THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 4 FEBRUARY 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968769
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: February 4, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
Top Secret 4 February 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
4 FEBRUARY 1967
1. Vietnam
2. China
3. Nicaragua
The most striking thing about Mao's
reappearance yesterday was Lin Piao's
failure-to show up too. It was a re-
ception for the visiting Albanian de-
fense minister and Lin Piao should have
been there.
Chou En-lai, now third ranking in
the leadership, would be the man most
likely to benefit if Lin Piao should
fade from the scene. Chou is relatively
more pragmatic and flexible than his
principal colleagues, however, and for
this reason Mao probably does not re-
gard him as an acceptable successor.
Tomorrow is election day. Isolated
violence is almost certain, but no major
outbreak is expected. The opposition
is now talking of postelection guerrilla
activity to overthrow the regime.
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4. Sino-Soviet
Relations
5. Saudi Arabia
6. Chile
4 Feb 67
The tough police foray on the Chi-
nese embassy grounds in Moscow yesterday
is just one more sign that Soviet pa-
tience is wearing thin.
In Peking, the evacuation of Soviet
dependents got under way today. The So-
viet women and children were treated to
a wild and lurid anti-Soviet demonstra-
tion at the airport where the mob carried
a big bloody effigy of Kosygin swinging
from a gallows and shouted such slogans
as "Crush the dog's head of Brezhnev."
There will be some interesting stories
circulating around Moscow in the coming
days.
The Soviets are not the only foreign-
ers being given the Mao treatment. The
Czechs, Hungarians, East Germans, Mongo-
lians, and the French have also gotten it.
The Egyptians bombed that Saudi town
again yesterday, according to the Saudi
Government. The US Army attach?his
week visited the bombed town, the target
of at least four recent Egyptian raids.
He found it to be a major supply base and
safe haven for the Yemeni royalists.
Quiet Soviet diplomacy is beginning
to pay dividends in Chile, some two years
after the resumption of diplomatic rela-
tions. A $57 million trade and aid agree-
ment signed last month gives some economic
substance to relations between the two
countries. The Soviets are also doing an
effective job with their cultural and
scientific programs in Chile.
Soviet collaboration with the Frei
government has been an embarrassment to
the local Communists./
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