THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 19 AUGUST 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968480
• 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 19, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
19 AUGUST 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
19 AUGUST 1966
1. South Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
Prime Minister Ky has signed an
agreement meeting the major demands of
the montagnard tribal autonomy movement.
Ky has also extended the period during
which the montagnards can name candidates
for the September election. These meas-
ures will pave the way for the return of
montagnard special forces to government
control, and will probably remove the
threat of a montagnard boycott of the
election.
Radical Buddhist leader Tri Quang
has declined an invitation to visit Japan.
Tri Quang, now some 70 days into his
"hunger strike," gave poor health as his
excuse. In truth, he probably is afraid
that he would not get back in the coun-
try once he left it.
A senior Polish official believes
Hanoi's price for coming to the confer-
ence table might be open to some negoti-
ation--if, as a down payment, we stopped
the bombing.
Talking with Ambassador Gronouski
yesterday, the Pole said he thought the
North Vietnamese would agree to sit at
the table with the Ky government. He
also thought Hanoi would perhaps be less
insistent that the Viet Cong's program
be the exclusive base for negotiations.
In times past the Poles have not
been too adept at second-guessing North
Vietnam. In fact, the official talking
to Gronouski made a trip to Hanoi dur-
ing the January halt in bombing--and he
failed to bring home any sign that the
North Vietnamese were willing to move
toward negotiations.
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3. Burma
4, Soviet Union
5. Congo
Ne Win will be visiting Japan after
he leaves Washington next month. The
Japanese expect him to seek a speed-up
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had previously promised him.
New agreements were signed this
week in Moscow detailing the assistance
which Fiat of Italy is to give to the
Soviets' big program for overhauling
and modernizing the auto industry. The
Italian Government is to guarantee ?a $300-
million credit for deliveries of Fiat
equipment to the Soviet Union and another
$50 million for Soviet purchases elsewhere.
Training of Soviet technicians is
to begin in Italy this fall. Some 2,000
are ultimately to be trained.
The Soviets will eventually have to
invest some $1.2 billion to reach their
goals. Even if all goes reasonably well
the big effort will bring the Soviet
Union just to the threshhold of the auto-
motive age by 1975. We calculate that
by that time the Soviets could have about
as many cars as Americans had fifty years
ago. Most of these, however, will go to
the Soviet upper class--the bureaucrats
and the managers,
the mutinous Katangans may al-
ready have left Kisangani for the long
trek to their homeland. If so, there is
little Mobutu's forces can do but spo-
radically harass and delay them on their
way.
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6. United Nations
T. Cuba
8. Latin America
U Thant will stand for another term
if he receives some indication that the
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solve major world problems
The regime is about to unveil its
latest attempt to grapple with the hard
problem of lagging labor productivity.
The central labor organization is to open
its twelfth congress next week. It is
expected to ratify important changes
aimed at making it a more effective in-
strument for controlling and stimulat-
ing the labor force.
There is no reason to expect these
changes to be any more effective than
past efforts to get more and better pro-
duction out of the Cuban worker.
There will be a number of foreign
guests present, including some from North
Vietnam, and we can expect more of the
usual. anti-US diatribes.
The Declaration of Bogota, issued by
the presidents of Chile, Colombia, and
Venezuela at the close of their confer-
ence this week, is likely to give new
?impetus to the idea of economic integra-
tion in Latin America. It is now clear
that this will be a major item on the
agenda at the forthcoming meeting of all
the presidents of the hemisphere.
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