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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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SOURCE(S)	CLASS./CONTROL(S)
FRI 19, June 7 (Rossow domestic radio June 7 prosecutions)	UNCL The man who chatted RFI was detained at the place where the attack took place. No in Serbian Birshar Sankar, a Palestinian Arch. Attorney General Clock has charged the FBI with determining whether the shooting was the secret of a conspiracy. There is not actually still an official answer to this question. (Duterte Radio Moscow says this in connection with revoking last night's reporting and this morning's France. According to Rostore, the Imprisonment stone undo-schneidging that the chief suspect is a Palestinian Arch sent on to state that if US media stress this, they will be trying to hold the three caliprits, which is the American way of 1980.) The Soviet paper stress that political murder in becoming a convention in the US, and note that the EU GPUSA has called for "all these responsible" to be brought to justice.
Rostore June 6	UNCL Press Yovgorniy Yovtsechenko read a long poem on American violence over Rossow TV June 6, saying that the blood of innocent murderers could not be ignored by all the working machines in the US.
UPI June 6	UNCL Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Kuninotov and Ambassador to the UK Malik signed the condolence book at USUN and wrote Ambassador Goldberg condoning sympathy to the Kennedy family.
FRI 85 June 6 (Radio Rossow in English June 6); Rostore June 6	UNCL Koygkin sent a telegram to Ethel Kennedy saying the shooting "avokes a profound sealing of indignation among the Soviet people." The Chairman of the Supreme Soviet's two chambers sent telegrams to UP Empire.
FRI 89 June 6 (German domestic ADU June 6); Rosters June 6	UNCL Ulbrich sent a telegram of sympathy to Ethel Kennedy, saying RFI "has become a victim of those powerful extremist extremists which/&force their anti-humanistic and anti-democratic objectives are increasingly murdering their political adversaries."
Rostore 31 372 June 6	COHP Polish Ambassador to the US Michalovski said June 6 to an inquiry officer he believed RFI had been "a amused man because he knew who killed his brother." The Rostore supports that Polish propaganda may claim the assassin was paid by Jem, in view of Poland's current anti-conflict campaign.

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