THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 3 SEPTEMBER 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967871
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: September 3, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
3 SEPTEMBER 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
3 SEPTEMBER 1965
1. Kashmir The Pakistani attack in the Chhamb
area has apparently been blunted.
2. Colombia
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drive has stalled short of its goal--
the capture of Akhnur and the interdic-
tion of the main road from Jammu city
to Poonch.
In a broadcast to the nation, Shas-
tri has told his people to expect Paki-
stani air raids. Some civil defense
measures have been taken in New Delhi
and Calcutta.
Pakistani forces in the Punjab area
are reported to be on alert, but are not
expecting an imminent Indian drive. The
Pakistanis, however, have apparently dis-
persed vehicles and supplies in antici-
pation of Indian air attacks.
In the aerial encounters so far,
Pakistani planes have downed Indian air-
craft at a rate of about three to one.
Rawalpindi claims eight kills; the
Indians have apparently shot down two
and possibly four planes.
Colombian labor leaders are now
considering a general strike and public
demonstrations to protest the govern-
ment's economic reform policies. Suc-
cessful moves in this direction might
force the government to back away from
some of the reforms,which are in effect
a last ditch effort to restore the Colom-
bian economy.
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France
4. USSR
; Gromyko and the French had
begun talks in Paris about the possi-
bility of launching a French satellite
with a Soviet booster. Discussions have
apparently continued in Moscow and a
Soviet delegation is now set to go to
Paris later this month to work out de-
tails.
It is unclear whether the negotia-
tions involve a joint launching in the
near future, or are concerned with longer
term cooperation on communications satel-
lites.
The long-expected meeting of the
party Central Committee may in fact
take place next week. This conclusion
is supported
by talk passing along the
Moscow grapevine.
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5. Iran The Shah is trying to emphasize the
independence of his foreign policy.
the Shah told his cabinet
last week to avoid either firmly support-
ing or attacking any foreign government.
?Economic ties should be maintained with
as many countries as possible so long as
no strings are attached.
The Shah has also ordered that all
information on a recent Soviet offer to
build a steel mill in Iran should be
kept from US officials.
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6. The Communist World Agricultural prospects this year for
the major Communist countries now look
? like this:
- Soviet wheat production will prob-
ably be down 10-20 percent below
last year. The quality of bread
may suffer, but food shortages on
the scale of 1963-64 are unlikely.
Livestock and vegetable production
are expected to be good.
- The Chinese Communist early rice
crop was above average, but insuf-
ficient to compensate for the very
poor ?harvest of winter grains. Pros-
pects for the more important fall
crop are mixed; growing conditions
are good for rice, but the outlook
for other late grains is unsatisfac-
tory.
- In Eastern Europe, the total harvest
will be about 5 percent below last
year's good crop. Bread-grain pro-
duction has increased, but the qual-
ity of wheat will be low in the north-
ern countries. Shortages of bread
and hoarding of flour have been re-
ported in some areas.
Communist countries will probably
import about 20 million tons of grain
from the free world through June 1966.
7. South Vietnam
The cancellation of yesterday's
student rally in Hue is further evidence
that the current antigovernment agita-
tion has lost momentum.
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8. Vietnam
Photography taken in late August
shows considerable quantities of anti-
aircraft and conventional artillery as
well as other materiel at the rail trans-
shipment point near the China-Vietnam
border. The materiel is clearly en route
to North Vietnam, but it cannot be estab-
lished whether it is of Soviet or Chinese
make.'
A special Soviet military transport
landed at Hanoi today.
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Peking has unleashed a new flood of
propaganda deriding as a "swindle" US
offers to negotiate on Vietnam and reiterat-
ing its demand for a bitter-end struggle
against the US in Vietnam and elsewhere.
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