eclassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015 07 24 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY THE DAILY BRIEF 9 AUGUST 1966 23 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015 07 24 CIA-RDP79T00936A004600340001-9 'n Deolassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015 07124 4 Communist China 5 Soviet Union 6 East Germany- Peking now seems to be trying to keep the cultural purification drive from getting further out of hand and to-n reduce the confusion and fear it has created in recent months Yesterday the party Central Comm mittee issued a directiVe saying that students should not be treated severely and that scientists and technicians should receive Special protection from political harassment Although the cul tural revolution is to continue it will be kept under direct party control -Mao has sometimes in the past overm ridden the Central Committee and there have been some increasingly tough pro nouncements on domestic affairs in the vpast few days The latest satellite photography the first from the new very high resolua tion camera system has provided the best coverage to date of the Tyuratam Missile Test Center Construction con tinues rapidly at the two pads that are to support very large Space boosters Detailed study of the new pictures will provide new insights into this important new system which probably is associated with a Soviet manned lunar program The regime is showing increased ccn cern over public unrest which was grow ing even before a set of unpopular price increases was decreed last month This is apparently the explanation for a big parade planned for East Berlin this Satur- day the fifth anniversary of the erec- tion of the Berlin Wall It seems in tended to discourage the kind of antirem gime demonstrations that have occurred on other recent anniversariesr 50x1 Declassified in Part Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015 07 24