THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 1 JULY 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968396
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: July 1, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENTS
DAILY BRIEF
1 JULY 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
I JULY 1966
1, Ecuador
2. North Vietnam
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attempt will be made to overthrow the
Yerovi government on Saturday. The oc-
casion will be the welcoming ceremonies
in Quito for four-time president Velasco,
who has been holed up in Guayaquil.
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3. Indonesia
. Bolivia
General Suharto continues to ply
the axe at the remaining roots of Su-
karno's strength. He has sent large
army forces to East and Central Java,
where both Sukarno and the Communists
have been traditionally strong, and ap-
pointed new commanders there./
A movement is afoot in the consul-
tative assembly, whose current session
in Djakarta ends on 5 July, to make Su-
harto prime minister at the head of a
new cabinet./
Barrientos looks like an easy winner
in Sunday's presidential election. His
center-left coalition will probably also
win a congressional majority. Conserva-
tives and moderate leftists will probably
divide the remaining seats.
On or before election day, there
will probably be numerous but scattered
incidents of violence, which the police
and the army should be able to handle.
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5. Argentina
6. Rhodesia
The Ongania government aims even-
tually to create a new democratic sys-
tem of three to four political parties,
according to one of the leading coup
planners in an informal conversation
with the US charg?'affaires. The
spokesman did not indicate how long this
is going to take.
The Ongania group probably does
have pretty specific plans for pursuing
these and other long-range objectives.
For the time being, however, Ongania may
find security concerns uppermost. Yes-
terday, police clamped down on the Com-
munist Party. Peronism and political ac-
tivity by trade unions will be prohibited.
The University of Buenos Aires, which
with some justice the government believes
to be a hotbed of subversion, may be next
for the treatment.
The exploratory talks in Salisbury
? are getting nowhere, and the British prob-
ably will let them trail off, perhaps for
a period of some length.
one of the main
stumbling blocks has been the UK's un-
willingness to begin negotiations in
earnest until Rhodesia returns to consti-
tutional government. Smith has apparently
refused even to discuss ways that the
latter might be done.
Some members of the British team in
Salisbury think that the economic sanc-
tions being applied will soften up the
Rhodesian position by September. Others
think that it will take until the end of
the year for this to happen, if it hap-
pens at all.
At the moment, it is not clear which
side has the next move in this situation.
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7. Yugoslavia
8. Communist Fronts
The forced resignation of the presi-
dent's top lieutenant and heir apparent
today reopens the problem of finding a
successor to the 74-year-old Tito.
The two remaining party secretaries,
Kardelj and Vlahovic, would appear to
have the inside track, but neither is
considered to wield much influence within
the party.
Today's upheaval is probably the prel-
ude to other dismissals and a general re-
shuffle of government and party officials
designed to bring along younger, more
liberal-minded men.
Pro-Communist and pacifist groups
plan widespread demonstrations on 4 July
protesting US policy in Vietnam. The
meetings will be held at US embassies and
other establishments. The North Viet-
namese youth organization has appealed
to the Communist-front world youth orga-
nization to hold solidarity demonstra-
tions on 20 July, the anniversary of the
signing of the Geneva accords.
These plans were under development
before the US air strikes at Hanoi and
Haiphong, but the turnouts will probably
be larger because of the strikes.
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