THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 18 AUGUST 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973966
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 18, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
18 AUGUST 1967
1. Vietnam
. Cuba
On Saturday, the International
Control Commission is to conduct a
helicopter reconnaissance of an area
along the Cambodian - .South Vietnamese
border. The investigation is in re-
sponse to a formal request from Sihanouk
after US reporters had claimed that
Viet Cong rocket sites were located
there.
The area in question contains ex-
tensive Communist support activity,
but there is little hope that the Com-
mission members will see it. The bad
terrain, the short time allotted for
the trip, and the Commission's past
performance suggest that the Cambodians
will get the clean bill of health they
want. Still, the investigation could
provide a useful precedent for the
future.
Fidel Castro's blueprint for vio-
lent revolution puts major emphasis on
a common strategy for guerrilla war-
fare throughout rural Latin America.
Castro hammered away on this thesis
in his closing speech to the Havana con-
ference of the Latin American Solidarity
Organization. We have been examining
the full text of this speech, given last
week, and it is quite clearly a declara-
tion of ideological independence from
orthodox Latin American parties as well
as a statement of intent to support
armed struggle.
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3. Cuba
4. Communist China
_Today has been proclaimed the "Day
of Solidarity with the American Negro."
Havana plans appropriate ceremonies
and says a prominent "North American
Negro" will speak.
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general, we believe Mao is riding the
tiger with his Cultural Revolution but
refuses to get off because of the tre-
mendous loss of face and political
power that would follow an end to the
revolution.
Given that situation, we see even
greater trouble ahead with, perhaps, a
collapse into total anarchy. Before
final chaos, however, we believe one of
two things may occur:
--China will return to the sort
of warlord regionalism that
marked the 1920s, or
--There will be a coalition of
more "moderate" military and
Communist Party leaders who
will ease Mao aside--using him
as a symbol, but keeping his
hand off the throttle. (These
men would be more rational but
no less antagonistic to the
United States.)
We believe the second course is
more likely, and that it may come to
pass within the next year.
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5. Nigeria
6. Colombia
Federal forces appear to be hold-
ing their own. While the Biafrans
have much of the Mid-West state, their
offensive has gone into neutral gear.
With one year of his four-year
term behind him, President Lleras can
look back with some sense of accomplish-
ment. He has made fairly good progress
on the economic front and he is a
pusher on Latin American economic inte-
gration. Lleras is still plagued by
guerrillas, but has had some success
against them.
His greatest millstone has been a
Congress that bickers, dickers, and
drags its feet. Recent political
shuffles may help in the Congress, how-
ever, leaving Lleras with a reasonably
clear road for his promised reforms.
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