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 CIST: North Vietnam: Nhan Dan repeats and embellishes plot theory on assassination of Sen. Kennedy O: The Director, INR DATE: 7 June 1968 TIME: 0730 COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE SOURCE(S) CLASS./CONTROL(S) FBIS 21 OUO In a June 7 article Nhan Dan enlarged on the NVN theory that Sen. Kennedy had been the victim of a planned assassination, "closely connected with the life and death race for the US presidency". The killing was reminiscent of the death of his brother John Kennedy, "also...during an election campaign trip following which Lyndon B. Johnson became US president." Whatever the motive, the killing sheds more light on the ruthlessness and baseness of US ruling circles and the rottenness of US society. The paper continues in the same vein, saying that the troubles and incidents in the US are the result of contradictions in US ruling circles and the split between people and leaders. INR Comment: See our IN on this subject published yesterday.
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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.