THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 26 JUNE 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967752
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 26, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
26 JUNE 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
26 JUNE 1965
1. Vietnam
Communist guerrillas attacked a gov-
ernment battalion yesterday 12 miles west
of Saigon. South Vietnamese casualties
?were heavy. No US casualties have been re-
ported from this action. The Viet Cong with-
drew when the government unit was reinforced.
During the week, although there have
been no large-unit Viet Cong attacks, heavy
Communist pressure on lines of communica-
tion has persisted, and the number of Viet
Cong - initiated incidents rose substantially
above last week's total.
No significant change in the political
situation has been reported since yesterday.
2. Dominican Republic The Imbert regime has taken further se-
curity precautions throughout the interior 50X1
following yesterday's rebel attacks at
San Francisco de Macoris. Although
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the rebels are planning similar forays in
several other interior towns, no new dis-
orders have so far been reported. Provoca-
tive attacks against US personnel are re-
portedly also envisaged, but US forces are
alerted to this.
The attack yesterday has served to
bolster those elements within the Imbert
group .who want to clean out the rebels in 50X1
Santo Domingo.
Information continues to come in on
splits among the various rebel groups, in-
cluding even the Communist-oriented factions,
between those .who want to continue the
.struggle and those who want a settlement.
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3. Mozambique
4. Indonesia
5, Greece
Anti-Portuguese rebel activity is
increasing in Mozambique (see map). The
rebels are still no match for the Portu-
guese troops, but their forces are be-
coming larger and their attacks more
frequent. They are also receiving new
weapons of Communist origin, apparently
by way of Tanzania.
The unsuccessful demolition opera-
tion by Indonesian frogmen in Singapore
?reported in today's press was part of a
campaign Djakarta proposes to wage every
night until an explosion is achieved, or
until 29 June, the day the Afro-Asian
conference is supposed to convene in
Algiers.
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King Constantine has reached an "ir-
revocable decision" to have a showdown
with .Prime Minister Papandreou 50X1
. Constantine will 50X1
insist that Papandreou give up his inten-
tion .to relieve the conservative chief of
the army general staff, and insist on a
thorough investigation of recent scandals
involving political activity by officers
on active? service.
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believes Papandreou will yield on these
issues, but if he does not, the King will
"fire" him. Constantine is probably over-
optimistic on this. Papandreou still has
strong popular support and may resist
being dismissed. If he does, a major po-
litical crisis will result.
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6. British Guiana
. Afro-Asian
Conference
8. Cuba
Prime Minister Burnham says that
for each new incident of violence in
the colony he proposes to lock up one or
more of Cheddi Jagan's principal hench-
men in the People's Progressive Party.
Three were put under indefinite deten-
tion last night. Burnham says he has
definite information that Jagan is per-
sonally directing the sabotage campaign
which began with the bombing earlier
this week of the US Consulate.
? Despite frantic behind-the-scenes
efforts by the Chinese Communists to
whip up support for holding the Afro-
Asian conference in Algiers next week
on schedule, its fate is in the balance.
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on 19 June a Cuban 50X1
IL-14 transport aircraft was shot down
by a Cuban surface-to-air missile
east of Havana. 50X1
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the plane appears to have been one
frequently used by Fidel Castro. How-
ever, there is no evidence suggesting
that Castro was on board and it seems
virtually certain that he was not.
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