THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 4 DECEMBER 1965

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968031
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: December 4, 1965

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
4 DECEMBER 1965
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DAILY BRIEF
4 DECEMBER 1965
1. Rhodesia
2. Dahomey
The Organization of African Unity
is in session today to consider mili-
tary recommendations of its Committee
of Five. At a minimum, the meeting
will approve the committee's conclu-
sions that sabotage operations be be-
gun.
This small West African country
is in the throes of another of its
periodic coups. General Soglo, the
military chief, is presently calling
the shots. He told the US Embassy
yesterday that the provisional govern-
ment installed earlier this week would
be replaced in the next day or so by a
new regime composed of civilian and
military personnel.
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3. Laos
4, Vietnam
5. India-Pakistan
Moscow is trying to rouse US con-
cern over Laos.
Soviet officials in Vientiane have
recently complained to both US and
British representatives about alleged
US military action in Laos./
The Soviets are probably not privy
to Hanoi's intentions in Laos. Commu-
nist forces there, however, could launch
significant attacks against positions
in several areas with little warning,
and this is one way Hanoi could apply
additional pressures against the US.
The Soviets probably do not expect
these approaches to change US policy.
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Hanoi's domestic service was quick
to carry an account of the terrorist
bombing of the US enlisted men's quarters
in Saigon last night. Following its
usual pattern for early reporting on
major terrorist incidents, Hanoi gave a
brief and fairly factual account attributed
to "US news agencies." It credited the
"Saigon liberation forces" with the bomb-
ing.
At last report, two US personnel had
died in the attack and 68 had been woiunded.
The Indians propose that their Tash-
kent talks with the Pakistanis begin on
3 or 4 January.
Both India and Pakistan are going to
Tashkent without any expectation of real
results. The Indian "foreign office fore-
sees another stalemate, there being no
concrete measures acceptable to both. Ayub
Khan made a similar prediction yesterday.
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6. Indonesia
7. Yemen
8. Cuba
Sukarno may be making a little
headway in his efforts to undercut the
army leaders. As with any group of
strong-minded men there are differences
of opinion among the generals and these
give a political strategist like Sukarno
a good opening.
He seems to be concentrating on
frustrating the generals' efforts to set
up "a "supercabinet" through which to run
the country. He is also trying to make
sure that the generals do not shift
Indonesian foreign policy too far out
of its leftist inclination. One result
is that the generals feel obligated to
go ahead with the take-over of foreign
oil companies, begun by Sukarno.
All this has not, however, stopped
the drift away from Communist China.
With even pro-Communist Subandrio against
them, the Chinese are said to have cut
off credits and pulled out of several
aid projects.
No progress has been made at the
conference between Yemeni republicans
and royalists at Harad.
The republicans
are insist-
ing that the government remain republi-
can over the next ten months while
Egyptian troops are withdrawing.
In a speech Friday night Fidel
?Castro again went out of his way to pay
tribute to Che Guevara and to report
that he is alive and well, "carrying out
his duties." Guevara has become, in fact,
the center of a veritable hero cult which
the regime itself has been building around
him for several months.
Castro has implied that he does not
expect Guevara ever to return to Cuba.
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9. France
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