THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 20 OCTOBER 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005967952
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 20, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
20 OCTOBER 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
20 OCTOBER 1965
1. Indonesia
2. North Vietnam
The army is still chipping away at
the Communists.
It has ordered Communist leaders
in the Djakarta area to report at once
to police or military authorities. The
arrest of Communist leaders continues,
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and 1,400 have been taken into Custody.
A Djakarta paper yesterday lAment so
far as to imply that Sukarno himself was
responsible for the current disorders.
Our embassy cites this as further evi-
dence of Sukarno's diminished stature.
Sukarno, meanwhile, is doing his
best to blunt the army drive and regain
respectability for the Communists. His
maneuvers have had little apparent im-
pact on the current anti-Communist fer-
vor.
There are also signs that the army
may be leveling its sights against For-
eign Minister Subandrio, who is still
Sukarno's closest adviser.
Former air force chief Omar Dani,
who was deeply involved in the 30 Sep-
tember affair, left Indonesia yesterday
for an extended tour abroad at the army's
insistence. Seeking a quid pro quiz) for
this, Sukarno has ordered General ?Suken-
dro into exile. If he goes, the army
will lose one of its best political brains.
Analysis of photography has firmly
identified for the first time a surface-
to-air missile support area in North
Vietnam. This one is some 23 miles
southwest of Hanoi and consists of over
20 buildings. A number of caves that
may be used for storage are nearby.
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3. Dominican Republic The atmosphere in Santo Domingo
is very touchy.
Early 'afternoon reports from the
Dominican capital state that Ambassa-
dor -Bunker has prevailed upon Garcia
Godoy, the military chiefs, and rebel
leader Caamano to agree to proceed to-
morrow or Friday with arms collection.
Mixed four-man commissions are to over-
see the effort in the rebel zone, while
similar commissions minus the rebel mem-
ber will act elsewhere.
As a result, Rivera Caminero and
the military heads have apparently can-
celed a military sweep of the rebel
zone set for late today.
Rivera remains deeply distrustful
4. Venezuela
of the provisional president
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There are more reports today that
Garcia Godoy may resign. An examination
of the many difficulties confronting him
is today's Annex.
5. Pakistan The frustrations in Karachi are
growing.
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The Pakistani press over the past
few days has featured a series of anti-
American articles including personal at-
tacks on Ambassador McConaughy. These,
attacks, which could only have come about
with official sanction, have begun to
taper off.
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6. Berlin
7. Greece
8. Africa
9. Burundi
There have been no indications that
the Soviets will use the impending War-
saw Pact exercises in western East Ger-
many as the excuse to harass Allied air
corridors into Berlin. In fact, the evi-
dence at hand points to a conscious So-
viet effort to avoid jeopardizing West-
ern air traffic.
The calm in Greece is more than
likely a temporary thing.
Parliament will reconvene next month,
and this will usher in another phase of
the bitter struggle between Papandreou
and the King.
The Stephanopoulos government is so
precariously balanced between these two
forces that it will not be able to take
firm measures anywhere.
Its immobility could have particu-
larly harmful effects in economic mat-
ters. Greece is encountering balance-
of-payments difficulties and there are
a number of bills run up by Papandreou's
openhanded domestic programs that will
shortly have to be paid.
A summit meeting of the Organiza-
tion of African Unity, is. set to open to-
morrow in Accra, Ghana. Present signs
are that only about half of the 36 mem-
ber states will berepresented by chiefs
of state. The conference is expected
to concentrate on African problems, with
the issue of-white dominance in southern
Africa coming in for a large share of
attention. The meeting will probably
not turn into an anti-American show.
The country is quiet following the
quick collapse of the coup try. The King
has returned to the capital from his ref-
uge in the Congo, and the small group of
armed Europeans who entered Burundi at
the King's request have left.
Tribal tensions have been fanned
by the affair and may be fanned further
if the King goes through with his plan
to arrest several leading tribal oppo-
nents.
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ANNEX
Garcia Godoy's Present Position
The events of the past few days, beginning
with the killing of ultrarightist Severo Cabral
in downtown Santo Domingo last Saturday, have fur-
ther reduced Garcia Godoy's support to a point well
below the minimum that he had hoped
he would be able to maintain.
At the moment, the only semblance of civilian
backing for Garcia Godoy comes from leftist elements
like those around ex-President Bosch/
Those moderate elements which
had still supported the government until last week-
end have now withdrawn, despairing of the provisional
president's ability to take firm decisions and make
them stick.
Paradoxically, while Garcia Godoy's civilian
support has shifted left, he remains dependent on
the regular military establishment, which is still
strongly rightist. The rebels are trying to change
the army's political complexion through the "reinte-
gration" of rebel officers, but so far have been
blocked. However, the fact that the army has been
standing by Garcia Godoy is due not to any enthusi-
asm its leaders feel for him but to the sense of
confidence that has gradually developed between them
and the US force there.
The crisis has come primarily because of the
collapse of Garcia Godoy's pretense, built through
a series of announcements last week, that the rebel
military and the rebel zone had been reintegrated
under civil authority. In fact, not only have the
rebels retained the vast bulk of their arms in the
zone, but the National Police patrolling it are
dominated by recently "integrated" rebel policemen.
Their habits have not changed, as witness the arrest
of US military liaison men by these "police" earlier
this week.
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ANNEX (Cont'd)
The rebel military, too, have not in fact
changed status significantly. They are free to
come and go as they please from the camp set up
for them on the edge of the city, they have kept
their arms, and are available at any time the rebel
leaders should decide to raise their banner again.
At least one group of rebels, composed of frogmen
from the Dominican Navy, has not even gone to the
camp and remains as an elite goon squad in the down-
town area.
In this situation, respect for law and order
has diminished day by day. This is less true of the
countryside than of Santo Domingo, but the capital
is where the decisive action is. At the same time,
political polarization has proceeded apace. The
rightists, always suspicious of Garcia Godoy, are
now convinced he is at least a leftist tool. The
less extreme among the leftists are merely waiting
for him to fall, while the more extreme, including
the Communists, actively promote chaos. How long
Garcia Godoy can or will continue under this kind
of buffeting would seem problematical.
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