THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 27 JULY 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973928
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 27, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
27 JULY 1967,
1. Communist China
2. North Vietnam
Peking has come close to losing
control over the important Wuhan Mili-
tary Region in Central China. This is
where two high party officials from
Peking were arrested last week by the
local military leader.
At a million-strong demonstration
in Peking on Tuesday Lin Piao and a
host of other officials denounced mili-
tary and party leaders in Wuhan. One
speaker openly called on the "hood-
winked masses" of Wuhan to revolt.
An editorial in yesterday's Peoples
Daily asserted that Wuhan leaders will
be destroyed if they "do not surren-
der."
Mao's fury at the defiance in
Wuhan may be impotent. We have seen
no signs that Peking has yet sent
troops to the rebellious area. It
may be afraid to do so.
The last two OXCART missions--
flown within a 24-hour period--have
given us what amounts to a composite
picture of nearly the whole country
of North Vietnam. With the help of
good weather, we were able to obtain
cloud-free photography of about 80
percent of the country--and this in-
cluded all of the particularly sensi-
tive areas.
In the realm of air defense, for
instance, these missions provided al-
most a complete look at surface-to-
air missile sites and fighter air-
craft.
There were no signs of surface-
to-surface missile deployment.
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3. Vietnam
4. Soviet Union
5. Pakistan
6. France
Stokely Carmichael has been made
a vice-president of an "investigating"
unit in Bertrand Russell's"war crimes
tribunal."/
Soviet arms deliveries to the Arab
States have slowed down, but talks are
still going on in Moscow with Arab del-
egations on further military aid. We
have yet to see any sign of the long-
term course the Soviets propose to take,
but Moscow is putting out the line that
the equipment to be resupplied will be
"defensive."
President Ayub is to include Moscow
in the European tour he is planning this
September. We understand that Soviet
leaders have been urging him to come.
They are anxious to offset Chinese in-
fluence in Pakistan. Ayub, for his
part, would like to get the Soviets to
ease up on their strong support for
India.
The French have decided to build
up some cheap credit with the Algerians
early next year by evacuating their
last naval base in Algeria some nine
years ahead of schedule. The base is
not worth much to France now and evacua-
tion will be a big boost to President
Boumediene's local prestige.
The infant Algerian navy, however,
is not capable of maintaining or opera-
ting the base installations.
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7. Argentina
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