THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 17 AUGUST 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967841
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 17, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
17 AUGUST 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
17 AUGUST 1965
1. South Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
In a propaganda broadcast, the Viet
Cong have claimed credit for the bombing
of the national police headquarters in
Saigon. According to the broadcast, this
was a memorial to the 20th anniversary
of the 19 August uprising in Hanoi against
the French.
The report from the US mission in
Saigon summing up last week's actions
shows an estimated 1,330 Viet Cong killed,
the highest such estimate during any
single week of the war. Two major actions,
including that around Duc Co, contributed
heavily to this.
According to the interrogation re-
ports of some 68 Viet Cong who recently
defected in the area of the northernmost
I Corps, discontent and disillusionment
are widespread in the ranks.
These defectors claim they were in-
fluenced by government psychological war-
fare operations, particularly airborne
loudspeaker broadcasts made by a former
Viet Cong political sergeant who had him-
self defected after being infiltrated from
the north.
On 15 August, a Viet Cong rifle gre-
nade was exploded over several South Viet-
namese troops, causing symptoms like those
caused by chemical riot control agents.
Portions of the grenade are now being
studied.
This is the first reported use by the
Viet Cong of what may be a chemical agent,
although the use of irritants has been
reported before.
Intercepts reveal that a Chinese jet
flew today 25 miles over North Vietnam in
reaction to a US recce flight, but did not
engage.
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3. Dominican Republic
4. Malaysia
The rebel leadership continues to
resist pressure to accept the solution
proposed by the Organization of American
States Committee.
Caamano has now called for a "united
democratic front." The immediate object
of the front would be to obtain the with-
drawal of foreign troops. A longer term
objective, however, would be to secure
those fundamental goals of the revolution
which, he has warned his followers, may
not be achieved in negotiations.
Caamano's line here seems to echo
the Dominican Communist Party, which has
now indicated publicly that it will op-
pose the future provisional government
and has called for a front to "rescue
national sovereignty."
A UN Security Council meeting, re-
quested by the USSR, will probably be
held tomorrow.
More rumblings are being heard from
the remaining members of the Malaysian
federation. A political leader from Sabah--
former British Borneo--is threatening to
resign his post in the federal cabinet.
He says his followers want to get out
of Malaysia.
Somewhat similar sentiment is re-
ported from Sarawak, which, along with
Sabah, has been the main target of Su-
karno's "confrontation" campaign. Im-
portant elements in both states feel
they have been given second-class treat-
ment by Malaysian leaders.
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5, Indonesia
6. Laos
Sukarno's speech today--entitled
"Reach for the Stars"--was two and a
half hours long instead of the usual
three or four, but he reportedly looked
in good health. Sukarno sprang no sur-
prises, hewing to a line almost iden-
tical with that of the Indonesian Com-
munist Party.
Because of Sukarno's castigation
of the US for "aggression" in Vietnam,
Ambassador Green has withheld US con-
gratulations on the anniversary of Indo-
nesia's independence.
Indonesia's withdrawal from the
World Bank, forecast in the Brief of 4
August, was officially announced by the
bank today.
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