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: INR BRIEFING NOTE INDONESIA: Suharto Names New Development Cabinet TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 7 TIME: morning briefing COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) Unclassified Djakarta's T-7127 June 6 President Suharto announced today the composition of his new "development cabinet". Consisting of 24 members, of whom 5 are State Ministers (the Sultan, Idham Chalid of the NU, Harsono of PSII, Mintaredja of the new Muslim party PMI, Sunawar of the Nationalist Party PNI), and 19 are regular ministers (Adam Malik remains Foreign Minister, Dr. Sumitro is Minister of Trade—he was in exile in Malaysia for ten years after the 1958 rebellion—and the new Finance Minister is one of Suharto's principal economic advisers, Ali Wardhana). The President also announced that his personal staff, SPRI, headed by General Alamsjah, will no longer coordinate the various departments of the cabinet. INR COMMENTS: The Development Cabinet (all Indonesia's cabinets have had special names to characterize them) contains two of Indonesia's foremost economists, Dr. Sumitro and Ali Wardhana, which speaks well for the government's intentions. To remove SPRI, with its sticky-fingered director, from the coordinating role may signify a new determination to clean up some of the highest level corruption.
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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.