THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 20 DECEMBER 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968058
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 20, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
20 DECEMBER 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
20 DECEMBER 1965
1. Dominican Republic US and Brazilian troops were in-
volved today in controlling the sporadic
rioting in the capital set off by yester-
day's serious outbreak in Santiago. A
new general strike seems to be building
up as rebel sympathizers demand the
ouster of top armed forces commanders
whom they call responsible for the San-
tiago fighting.
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2. Guatemala
a Cyprus
Given the continuing agitation by
extremists and the emotional and very
deep divisions between the contending
Dominican factions, new outbreaks may
well be in the offing.
Although the Garcia Godoy govern-
ment itself does not appear immediately
threatened, its fourteen-week effort to
restore the basis for some degree of po-
litical calm has been set back sharply.
An official Turkish spokesman said
yesterday that his government has no in-
tention of accepting the recent United
Nations' resolution on Cyprus. He re-
peated the standard warning that Turkey
would intervene promptly in Cyprus if
new violations should occur.
Students in Istanbul have begun
demonstrations protesting the resolu-
tion. US officials there believe that
because of the high degree of national
frustration, the demonstrations may get
out of hand.
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4. Rhodesia
5. India
Ambassador Good believes that Zam-
bia's future is seriously threatened.
He and key British officials in Lusaka
agree that there is no more than a fifty-
fifty chance of maintaining the stabil-
ity of the country.
The ambassador blames this on Brit-
ain's "quick-kill" policy against,Rho-
desia which led London to announce the.
embargo before a petroleum airlift to
Zambia could be worked out. Now it is
feared that severe oil rationing in Zam-
bia would encourage a wholesale exodus
of crucial European workers and this
would cripple the economy and threaten
the government.
The Zambian Government in turn is
likely to start pressuring for a much
larger airlift. Foreign Minister Kapwepwe
will undoubtedly stress this during his
visits to London and Washington this
week.
Algeria's break with London on Satur-
day rounded out a show of solidarity by
all the more militant African countries'.
The nine which. have acted so far include
all those, except Uganda,which-formed a
consortium a year ago to give support to
?the Congolese rebels.
US officials in New Delhi have com-
pleted a new assessment of the food situ-
ation in India. They continue to believe
that grain production will total about
76 million tons and that 11 million tons
of US grain, plus one million tons from
other sources, will be needed to meet
minimum requirements.
Even with imports of this magnitude,
however, the reduction in available food
supplies would still exceed the six per-
cent deemed the maximum tolerable by the
US Department of Agriculture.
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Indonesia
7. Communist China
8. Pakistan
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Indonesia's basic intentions here
are still not clear. It may be that the
army would like to replace confrontation
with a policy of exploiting tensions be-
tween Singapore and Malaysia and within
the Malaysian Federation itself.
There are also signs that the army
is now backing away from its plans to na-
tionalize US oil interests.
Peking has told many of its senior
diplomats abroad to return home by the
end of the month. Apparently a major
review of Chinese foreign policy has
'beenscheduledr,
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9. North Vietnam
10. West Germany
11. 'Yemen
The badly stalemated Haradh Confer-
.ence apparently broke up Over the week-
end. Diplomatic sources are convinced
that the conference will stay adjourned
at least until the religious holidays
end late next month.
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