visa to travel to Moscow by train through Brest was cancelled by the Soviets May 11, was planning the Moscow leg of his trip last weekend, June 1-3, during the period of the present ban. This may be a curious coincidence.

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The Watch Committee is already seized of the subject, and discussed it--but without reaching firm conclusions--last Wednesday, June 5.

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INR OFFICE
RSB SOV	BRIEFER
E.Zook	EXTENSION
CONFIDENTIAL
NO.158078	DocId:33061196	Page 82
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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.