THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 14 JANUARY 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968098
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 9
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 14, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
14 JANUARY 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
14 JANUARY 1966
1. Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
Moscow today released a communiqu?
on the Shelepin visit to Hanoi. So far
Hanoi has not yet broadcast any such
communiqu?
No reference is made in the Moscow
release to US peace moves. This could
reflect continuing differences between
Moscow and Hanoi on this key issue.
Failure to find a consensus on the mat-
ter may in fact account for the delay
in putting the communiqu?ut.
According to the TASS version, Shele-
pin signed a new agreement on additional
Soviet assistance of an unspecified na-
ture. The communiqu?xpressed North
Vietnam's gratitude for the "big and
valuable" Soviet economic and military
aid already given.
The communiqu?oes on to say that
the North Vietnamese party has accepted
a Soviet invitation to send a delegation
to the Soviet 23rd party conference in
Moscow next month. There has been specu-
lation that the Soviets may try to use
the occasion to call an international
Communist confab on Vietnam with an anti-
Chinese flavor.
Hanoi has parrotted Peking's blasts
against the President's State of the
Union message. Today, the North Viet-
namese said the message showed again that
the US talk about peace was merely de-
signed to conceal a "dark intent to es-
calate and expand the war."
Hanoi also published today a cri-
tique of the "fraudulent" US 14-point
program. The article stressed the need
for the US to withdraw "unconditionally"
and "recognize" the South Vietnamese
Liberation Front and its program. It
went on to suggest an "unconditional"
end to the bombing.
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3. Dominican Republic
4. Soviet Union:.
Garcia Godoy is pursuing his efforts
to get Caamano and two other top rebels
to leave the country. Last evening, he
told the Organization of American States
committee that these rebels would prob-
ably depart tonight, but a "few problems"
remain to be solved.
Garcia Godoy meanwhile has banned
the Dominican leftists who went to the
Tri-Continent Conference in Havana from
returning to the country. The effective-
ness of this ban may be tested shortly,
since the conference ends this evening.
5. Thailand The tempo of Communist activity is
quickening.
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of local officials and police informants
were reported on 5 and 11 January.
The nature of the threat is considered
in today's Annex.
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6. Rhodesia
7. France
The US Consulate General in Salis-
bury now sees signs that the situation
there could deteriorate rapidly if the
economic squeeze continues. Incireasing
unemployment among Africans and under-
employment among whites are having a
significant impact, in the consulate's
view, along with the oil sanctions pro-
gram.
Business leaders, who were wary of
independence from the start, now seem
to be desperately discouraged, and a ?
crisis meeting of local bankers was
called today. Farmers and the white
man in the street, however, are still
under Smith's spell, and they are the
real mainstay of his regime.
British Commonwealth Secretary Bot-
tomley's trip to Salisbury has been can-
celled. Smith apparently posed unaccept-
able conditions to letting Bottomley in.
We are still unsure just what Wilson had
in mind for him to do.
In London, the British are consider-
ing a token airlift of copper from Zambia.
They also have alerted our embassy to
the possibility of a quick meeting of
the principal copper consuming countries
to take a look at the whole problem of
world copper supply.
De Gaulle's trip to Moscow is sched-
uled for early June, according to Foreign
Minister Couve de Murville, who has told
Ambassador Bohlen that the trip does not
signify any shift in French policy.
Couve also told Bohlen that the
French still want changes in NATO. They
probably will be ready to start talks
the latter part of March, and they still
wish to begin by exchanging views bilat-
erally with the US.
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8. Indonesia
9. India-Pakistan
The student demonstrations in Dja-
karta against Sukarno's henchmen continued
today, and the army evidently has decided
to ignore his order to halt them. One
of the student slogans today was "min-
isters are legal gangsters."
Sukarno is to hold a cabinet meet-
ing tomorrow. The press has been in-
vited, so this may be the occasion for
another petulant pronouncement. Sukarno
still gives every sign of holding out
stubbornly against the army tide.
Despite the Ayub regime's efforts
to portray the Tashkent declaration as
a success for Pakistan, hostility is wide-
spread among the public. Students have
taken the lead in demonstrating, and a
number of anti-Avub slogans have appeared.
In India, a minor cabinet member
has resigned in protest against the
Tashkent declaration. The top Indian
leaders,however, do not expect serious
opposition. Although they see some pos-
sible pitfalls in carrying out the agree-
ment, they say they are determined to
fulfill this "moral commitment."
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