THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 8 JANUARY 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968088
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 8, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
8 JANUARY 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
8 JANUARY 1966
1. Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
Talks started today between the
Shelepin mission and Hanoi's officials.
There has been no further significant
reporting on the subject from Hanoi.
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3. South Vietnam
Indonesia
5, Iran-Iraq
The Viet Cong radio has added an
even tougher "commentary" to its flinty
statement earlier this week on the US
bombing pause.
The Viet Cong now say that the US
imperialists, realizing that "they can
no longer endure our deadly blows, are
forced to invite us to sit down to have
talks With them." The Viet Cong State-
ment rejects this possibility, saying
"it is certain that we will never agree
to have talks with the US imperialists."
The only way to peace, according
to the Viet Cong, is for the US. to with-
draw all its forces and weapons, leaving
the South Vietnamese to settle their
"internal affairs."
Prices on virtually all consumer
goods have been rising markedly in re-
cent weeks and the cost of many food-
stuffs has doubled in the Djakarta area
since mid-December.
This is likely to have an increas-
ing effect on the political power
struggle. The military is clearly seek-
ing to pin the blame on Sukarno, and he
in turn will try to shift it to the
military.
Border tensions are worsening and
more serious armed clashes may occur in
the wake of the recent Iranian-supported
Kurdish attack near Panjwin. Earlier
this week Iraq warned Iran of "serious
consequences" if Iran does not stop sup-
porting the Kurdish tribesmen. The Shah,
for his part, shows no intention of back-
ing off.
Iraq has asked several countries,
including the US, Britain, and the So-
viet Union, to intervene diplomatically
in Tehran in order to secure an end to
the fighting.
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7. Rhodesia
8. Ceylon
The government's military capabili-
ties in the eastern Congo will be improved
by the arrival of a new batch of contract
soldiers from South Africa. They replace
many whose contracts had expired during
the past month.
A number of rebels remain active
there, but there are indications that
most of their Cuban advisers have left
the Congo.
Members of a private fact-finding
group of British parliamentarians now
visiting Rhodesia have concluded that
Prime Minister Wilson has grossly under-
estimated the time it will take for
sanctions to bring down the Smith regime.
The Tory and Liberal members of the
three-party group told the US consular
officer in Salisbury that they had de-
tected no signs of any break within
Smith's political front. They believe
the regime can last for six to nine
more months before the sanctions bring
it down.1
the Rhode-
sian oil refinery is scheduled to close
down on 16 January for lack of crude
oil. Most of the oil companies operating
in South Africa have suspended petroleum
shipments to Rhodesia despite Verwoerd's
advice that they continue their normal
flow to Rhodesia.
Violence erupted in Colombo today
when police attempted to block a crowd
marching on the parliament building.
This is evidently part of the leftist
campaign to provoke communal violence
and thus weaken the pro-Western
Senanayake government. The immediate
issue is controversial government legis-
lation that would permit the use of a
minority language.
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9. Dominican Republic
The stand-off continues. So far
there has been little violence, but
pressures are building up among ex-
tremists of both the right and the
left for action which could lead to
serious trouble.
Much depends on the outcome of
the special meeting of the Organization
of American States now under way here.
The meeting was called by Garcia Godoy
after General Alvim, Commander of the
Inter-American Peace Force, refused to
use his forces to eject the Dominican
military from the government's radio
station. Alvim has taken strong ex-
ception to the Bunker Committee's
present support for the Garcia Godoy
government.
Extremists among the leftist forces
are pressing for a general strike to
begin on Monday, ostensibly to support
Garcia Godoy's effort to oust the mili-
tary chiefs. Leaders of most non-
Communist leftist groups oppose the
strike, but may not be able to hold the
rank and file in line.
Although the military leaders have
urged their forces to avoid any violence,
they have given implicit encouragement
to rightist vigilante groups which are
apparently preparing to round up all
"Communists."
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