THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 14 OCTOBER 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005974064
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 14, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
14 October 1967
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DAILY BRIEF
, 14 OCTOBER 1967
1. South Vietnam
The retail price index for Saigon
fell eleven points during the week end-
ing 2 October. This brings prices
back down to about what they were just
before the elections in early September.
Even so, the prices are now about 30
percent higher than they were at the
beginning of the year.
2. Vietnam Plans for antiwar demonstrations
Demonstrations on 20-21 October are being drawn up '
in many countries to parallel those in
the US. The sponsoring organizations
are a mixed bag of pacifists, profes-
sional peace agitators, and Communists.
Communist influence in some cases--
Belgium, for example--is marked.
So far, it is hard to get a feel
for the likely size of the demonstra-
tions in Western Europe. In Japan,
however, the prime agitator--a trade
union organization--can put impressive
numbers in the streets.
3 Communist China
In Communist countries, only
Hungary and Cuba are known to be plan-
ning to participate.
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4. Communist China We see more signs that the Red
5. Bolivia
6. Algeria
Guards are being defused.
Fingerprints taken from the body
of "Che" Guevara
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1 4 OCT 1967
SPECIAL DAILY REPORT ON NORTH VIETNAM
FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
14 October 1967
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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. Wilfred Burchett Back in Hanoi: The North
Vietnamese charg?n Laos in a 12 October conversa-
tion with. Ambassador Sullivan hinted that Hanoi
may once .again use.Australian journalist Wilfred
Burchett as a medium for publicizing an important
official statementon the war. .The charg?lso
claimed that the 28 January offer of talks with the
US in return for a bombing halt; which was given
in an interview with Burchett, had been "misunder-
stood" by the US. When asked how these misunder-
standings could be cleared up, the charg?eplied
that "it is too late now, as too many other things
have happened since that time." He expressed the
hope, however, that the US would not "misunderstand"
any new statement given Burchett and that it would
be given careful study.
Burchett has been in Hanoi recently and is now
scheduled to travel to France. There has been no
announcement from Hanoi of his meeting with of-
ficials there although on previous occasions such
meetings have not been made public until several
days or weeks after the journalist's departure.
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Hanoi's Post War Planning:
Despite the demands for manpower at home, the
North Vietnamese have continued to send large
numbers of students for technical training through-
out the Communist world. By doing so, Hanoi prob-
ably hopes to maintain a pool of skilled technicians
to play a key role in rebuilding the country when
the war is over.
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Albanian Aid Agreement: Hanoi announced on
12 October that it had signed an agreement for
"non refund economic aid for 1968" with an Albanian
delegation currently in North Vietnam. This is
the last and probably the least of the current
round of aid pacts which Hanoi has secured from
the bloc. In the past Albania has exported to
North Vietnam such war-related mineral and indus-
trial products as bitumen, plywood and chromium ore.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
We have received no significant North Viet-
namese commentary on this subject in the past 24
hours.
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