THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 5 AUGUST 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973944
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 5, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
Top Secret 5 August 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
5 AUGUST 1967
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1. France
De Gaulle has given the order
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to begin
development of an intercon-
2...Soviet-Union
tinental ballistic missile. We have
no confirmation of this report
The French have-been.working.on
rocket motors large enough to'be:used
as boosters, and have scientists .and
technicians now engaged on the inter-
mediate range missile who .would.prob-
-ably soon be free to work on .the pro-
ject.
Such a program, however, would
'strain the military budget, where cuts
in funds for the conventional forces
have already been made to support the
strategic weapons systems being de-
ployed against the USSR.
Soviet leaders have revived their
campaign for a world conference ol Com-
munist parties. -Party Secretary Pono-
marev was sent to Rome last week
Ponomarev's strong pitch did not
generate much enthusiasm for Moscow's
project among the Italians. Italian
party leader Longo declined to help pre-
pare for 'a preliminary meeting the So-
viets want next month. Longo suggested
only that further bilateral talks be
held in November.
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3. Soviet Union
4. Cuba
5. South Vietnam
6. Panama
Moscow has agreed to send Egypt
350,000 tons of wheat over the next
six months. Virtually all of an
earlier promised 650,000 tons has al-
ready been shipped. This leaves Mos-
cow providing almost half of Cairo's
annual import requirement; Soviet stocks
are apparently equal to the task.
Retail prices in Saigon rose al-
most four percent during the week end-
ing 24 July, the second straight week
of rising prices. The price index is
now above the previous all-time high
reached during the rice crisis last March.
Part of the reason is sporadic Com-
munist raiding of supply routes into
Saigon.
Opposition to the Canal treaties
(which has been greater than President
Robles expected) shows signs of spread-
ing to the National Guard, whose feath-
ers are usually not ruffled by political
matters. A group of officers claims the
treaties are so unpopular they could be
ratified only if the Guard "fires on the
people to maintain order." Progovernment
party leaders and deputies, for their
part, continue to grumble about the
treaties and may not support them in
their present form.
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7. Dominican Republic Juan Bosch, still in self-imposed
exile in Europe, has now decided to
withdraw from any active role in the
opposition Dominican Revolutionary
Party. He resigned as head of the
party last October.
8. Burma
Bosch is probably unhappy with
the more moderate line the party has
recently taken. We do not think his
action will disrupt the relative po-
litical tranquility that has prevailed
since? mid-May.
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