THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 23 DECEMBER 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968064
• 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 23, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
23 DECEMBER 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
23 DECEMBER 1965
1. Rhodesia
2. Laos
Presi-
dent Kaunda dropped from his speech last
night a paragraph announcing that he would
divert Zambia's copper exports away from
Rhodesia and thus deprive the Rhodesians
of transit fees.
Our ambassador in Lusaka warns,
however, that this is only a reprieve,
and that the Zambians clearly will take
some action. The Zambian cabinet met
today to consider alternative sugges-
tions put forward by London, but we hav,e
no word yet of a decision.
Radical-minded Tanzanian President
Nyerere has announced he will spend Christ-
mas at a town near the Zambian border.
Since he has never done this before,
there is suspicion that he may intend to
meet Kaunda again. Nyerere continues to
harass the British. Today his govern-
ment said that the entry of British mili-
tary personnel into Tanzania to help with
the Zambian oil airlift is "unacceptable."
Ambassador Sullivan reports that
there are indications of heavy Communist
military pressure in east central Laos
during the next several days, some of it
timed to coincide with the new year ob-
served by anti-Communist tribal guer-
rillas. Premier Souvanna has asked that
the US respond with "maximum" air strikes.
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3. South Vietnam
4. North Vietnam
The Viet Cong have repeated their
earlier statement about a 12-hour Christ-
mas Eve truce but have not responded in
any way to the US - South Vietnamese an-
nouncement of a 30-hour cessation of
hostilities over the holiday.
A preliminary field examination of
photography taken over Phuc Yen airfield
today discloses the presence of two air-
craft, tentatively identified as SU-9
late generation fighters.
The photography also shows some 46
early model MIG fighters. Since 42 North
Vietnamese fighters have flown to Mengtzu
in Communist China over the past few days,
this means that the 24 crated aircraft
discovered in September photography have
now been assembled.
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5. India
Indonesia
Moscow apparently is trying to keep
the Indians relatively flexible so that
the Tashkent talks with Pakistan, sched-
uled for 4 January, do not collapse.
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Moscow certainly harbors no illu-
sion that the Tashkent conference will
bring any basic accommodation between
India and Pakistan. The Soviets appar-
ently hope, however, that the talks will
improve the atmosphere and limit Chinese
attempts to exploit the situation.
The shift to the right is at last
bringing some practical moves to normal-
ize relations with the US.
Our embassy this week received pay-
ment for damage done to our consulates
in Medan and Surabaya by demonstrators
earlier this year. Some 40,000 United
States Information Service books, held
in storage by the police since last March,
were released for the use of universities
yesterday. Finally, an American mission-
ary held for the past six months on
vague subversion charges apparently is
to be released shortly.
All of this obviously has been done
without any help from Sukarno. He gave
a student rally yesterday the same old
line that Communism is an essential part
of the Indonesian political mix, adding
that he would stick to this view "until
I enter my grave."
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7. Turkey
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will not take 5uAl
military action against Cyprus, despite
pressures from Turkish opposition parties
for a violent response to the recent United
Nations resolution on the Cyprus issue.
Demirel does intend to pull out all
the diplomatic stops to force Greece into
direct negotiations. Further measures
against Greek residents of Turkey will
be part of this campaign.
Specifics of a new Cyprus policy will
not be developed, however, until after
the Turkish parliament debates Cyprus
early next week. Turkish authorities
meanwhile are cracking down on student
demonstrators who have been calling on
the government to act now.
8. Dominican Republic The surface situation in Santo Do-
mingo appeared normal today, despite un-
derlying tensions.
9. Guatemala
Garcia Godoy tentatively plans to
make a radio-television speech to the
nation tonight or tomorrow, giving the
results of the investigation of the San-
tiago outbreak and, possibly, indicating
what action he will take. This could
easily produce a new crisis, since both
the right and left remain in a fire-
breathing mood.
Colonel Ponciano may be backing
away from his plot to overthrow the
Peralta government at this time. Pon-
ciano told Ambassador Mein yesterday
that he did not believe there would be
trouble before the presidential elec-
tions, scheduled for next March, unless
the internal security situation deteri-
orates further.
dissatisfaction
still appears to be widespread in the
Guatemalan army.
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10. Bolivia
Police and armed forces have been
put on a holiday season alert, beginning
today.
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