THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 15 JUNE 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968366
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 15, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
15 JUNE 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
15 JUNE 1966
1. South Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
Today, for the third straight day,
the police in Saigon dispersed militant
Buddhist-led demonstrators. The Buddhist
Institute is now calling for a three-day
general strike in Saigon to begin Friday.
It is becoming clear that the monks
now in control of the institute have re-
pudiated the relatively moderate Tam
Chau. He is no longer in Saigon, and
there is some question as to whether he
remains chairman of the institute.
One Saigon monk assured a US Em-
bassy officer today that the Buddhists
continue to follow a nonviolent policy.
He implied that this would not impede
them from trying to provoke the police
into violent reprisals in order to dem-
onstrate the "brutality" of the govern-
ment forces.
In Hu6, the clandestine Buddhist
radio was seeking today to encourage the
"strugglers" by passing word that demon-
strations had started up again in Saigon
"after a ten-day break for rest and re-
cuperation." Nonviolent resistance con-
tinues unabated in the city. Colonel
Loan, who was a forceful figure in the
restoration of government authority in
Da Nang a month ago, is still using quiet
and undramatic tactics in Hu6.
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3. Cuba,
4. Jamaica
5. Ghana
ther word from
Havana tends to dispel the ru-
mors of Fidel Castro's displacement, al-
though the possibility still exists that
he may be ailing.
the Havana press has reported
that "Prime Minister" Castro held a two-
hour interview with the director-general
of UNESCO on Monday, 13 June. The repe-
tition in the press story of Fidel's
various honorific titles would indicate
that he is still in harness.
Other reports from sources in Ha-
vana who saw Fidel on television on 4
June say that he looked tired and with-
drawn as if ill. Contrary to custom on
ceremonial occasions, he left the speech
making to President Dorticos.
The Ghanaians are seeking the re-
turn of some of the Soviet aid techni-
cians they expelled after the coup last
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6. Berlin
Soviet and East German authorities
delayed a US military train to Berlin
today at the Marienborn checkpoint.
They insisted that they had not been
given the requisite advance notification.
The episode looks like a case of minor
harassment, and there is no indication
of new Soviet pressure on Allied access
rights.
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