THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 19 AUGUST 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973968
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 19, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
19 AUGUST 1967
1. North Vietnam
Hanoi seems to be pulling most of
its trucks out of the Laotian pan-
handle, presumably until the current
rainy season ends sometime in October.
Since early July, our roadwatch team
near the Mu Gia Pass (see map) has
seen nearly 50 trucks a day going in-
to North Vietnam. None have been re-
ported heading south since 18 July.
Farther south, a few trucks have been
seen moving both ways, indicating that
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3.
Jordan
Greece
at least a trickle of supplies con-
tinues to pass through Laos.
The US Embassy in Amman is cau-
tiously optimistic over King Husayn's
chances of surviving at least to the
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end of this year.
Officials in the Greek security
service are getting jumpy over what
they see as growing resistance activity
against the military regime. They
fear it may become more serious after
the schools open next month.
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4. Dominican Republic
5. Uruguay
6. France
7. Vietnam
Juan Bosch has withdrawn his res-
ignation as "senior adviser" to his
Dominican Revolutionary Party. Though
still in self-imposed exile in Spain,
he continues influential in party af-
fairs. His return to his post coin-
cides with a new drive by party radicals
to win the upper hand over more moderate
leaders. The squabbling continues, but
the radicals in the party are now on top
again.
The economic and political mess
looks more and more hopeless. Presi-
dent Gestido is said to be deeply dis-
couraged; important cabinet ministers
say they cannot see any way out. Talk
is being heard in Montevideo now of the
need for some kind of unconstitutional
"solution." It probably has not come
to this point yet, but it soon may un-
less the president takes hold and stops
his government's aimless drifting.
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De Gaulle is getting ready to
formalize his country's withdrawal from
the South East Asia Treaty Organizationfl
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Actually, this will not make
much difference--Paris has played only
a minimal role in the organization
since 1965. The move would presumably
be aimed at improving France's creden-
tials as a potential mediator of the
Vietnamese war.
H. Rap Brown jumped the gun yester-
day when he announced that Stokely
Carmichael was then arriving in Hanoi.
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8. Nigeria
9, Congo
The civil war drags on with no end
in sight. The federal Nigerian govern-
ment presented London this week with a
whopping list of military hardware it
wants to buy. Thus the British are now
faced with a decision they had hoped to
avoid.
London has been sending Lagos
limited "defensive" shipments which it
hoped would prevent intensification of
the fighting. Now it will have to de-
cide quickly whether to relax this
policy or to cut off arms sales alto-
gether.
Mobutu's young militants are
straining at the leash again, threaten-
ing new and wider scale antiwhite demon-
strations unless Schramme and his mercen-
aries quickly capitulate. Mobutu is
trying to hold them back, but is under
heavy pressure.
The Belgian ambassador in Kinshasa
is so desperate that he is asking Brus-
sels for authorization to offer Belgian
troops to fight against Schramme. This
would be hard for Mobutu to take even if
Brussels could be persuaded to make the
offer.
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