THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 10 AUGUST 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: DIF-DUP
• 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: August 10, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
10 August 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
10 AUGUST 1967
1. North Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
3. West Germany
A recent article in the North
Vietnamese army journal suggests that
Hanoi's long-running debate over war
policy, is heating up again.
The author (the deputy chief of
the army's political department) used
terms reminiscent of the late General
Thanh to argue that the only hope for
a Communist victory in South Vietnam
lies in armed struggle. He harshly
attacked unnamed persons who question
the wisdom of waging a purely military
struggle without some serious effort
to get negotiations going.
The bitter language of the article
suggests that there may be some wavering
within the North Vietnamese military
over current military, policy. It is not
clear, however, to what extent these
doubts are shared by the highest levels
of Hanoi's leadership.
While Chancellor Kiesinger is the
target of a certain amount of domestic
press sniping, he has ample backing and
will not be handicapped on his Washing-
ton visit
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. Cuba
5. Communist China
Fidel will close the conference to-
night with a television address that will
give him another opportunity to repeat
his firebrand thesis and underscore his
differences with more orthodox exponents
of Lenin.
Mao's control over events in China
may be slipping. The most recent indica-
tion of the leader's faltering hand is
the apparent reprieve of three officials
who have been under intermittent attack
for months. This has all the earmarks of
a concession to Chou En-lai, who may have
army support.
Mao's backing in the army has fallen
away markedly in the past few months as
one after another the powerful military
region commanders have tried to bring
some order out of the Cultural Revolution's
chaos.
But disorder is spreading. Red Guards
in Peking recently defied the minister of
public security, one of Mao's own men.
Yesterday the Guards burned the Mongolian
ambassador's car. Similar acts of civil
disobedience and lawlessness are reported
all over China. In some cities the army
has had to use machine guns on wild-eyed
mobs of Maoist "revolutionaries."
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6. Congo
7. Nigeria
A cocky mercenary leader told Brit-
ish newsmen yesterday that Mobutu would
have to buy peace with the release of
Tshombe and a job for the ex-premier in
the Congolese government.
Major Jean Schramme, the Belgian
expatriate who led 150 white mercenaries
and their 1,000 Katangese cohorts into
Bukavu, said the mercenaries planned to
expand their control in the Bukavu area,
but he left open the threat of a march
south into Katanga Province if Mobutu re-
fused to negotiate. Schramme claimed
"the Congolese Army is incapable of de-
feating us'." In that, he is about right.
Just rumors that the mercenaries
might move south have sent the first
-chills of panic through the European
community in Katanga--not that they fear
the mercenaries, but rather the hysteri-
cal reaction of the Congolese.
About 120 whites who had been travel-
ing with the mercenaries were put across
the border into Rwanda yesterday.
Biafran troops went over to the of-
fensive yesterday with an invasion of
the Mid-Western state.
Led by ,a Colonel Banjo, the Biafrans
took Benin City, the state's capital.
There apparently was some collusion on
the part of local troops. Banjo's
Biafrans reportedly plan to move on into
the Western state. A Biafran airplane
also dropped three bombs in the Lagos
area yesterday.
On Tuesday, Lieutenant Colonel
Gowon, who heads the federal government,
called in Ambassador Mathews to express
his desire for good relations with the
US and to ask if he could send a repre-
sentative to explain the Nigerian situa-
tion to President Johnson.
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