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 INR BRIEFING NOTE GIST: TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 7, 1968 TIME: 8 a.m. COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) On a somewhat lighter note this morning: Beirut 9888 Confidential An official of The Arab Central Boycott Office has informed a US Emboff that at their June 5 meeting, August 1 was set as the cut-off date for the bottling of Coca-Cola. Arab bottlers of Coca-Cola will be able to continue operations with a substitute called "K-Cola". Samples of K-Cola had been provided to conferees and little difference in taste could be detected. K-Cola concentrate will be provided from Lebanon. Pressures for implementation of the boycott originated with Lebanese businessmen, who were interested in selling the concentrate. One problem concerns the bottles: the assumption is being made that Arab bottlers can dispose of their stocks of Coke bottles to non-Arab bottlers. INR/RNA Comment: Americans may have to drink the water of the Red Sea but the Arabs will drink K-Cola.
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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.