THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 7 FEBRUARY 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968141
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: February 7, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
7 FEBRUARY 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
7 FEBRUARY 1966
1. North Vietnam
2. Soviet Union
3. Rhodesia
Recent photographs of a North Viet-
namese MIG-21 show what appears to be an
air-to-air missile mounted under each
wing. The exact type of missile cannot
be determined, however.
This is the first good indication
that air-to-air missiles are being in-
troduced into North Vietnam. These
weapons will put Hanoi's advanced fighter
interceptors on a near equal footing with
equivalent US planes.
Moscow says that photography trans-
mitted last night used up nearly all
the power aboard Luna 9. \
The relatively short life of the
spacecraft's system suggests that there
may have been damage upon landing and
that its batteries are not being recharged
properly. We had expected transmissions
for one lunar day (14 earth days).
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4. Chile
The strike at El Teniente, the
world's largest underground copper mine,
is entering its fifth week. The left-
ist-led copper unions have scheduled
sympathy strikes at nearby mines starting
Wednesday, raising the prospect that the
strike will become industry wide. A
month-long general copper strike last
November cost the country over 50,000
tons production of the badly needed ma-
terial.
5. Dominican Republic Defense Minister Rivera Caminero
told a close associate yesterday that
Garcia Godoy was making little effort
to meet the conditions Rivera has set
for leaving the country. If the presi-
dent fails to do so by tomorrow, Rivera
declared, he would reverse his decision
to leave.
6. Costa Rica
Garcia Godoy might then decide to
call on the Inter-American Peace Force
to affect the reluctant defense minister's
removal.
Meanwhile the military says it has
unearthed a leftist attempt to suborn a
number of enlisted men to assassinate
the military chiefs and take over the
army. Such attempts doubtless have
been made, but it is doubtful that they
have yet reached the point of posing a
really serious threat.
With some 90 percent of the vote
counted Jose Joaquin Trejos has a nar-
row lead over administration candidate
David Oduber. The betting now. in San
Jose is that the lead will hold up and
Trejos will be Costa Rica's next presi-
dent.
Trejos will probably do little to
disturb the even tenor of Costa Rica's
relations with the US. However, his
administration brings to power widely
disparate interests which will have
great trouble agreeing on badly needed
economic reforms.
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7. Guatemala
8. Yemen
9. Burma
Elements in the Peralta regime are
still seeking a pretext to postpone or
cancel the elections now scheduled for
early next month. Peralta himself may
be thinking along the same lines.
Proponents of this line of action
reason that the elections would have to
be thoroughly rigged to prevent victory
by the leftist non-Communist Revolution-
ary Party, which is anathema to conser-
vatives and the military establishment.
They argue it would be easier to deal
with the outcry occasioned by delayed
elections than the antiregime outburst
which would follow blatantly rigged
elections.
In our opinion the chief benefici-
ary in either case would likely be the
Communists and other extremists.
there has been
no movement at all toward a political
settlement, and both Yemeni factions
have been girding themselves for action.
Neither the Saudis nor the Egyptians
particularly want more fighting, but
both may be powerless to stop it.
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