THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 17 NOVEMBER 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967362
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 17, 1964

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 17 NOVEMBER 1964 TOP SECRET \ Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 1 24 CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC CAMEROON ,REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO =Approximate Area of Uprising O 190 290 Mites O 160 290 Kilometers UELE Coquilhatville Bo UVETTE-CEC SUDAN Paulis KIBALI-ITU Bunia � \� Stanleyville ,--... i Beni 1 h E') HAUTVONGO NOR, KIVEDWARD c Ikela � %'� , ....f.-- G(Irla .11.;;AJND). 1 I Bui.... 14.i= LI: (.%.K...#.1G..../ALI ndu vul A EMA N 12.=1)31 613.13� BUJUMBUR NE�Ct:4 ' V"- . 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Tanzania Personnel changes approved by the party Central Committee strengthen Brezhnev's grip on the leadership, but show that Podgorny also remains powerful. Details and further discussion are at Annex 1. The rebel leaders in Stanleyville, are making strenuous efforts to get more arms and ammunition (See map) 4. Communist China - A Chinese Communist ship carrying Tanzania arms, allegedly for the Tanzanian forces, 5. Cambodia 6. Laos 7. Communist China After threatening last weekend to break relations with the US, Sihanouk has once again sheered off. Heavy truck traffic continues from North Vietnam to the Plaine des Jarres. A new Communist offensive to erase re- cent government gains could be in the making, and pressure toward Tha Thom is already being felt. There are fresh coup rumors in Vientiane (See map) TOP SECRET - CONTAINS SIGINT AND KEYHOLE MATERIAL Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 " TOP SECRET - CONTAINS SIGINT AND KEYHOLE MATERIAL 8. South Vietnam 9. Sino-Soviet The High National Council is still badgering Huong about the make-up of his cabinet and has formed a committee of review. Buddhist leader Thich Tam Chau is also planning further pressure. 10. USSR The Soviets carried out another underground nuclear test 11. MLF 12. Malaysia The Labor government has author- ized use of artillery and mortars in limited retaliatory operations against the Indonesians in Borneo. TOP SECRET - CONTAINS SIGINT AND KEYHOLE MATERIAL Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 50X1 50X1 50X1 50X1 �������11,N. I 50X1 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 TOP SECRET - CONTAINS SIGINT AND KEYHOLE MATERIAL ANNEX 1 The Soviet Party Leadership Changes Shelepin Shelest In the first high-level post-Khrushchev person- nel changes by the Central Committee, Aleksandr She- lepin, a close friend of Brezhnev, and Petr Shelest, a protege of Presidium member Nikolay Podgorny, were promoted to the Presidium. Shelepin became a party secretary in 1961, after a three-year tour as chief of the KGB. During the past two years he has also been a deputy premier and chairman of the Party-State Control Committee, which is responsible for ferreting out and punishing mismanagement at all levels in the economy. Although he was undoubtedly Khrushchev's personal choice for these jobs, his promotions may have been influenced by Brezhnev, who was party secretary for military and police affairs during 1956-60. Shelepin and Brezh- nev are close Iriends and that Shelepin has been con- cerned to protect his relationship with the new leader. Petr Shelest, who has been first secretary of the Ukrainian party since July 1963, was named a candidate member of the Presidium last December. A trained engineer and specialist in industrial manage- ment, he has made his career almost exclusively in the Ukrainian party apparatus which was for years Khrushchev's political stronghold. After several years of service in the Kharkov and Kiev party orga- nizations, he became a Ukrainian party secretary in 1962. He has no known ties to any members of the top leadership except possibly Podgorny. He was Podgorny's deputy on the Ukrainian secretariat and took the lat- ter's place as party boss in the republic when Podgorny was transferred to the national party secretariat in Moscow last year. In other changes, Demichev, another Brezhnev crony, became an alternate Presidium member. Kosloir and Khrushchev's agricultural adviser Polyakov were dropped, and Adzhubey was expelled from the Central Committee. TOP SECRET - CONTAINS SIGINT AND KEYHOLE MATERIAL Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 50X1 50X1 50X1 '71 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 TOP SECRET - CONTAINS SIGINT AND KEYHOLE MATERIAL In addition to the personnel changes, the Central Committee decided to reverse Khrushchev's drastic 1962 action to divide the party into two virtually separate organizations, one for agriculture and one for indus- try. As was the case in 1962 when this scheme was put into effect, the reversal will itself probably breed severe dislocation. TOP SECRET - CONTAINS SIGINT AND KEYHOLE MATERIAL Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 50X1 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 R Next 1 Page(s) In Document Denied Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7 50X1 50X1 TOP SECRET - CONTAINS SIGINT AND KEYHOLE MATERIAL Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/30 : CIA-RDP79T00936A003300110002-7