THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 24 AUGUST 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973976
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 24, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
24 August 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
24 AUGUST 1967
1. South Vietnam
2. Cambodia
3. Communist China
A captured Viet Cong document
suggests that an all-out attack on
communications facilities may be a
key feature of the Viet Cong plan
to disrupt the elections. The 'Viet
Cong evidently intend to hit commu-
nications sites especially hard on
2 September and use the resulting
confusion to spread antielection
posters and leaflets.
Another captured document indi-
cates that in one province the Com-
munists will try to act in concert
with any Buddhist opposition to the
elections which might materialize.
Violence continues unabated
throughout the country. Efforts by
some national leaders to curb Red
Guard activity have so far been un-
successful; there are new signs of
vacillation or division at the top.
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4. Hong:Kong
5. Rumania
6. Soviet Union
The British are pressing ahead
with their antiterrorist programs in
the colony. A local anti-Communist
radio commentator was savagely attacked
this morning by a band of terrorists,
but there has yet been no big upsurge
of violence. This may still come, as
one of the motives behind the destruc-
tion of the British Embassy in Peking
was probably to boost the sagging
morale of the Hong Kong Communists.
After a lot of foot-dragging,
the Rumanians have apparently approved
tabling the draft nonproliferation
treaty in Geneva. This, however, is
only the beginning. Rumanian leaders
have not abandoned their reservations
about the draft, which are very similar
to those expressed by the Italians,
West Germans, Swedes, and Japanese.
Soviet leaders are working hard
to shore up Moscow's position with the
Latin American Communists in the wake
of Castro's recent revolutionary con-
clave in Havana. Delegates to the
Cuban meeting from at least five coun-
tries are now in Moscow getting the
treatment.
The Soviets continue pressing for
, political action and "united front" tac-
tics, in contrast to Castro's wild calls
for immediate guerrilla warfare.
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7. Nigeria
Federal officials in Lagos are
beginning to show signs of real con-
cern over the course of the war.(
Spirits would rise quickly in Lagos,
of course, if the tide of battle should
seem to turn against the Biafrans. At
the moment there is very little solid
information on the military, situation.
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