THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 21 DECEMBER 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968060
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 21, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
21 DECEMBER 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
21 DECEMBER 1965
1. Dominican Republic At mid-afternoon the situation in
Santo Domingo and Santiago was relatively
quiet.
2. Pakistan
A general strike has not material-
ized, partly because Christmas bonus
payments were in many cases being made
today. Labor leaders are still holding
the threat of such a strike over Garcia
Godoy's head as a means of pressuring
him to oust the military chiefs, long a
prime leftist objective.
For their part, the chiefs are
aroused. In their eyes the Santiago
incident shows that Caamano's mainten-
ance of what in effect is a private
army is no longer tolerable.
The committee investigating the
incident is to report back to Garcia
Godoy by Thursday. The origins of the
firing are still obscure, but it is
plain that both sides were in fact
spoiling for a fight.
An unsettling part of the whole
affair was the rapidity with which the
Communists and their sympathizers moved
to cash in.
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3. Rhodesia
4. Soviet Union
the atmosphere is "much more tense" in
Zambia than in Rhodesia.
Kaunda has apparently been talked
out of the suicidal idea of responding
to the new Rhodesian surtax on coal
(sOme $14 a ton) with a total trade em-
bargo. He remains under strong pres-
sures from black African extremists and
still feels he must do something.
In Britain, the Tories have decided
not to challenge Wilson's oil embargo,
but have served notice that they will
oppose further measures, particularly
any resort to force.
This morning the Soviets fired an-
other intercontinental ballistic missile
from one of their operational sites to
Kamchatka. This was the second such
firing in a week ndt1ie1aurthwe have
detected so far.
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5. South Vietnam
*6. North Vietnam
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Sai-
gon intends to hale leaders of the Mon-
tagnard dissidents before military tri-
bunals and execute publicly those found
guilty of taking part in the rising last
week.
The report supports other indica-
tions that the government intends to
deal much more toughly with the Mon-
tagnards than it has in the past. This,
combined with disillusionment over Sai-
gon's failure to keep past promises to
them, seems likely to open the Montagn-
ards to greater Viet Cong influence.
Soviet officials in Moscow today
signed a new economic agreement with
North Vietnam. It provides, among other
things, for additional "free economic
aid" to the Vietnamese during 1966. This
aspect of the agreement looks like an
effort to outbid Peking, whose recent
agreement with Hanoi's delegation pro-
vided only for loans.
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7. Common Market
8. Spain
9. Indonesia
A French cabinet meeting tomorrow
may give the first indication of whether
the elections have brought any modifica-
tions in Paris' position on the Common
Market. France's five Common Market
partners met yesterday and decided they
would stand firmly on existing treaties
and understandings. They made it clear,
?that,as they see it, the next move is
up to France.
The Spanish say that land is not
available to expand our space tracking
stations in the Canary Islands and that
in fact it will be necessary to move
facilities already there. Madrid appar-
ently ties an agreement on relocation to
our providing more help for the fledgling
Spanish space program.
A Polish Embassy official, an acute
observer of the Indonesian scene, believes
that Sukarno is finished as a political
force.
While it may be too soon to count
the wily Sukarno out completely, he has
slipped badly in the past few weeks. He
continues his frequent public speeches
and exhortations, but no one seems to
be listening any more. Last week the
army began doctoring his remarks before
printing them and this week has neglected
to report several of his speeches at all.
Rumors of a major power readjust-
ment just after the turn of the year con-
tinue to be heard in Djakarta.
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