THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 27 OCTOBER 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968599
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 6
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: October 27, 1966

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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
27 OCTOBER 1966
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Communist China
Soviet Union
LATE ITEMS
Chinese claims that they
detonated a nuclear device in the low
atmosphere about ninety miles from Lop
Nor this morning,
The Chinese announced that they
had fired a missile carrying a nuclear
warhead and that the warhead detonated
on target.
This was the fourth nuclear,explo-
sion detected in China since Peking be-
gan its test program in October 1964,
The Soviets also set off a nuclear
shot--an underground one--at Novaya
Zemlya today.
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DAILY BRIEF
27 OCTOBER 1966
1. South Vietnam
2. Soviet Union
After his return from Manila, Ky
moved quickly to minimize the effects
of the simmering cabinet crisis. He
accepted the resignation of Economy
Minister Thanh and then persuaded four
of the remaining six dissident minis-
ters to stay in the cabinet.
The constituent assembly elected
a young northern Catholic as secretary
general, the number two post, thus
balancing off the elderly moderate
southerner previously elected chairman.
The southerners are the largest region-
al bloc in the assembly, but the lack
of a southern extremist among the top
officers should keep them from domin-
ating assembly proceedings.
Ky continues to face the problem
of calming student, Catholic, and labor
groups who joined the southerners in
expressing indignation over police-
state methods during the recent cabinet
crisis. He must also deal eventually
with Defense Minister Co and IV Corps
commander Quang who will attempt to ex-
ploit regional animosities to their own
advantage. Ky has been threatening to
get rid of Co and Quang for months and
may now feel that he has the necessary
backing to do so.
The Soviets announced this after-
noon that Kosygin will repay De Gaulle's
visit to Moscow by making an official
junket to France in early December.
Brezhnev and Podgorny will do the same
sometime next year.
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3. West Germany
4. Congo
5. Thailand
The four Free Democratic members
of the cabinet have resigned--a heavy
if not fatal blow to the Erhard govern-
ment. The Chancellor in turn has de-
cided to attempt to run a minority gov-
ernment, but opponents in his own party
may well turn him out instead.
If Erhard goes, the Christian Dem-
ocrats and Free Democrats may try to
rebuild the coalition around Christian
Democrat parliamentary chief Barzel or
Bundestag President Gerstenmaier.
Prospects for a coalition with the So-
cial Democrats are not good.
Mulamba tried to reverse his
course and accept the defense portfolio
late last night, but Mobutu's line so
far is "sorry, too late." Officials on
the spot now expect that Mulamba will
be brought before a military tribunal
and charged directly with instigating
the Kisangani mutiny.
Kinshasa is still calm.
Communist terrorists are stepping
up their activity in the northeast.
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assassinations
of village leaders and police inform-
ants; there have also been at least
four skirmishes recently between police
and insurgent elements.
This upswing in fighting comes at
the end of an unusually heavy rainy
season--a period which badly hampered
operations on both sides.
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