THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 23 OCTOBER 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967958
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 23, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF -
23 OCTOBER 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
23 OCTOBER 1965
1. Dominican Republic
The crisis is deepening.
Heavy shooting last night in Santo
Domingo, followed by rightist clandes-
tine radiobroadcasts denouncing the pro-
visional government, so agitated Garcia
Godoy that early this morning he was
threatening to oust all four Dominican
military chiefs. Ambassador Bunker hopes
he will have second thoughts.
As of early this morning,
an Inter-American Peace Force contingent
was guarding the presidential palace
and Garcia Godoy's house.
The arms c011ection "sweep" yester-
day afternoon was in fact a farce. The
"judicial police" who headed the teams
in the rebel zone were all from 'the:rebel
side. According to Radio Santo Domingo,
the "take" was one unserviceable -revolver.
Ex-Presidents Bosch and Balaguer did
have moderating speeches broadcast yes-
terday. They are to speak again today.
Bosch, however, persists in injecting
political plugs into his appeals, which
does not h.plp: the sittation.
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2. Indopepial.
Sukarno this morning held his sched-
uled meeting with top civil and military
officials from all over Indonesia, but
nothing dramatic has emerged.
It was announced that Sukarno is
still studying the "political solution"
to the 30 September affair, and he seems
to have made his standard pitch for unity.
New anti-Communist decrees broad-
cast by Djakarta radio this morning show
no slackening of the army's campaign.
There are signs, however, of grow-
ing uncertainty in army circles over
where to go from here, particularly
in light of the breakdown of the theory
that Sukarno would come around to the
army's view of things, if he were given
the evidence of Communist plotting.
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3. India-Pakistan
4. Rhodesia
Diplomatic maneuvering continues,
but there seems to be no change in the
positions of either side.
The cease-fire lines are generally
quiet, but each side claims this is a
lull before the other creates a new
storm.
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A resolution adopted yesterday at
the Organization of African Unity chiefs
of state meeting in Ghana calls on the
British, and failing them on other Af-
rican states, to use all possible means,
including force, to prevent the white
Rhodesians from declaring independence.
A number of delegations, however,
were reported to be dissatisfied with
the resolution. In any event, Rhodesia's
neighbors, Zambia and Malawi, will be
most reluctant to carry out such a reso-
lution for fear of Rhodesian retaliation.
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evidently is pursuing its previously re-
ported scheme to get the radical Afri-
cans to stop supporting the Congolese
rebels so that it can dispense with
the Congo's white military personnel.
One Congolese politician says the
idea is merely being used to scare the
US into providing more largesse. There
is probably more to it than that, how-
ever. Kasavubu may well feel that he
must oust the white military) whom he
sees as the real mainstay of ex-Premier
Tshombe's position, before he confronts
Tshombe in presidential elections next
spring.
The danger in all these maneuvers
is that their major by-product could be
another influx of radical Africans and
left-wing personalities onto the stage
in Leopoldville.
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