THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 26 AUGUST 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967857
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: August 26, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
26 AUGUST 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
26 AUGUST 1965
I. Vietnam
2. Communist China
A high-level North Vietnamese party
delegation arrived in Paris yesterday.
The delegation is the guest of the French
Communist Partyi
In Saigon, Prime Minister Ky exuded
confidence in himself and his government
during an interview with Ambassador Lodge.
Ky does not appear to take the possibil-
ity of a coup very seriously.
The embassy believes, however, that
the government faces internal challenges
in the coming weeks which will test, the
mettle of the generals and their ability
to stick together.
Saigon students have now taken up
the cry against Ky's recent mobilization
decree. So far they have not, as have
their Hu6 counterparts, called for a
change of government.
Peking charges that the crash Tues-
day of a US military plane in Hong Kong
further reveals the British are letting
the US use the colony as a "base for
aggression against Vietnam."
In making this charge, the leading
Peking-controlled paper in Hong Kong
implied that if such use was not halted
China might "react."
Significant Chinese action against
Hong Kong is unlikely, at least at the
present, but Peking evidently intends to
keep pressure on the British to restrict
activities in Hong Kong which in any
way oppose Peking' S interests.
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3. Dominican Republic
4. Kashmir
The prospects are for still further
delays in reaching a settlement. The
top military leaders are now unanimously
opposed to signing the revised "Act of
Reconciliation."
The underlying problem seems to
?be that these officers have lost confi-
dence in Garcia Godoy. They say that
he has made commitments to the rebels
which are against the interests of the
armed forces. There is no firm informa-
tion, however, that this is the case.
Garcia's next move may be in the
form of concessions to the military in
an effort to regain their confidence:
He has told US officials, for example,
that he might be obliged to renege on
naming a civilian as minister of the
armed forces.
Secretary General U Thant is gravely
apprehensive about Kashmir.
He says that the small UN observer
group there is impotent to deal with the
situation under its existing mandate.
There is, he feels, a real possibility
of a complete breakdown of the 1949 cease-
fire agreement.
An examination of the background
and possible implications of the strug-
gle in Kashmir is today's Annex.
5. Nationalist China Madame Chiang Kai-shek is now plan-
ning to stay in the US for several months.
She will arrive in New York tomorrow to
set up temporary headquarters.
Madame Chiang believes the American pub-
lic does not adequately understand the
threat from Peking and the importance
of Nationalist China in the anti-Communist
struggle. Because of this, she intends
to set out on an extensive speaking tour.
Madame Chiang has asked the Chinese
Embassy in Washington to arrange for her
to meet with the President and to address
a joint session of Congress.
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6. Colombia
7. Greece
8. USSR
The government is pushing a number
of unpopular policies which could bring
on strikes and other public disorders in
coming weeks.
These measures include a gasoline
tax and proposed reform of exchange rates.
In addition, students are protesting the
lack of funds for several universities.
Demonstrations have already begun.
Other disorders may occur if the
government tries to break up a Communist-
backed rally set for 10 September. Po-
litical demonstrations are outlawed under
the present state ?of siege.
Tsirimokos lost important ground to-
day in his drive to win a vote of confi-
dence. Spyros Markenzinis, a minority
leader who controls eight crucial votes,
came out against the new government.
The vote may come later tonight
but it could be postponed until Monday.
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ANNEX
India and Pakistan
Antagonism between Hindu and Muslim goes back
for centuries. Never far below the surface, it
erupted into one of the bloodiest communal conflicts
in history when India and Pakistan became independ-
ent in 1947.
Ever since, a search for security against India
has been the strongest motive in Pakistan's foreign
policy. Pakistan joined the Southeast Asia and Cen-
tral Treaty Organizations and accepted US military
aid largely for their deterrent affect on India.
Pakistan has always viewed US military aid to India
as aimed at Pakistan. Feeling then that US support
against India was lagging, Pakistan began to turn
to the Chinese in order to bring needed pressure on
India.
India, larger and stronger, has never felt it
necessary to make concessions in order to achieve
better relations with Pakistan. Throughout the dark
days of the war with China, India did not lower its
military guard in the disputed area of Kashmir.
The long-standing Indian-Pakistani feud is going
to persist. Indeed, it promises to get worse. Al-
though there have been occasional outbursts in such
places as the Rann of Kutch and East Pakistan, Kashmir
will continue to be the focus of the dispute. Paki-
stan tried to seize Kashmir by military force in 1948.
The attempt failed. An uneasy peace has been kept
since along the cease-fire line by a small group of
UN observers. Both sides have been disposed to keep
the fighting to a small-scale, sporadic level.
It is this disposition which seems to have broken
down in the past week or so. Both sides now appear
willing, at a minimum, to use the flareup to redraw
the line and to improve tactical military positions.
It could go much further than this, however, since
both sides have pushed regulars across the line into
the territory of the other. Exchanges of gunfire
have increased in frequency and duration.
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ANNEX (Cont'd)
Open warfare is thus a danger, especially since
the UN group is no longer the effective restraining
influence it once was. As tensions rise, the possi-
bilities of a new communal outburst in India also
rise.
One moderating factor remains--the value both
New Delhi and Karachi place on US military and eco-
nomic aid. While either would be willing to forego
this aid rather than compromise vital national in-
terests, such aid does give the US some leverage on
the policies of both.
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