THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 9 MAY 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968301
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 9, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
9 MAY 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
9 MAY 1966
1. South Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
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The Buddhist hierarchy has not yet
come out with any significant reaction
to Premier Ky's weekend remarks. How-
ever, Tri Quang has reportedly been sum-
moned from Hue by Buddhist leaders in
Saigon to discuss the issue.
The Viet Cong appear to be zeroing
,in on South Korean personnel as a target
for propaganda, terrorism, and sabotage
attacks./
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3. Vietnam
4. Rhodesia
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5. Guinea
6. Ethiopia
Our embassy sees signs that Peking
may be dangling an aid package before
the Guineans--for a "political price."
The government is uncharacteris-
tically not pressing for more US food
shipments, despite an apparently immi-
nent food shortage. Also, there are more
Chinese milling around Conakry, than at
any recent time, and the local Soviets
seem unhappy.
Toure,however, dropped no hint of
any such prospects in an exceedingly
frank and friendly, talk last week with
Ambassador Attwood, who formerly was am-
bassador to Guinea.
Last week the Ethiopians celebrated
the 25th anniversary of the Emperor's
return to Addis Ababa following the
Italian occupation. The main event was
a gigantic--by African standards--parade
of the US-equipped Ethiopian Army through
the capital and a fly-by of Ethiopian-
piloted supersonic jets and other US-
supplied aircraft.
Ambassador Korry noted that even
the Emperor had never witnessed such an
impressive display of the range and ex-
tent of the US military assistance pro--
gram.
The troops were all young and vigo-
rous looking, in contrast to the many
tottering "spear chuckers" seen in pre-
vious years. Their equipment was clean,
and they seemed to be accepted with
pride by the populace.
The Emperor said he now knew what
an excellent job the US had done with
his military and declared: "I am con-
tent."
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7. Communist China
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Preliminary data on the third nu- 50X2
clear test, which took place early this
morning (Washington time), suggests a
yield of about 50 kilotons. Peking's
first two nuclear tests, in October
1964 and May 1965, gave yields of 25 and
35 kilotons respectively. The device
was apparently dropped from an airplane.
Peking is claiming its device "con-
tained thermonuclear material." If in-
deed it contained such material; the
small yield indicates that no signifi-
cant thermonuclear reaction could have
occurred.
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