THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 26 APRIL 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967645
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 26, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
26 APRIL 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
26 APRIL 1965
Dominican Republic
LATE ITEM
(Information as of 1700 EDT)
Forces supporting former president
Bosch will probably gain the upper hand
unless a compromise military junta is
formed quickly. A Bosch government
would probably include a segment of the
military along with a variety of left-
ists, including a well-organized clique
Of: pro-Communists.
The military forces are split over
the return of Bosch, exiled in September
1963 and now in Puerto Rico. Their dif-
ferences are creating a vacuum being
filled by leftists, ranging from radical
members of Bosch's Dominican Revolutionary
Party to members of pro-Castroite parties.
and the local Communist-party.
The provisional presidency has been
assumed by Jose Molina Urena. He has
announced a partial "cabinet" and chosen
a pro-Communist attorney general.
The anti-Bosch forces, led by Gen-
eral Wessin y Wessin and air force chief
General de los Santos have been unable
to dislodge the rebels from the national
palace, but may make another try, with
support from the navy. The Communists
continue setting up strong points through-
out the capital. The next few hours will
be critical.
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DAILY BRIEF
26 APRIL 1965
. Vietnam
. South Vietnam
3. Cambodia
No significant new Communist politi-
cal or military developments have been
reported.
Quat is still working on plans for
reshaping the military command structure
and making some cabinet changes.
The cabinet changes may be fairly
extensive./
Such shakeups in the
past have disrupted pacification pro-
grams.
The demonstration against the US
Embassy in Phnom Penh today was prob-
ably meant to emphasize Sihanouk's re-
cent statements opposing US and South
Vietnamese attendance at a "Cambodian
conference." Planning for the govern-
ment-sponsored demonstration was appar-
ently under way before Secretary Rusk's
statement yesterday reached Phnom Penh.
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4. Yemen
5. Turkey
6. USSR
Premier Numan has assembled a new
republican cabinet of Yemeni national-
ists who are largely anti-Egyptian.
Nasir, with about 50,000 troops still
in Yemen, could almost certainly have
vetoed such a government. The fact that
he did not raises questions of Egyptian
motives which are unanswerable at pres-
ent.
The most optimistic speculation is
that Nasir now genuinely wants a moder-
ate government that can help arrange a
settlement of the war and make possible
Egyptian disengagement. At the other
pole is the possibility that Nasir wants
to give the nationalists enough rope to
hang themselves, then install another
pro-Egyptian puppet government.
It appears that the Turks now in-
tend to expel few, if any, Greek na-
tionals. Despite what Prime Minister
Urguplu has called a Turkish "ground-
swell" of anti-Greek feeling, sentiment
favoring any large-scale expulsion is
fading. Former prime minister Inonu is
said to have advised Urguplu to hold off
because of the bad effect expulsion would
have on world opinion.
Soviet economic performance contin-
ued sluggish during the first quarter of
1965. A claimed nine-percent increase
in industrial production resulted mostly
from the recovery of the processed food
industry) which had an exceptionally bad
first quarter last year. The growth
rate of heavy industry continued to de-
cline, and light industrial manufacturing
repeated last year's poor performance.
The rate of increase in machine-building
output, including production of military
hardware, is less than one half the rates
claimed as late as 1960-62, and now stands
at the Lowest figure since the Korean war
years, 1951-52.
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7. India
Fighting is continuing in the Kutch
marshes.
As yet there is no sign that it will
spread, and there is no evidence of new
troop deployments to the area. The In-
dians, however, are making so much of the
affair that it suggests they may be set-
ting the stage for retaliation over more
favorable terrain elsewhere along the
border. Such a move would play into
the hands of the Pakistanis, giving sub-
stance to their claims about the threat
they face from India.
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