THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 26 AUGUST 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968493
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 26, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE IRESIDENTS
DAILY BRIEF
26 AUGUST 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
26 AUGUST 1966
1. Vietnam
2. South Vietnam
3. Nigeria
Interrogation of a recently defected
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rumors that high-ranking North Vietnamese
party and military personalities are operat-
ing at the headquarters of the Communist
war effort in South Vietnam.
According to the defector, Hanoi's
number one man in the south is a member
of the party politburo. He heads both
the political and military apparatus in
the south, and is assisted by two other
North Vietnamese generals who also hold
high party posts./
The official two-week election cam-
paign period began today.
In a kick-off speech yesterday, Ky
appealed for a large vote and pledged
that the elections would be honest. The
Viet Cong took note of the occasion by
gunning down six Vietnamese policemen
and marines in Saigon.
We expect the Viet Cong to make a
determined effort to disrupt things, but
there are some signs that the Buddhist
hierarchy is about to back away from its
call for a boycott. However, the Bud-
dhists will still work to defeat the
government's candidates.
Security officials in Lagos have
picked up scores of machetes from eastern
tribal activists in the area. This
lends some substance to persistent re-
ports that these easterners were arming
themselves for attacks against selected
northerners. Any such violence would
reinforce already strong northern seces-
sionist sentiment.
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4. Congo
5, French Somaliland
The Belgian Government intends to
maintain current levels of nonmilitary
technical assistance to the Congo in
spite of failure to come to any under-
standing with Mobutu.
Although opposing military commanders
in Kisangani (Stanleyville) have reached
a tenuous truce, there is widespread ap-
prehension that the Katangans may decide
at any moment to move south.
The violent reception given De
Gaulle forced him to cancel his sched-
uled public speech today.
Anti-French demonstrations of yes-
terday and today may have been organized
by agitators from neighboring Somalia.
Nationalist activity in French So-
maliland has been carefully curbed by
the French in ?recent years. The govern-
ment of Somalia has been actively seek-
ing a change in the territory's status,
however, and fears that the French may
let the area fall under Ethiopian con-
trol.
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