Dedaslsified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015 07li4 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE-AGENCY THE DAILY BRIEF 50x1 7 1966 Lg 23 Declassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Reiease 2015 07 24 in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015 07 24 2 Soviet Union 3 Communist China 4 Hong Kong 5 India 50x1 The Soviet fighter which crashed in the British sector of West Berlin yesterday has been salvaged and identi fied aS'a YAK-28 Firebar Major portions_ of the aircraft are intact and should tell us much about the equipment aboard The Firebar is the latest and most ad vanced fighter in the Soviet operational inventory m 50x1 j50x1 50x1 The colony was torn by serious riotm ing for a second night British authorim' ties have clamped on a curfew and mobie_ lized all police and army units for riot control duty These are the worst civil disturbances in Hong Kong since Chinese secret societies and criminal elements went on a fivewday rampage in 1956 The Chinese Communists have not yet moved-to take advantage of the present trouble There was more violence in'the Calm outta area today and sporadic clashes with riot control police will probably continue for several more days 'The 00 alition of leftists which sparked these disorders probably sees them as dress rehearsals for larger efforts when the food crisis deepens in late spring_and summer 50x1 Declassified in Pan - Sanitized Copy ApproVed for Release 2015 07 24                     National Security Archive    Suite 701  Gelman Library  The George Washington University    2130 H Street  NW  Washington  D C  20037    Phone  202 994‐7000  Fax  202 994‐7005  nsarchiv@gwu edu