THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 13 AUGUST 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968470
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 13, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
13 AUGUST 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
13 AUGUST 1966
1. Vietnam
2. USSR
French officials are reported to
have set aside time for a short meeting
between De Gaulle and a representative
of Ho Chi Minh during De Gaulle's visit
to Cambodia beginning late this month.
De Gaulle himself is said not yet to
have responded to the proposal.
There are a number of reports
that the French President intends to
make a major pronounceMent on Vietnam
during his three-day stay in Cambodia.
This could be, although as far as
we can tell De Gaulle still feels the
situation is not yet ripe for a French
initiative.
De Gaulle may well see an advantage,
however, in trying to demonstrate that
France is in a unique position to serve
as a mediator at some time in the future.
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3. West Germany
4. Nigeria
The economy is generally "quite
satisfactory," according to a recent
assessment by the US Embassy.
There is, to be sure, a slowing
growth rate, a relatively low rate of
industrial investment, and a tight money
market. However, price stability--a
major current objective--appears to
have been achieved, and should permit
an easing of money restrictions. This,
plus Erhard's economic stabilization
law, ought to get the economy back on
an even keel.
All this will help Erhard by show-
ing that he can still work his old ecorr-
nanie
The army is apparently being broken
up along tribal lines. Yesterday a 20-
car train, filled with nbrthern troops,
headed north from the Eastern Region and
will presumably return with eastern
troops now in the Northern Region.
Some of the northerners, now accustomed
to the eastern fleshpots, are reluctant
to return to their strait-laced homeland.
This switch will reduce tensions
on the short haul, but will probably
transform the army, once a force for
national stability and unity, into
groups supporting regional and tribal
interests.
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5. -Dominican Republic There was a firefight last
night between police and suspected
leftist elements in the former rebel
area of Santo Domingo. The demon-
strations have been quelled at least
for the moment.
The trouble started when police:
units were suddenly attacked with,-auto-
matic weapons and grenades, apparently
in revenge for the unexplained and
probably mortal wounding earlier in the
night of a former rebel leader./
This incident illustrates the
tinder-box situation in Santo Domingo,
where lots of hotheads still have auto-
matic weapons and explosives.
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