THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 1 JANUARY 1968

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January 1, 1968
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? Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A005700150001-8 The President's Daily Brief Top Secret 1 January 1968 ..Nu) c?Z - A 5 0 X 1 Vt 23 tte (N. Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A005700150001-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A005700150001-8 50X1 DAILY BRIEF 1 JANUARY 1968 1. Yemen 2. North Vietnam 3. Finland The Soviets are withdrawing some of their people from Yemen. Nearly 200 Soviet experts assigned to a road project around Taiz have returned to Moscow, and other civilian, military, and diplomatic types have recently left Hudaydah. We doubt this presages a general Soviet disengagement. Moscow probably wants to weed out personnel no longer needed now that the fighting has con- fined the Soviet presence almost en- tirely to Hudaydah. Ho looked less pale than at his last public appearance in August, but seemed more feeble and had a bandage on his neck. Ho gave a brief welcoming speech, but his major address was read by a subordinate. 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A005700150001-8 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A005700150001-8 50X1 4. Soviet Union 5. Iran One of Ambassador Thompson's col- leagues claims to have been told "by a Soviet source" that Ambassador Dobrynin will soon be leaving Washing- ton. His replacement is said to be Yakov Malik, a deputy foreign minister. We would view such a shift as routine; Dobrynin has been here nearly six years, and Malik would be a logical suc- cessor. Ambassador Meyer described an au- dience late last week with the Shah as "one of the most unpleasant of my tour." The Shah was smouldering over the oil consortium's refusal to increase ex- ports (and consequently payments to Iran) as well as the companies' insist- ence upon paying in devalued pounds. After muttering "robbery," "thieves," and a few unprintable epi- thets, the Shah said arbitration of the issue is "totally unacceptable." He ended by threatening to settle the matter "once and for all" by "immediate legislation." 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A005700150001-8 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A005700150001-8 Top Secret Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A005700150001-8