THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 18 JANUARY 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968738
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• Original Classification: T
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 18, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
--rop?S-ericet. 18 January 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
18 JANUARY 1967
1. Communist China
The political convulsions continue.
We are now seeing signs that Mao's
enemies are counterattacking. In fact,
they may even be gaining ground in some
localities.
Today, for the first time, Mao's
wife and his assistant, Chen Po-ta,
came under attack in posters seen in
Peking. Other posters praised Chief
of State Liu Shao-chi, the principal
target of the Mao-inspired Red Guard.
The latest military man to come under
poster attack was named just last week
?a member of the army's purge organiza-
tion.
A blackout on local news has been
imposed on fourteen regional radio sta-
tions in recent days. This is a clear
sign that these cities are in the grip
of political struggle and that the issue
has not yet been decided.
The big southern city of Canton
seems to be still under the control of
party bureaucrats who have successfully
resisted violent Red Guard attempts to
take over.
Nanking is apparently still a
stronghold of anti-Mao forces. In Shang-
hai, where the struggle has been under
way for weeks, the conflict has still
apparently not been decided.
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3. Soviet Union
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the military Directorate--including
both Ky and Thieu--decided late yester-
day to dump Defense Minister Co. Co--
now in Taipei on an official junket--
has evidently not been given the word.
In any case, he will not be permitted
to return home.
The immediate reason for Co's
ouster was his alleged attempts in re-
cent weeks to play Ky and Thieu off
against each other. Co's replacement,
however, is unlikely to do much to
smooth over this old rivalry at the top.
Co's removal may produce some ad-
verse reactions from the more militant
southern politicians, but a reliable
clandestine source reports that most of
the generals who attended the Director-
ate meeting yesterday discounted the
likelihood of major repercussions.
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5. Macao
6. Chile
18 Jan 67
The evacuation of Portuguese de-
pendents to Hong Kong is well under way
although things are still quiet in
Macao. The Chinese are continuing to
insist on an abject Portuguese apology
that would publicly accept responsibility
for the December riots. The Portuguese
are now engaged in another?effort to get
by with some compromise statement.
President Frei still hopes to visit
the US on schedule. Frei's request to
leave the country has now been submitted
to the lower house of Congress. Approval
is a sure thing there. Foreign Minister
Valdes told the US Embassy that the re-
quest will then be resubmitted to the
Senate in hopes of a reversal of yester-
day's vote. Frei may come even if the
Senate does not reverse itself.
Public reaction to the Senate's un-
precedented action yesterday has been
strongly on Frei's side. Most Chileans
recognize it as a spiteful move by di-
verse groups in the Senate aimed solely
at embarrassing the President.
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