THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 13 OCTOBER 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967940
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 13, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
13 OCTOBER 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
13 OCTOBER 1965
Indonesia
2. Uruguay
3. North Vietnam
Sukarno is going through with
plans to open his Anti-Foreign Military
Bases Conference on Saturday. He will
address the group the following day.
Another Moslem demonstration took
place in Djakarta today. This one was
against the Communist youth headquarters.
There was considerable destruction before
Sukarno's palace guard broke it up.
The strike--said, to ,involve
300,000 people--got under way this morn-
ing. As yet there are no reports of.
violence. These may come later in the
day, however, in connection with sev-
eral illegal demonstrations that have
been scheduled.
The police remain confident that
they can maintain control.
Yesterday, Hanoi publicized a low-
key revival of its threat to send vol-
unteers to South Vietnam.
The threat, which had been ignored
for the past few weeks, reappeared on
a broadcast reporting a meeting of
"regroupedsoutherners" in Hanoi on
11 October. The southerners announced
that they had been organized into
"contingents ready to return to the South,"
but added, as on earlier occasions, that
they would await orders from the "Liber-
ation Front" before moving.
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4. Congo
5. USSR
Tshombe seems stunned by President
Kasavubu's move against him and at last
report had yet to show how he will react.
Whatever he does, it is almost certain
that a new period of political turmoil
is in store for the Congo.
Tshombe will probably use his con-
siderable parliamentary strength to try
to block attempts by Kimba and others to
form a government and so to force Kasavubu
to turn back to him.,
Kimba, for his part, is an experienced
and capable politician, but he lacks a
significant following of his own. At
least for now he is politically dependent
on Kasavubu and Interior Minister Nendaka,
At Annex is some background information
on Kimba.
The most recent satellite photog-
raphy, which is of unusually high quality,
has provided evidence suggesting that
construction activities noted for some
time around Moscow are for antiballistic
missile defense.
Moscow itself was not covered, but
the photography gives us a good look at
the Sary Shagan defensive missile and
electronics test center. One site at
Sary Shagan is the prototype for eight
sites being constructed in the MOscow
area. (See photo)
These sites were originally thought
to contain electronic installations :only.
The new photography, however, shows that
the prototype site also contains launch
positions; measurements suggest that they
are for antiballistic missiles
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6. India-Pakistan
South Vietnam
8. Dominican
Republic
Both sides report continued skir-
mishing. A Pakistani Foreign Office
official said today that the cease-fire
remains "precarious."
There are more reports of anti-
Indian demonstrations in Srinagar, the
capital of Kashmir. The Indian press has
admitted that police units have fired on
"violent mobs." (
hundreds have been arrested and the
city is very tense.
Cargo flights between South China
and ?Pakistan are continuing.
As in previous years, the Viet Cong
are preparing to prevent the movement of
this January's rice crop from the Mekong
Delta to government-controlled areas.
This denial strategy--through tax-
ation,.requisition, and the interdiction
of road and canal routes--has been the
principal factor in reducing rice deliv-
eries from the Delta to Saigon. Rice
deliveries have declined from 725,000
metric tons in 1963 to 505,000 in 1964,
and to a projected 360,000 this year.
As a result, South Vietnam has had
to stop all exports of rice and import
additional supplies from the US and
Thailand in order to meet consumption
needs.
Ambassador Bunker reports that he is
not out of the woods, but the situation has
brightened considerably during the past
few days.
The rebel military are scheduled to
move out of their zone today. Reinte-
gration of rebel police has now been com-
pleted. No disturbances were reported
following the military alert of yesterday
morning.
The embassy is still particularly
concerned by the continuing breakdowns of
law and order and by recent Communist
gains in the labor movement.
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ANNEX
Evariste Kimba
President Kasavubu this morning asked Evariste
Kimba to form a new government. Kimba is an im-
portant tribal leader from North Katanga and once
was "foreign minister" in TshombO's secessionist
Katanga government.
The 39-year-old Kimba is credited by Western
observers with being intelligent and capable, and is
described as a shrewd and smooth politician. He has
traveled fairly extensively in the West and seems to
have a better grasp of what transpires abroad than
most Congolese politicians.
The US consul in Elisabethville reported last
August that Kimba was a man with whom the US could
work fruitfully. The consul described Kimba's polit-
ical beliefs as moderate and progressive. Kimba, how-
ever, possesses his share of personal ambition and
this of course could lead him to unpredictable courses
of action in the highly fluid Congolese political arena.
However, well-qualified personally, Kimba lacks
significant backing outside his own North Katanga.
At this stage, the chances seem better than even that
Kimba's role will be overshadowed by the machinations of
stronger politicians and particularly by the continu-
ing rivalry between Tshombe and Kasavubu in which the
ambitious Nendaka is playing an increasing role.
Nendaka, in fact, seems intent on using Kimba as
a pawn in his drive to eliminate Tshombe from the
Congo's political scene. Kimba was one of the first
men to whom Nendaka turned when he organized his anti-
Tshombe parliamentary alliance last month and Nendaka
may well have played a role in Kasavubu's selection of
Kimba this morning.
Kimba's break with Tshombe occurred some two years
ago over Kimba's unsuccessful attempt to form a new
political party. For most of the time since then Kimba
has been inactive
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