THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 9 OCTOBER 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967934
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 9, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
9 OCTOBER 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
9 OCTOBER 1965
1. Indonesia
2., India-Pakistan
3. South Vietnam
The army remains firmly, in the
saddle in Djakarta and by all appearances
is determined to suppress the Communists.
Most of the Communists have gone
underground, and the army realizes that
it has so far scarcely scratched the sur-
face of the well-entrenched and apparently
well-armed Communist apparatus. Sweeps to
round up hidden arms are continuing. They
have turned up numbers of weapons in the
past few days(
While this is going on, Sukarno is
keeping his own counsel, doubtless wait-
ing for the army fury to run its course.
The cease-fire is holding, but the
outlook for separating the two armies and
defusing the situation is no better.
Pakistan is vigorously pursuing its
efforts to re-equip its armed forces from
foreign sources./
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4. USSR Soviet marshals have apparently
abandoned the doctrine established by
Khrushchev that a future general war
can only be nuclear.
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5. Greece
that texts of his
treatise on "Military Strategy," written
while Khrushchev was in power, have been
revised to include the possibility of
non-nuclear war and to "update" the role
of ground forces.
Along the same lines, the upcoming
Warsaw Pact exercises, featuring a tra-
ditional ground attack and counter-
attack,
considerable publicity will
be given the exercise.
The new Stephanopoulos government
is considering a change in policy toward
Cyprus.
This could lead to some movement on
the nagging Cyprus problem, but it is un-
likely that Stephanopoulos can act de-
cisively from his precarious political
position.
6. Turkey The Turks go to the polls tomorrow
for their first general election since
1961. Campaigning has been orderly, and
the voting is not expected to upset the
present balance of political parties.
Another coalition led by the Justice Party
is in prospect.
The most noteworthy element so far,
and symptomatic of the Turkish times, has
been the enthusiasm generated by the
small but growing Labor Party. It takes
a highly nationalistic line and has been
hammering hard at anti-foreign, especially
anti-American, themes.
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