THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 25 AUGUST 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967855
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 25, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
25 AUGUST 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
25 AUGUST 1965
1, South Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
The Viet Cong are to receive an un-
specified quantity of medicine from Cam-
bodia,/
A "high ranking" official of
Lthe Communist Liberation Front is sched-
uled to go to the Cambodian capital to
accept the gift, probably in a public
ceremony.
This will be the first time that Cam-
bodia's "moral support" for the Viet Cong
has been openly translated into material.
However, a similar gift went to North
Vietnam in late June.
Student agitators were active in Hue
again today, denouncing the Saigon gov-
ernment and its decree mobilizing intel-
lectuals. The US was also criticized
but the speakers reportedly insisted
they were not anti-American.
Three new surface-to-air missile
sites, one with ten missiles and related
equipment in place, have been identified
by preliminary analysis of photography
taken yesterday of the Hanoi area. If
the analysis is confirmed, the total of
such sites in North Vietnam will rise
to 16.
Construction activity is taking
place along the railway running north-
east from Hanoi to Dong Dang, North Viet-
nam's main supply artery from Communist
China. Photography of 17 August shows
equipment and construction materials as
well as grading scars and a new short
spur to a military area.
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The strategic area northeast of Hanoi
is watched especially carefully by Chinese
Communist radar, indicating a high degree
of sensitivity. ,The US strike near Kep
on 24 August was the first US attack in
this area.
Future strikes there may trigger more
vigorous North Vietnamese, and possibly,
Chinese Communist defensive measures.
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3, Kashmir
4. Great Britain
Indian and Pakistani regulars are
edging close to open warfare in Kashmir.
During the past week, exchanges of rifle
and machine-gun, as well as some artil-
lery,fire, ?have spread up and down the
hitherto generally respected cease-fire
line. (See map.)
United Nations observers report
that two battalions of Pakistani regu-
lars (about 2,000 men) have moved across
the cease-fire line in the Poonch area.
The Indians claim that, in addition, up
to 5,000 Pakistani infiltrators are on
the Indian side of the line.
On the other hand, Indian troops
have crossed the line at several points
to seize new positions from the Paki-
stanis.
This growing disregard for the
cease-fire line, which has served to
keep the two sides reasonably apart for
16 years, is reducing the effectiveness
of the UN observer teams. The chief of
the UN in Kashmir, General Nimmo, has
been ordered to New York to report to
U Thant.
The latter has labelled recent
Kashmir developments "a serious threat
to the peace."
Officials in London who are',examin-
ing the implications of Singaporers in-
dependence seem to feel that the British
base in Singapore will become untenable
in the "relatively near future and cer-
tainly before 1968."
-These officials are beginning to ex-
plore possible alternative base locations.
Among these are northwestern Australia
and several Indian Ocean islands. Thought
is also being given to requesting the
use of US facilities in the Philippines
for logistic backup.
The British emphasize that this does
not mean the British intend to pull out
of Southeast Asia leaving the US holding
the bag. They do acknowledge that there
well may be a reduction in British forces
once the Singapore base is lost.
.These considerations are not likely
to affect British support of the struggle
against Indonesia over the short run.
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5. Congo
6. USSR
7. Indonesia
President Kasavubu is pressing his
drive to undercut Premier Tshombe.
This week elections were annulled,
doubtless at the president's behest, in
still another province where Tshombe
forces had been victorious.
Kasavubu is also urging former se-
curity chieftain,Nendaka, to build up a
following so as eventually to replace
Tshombe. General Mobutu, whose attitude
may prove decisive, has reportedly frowned
on this maneuver.
For the time being, Tshombe is keep-
ing his own counsel and is telling inter-
ested parties that he does not intend to
provoke a showdown with Kasavubu.
launched from Tyuratam this morning was
the third so far this month. Launches
in this series earlier in the year came
at the rate of one every 18-20 days.
The rate this month is one every 10-11
days.
A government press campaign has
been launched against American missionaries
in West Irian, Indonesia's part of New
Guinea, where small-scale native resist-
ance activities have been bothering the
Indonesians in the past few weeks. The
missionaries are charged with being in-
volved in these disturbances.
This campaign is another item in
the growing list of anti-Western themes
which the Indonesian Government is or-
chestrating. A discussion of some of the
ways in which Sukarno is making the coun-
try into a closed, Communist-oriented
society is today's Annex.
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ANNEX
Sukarno's March into the Communist Camp
In the past few months, Sukarno's determination
to mold Indonesia into a Communist society, revolv-
ing on an axis of which Communist China is the other
pole, has become more and more explicit. Sukarno
is deliberately pushing this process at as rapid a
pace as seems to him prudent without arousing exces-
sive dissidence or forcing together the remaining
non-Communist elements in the country. As these op-
position elements have become enfeebled, the pace
has accelerated.
Anti-Westernism has become increasingly out-
spoken not only in the "confrontation" against.Ma-
laysia and in the harassment of US interests, but
also in a positive espousal of Peking's propaganda
and pOsitions. Sukarno's speech of 17 August even
envisaged an alliance of Indonesia with North Viet-
nam, Cambodia, and Communist China.
This ties in with Sukarno's concept of the "nefos"--
the new emerging forces which include the Communist
countries, especially the Asian ones--lined up against
the "oldfos"--of which the US is the leader. The
Djakarta-Peking axis is also part of Sukarno's vision
of Indonesia assuming its "natural" leadership of
Southeast Asia, a theme played somewhat more softly.
Indonesian news media are almost exclusively
in the hands of Communist propagandists. Only the
North Vietnamese 'version of the US Marines action
at Chu Lai, for example, ever got into print. For-
eign Minister Subandrio parrots the theme that Viet-
namese "freedom fighters," with superior will; are
winning despite the tremendous superiority of weap-
ons. in the hands of their imperialist enemies.
As Ambassador Green sees it, Indonesia has be-
come an almost completely closed society, its con-
tacts with the non-Communist world being gradually
snipped off. In strokes of high policy, Indonesia
has withdrawn from the United Nations, the World
Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, while
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ANNEX Cont'd)
local youth groups have organized book burnings, in
which the Encyclopedia Britannica is consigned to
the flames along with the jackets of Beatle phono-
graph records (the records themselves go to the
black market).
The only serious opponent of Sukarno's immers-
ing Indonesia in his brand of Communism has been
the army. however, the
army is being psychologically reoriented to consider
the neocolonialists, including the US, as the real
enemy. This reorientation is being backed by day-
to-day pressures from Djakarta on the army's long-
standing administrative influence in the country.
This week, for example, the interior minister picked
a Communist-backed man to be mayor of Medan--site
of one of our consulates--over a man strongly sup-
ported by the army.
The anti-Communists whom Sukarno has kept on
in the government--anti-Communists seem to be either
in the cabinet or in jail--have been outmaneuvered.
They helplessly watch Sukarno promote what they call
the "disintegration" of the country. Economic min-
ister Malik says that if Sukarno pursues his present
policies for the rest of this year "he would be very
sOrry." But neither Malik nor General Nasution, the
respected anti-Communist military leader, gives any
signs of doing anything about it.
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