THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 3 DECEMBER 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968663
• 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 3, 1966

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
3 DECEMBER 1966
1. Vietnam
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2. Ecuador
3. Congo
4. Togo
5. Soviet Union
The military has not yet reacted
overtly to yesterday's assembly vote
which stripped members of the former
junta of their citizenship rights.
The military may only be waiting, how-
ever, to see what if any teeth are in
the measure. If it means loss of pay
and real disgrace, "countermeasures"
by the military could yet materialize.
Relations with Belgium are improv-
ing. Union Miniere, the giant Belgian
holding company, and Mobutu have tenta-
tively agreed to set up a new company
to control all of Union Miniere's assets
in the Congo. The Congolese Government
would own half of this company.
If this plan works. out, Mobutu may
indeed calm down. .Lack of control over
foreign business operations in the
Congo was a principal cause of his anti-
Belgian binge which last summer brought
relations between the two countries to
the brink.
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6. Soviet Union
Moscow is pulling out more and
more stops in its propaganda campaign
to convince the Russian people that
the Chinese are beyond the pale.
Within the last two weeks, both
television and the theater have been
enlisted to spew out anti-Chinese
venom. Soviet TV is now showing--
with ungentle commentary--film clips
of Red Guard excesses, and anti-
Chinese cracks are slipping into--or
sometimes being dragged into--Moscow
plays.
This, taken together with the
general step-up in Soviet polemics
and Moscow's drive for an international
Communist conference, sounds like an
attempt to get the Soviet people ready
for a prolonged mud-slinging match
?with Peking.
Meanwhile, the embassy reports
that anti-US propaganda is falling off
perceptibly, particularly on Vietnam.
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