THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 22 SEPTEMBER 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968539
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 22, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
22 SEPTEMBER 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
22 SEPTEMBER 1966
1. Soviet Union
2. United Kingdom
3. France
The Soviets are continuing their
gradual build-up of military forces on
the Chinese border.
another Soviet regi-
ment has been moved to the Manchurian
frontier.
A review of both Soviet and Chinese
military dispositions along the border
is at Annex.
There are presently good grounds
for hope that Wilson's economic measures
will bring about short-run stabilization
of the economy and result in a balance-
of-payments surplus next year. The Lon-
don financial community and a large seg-
ment of business people there are confi-
dent of this. The bankers--reassured
by the recent increase in credits from
the Federal Reserve--say sterling is now
safe for another six months.
Wilson must recognize that the
tough political job of sticking by his
short-run stabilization goals will be
at longer term cost of a cutback in pri-
vate investment and the postponement of
economic growth.
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4. Iran
5. Communist China
The Shah is now talking of develop-
ing Eastern Europe into a "significant"
market for Iranian oil.)
This scheme is the economic side
of the Shah's ambition to demonstrate
his "independence" of the US. The grow-
ing consumption of petroleum products
in Eastern Europe gives the Shah's idea
some basis.
Before it can work, however, the
Shah's government will have to get its
hand on more of the oil produced in Iran.
The turmoil in the educational sys-
tem has forced China to send all foreign
students home. The Chinese minister of
higher education explained
yesterday that this is
necessary since the professors will be
devoting "all their efforts" to the
"cultural revolution." He said that
the students can return after a year.
The decision must have been a last
minute one. Classes normally begin in
early September. This suggests that
considerable uncertainty has existed
in Peking over the duration of the cur-
rent campaign to "purify" the party.
There are probably fewer than a
thousand foreign students following aca-
demic courses in China now. The number
has dropped sharply in recent years.
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6. South Korea
7. North Vietnam
Today was a bizarre one in Seoul.
The prime minister and his cabinet were
driven out of the national assembly by
a fireballing opposition member during
a full dress session. Shouting "this is
what I think of you," he hurled a full
can of human excrement at the'leadership.
He hit his targets who, following repairs
and perfuming, resigned.
Actually, the episode was an out-
growth of the publicity being given a
big smuggling scandal involving some
members of the government, the country's
biggest business combine, and Japanese
interests.(
/this .time the opposition
may make some headway in convincing the
public that it deserves something better.
Mass protest rallies are being scheduled.
President ?Pak hopes to keep the lid
on by promising a full investigation and
by focusing attention on today's inci-
dent in the legislature. It is clear,
though, that the government has been
badly shaken by the strength of public
reaction to the scandals.
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CHINA-USSR BORDER
Soviet and Chinese Ground Forces
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0 60 60 60 Kilometers
200 400. 600 Miles
TURKESTAN
MILITARY ?DISTRICT
3 Corps headquarters -
I Motorized rifle divisions
2 Tank divisLom Lake .Ayaguz
Balkhash
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SIBERIAN
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3 Motorized rifle divisions
U. S. S. R.
SINKIANG
*Urumchi
MILITARY REGION
1 Cavalry division
1 Infantry division
1 Military internal
security division
NAMES AND BOUNDARY REPRESENTATION
ARE NOT NECESSARILY AUTHORITATIVE
TRANS-BAIKAL
MILITARY DISTRICT
Lake
Baikal
Irkutsk.
2 Tank divisions
,Ulan-Ude
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MONGOLIA
Shita
Choybalsan.
INNER MONGOLIAN
MILITARY REGION
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2 Tank divisions
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Blagoveshchensk
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3 Artillery divisions
1 Anti aircraft
artillery divisior.
2 Boller defense di
2 Anti tankrbvisiol
1 Armor division
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Vladivostok
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JAPAN
KOREA
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ANNEX
Military Dispositions Along the Sino-Soviet Border
Military dispositions on both sides of the Sino-
Soviet border have mirrored the worsening relations
between Moscow and Peking over the past six years.
Although the posture of both sides is not the kind
that would be taken if hostilities were imminent,
their frontiers have gradually come to resemble the
boundaries betweentwo hostile camps.
Until 1960 the area along the Turkestan-Sinkiang
border, for instance,had been almost without defenses.
Over the next five years, however, the Soviets brought
in an airborne division and at least two other regi-
mental-size units. Later they transferred an army
corps headquarters from the Afghan border to the
Sinkiang border and are now apparently bringing the
corps up to the standard three-division strength.
Farther east, in Mongolia, the Soviet presence
has also grown markedly--mostly in the past two
years.
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Still farther east, on the Manchurian border,
the Russians have put their emphasis on reorganizing
and beefing up their border guard units. Some
75,000 of these elite troops are now stationed there--
providing a sizable auxiliary to the regular ground
forces. These latter forces are made up of
an army and a corps headquarters, seven motorized
divisions, and three other miscellaneous division-
size components
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On their side of the border, the Chinese have
bent their efforts to tightening security controls.
They have set up a number of new border defense
outposts manned by special security forces and estab-
lished a cordon sanitaire by moving local inhabitants
out of the border area. Only modest numbers of regu-
lar Chinese are stationed in the border region--
roughly 34,000 in Sinkiang and about 39,000 in Man-
churia.
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