THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 05968773
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: December 28, 2022
• Document Release Date: June 20, 2018
• Case Number: F-2016-01698
• Publication Date: February 7, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
et 7 February 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
7 February 1967
1. Communist China
2. Sino-Soviet
Relations
Mao and his followers still face
important opposition in the army, while
posters seen in Peking yesterday claim
"there is no end to sporadic bloody
clashes." We think these "clashes"
are mainly street riots and demonstra-
tions; no hard evidence of troops ex-
changing fire anywhere in China has
�yet appeared.
The Maoists may be trying to bring
the army around by dealing brutally
with military leaders who have incurred
their disfavor. Posters say that the
head of the army purge group--who was
abruptly sacked in mid January--was
dragged out before a rally of soldiers
on Sunday.
Anti-Soviet demonstrations in
Peking--now in the Inb day--look more
and more like an effort to force the
Russians �out of China entirely. Soviet
diplomats there are in a state of
virtual siege.
Moscow is plainly hard pressed to
maintain its pose of restraint.
Representatives of Moscow's East
European allies are also being violently
abused. A mob kept the Polish ambassador
in his car for 10 hours, causing him to
ruin both his clothing and the upholstery.
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3. Soviet Union
4. South Vietnam
5. Indonesia
General Tri, the Saigon minister
responsible for the defector program,
is said to be dragging his feet in
carrying out the "national reconciliation"
campaign. Tri is skittish about pushing
contacts with high-level Communists for
fear that he would be accused of collab-
oration with the Communists. He is
inclined in any event to let George do
it, in this case General Loan, Ky's
chief of security services.
Tri's bosses seem to share some of
his reservations about the program. Its
launching, most recently scheduled to
coincide with the New Year holiday, now
seems likely to be postponed until April
at the earliest.
Pressures on Sukarno to step down--
or be removed and perhaps tried for
treason--are increasing.
We, however, ex-
pect the cat and mouse game to continue,
with Suharto pressing Sukarno to resign
and the President being as difficult as
possible.
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