THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 11 NOVEMBER 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005974115
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 11, 1967

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DAILY BRIEF
11 NOVEMBER 1967
1. Egypt
2. West Germany
3. Rhodesia
Moscow cannot meet Cairo's urgent
request for 600,000 tons of refined
petroleum products to cover Egyptian
needs through November and December.
The Egyptians had asked for help
after the Suez refineries were destroyed
last month. Cairo is haggling to get
Egyptian crude processed at an Aden re-
finery, but even if this deal goes
through it would take care of only the
most essential requirements.
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No progress was made in the latest
round of talks on a Rhodesian settle-
ment between Ian Smith and British Com-
monwealth Secretary George Thomson.
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4. Japan
5. Congo
Sato arrives in Washington with a
solid power base in his own Liberal.
Democratic Party. The prime minister
successfully led the party through a
national election last January and feels
this was an endorsement of his determi-
nation to keep close relations with the
US.
Sato also saw the election as giv-
ing him a mandate to go forward in
gradually expanding Japan's economic
and political role in Asia. South
Korea is one beneficiary. By 1975
Japan will have invested $1 billion in
Korea's economic development and re-
placed the US as the largest source of
external assistance.
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The emergency committee session
of the Organization of African Unity
called by Mobutu to consider the fate
of the mercenaries and their Katangan
cohorts is finally meeting now.
a draft resolution
probably will be put before the
committee--if Mobutu approves. It does
not demand outright extradition of the
mercenaries, but it does claim compen-
sation must be paid for the damage they
have done. Payment would be "by the
mercenaries or by the states they claim
to belong to."
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
11 November 1967
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
Interviews with Captured US Pilots: The Hanoi
press yesterday carried interviews with Lieutenant
Commander McCain, son of Admiral McCain, commander
of US Naval forces in Europe, and another captured
pilot, Air Force Colonel John Flynn.
. McCain was quoted as having said, "The morale
of the Vietnamese people is very high. The Viet-
namese people are very strong--present events.are
moving to the advantage of North Vietnam, and the
United States appears to be isolated."
Both pilots are said to have commented on the
density and accuracy of antiaircraft fire over
Hanoi. Flynn was quoted as saying, "Your ground-
to-air missiles are really dangerous. As for your
MIGs, we could hardly tell where they were coming
from, and after firing, they disappeared."
Flynn is also said to have remarked that young
US pilots, despite their outward bravado, were
frightened at having to fly over the North, partic-
ularly Hanoi. "Many young pilots want to leave the
Air Force to become civilian pilots, and the old
pilots like me want to retire and return to our
families."
These excerpts were broadcast by the French
Press Agency. Texts of the articles are not yet
available.
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