THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 24 NOVEMBER 1964

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967381
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 24, 1964

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAIL BRIEF
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24 NOVEMBER 1964
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DAILY BRIEF
24 NOVEMBER 1964
. Congo
2. Italy
3. South Vietnam
4. Western Europe
5. UK -MLF
6. Brazil
7. Panama
Mopping-up operations are being
pushed in Stanleyville and its environs.
It may take several days for Van Der
Walle to clear out all the rebels.
The press in Brazzaville says that
Gbenye has issued a "last appeal" to
African states to send troops and
bail him out. A rundown on foreign
reaction to the Stanleyville operation
forms Annex 1.
A serious political crisis may
follow the just completed local elec-
tions. A brief survey of the outlook
is included as Annex 2.
There were no street disorders in
Saigon today,but there are signs that
the two most influential Buddhist lead-
ers, Tri Quang and Tam Chau,have agreed
on new efforts to topple Huong.
Pressures on Castello Branco to
intervene in Goias state have probably
increased in the wake of yesterday's
court decision upholding Governor Borges'
immunity. As a first step, the Presi-
dent, who wants to keep it strictly le-
gal, is likely to bear down on the
state legislature to remove the immunity
so that the governor can be brought to
trial.
Robles, after winning the first
round against student agitation on the
Canal issue yesterday, won another im-
portant point early today when
the legislature gave Foreign
Minister Eleta a vote of confidence.
Nonetheless, Panamanian Communists and
other extremists still plan new anti-
Robles demonstrations.
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8. Cambodia
9. USSR-Cuba
10. Sudan
11. Communist China
Cambodia's tempestuous Prince
Sihanouk has reversed himself again.
He says he will not partake of talks
with either the US or the Asian Commu-
nists, both of which have irritated
the Prince though for different reasons.
The new regime has slapped restric-
tions on overflights of Sudan. This
will put a crimp on military flights to
South Arabia and the Far East. At the
same time, the regime has opened air-
fields in southern Sudan to Ghanaian
and Algerian planes flying supplies to
the Congo rebels.
Peiping has been reiterating
that foreign
objections to its October nuclear test
were "insignificant and prejudiced" and
no bar to China's sovereign right to
conduct more tests.
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ANNEX 1
World Reaction to the Stanleyville Operation
(As of 1600 EST, 24 November)
Reporting of the news was prompt and full in
most capitals. Most governments have been slow to
comment, however, and are probably still deciding
on the line they will take.
Thus far we have only the following generally
predictable reactions:
USSR
Moscow describes the operation as "armed im-
perialist intervention" aimed at "suppressing the
national liberation movement." Moscow "condemns"
this and "supports" the African states but hints
at no specific Soviet counteraction.
Yugoslavia
Belgrade, too, describes it as foreign military
intervention designed to suppress the "liberation
movement" and to "further strengthen foreign inter-
ests" in the Congo. It says "an action" to stop
this foreign intervention now becomes"indispensable."
Arab States
Damascus says the action was carried out under
the "pretext" of saving whites. Cairo sees it as
an "imperialist plot," and calls on "African forces
and freedom-loving people" to extend "material and
moral support to all Congolese people." A UAR
Foreign Ministry spokesman says the government be-
lieves the African foreign-ministers should hold
"urgent consultations."
African States
The Algerian radio condemned the US, Belgium,
and the UK and reminded the "imperialists and colo-
nialists" of the "systematic massacres" for which
they have been responsible.
The foreign minister of the Central African
Republic, caught by newsmen as he boarded a plane
for New York, "deplored foreign intervention in
the Congo," a problem the Congolese should handle
by themselves with the assistance of "friendly
African states."
Ghana called it a "sneak attack" at the "Very
moment" of negotiations, an "aggression" designed
to maintain the Western hold on the Congo's mineral
wealth.
A Kenya Government statement merely "regrets"
the operation and the loss of life and notes that
Jomo Kenyatta's OAU Congo Commission meets on 26
November.
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ANNEX 2
The Italian Political Outlook
Italy is in for more political instability as
a result of the municipal elections this weekend.
While the Communists were reaching their postwar
high, the Nenni Socialists lost heavily.
As a result, we expect that the many Social-
ists who were never comfortable in coalition with
the bourgeoisie will now step up their drive to get
?Nenni to withdraw. At a minimum, pressures from
the Socialist side for the quick implementation of
key parts of the coalition reform program will be
stepped up sharply.
Moro will try to cite his party's relatively
good showing in the election as justification for
moving in this direction. But whether he can carry
a majority with him is still open to question. Im-
portant party figures who feel that the Socialists
have no real alternative are not disposed to com-
promise.
If Moro should fall, the Christian Democrats
will be faced with a Hobson's choice between national
elections, in which only the Communists stand to
gain, or seeking coalition partners on the right.
Such a government would have a short life expectancy
and would probably be administratively immobilized
by left-wing opposition while it did last.
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