In a single daily digest it covers the Algeria-Morocco border war, competing Soviet and Chinese aid offers to Algeria and Somalia, labor unrest against the Congo's Adoula government, Kenyan independence-constitution tensions, and anti-Baath coup plotting in Iraq.
It falls in the same month Lee Harvey Oswald was visiting the Soviet and Cuban embassies in Mexico City, illustrating how many other global crises the CIA was simultaneously monitoring that October.
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