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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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SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) Paris AFP, 4 Jun 68 FBIS 03, 5 Jun 68 Paris AFP filed a report from their Moscow correspondent on the reported removal from office of Komsomol chief Sergey Pavlov. Report based on "well-informed" Soviet source who also claimed Pavlov will head Soviet Commission on Physical Culture. Moscow 4135, 6 Jun 68 Embassy Moscow ascertained that both AFP and UPI correspondents heard from different sources same story. Both correspondents puzzled by timing of such a move in view of current ideological campaign with which Pavlov must be in deep sympathy. Both speculated only on possible causes of such a move and suggested that ties with Shelepin or dissatisfaction with views and mood of Soviet youth may be possible reasons. Embassy noted identification of Pavlov as Komsomol leader on a schedule still valid on June 6, but does not rule out possibility that unconfirmed rumors might be accurate. RSF Comment: No announcement has yet appeared of a Komsomol plenum, which has the power to make such personnel shifts as the replacement of the Komsomol first secretary. In itself this casts doubt on the authenticity of the above rumors, but does not remove the possibility of such a move in the near future. We agree that the timing of Pavlov's removal now would be bad in view of the regime's strenuous policy of cracking down on ideological dissent. Pavlov has served the regime faithfully in past moments of similar stress, the most notorious of which probably was his denunciation of Boris Pasternak as a pig. The most probable causes for dismissal of Pavlov would be his inclusion in the Shelepin coterie, which inspired repeated forecasts last year of his eventual dismissal, and the dissatisfaction of the regime with the degree of apathy and disaffection among Soviet youth, especially among university students. Youthful support for literary dissenters was an essential ingredient in the events connected with the trials of Sinyavskiy and, more recently, Ginzburg. Fear that university youths and intellectuals may espouse some of the radical ideas currently endorsed by the New Left in Western Europe has inspired extraordinarily bitter denunciations in the Soviet press, the most of outstanding of which was Yuriy Zhukov's fulmination against the doctrines of Herbert Marcuse in the May 30 edition of Pravda. Concern youthful misdemeanors, adoption of heterodox attitudes, and the development of local nationalism in the non-Russian republics was highlighted in the May 8 speech of the Moldavian Party Secretary, which was discussed in our memorandum of last Monday, RSB-85. The failure of the above stories to include the name of a successor to Pavlov suggests that, even if the move is in the offing, all the necessary steps and arrangements have not yet been made and may be subject to politicking. INR OFFICE RSB/SOV BM2 BRIEFER D.Graves EXTENSION 5088 I.SOH (Classification)
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