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: JAPAN: A new source of friction to US-Japan relations? INR BRIEFING NOTE TO: The Director, INR DATE: June 12, 1963 TIME: regular morning COMMENTS CONTAINED IN INR BRIEFING NOTES ARE INITIAL AND TENTATIVE. SOURCE(S) TDCS-3114/09548 Confidential 6/12/63 The Japan Peace Committee, a Japan Communist Party Front, has obtained a complete set of the Japanese-language documents covering nine years of negotiations between the Japan Defense Agency (JDA) and US forces in Japan regarding the return of the East Fuji training field. The Peace Committee plans to pass the English translation of the document to the Fuji Farmers Association which will then present it to US representatives involved in the negotiations. The Japan Peace Committee hopes that the disclosure of these documents, which represent the JDA position, will foster distrust between the JDA side and the US side. The Fuji farmers hope to obtain immediate eviction of the Americans and monetary compensation from the Japanese government for use of the land by the JSJF. Both are dissatisfied with the efforts of JDA to obtain the return of the land to Japanese control. Tokyo's 9180, Confidential 6/12/63 Embassy Comment: JDA has split over return of Fuji training area with JDA military officers hoping US will continue control of the maneuver area while civilians under Direct or General JDA working to have Fuji status revised from permanent US control to temporary US use. Whatever the effect the disclosure of these documents has on the negotiations, it will enable press to focus attention on yet another irritant to US-Japan relations. REA Comment: At any other time the disclosure of these documents might have been of only slight interest but coming after several other incidents it may add to the burgeoning public concern about the US military presence in Japan. INR OFFICE REA BRIEFER Cheatham EXTENSION 4640 CONFIDENTIAL No.31097 DS.4118 DocId:33061196 Page 1 (Classification)
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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.