3 rgeclassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Reiease 2015 07 24 VI The sz dem Dali y Brief A 7 MM 1968 50x1 '23 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015 07 24 1 4 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015 07 24 6 Soviet Union 7 soviet Union 8 Communist China -Burma The Soviets show a rather unusual 'interest in the Atlantic around the Canary Islands They have sent expedim tions to the area almost yearly since 1963--the latest one was there in the last half of May This activity is definitely related to submarine Opera tions this year a nuclear powered sub marine worked with a group of research ships This part of the Atlantic is gen erally calm has good conditions for sonar work and is off the beaten path Just what the Russians are up to is not certain One good possibility is that they have in mind eventually set ting up a mobile support base for sub marine operations The position would -be a good staging point between home- ports and the US coast Satellite photography shows that the new Space launch complex at Tyura tam is nearing the end of construction This is the launch center for the So- viet programs to land a man on the moon and to place a large manned Space station into orbit around the earth We do not however expect an at tempt at a manned lunar landing before mid 1971 nor the orbiting of the Space station before the mid 1970s There are signs that Peking is trying to make up with Rangoon Rela- tions have been at a low ebb since last summer when the Chinese Communist embassy in Rangoon Sponsored Maoist revolutionary activity that led to- antinhinese rioting 5OX1 5OX1 50X1 5OX1 Deoiassified in Part - Senitized Copy Approved for Release 2015 07 24