THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 4 APRIL 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968239
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 4, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
4 APRIL 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
4 APRIL 1966
1. South Vietnam
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The outcome is still in doubt as
the government stakes its prestige on
a forceful effort to re-establish its
authority in Da Nang and other disaf-
fected cities. The troops dispatched
today to the Da Nang airport may have
begun moving into the city proper.
At last report, there was no word
of violence in Da Nang, but there were
indications that antigovernment forces
were preparing to resist. The Da Nang
radio station has been put out of opera-
tion by its progovernment staff.
In Hue the radio called today for
the public to join First Division troops
and police in resisting any government
move on that city. In the central moun-
tain town of Dalat, government police sent
in to restore order failed to overcome
demonstrating students. In Saigon itself,
government forces were obliged again to
use tear gas against demonstrators. An-
other demonstration is planned for to-
morrow.
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As could be expected, there has been
a sharp rise in coverage of the "strug-
gle movement" in Hanoi and Viet Cong
propaganda. This has particularly em-
phasized the anti-US aspects and seems
designed to press the "struggle groups"
further in that direction.
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2. Communist China
3. Common Market
Walter Hallstein, President of the
European Economic Community Commission,
may be unable to accept reappointment
because of illness. This would be good
news for the French; they have wanted to
get rid of him for some time, believing
that this would help to weaken the com-
mission.
If Hallstein is out of the running,
the French would have a better chance to
promote the candidacy of Dino Del Bo--
the somewhat erratic President of the
Coal-Steel Authority--or Paul-Henri
Spaak, also mentioned as a possibility
by the French.
4. Soviet Union Luna 10 remains in orbit around the
moon
There is still no evidence that
the probe has photographed the lunar
surface, but Luna 10 probably has enough
payload capacity to accommodate photo-
graphic equipment. j
"es ern press re-
ports that the spacecraft seems to be
tumbling and is t4erefore malfunction-
ing.
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5. Soviet Union
Moscow seems to have been surprised
and irritated by the speech delivered
last Thursday by the Cuban delegate to
the Soviet party congress. Armando Hart
Davalos, Castro's high-ranking represen-
tative at the meeting, came out with the
most belligerent statement yet made there.
On Vietnam, for instance, he proposed
that a military force be created cap-
able of stopping the bombing of the
north.
The Soviet news agency, TASS, so
far has been careful not to mention this
part of the speech. Pravda and Izvestia
have tried to indicate that the Cuban's
long harangue on Vietnam failed to get
any applause at all.
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