THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 15 SEPTEMBER 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005974014
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 15, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
15 September 1967
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South Vietnam
LATE 'ITEM
"Peace" candidate Truong Dinh Dzu
was sentenced to nine months in prison
today. He drew the sentence plus a
heavy fine on charges of illegal for-
eign exchange manipulations and passing
a bad check.
Claiming a frame-up, Dzu did not
appear in court. Legal procedures prob-
ably will keep him out of jail for some
months. He can be expected to use the
time trying to make political capital
with charges of government persecution.
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DAILY BRIEF
15 SEPTEMBER '1967
1. Communist China
2. India
The strife-torn industrial prov-
ince of Szechwan now seems virtually
isolated from the rest of the country.
Rail service has been suspended for
more than a month, and telecommunica-
tions are disrupted. Some air and
river traffic is still moving.
An effort was made in August to
effect a ceasefire between the warring
factions, but this seems to have broken
down, and there are frequent references
to armed struggle in many parts of the
province.
Local officials are flailing
around desperately in the midst of
this chaos.
The Chinese have added the blare
of loudspeakers to the sound of spo-
radic gunfire along the Sikkim-Tibet
frontier. ,Local troops are broadcast-
ing threats to use aircraft to "annihi-
late" the Indians.
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3. Cambodia
4. Congo
5. Soviet Union
The African summit wound up last
night in Kinshasa. Nothing of great
moment was accomplished. Resolutions
were passed condemning the mercenaries
in the Congo and supporting the Nigerian
federal government in its war with
Biafra. The delegates pledged new ef-
forts to "liberate" southern Africa.
Mobutu now will turn back from his
role as host to his own problems with
Schramme and the mercenaries. He will
probably ask for more US help against
Schramme; so far Mobutu has not been
filled in on US and Belgian planning
aimed at evacuation of the mercenaries.
Elsewhere in the Congo several ugly
incidents have been reported, including
the murder of one Belgian technician.
Since 6?June the Soviets have de-
livered between $150 million and $200
million in military equipment to the
Arabs. The pace of shipments has slowed
somewhat since early July, but we expect
a continuing flow which in a year or so
will replace most of the weapons lost in
the war.
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TOP SECRET
SPECIAL DAILY REPORT ON NORTH VIETNAM
FOR THE PRES I DENT'S EYES ONLY
TOP SECRET
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
15 September 1967
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Hanoi May Be Seeking Additional Cuban Assist-
ance: Havana Radio announced the arrival in Cuba
yesterday of Le Thanh Nghi, a North Vietnamese
Politburo member. Nghi has been negotiating new
extensions of economic and military assistance in
various Communist capitals for several weeks. He
undertakes these missions twice yearly but has never
before visited Cuba.
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Hanoi Evacuation Continuing: A Hanoi news-
paper editorial of late August points up the con-
tinued departure of nonessential people from the
capital city. The paper stated that "almost all
agencies, enterprises, and handicraft cooperatives
in the zones likely to be attacked have been evacu-
ated or dispersed to new locations." The general
evacuation movement was said to have been stepped up
in various city districts, with many families making
arrangements to reside outside Hanoi permanently.
In addition, very few evacuated school children re-
turned to visit their homes during their summer va-
cation. We had estimated that as of the end of
last year more than a third of Hanoi's total popu-
lation of 1,000,000 had left. This further evacua-
tion may reduce the city's total to less than a half
million.
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