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Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000171 TOP SECRET country. The Chinese will undertake the construction of unspecified industrial projects in Burma. The new aid pact, as well as a trade agreement signed in October 1960, will provide the basis for a much greater volume of Sino-Burmese trade—a goal the Chinese have been seeking for some time. ## II. ASIA-AFRICA *Laos: The Communist airlift into Laos continues. Nine flights, possibly to the Vang Vieng area, were confirmed on 9 January; eleven flights to Vang Vieng are scheduled on 10 January. Four T-6 aircraft were scheduled to arrive in Savannakhet on 9 January, and are to be flown to Vientiane on 10 January. The T-6s will give the Laotians a capability of interdicting the Soviet airlift. Supplies for transshipment to Laos are probably being moved into North Vietnam by rail. the North Vietnamese refused to permit the ICC to inspect a train possibly transporting military equipment from Communist China on 23 December. This train was at Lao Kay, the North Vietnamese entry point on the rail line from Kunming to Hanoi. The North Vietnamese denied the inspection on the grounds that the train was a "local." allegedly arriving from another part of North Vietnam. *Congo: Indications that the Gizenga dissidents are continuing to extend their control of areas of the eastern Congo have coincided with reports of uncoordinated countermeasures on the part of the Mobutu regime. An emissary of Mobutu is in Elisabethville for talks with Katanga President Tshombé concerning the possibility of Katangan financial support for Mobutu's forces. In Leopoldville, however, Mobutu's commissioner for finance reportedly assured UN representative Dayal on 5 January that the OK delete 10 Jan 61 DAILY BRIEF ii TOP SECRET Approved for Release: 2020/08/11 C02000171

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