THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 23 JUNE 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968380
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 23, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
23 JUNE 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
23 JUNE 1966
1. Bolivia
2. North Vietnam
3. South Vietnam
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The government is
said to be acting to head off what it
thinks might be a major effort to cre-
ate disturbances by anti-Barrientos ele-
ments anxious to force postponement of
the 3 July election. It is possible,
however, that this may be the beginning
?of a move by President Ovando against
Barrientos.
r Ha-
noi's search abroad for field wire began
last December.
This contract will provide more
wire than is now estimated as required
for an initial basic issue for all com-
bat units supported by North Vietnam,
including Communist units in Laos and
South Vietnam.
The expanded training and the build-
up of North Vietnamese forces may
have added unusual requirements. Combat
at present levels in South Vietnam is
estimated to chew up some 4,800 kilo-
meters of wire annually.
The presence of two battalions of
the 141st North Vietnamese regiment has
been reported along a river in Bien Hoa
Province, southeast of Bien Hoa. The
regiment's last known location was to
the north in Phuoc Long Province.
If the present report is borne out,
this will mark the southernmost location
for a North Vietnamese regular unit. The
bulk of these are concentrated northward
from the Darlac/Phu Yen Province area.
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4. South Vietnam
.5. Communist China
6. Soviet Union
At last report, police searching
the Buddhist Institute in Saigon after
its seizure this morning have found
tear gas grenades, knives, and a radio
transmitter.
Of the several hundred persons
taken into custody, including the sus-
pected killer they '*anted, police have
now released some 100 Buddhist monks and
nuns. They may return the Institute to
Tam Chau tomorrow.
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Karachi radio announced today that
another Chinese aid project has been,
agreed upon. The Chinese are to set up
a heavy machinery plant in Pakistan, re-
portedly to produce such items as road
-building equipment and machinery for
cement and sugar plants.
a reorgani-
zation of Soviet ground forces in East
Germany. This reorganization might re-
sult in some reduction of Soviet ground
force support troops. The total Soviet
strength now stands at about 280,000.
Thus far, we have no evidence of
the actual departure of any Soviet troops
from East Germany. West German newspa-
pers, however, have been reporting ru-
mors that the Soviets plan significant
troop reductions in East Germany this
summer.
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7. Cyprus
8. France
The immediate danger of a major
new flareup has faded. Makarios today
suddenly lifted the blockade of the
Turkish Cypriot community in Nicosia.
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has obviated Ankara's need to come
through with the "countermeasures" it
had threatened, but tension continues
high between the two hostile communities.
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9. United Kingdom
10. Cuba
Prime Minister Wilson is likely to
come under increasing pressure to de-
liver the evidence for his charge that
Communists are behind the seamen's
strike. The British press is generally
skeptical and opposition party leaders
are demanding proof, as are some Labor
members of Parliament
Some hope of a possible break in
the strike appeared today with the of-
fer by the seamen's union to resume
talks with the shipowners. No time for
the meeting was set, however, and this
may be just another false start.
The drastic shortfall in this year's
sugar harvest has compounded the regime's
economic problems and is apparently driv-
ing the Cubans to seek more loans from
Moscow./
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