THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 25 NOVEMBER 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968015
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 25, 1965

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004100240001-5
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
25 NOVEMBER 1965
-TUFD-s-E&R-E_T_
50X1
23
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004100240001-5
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004100240001-5 50x1
DAILY BRIEF
25 NOVEMBER 1965
1. Congo
2. Panama
All is reported quiet in the wake
of General Mobutu's takeover in Leopold-
ville this morning. Nor does effective
resistance seem likely in the immediate
future, although Mobutu's move almost
certainly will be denounced by radical
African governments, especially neighbor-
ing Congo Brazzaville.
Mobutu has announced that he is
now president for the constitutional
five year term. He has named Colonel
Mulamba, one of the few Congolese army
officers who have been really effective,
as premier. Both men are close friends
of the West.
Mobutu says he was pressed to act
by fellow senior officers, but he is
more likely to have come to believe
that taking over himself was the only
way out of the impasse between Tshombe
and ex-President Kasavubu. Mobutu over-
threw Lumumba's regime in somewhat
similar circumstances five years ago.
Tshombe has told our embassy that
he is delighted with developments. It
is problematical how long he will re-
main in this frame of mind, given his
own ambitions for the presidency.
Kasavubu was still at liberty, as of
last report. He may try to rally his
tribal supporters in the Leopoldville
area, but even here his popularity is
reported to have slipped of late.
A three day general strike which
Communists and other opponents of the
government have hoped to exploit got
off to a poor start yesterday. Govern-
ment security forces acted effectively,
and the situation was still quiet this
morning.
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004100240001-5
50X1
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004100240001-5 5oxi
3. Dominican Republic Garcia Godoy's removal of leftist
Attorney General Morel Cerda has led
the top military leaders to withdraw
another of their threats to resign.
4. Rhodesia
A British official has given our
embassy in London a strong impression that
the Wilson government will take more
decisive measures against Rhodesia in
the future. He says London fears that
if it does not keep the initiative the
radical Africans will move in with
disastrous results.
5. Vietnam No significant new developments
have been reported.
50X1
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004100240001-5
50X1
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004100240001-5,:?
TOP SECRET
TOP SECRET
Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2015/07/24 : CIA-RDP79T00936A004100240001-5