THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 22 MAY 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973814
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 22, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
et 22 May 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
22 MAY1967
1. Arab States -
Israel
Israeli patrols, both land and air,
crossed both the Egyptian and Jordanian
frontiers over the weekend. These in-
cursions have caused brief exchanges of
fire, but neither side appears ready to
expand them into a major clash.
The evacuation of United Nations
forces is proceeding more slowly than
expected from earlier evidence.(
Embassy Cairo reports that Egyp-
tian officials, one of whom said he
hoped Israel did start something, ap-
pear bellicose and confident they could
win. "We will .drive straight for Tel
Aviv, and our air force will destroy
every city and town in Israel ?in a matter
of hours," said another official. .
The embassy feels that this mood
probably extends to Nasir himself, and
concludes there is no doubt he is play-
ing for keeps.
The Egyptians .appear also to have
talked themselves into believing stories
of a US-Israeli plot against Syria. The
embassy feels.anti-US actions involving
the American community in Egypt could
erupt at any time.
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2. North Vietnam
3. Hong Kong
At least 34 North Vietnamese jet
fighters have been ?knocked out of ac-
tion in aerial combat or by airfield
bombing over the past month. Ten of
these were shot out of the air this
weekend.
This leaves Hanoi with about 46
fighters on the four bases in the Hanoi-
Haiphong area.1
Demonstrations are getting larger
and more militant. The local Commu-
nists appear bent on provoking an inci-
dent, and they came fairly close yes-
terday/and again this morning.
On both days raucous crowds, 'defy-
ing a ?ban on disorderly gatherings,
came eyeball to eyeball with the police.
In yesterday's melee, police used tear
gas and clubs and made numerous arrests.
This action has produced Communist
screams of "police brutality" and charges
that thousands were wounded, dead, or
missing.
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4. Communist China
5. Guinea
6. Soviet Union
Posters saying that pro-Mao types
are being massacred in some provinces
continue to appear, and we continue to
believe they are greatly exaggerated.
, We suspect this poster campaign is
Peking's way of laying the groundwork
for a reorganization of the local mili-
tary commands.
Nkrumah, still vegetating in
Guinea surrounded by a dwindling bunch
of semiliterate henchmen, last week
made his first public speech in over a
year.r.
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