THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 7 DECEMBER 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968669
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 7, 1966

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The President's Daily Brief
7-13S1-6.geL 7 December 1966
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1. South Vietnam The Viet Cong chose their target
well if, as seems likely, they were re-
sponsible for the assassination of Dep-
uty Tran Van Van this morning. Van was
a very militant southerner and a thorn
in the side of the regime.
Had not one of the assassins been
caught and his confession quickly publi-
cized, the killing would almost surely
have been laid at Ky's door by many of
Vans friends and resulted in a new up-
surge in tension between southerners
and northerners. It still may.
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DAILY BRIEF
7 DECEMBER 1966
3. Communist China
This is one more indication that
the Viet Cong is well attuned to poli-
tical bickering in Saigon.
We see continuing evidence of
preparations for China's fifth nuclear
test. We believe it could come any
day now but have nothing yet to pin
the time down precisely.
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4. Soviet Union
5. Iran
7 Dec 66
The Russians are making major im-
provements in their air defense system
along the Chinese border.
The Iranians, with Soviet help,
have found some promising oil real
estate offshore in the Caspian.
Iran in the past has been reluc-
tant to allow the Soviets any real
leverage in their oil production, but
recently the Shah has been after larger
oil revenues and greater trade with the
Eastern bloc. The Shah has previously
said that the Soviets have offered to
buy his oil at a price at least equal
to that paid by the Western consortium.
Moscow's trade minister is due in
Tehran shortly.
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6. Jordan
7. Yugoslavia
7 Dec 66
The Arab Defense Council met in
Cairo this morning amid continuing at-
tacks against King Husayn by Syria and
the Palestine Liberation Organization.
The Syrian chief of state even
made a public statement today that "our
weapons are available to those Jordanian
rebels who want them." On Monday the
head of the Palestine Liberation Organi-
zation stated that his organization had
"reached a joint struggle agreement"
with Syria.
The Cairo meeting has ostensibly
been called to discuss Jordanian de-
fense policy, against Israel. The real
issue, however, is whE'ther Jordan will
let its Arab neighbors come in to "aid"
in strengthening border defenses against
Israel. Such a move would cause politi-
cal turmoil in west Jordan and further
embroil Jordan with the Israelis.
As it now, stands, the meeting is
almost certain to make Jordan's split
with Syria and Egypt even deeper.
In an altogether unprecedented de-
velopment for a Communist country, the
government of Slovenia--one of the
provinces of Yugoslavia--resigned today.
The issue was the state assembly's re-
fusal to adopt a health insurance bill.
This is the most dramatic example so far
of the-YUgoslavs moving away from the
classical Communist way of doing business.
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