THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 30 MARCH 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973704
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 30, 1967

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DAILY BRIEF
30 MARCH 1967
1. Vietnam
2. South Vietnam
3. Soviet Union
Communist truck traffic in the
?Laotian panhandle continued fairly
heavy throughout March. According to
reports from friendly guerrilla teams,
most of this traffic is heading for
Communist storage areas near the South
Vietnamese border.
Initial interrogation of a Commu-
nist
tends.to confirm
other indications of an enemy summer
offensive in Quang Nam, Quang Tin and
Quang Ngai provinces (see map).
one of the main
objectives of the offensive is the
special forces camp which guards the
approach to Quang Ngai city.
enemy units .are being positioned in
this area.
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4, Soviet Union
5. Sino-Soviet
Relations
6. Sierra Leone
The Soviets are adding a new ele-
ment to their propaganda line against
the Chinese. .What they, are saying is
that Peking and the CIA are actually
working together. The Russians have
tried out this theme on occasion in
the past, but only recently have they
begun to use it prominently.
Among other things, Moscow says
this duo collaborated in the abortive
Indonesian coup of 1965 and attempted
to turn the recent elections in India
against the Indian Communist Party.
In Latin Americathe Chinese are
alleged to have "closed ranks" with
the CIA and other "subversive US:agen-
cies." The Soviets charge that the
collaborators intend to.split the Com-
munist parties .and to make Communism
and the Soviet Union look bad.
Despite the sorry state of affairs
between China and the Soviet Union, the
two countries continue to maintain eco-
nomic relations--albeit at rather
modest levels. Moscow, for instance,
still delivers some nonstrategic mili-
tary equipment to China, but nothing
that the Chinese are unable to manufac-
ture themselves. We understand that
total trade this year will stay at
about the level of last year, which was
somewhat below the 1965 figure of $415
million.
Embassy Freetown says only lip
service is being given to the' idea of
returning the government to civilians,
and the army is digging in for a long
stint at running the country.
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7. Dominican Republic
8. Greece
President Balaguer's newly ap-
pointed police chief may well bring
out the worst in the country's politi-
cal habits. The new man is known for
his strong-arm tactics and is suspected
of having been one of the heavy hands
in the Trujillo period.
The police chief comes to office
at a time when old feuds between
Trujillistas and conservatives proud
of their anti-Trujillo record are be-
ing openly revived. He should find
it hard working with his boss, the
Minister of the Interior, who is one
of the surviving members of the group
that killed Trujillo.
The government may fall today.
,The issue before Parliament is a dis-
puted amendment to a proposed electoral
law.
This amendment would grant immu-
nity from arrest to all election candi-
dates--a step obviously intended to
protect ex-premier Papandreou's son
whose parliamentary immunity is cur-
rently being challenged. The embassy
in Athens believes the prospects for
resolving the dispute are poor.
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