THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 29 APRIL 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967651
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 29, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
29 APRIL 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
29 APRIL 1965
Dominican Republic
LATE ITEM
(Information as of 1700 EDT)
? .Neither side seems to have been able
to get the upper hand in the fighting
this afternoon,and the issue is still
very much in doubt.
The rebels, well entrenched down-
town, have maintained the initiative
and have overrun a number of loyalist
police posts. Wessin's forces are'try-
ing to mount an offensive against rebel
strongpoints but are hampered by commu-
nications troubles and a lack of fresh
forces. Food and medicine are also in
short supply.
Reports indicate that the rebel
force is being directed by a high-rank-
ing member of the Dominican Communist
Party. The party has apparently switched
its operational headquarters in Santo
Domingo for as yet unknown reasons.
Cuban-trained Dominican extremists
are taking an active part, and Havana
radio has been egging the rebels on.
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DAILY BRIEF
29 APRIL 1965
1. Vietnam
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2. Ethiopia
3. Latin America
The Chinese Communists continue their
stiff opposition to negotiations on Viet-
nam.
Chou En-lai today declared that any
conference on Cambodia must be confined
strictly to Cambodia. ,He added that "only"
the Liberation Front was qualified to rep-
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Haile Selassie's government has
decided to proceed with the recognition
of Communist China in the near future.
The Ethiopians, who are the only East
Africans not recognizing Peiping, have
?been threatening to do this for some
time now. They have apparently con-
cluded the issue has outlived its use-
fulness as a lever for extracting added
US military aid.
Communist leaders in a number of
Latin American countries are trying to
whip up big May .Day demonstrations and
reportedly hope to use the ,Vietnam and
Dominican issues to give these a decid-
edly anti-American turn.
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4. India
5. Kenya
6. Cyprus(
Pakistan has rejected Prime Min-
ister Wilson's plea for an immediate
ceasefire and standstill.agreement in
the Rann of Kutch. (See Map) It has
countered by renewing an offer of
mutual withdrawal already rejected
several times by the Indians.
New Delhi says that Pakistani
troops were on the move in the Rann
again yesterday. Both sides have put
their armed forces on the alert and
despatched further troops to the area.
Both are also reinforcing border- con-
tingents in the Punjab area.
Indian setbacks on the frontier
have put Shastri in a very tight box.
He may yet decide that retaliation
along the border of East Pakistan,
where the advantage lies with Indian
forces, is the only way to prevent the
fall of his government.
The Kenyatta government has ap-
parently rejected a shipment of Soviet
arms as "secondhand and out-of-date."
A Soviet arms carrier, the Fizik
Lebedev,has been anchored at the Ken-
yan port of Mombasa waiting to unload
since Saturday. Kenyatta is reported
to have been angered by Soviet insist-
ence that Russian technicians stay
with the materiel for an extended period
to train the Kenyans. Besides, he ap-
pears to have gotten sufficient arms
from the UK since the Soviet offer was
made last summer.
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The Turkish Cypriots are raising
difficulties for the UN peacekeeping
force in the northern part of the
island. /
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