THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 31 MARCH 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967601
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: March 31, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
31 MARCH 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
31 MARCH 1965
1. South Vietnam
2. Communist China
3. Thailand
No major developments have been
reported today.
Viet Cong military activity gen-
erally remains light and widely scat-
tered. There are press reports, how-
ever, of a battle in progress for con-
trol of a government post 35 miles
south of Danang.
Peiping is stepping up the pres-
sure on the Thais. A liaison officer
of the "Thailand Independence Movement"
has shown up in Peiping. Chinese propa-
ganda has been warning against the use
of Thailand as a "base for attacks" on
North Vietnam,
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4. USSR
. Indonesia
6. Bolivia
Communist influence continues its
creeping expansion at the national level.
Anti-Communist Trade Minister Adam Malik
has been moved into an apparently mean-
ingless post. A pro-Communist who is
possibly a secret party member has been
given -a new cabinet post in charge of
mining, a responsibility previously held
by third deputy prime minister Chaerul
Saleh.
New trouble is brewing for the
junta in the form of a nationwide petro-
leum workers' strike, apparently backed
by Juan Lechin and his leftist followers.
The strike climate, which also affects
the nationalized mines and other indus-
tries, could spark violent incidents as
the military attempts to maintain order.
The junta has recently succeeded in
mending its own fences. Junta chief. Bar-
rientos agreed to withdraw his presiden-
tial candidacy for the time being
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6. Congo
7. France
Recent successes by mercenary-led
Congolese Army forces in northeast Congo
have put what remains of the rebels there
in an increasingly difficult position.
Ugandan Premier Obote appears to back-
ing further away from his sunnort for
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Efforts were still being made last
week to get arms to the rebels in the
northeast via the Sudan, but the fall
of Aba to Congolese forces makes this
exceedingly difficult. The focus of
external support is shifting to Tan-
zania and the remaining concentration
of rebels around Fizi in the eastern
Congo. a
new rebel attack against Uvira is be-
ing prepared. (See map.)
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