THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 3 AUGUST 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973940
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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: August 3, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
3 AUGUST 1967
1. Soviet Union
?, Syria
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The dramatic airlift of military
equipment to the Arab States following
the June debacle has apparently served
Moscow's initial purposes. Now, the
Russians appear much less generous.
Moscow probably has not yet\de-
cided how far it will go. It faces
an enormous job if it is even to get
Arab military inventories back to pre-
war levels. We calculate this would
require 80 more shiploads.
We are hearing rumblings of dis-
satisfaction inside Syria and see signs
that some new realignment in the leader-
ship may be under way. There is little
chance, however, for any basic change
in the radical coloration of the govern-
ment or in its close alignment with Mos-
cow.
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3. Arab States
4. .Libya
5, South .Vietnam
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Egypt has made one positive contri-
bution so far in the foreign ministers'
conference in Khartoum. Nasir has called5ax1
for renewal of the 1965 Jidda Agreement
with Saudi Arabia for an end to the war
in Yemen.
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is no way to tell now whether he is pre-
pared to follow through. It could be
merely a gesture to steal the spotlight
from the more radical states.
King Idris is in no hurry for the
evacuation of the US Wheelus base; he
would be quite happy if negotiations
drag on indefinitely. The King's pro-
Nasir enemies, however, have zeroed in
on the base as a focal point in their
dissident campaign. They exploded some
bombs against the perimeter wall last
week.
At the moment, propaganda pressures
from Cairo on the base issue are rather
lows If they increase, so will the anti-
base campaign in Libya--and the internal
threat to the King,
The presidential campaign opens
officially today and the expected pre-
election stirrings of the militant Bud-
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get themselves organized to oppose Thieu
and Ky. We anticipate some noise, but
we doubt it will get much louder than
thunder on the horizon as the militants
still have not recovered from the drub-
bing they took last year.
Tam Chau and the moderate Buddhists
are quietly supporting the Thieu-Ky
ticket.
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6. Greece
7. Peru
8. Cuba
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King Constantine told a US offi-
cial last weekend that he has signed a
government reorganization order giving
considerable new power to coup leader
Colonel George Papadopoulos. As "chief
of staff" of the cabinet, the colonel
will pass on almost all government ac-
tions. The King admitted that this will
give Papadopoulos "much more power" than
the prime minister.
Papadopoulos, who himself drafted
the reorganization plan, has been in
the forefront of those military leaders
.anxious to speed up the "revolution."
As for the King, some observers feel he
has now all but accepted .a second fiddle
role in the government.
The constitutional crisis continues,
but President Belaunde and his political
opponents are now quietly discussing com-
promise arrangements that might permit
the installation of Congress.
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