THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 25 APRIL 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968276
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: April 25, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
25 APRIL 1966
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? DAILY BRIEF
25 APRIL 1966
1. South Vietnam
The Hue "struggle group" seems to be
relaxing its hold over the city, although
it has said it will continue twice-daily
broadcasts. Primary schools reopened this
morning, and many of the most violent anti-
Ky and anti-US banners have been taken
down.
There was one demonstration in Hue
this afternoon--to denounce the Viet Cong
for killing civilians in last night's
mortar attack, which completely missed
the airport it was aimed at.
In Saigon, reaction has been mild
to the replacement last week of the na-
tional police chief. Several cabinet
members had earlier threatened to resign
if Ky took this step.
2. North Vietnam Hanoi's naval units appear to be
stepping up their activity.
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3. Communist China
4. Communist China
5. Indonesia
Satellite photography of 15-18 April
has turned up visual evidence of the
three earthquakes which shook the North
China plain in March.
The three epicenters can be clearly
distinguished very close together in the
alluvial soil about 150 miles south of
Peking. Damage to buildings, agricul-
ture, irrigation canals, and transport
routes occurred in an area of more than
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een extensive in this farming area with
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a population density of some 800 to 1,000
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Anti-Chinese feeling is rising among
the rabid Moslems in northern Sumatra,
despite army efforts to tone this down.
Overseas Chinese have been hounded through
the streets, stripped, and then painted
red. Our consul in Medan feels that in-
dignities of this sort are child's play
compared to the major anti-Chinese riots
he fears are coming.
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6. Cambodia
7. Tanzania
8. Congo
Sihanouk says he will shortly join
with representatives of North Vietnam and
the Liberation Front for South Vietnam in
a "summit meeting." Its purpose, accord-
ing to Sihanouk, will be to sign agree-
ments on peaceful coexistence, fraternity,
and mutual respect for each other's ter-
ritorial integrity.
The Cambodian prince has been mov-
ing his country closer to the Vietnamese
Communists for some time now, and it could
be that the groundwork has been laid for
reaching some sort of an understanding
over Cambodia's borders with Vietnam, long
a major Sihanouk objective. There has
been no hard evidence of this from Hanoi,
however.
Communist zealots on Zanzibar are
clamoring for the closing of the US Con-
sulate.
Egged on by Bloc and Chinese repre-
sentatives, they have already closed down
the US library and forced the removal of
another American officer. They have now
cooked up "evidence" linking Consul Picker-
ing with a plot to restore Arab rule and
are pressing for his scalp too.
Besides embarrassing the Americans,
tactics such as these tend to frustrate
President Nyerere's efforts to consoli-
date the two-year-old union of Tangan-
yika and Zanzibar.
Ambassador Godley says he is cau-
tiously optimistic about the Congo.
He feels that the political and
security situation right now is better
than at any time in the past five years.
Part of this is due to the fact that
for the first time since 1960 no other
African regime is actively interfering
on behalf of thel rebels, whose activities
are now relatively confined.
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