THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 26 JANUARY 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968118
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: January 26, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
26 JANUARY 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
26 JANUARY 1966
1. Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
3. Communist China
Substantial numbers of trucks con-
tinue to move south in the Laos panhandle.
Last week one of our roadwatch teams
counted over 100 trucks southbound past
its observation point.
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4. Soviet Union
5. Indonesia
Two US military attaches and their
wives were subjected to "rough physical
treatment" while on a trip this week to
Yaroslavl, a town about 150 miles north-
east of Moscow. The attaches report
that the incident had all the appearances
of being staged. Two rolls of unexposed
film were stolen from one of the attaches'
bags.
This is the first known instance
in recent years in which wives of US
diplomatic personnel have been involved
in such an incident. A ban of six weeks'
standing on military attach?ravel out-
side of Moscow was lifted early this
month.
There has been little movement in
the power game between Sukarno and the
army leaders. Sukarno seems to believe
that the longer he delays his "political
solution," the better his chances of un-
dercutting,the army become. The army
-leaders are also playing a-waiting game,
trying to rein in their civilian sup- .
porters.
The leftist-backed "Sukarno front" -
hung anti-US banners in the streets of
Djakarta this week, but the banners came
down yesterday after the embassy pro-
-tested. An army spokesman admitted that
it was government policy to put up.the
banners, but said this was a "minority"
policy with which the army and people
did not agree. The spokesman clearly
meant that the inspiration came from Su-
karno and Foreign Minister Subandrio..
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has set in while the Dominican military
officers continue to debate the question
of their chiefs' obeying Garcia Godoy's
orders to leave the country. Latent
tensions may well be stirred by the gov-
ernment's failure to meet this month's
military payroll,which was due yester-
day but did not come through.
7. Haiti
At the moment, the military seem
to have adopted a defensive posture,
waiting for Garcia Godoy to make a new
move.
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Neither the chiefs nor Garcia Go-
doy has yet taken completely inflexible
positions, however. The chiefs evidently
still want to avoid a crisis if they can
do so "with honor.,"
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8. Pakistan
Our embassy in Rawalpindi reports
that President Ayub is still under fire
for signing the Tashkent declaration.
Sporadic demonstrations continue
to occur, and schools are still closed.
Miss Fatima Jinnah, sister of Pakistan's
founding father, has come out with a
strong attack on Tashkent as a "throw-
away."
The Ayub administration added to
its woes this week by maladroitly issu-
ing contradictory announcements on the
timing of the end of Ramadan, the holi-
est month of the Muslim ?year.
.The embassy does not believe that
Ayub is in immediate peril. He is clearly
a more vulnerable target for his critics, ,
however, than he has been in some time.
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