THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 18 MARCH 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 18, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
18 March 1967
1.
Soviet Union
The Russians may well try another
lunar probe next week. The optimum
time will be Sunday through Tuesday.
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North Vietnam
We think Hanoi could be gearing up
3. France
for a propaganda spectacular involving
US prisoners in North Vietnam, but we
have nosolid evidence when this might
come Such a spectacular might be sim-
ilar to the mass confessions on "germ
warfare" the Communists exploited dur-
ing the Korean war. It would be a key
element in the:Communists' present well-
orChestrated,,World-wide-campaign to
blacken the US for "war crimes."
We have good reason to believe that
"confessions" have been extracted from
all or most of the US prisoners in the
North. Some individual statements have
been released from time to time, but we
believe Hanoi is holding back on a
goodly collection still in its file for
later use.
People around De Gaulle are be-
ginning to admit that the government
clearly lacks the money to implement
its elaborate social welfare program.
Instead, there is talk now of "improv-
ing the presentation" of existing pro-
grams and developing "a more effective
dialogue" with the working class. The
newly beefed-up Left should have quite
a field day with this.
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4. Egypt
5. Guinea
Egypt is on a collision course
with the US, and recognizes a "duty
to oppose and foil US policy in the
Middle East and other parts of the
world." .This is the line of an edi-
torial put out yesterday by one of
NasIx's semi-official. press spokesmen.
The piece also says that Nasir told
Ambassador Battle that Egypt would
withdraw its longstanding request
for renewal Of the-PL-480 wheat pro-
gram.
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